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Wikidata weekly summary #417
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-05-25.
- Discussions
- Open requests for Oversight: Kostas20142, Esteban16
- Events
- Past: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein on May 21st. The training in English was organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group. (replay)
- Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #6 (YouTube)
- Past: Art+Feminism virtual Wikidata editathon by Global Open Initiative on May 19. (Video) Part 1, Part 2
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, event dedicated to the German-speaking Wikidata community, will take place fully remote on June 12-14. If you're interested, don't forget to register. We're looking for speakers to give introductions to Wikidata & tools.
- Upcoming #vBIB20 (Q94495218) the first fully remote German library conference: May 26-28. Metadata about all presentations are already stored in Wikidata: Query. Some sessions and presentations are related to Wikidata or other Wikiprojects:
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #14, May 31
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- The Missing Path: Diagnosing Incompleteness in Linked Data ("We describe our iterative design process and evaluation with Wikidata contributors")
- EURECOM at the SemStats 2019 Challenge ("we study the coverage of [the official database of French enterprises] in Wikidata")
- Enriching Knowledge Bases with Interesting Negative Statements ("we argue for the importance of negative information on knowledge bases, and present two methods to mine it")
- Video: Editing Wikidata: File Candidates tool and World heritage of Visby - Youtube, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: Structured Search, a tool allowing you to search through Wikimedia Commons using structured data, is now live. This tool by Hay Kranen was demoed at Wikimedia Hackathon 2020.
- New tool: script by Tohaomg to easily rearrange the order of values for statements in Wikidata (to be added to your common.js page)
- New documentation page: Wikidata:How to create Wikidata Tours
- Teaching notes for introducing people to Wikidataː d:User:Einebillion/Teaching notes
- The Wikidata development team created a distributed Wikidata game called Reference hunt!. With this game, you get a suggestion of an Item and a reference based on structured data from an external website. Try it and leave us feedback.
- Gabriel, an intern at the Google Summer of Code is developing a tool to assist users in verifying (structured) data of media on commons. If you want to help, feel free to fill out this questionnaire.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: molecular model, is metaclass for, lighting, type of age limit, nominal share capital, content partnership category, field of training
- External identifiers: iDAI.chronontology ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, ASUT ID, NMMA antiquities ID, NMMA built heritage ID, DB chgk, K-Scholar ID, Wyoming SHPO ID, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Co-Optimus ID, Bookogs credit ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, LiederNet text ID, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, MACRIS ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, Niden INE, 500 Queer Scientists profile, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, Natural Atlas ID, Colon Classification, MDAH's HRI ID, RI National Register Search ID, CTHS author ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, PC Games Database.de company ID, SNES central game ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Wikilengua article
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: US Fault ID, estimated value, funder, principal investigator, contributed to Wikimedia Commons by, Theater poster, transitive over, approval of subject, living people protection class
- External identifiers: Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Library classifications' IDs for topics, Absolute Games game ID, Absolute Games person ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs, ModelHub ID, npm package, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage work ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, Veldkruus, AustLit ID, AFL player ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, NTB ID, Odeon ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Britannica Kids, Latin texts IDs, Medusa NRHP ID, Noovie person ID, Artsdatabanken ID, ICTV taxnode ID, LongTake person ID, ESRB video game ID, OnlyFans ID
- Query examples:
- Famous mathematicians related to famous actors (Source)
- West Highlands of Scotland rail line connections (Source)
- Universities ranked by PageRank on English Wikipedia (Source)
- Interactive, zoomable tree map of second level administrative regions of the world (Source)
- Number of alphabets which use this letter (Source)
- Metabolites and the species where they are found in (Source)
- Items in the United Kingdom with coordinate location (P625) on or near 1 degree 50 west (Source)
- Map of Tunisian museums (Source)
- Map of pairs of homonymous French municipalities linked by a colored line according to the distance (Source)
- Women botanists or botanical collectors with a birth date prior to 1900 (Source)
- vBIB20 lectures in Wikidata (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Schools
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Federated properties: Linking to the source wiki immediately after saving a statement (phab:T251776)
- Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
- Documentation for federated properties (phab:T252991, phab:T252861)
- Last steps of getting the distributed game "Reference hunt" ready
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
- Track errors people encounter when using the Bridge (phab:T252683)
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!
User:PrajwalKumarwiki
Hi SS49 - are you going to revert all the undiscussed page moves by User:PrajwalKumarwiki ? - I know I can move them myself, but not being an extendedmover, this is messy and requires an admin to tidy up after me.
The ones I would particularly like reverting, are Shivamogga district (where he had been told on the talk page it needed consensus, but ignored that and moved it anyway), Shivamogga, Vijayapura District, Belagavi District and Kalaburagi District. I think there are others if you fancy doing a "clean-sweep.
Please let me know if you are happy to do these - Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 16:04, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Arjayay:, Done ~SS49~ {talk} 16:52, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 16:54, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
User:Fthobe
Hey SS49, I wrote an article about Takahiro Yoshikawa that you have marked for deletion. I understand that with classical music it's difficult to distinguish relevant and irrelevant. Could you take a look at the article of Takahiro Yoshikawa discussion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fthobe (talk • contribs) 13:47, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Fthobe: If you think the article should not be deleted, comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Takahiro Yoshikawa. Thanks ~SS49~ {talk} 13:55, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
- @SS49: Done, you can find all arguments on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Takahiro Yoshikawa. Thank you for your help, my first new article :)
Fthobe (talk) 14:11, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
- @SS49: I updated the article with some sources, can you check if it's ok now and if I voted in the correct manor on the PFD page. Fthobe (talk) 16:50, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Takahiro Yoshikawa
Hey, I beefed up the article significantly, found sources for frequent rotations in the radio in Japan (see deletion discussion) and found a record he made with a very noted classical musician. There are now several references and I cleaned up typos. Can I remove deletion now? You are not very active in the discussion and i feel i made a good case to justify it but I don’t want to upset anybody! Fthobe (talk) 20:49, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Fthobe: You can't remove the deletion discussion notice. The discussion will be closed by an administrator when the discussion is seven days old. Now I can see some coverage in the reliable sources. All the best. ~SS49~ {talk} 22:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hey, is it enough for you to retract the RFD or do you feel more is needed? I know that He’s played in rotation in Japan rather frequently, but the public broadcaster there is not storing any program for long term use so I rely on google cache and I don’t feel like that’s a source to cite as, while the google cache of a national broadcaster is highly reliable in my eyes, it’s not a permanent record. Fthobe (talk) 15:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Fthobe: I nominated the article for deletion and the nominator can't close the discussion. An administrator will close the discussion after completion of seven days. Participants on discussion will determine the result. ~SS49~ {talk} 15:36, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hey, is it enough for you to retract the RFD or do you feel more is needed? I know that He’s played in rotation in Japan rather frequently, but the public broadcaster there is not storing any program for long term use so I rely on google cache and I don’t feel like that’s a source to cite as, while the google cache of a national broadcaster is highly reliable in my eyes, it’s not a permanent record. Fthobe (talk) 15:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Ayush Kumar Upadhyay page
Please sir do not Delete Ayush Kumar Upadhyay Page because all information about Ayush Kumar Upadhyay is correct and non copyright Ayushjioff (talk) 15:23, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- Ayushjioff, comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ayush Kumar Upadhyay. ~SS49~ {talk} 15:28, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 May 2020
- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
- Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction
- Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
- Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
- News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
- Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
- Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2020)
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process, and the invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Abu Nuwas • Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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.
Wikidata weekly summary #418
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Dan Koehl 2
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #15, June 7
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Discussion of our Wikidata priorities and needs as we plan for the group's future, 02 June. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 has been published. Describing the "satellite event grants" program that was run (and details of the nine successful proposals); the changes that resulted from the COVID-19 shutdown of all in-person events; and a summary of WikiCite-related news from across the movement. For more details see Meta:WikiCite/Administration. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF)
- Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data
- KORE 50DYWC: An Evaluation Data Set for Entity Linking Based on DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata, and Crunchbase
- SchemaTree: Maximum-Likelihood Property Recommendation for Wikidata
- Editorial: Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs Dedicated to the Memory of Amrapali Zaveri
- European Semantic Web Conference 2020
- Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube, Facebook
- Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube
- Tool of the week
- wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The former WikiProject iNaturalist was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist.
- Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment
- Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations!
- As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
- Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
- New domain
toolforge.org
to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change fromtools.wmflabs.org/toolname
totoolname.toolforge.org
with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15. - Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: curricula, attribution text, based on tabular data
- External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC membership number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: parish church, ISCO-08 occupation code, official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity
- External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Olympedia ID, Emmys person ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, New York Times contributor ID, Cinema Context, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, HBO Max ID, Yle Topic ID, Den Store Danske ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID
- Query examples:
- Map of German states with links to iNaturalist observations
- Cities/towns named after people (Source)
- Network of researchers who are vBIB20 co-presenters and are linked with a Wikidata item (Source)
- Timeline of legalized same-sex marriages by country (Source)
- BubbleChart of the 7,397 different keywords in DieDatenlaube (Source)
- Weight of royal crowns (Source)
- Recorded COVID-19 cases in difference Indian states (Source)
- Twitter accounts of current UK MP's (Source)
- Number of female employees at different organizations that Wikidata knows about (Source)
- Location of libraries that have a GitHub repository (Source)
- Location of 19th century infectious diseases published in Die Gartenlaube (Source)
- People with an entry in the Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire and biographical articles in Die Datenlaube (Source)
- Fictional spaceship captains from the Star Trek multiverse (Source)
- Timeline of Selenographers, for the birthday of German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler and his famous map of the Moon (Source)
- Points of interest 2 km within St. Jakobus church, Pesterwitz (Source)
- Images of religious art whose main theme is Pentecost (Source)
- World map of authors with both an ORCID and Twitter account ID's (Source)
- Ratio of (days country has been in the UN) with (sum of periods of office for Heads of Government during that time) (Source)
- Map of 2020 Art+Feminism editathons (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Public art
- Development
- More documentation for federated properties
- Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
- More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge
- Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870)
- Fix various bugs on Wikibase
- Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690)
- Create reports for the reference hunt game
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!
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. [1]
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. [2][3][4]
- 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. [5]
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. [6]
- 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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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nepal#Nepalese
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nepal#Nepalese. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 10:57, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
George Floyd Duckett
I think you might've made a mistake when closing the George Floyd Duckett requested move. You moved the page, but the banner template saying that there is an ongoing discussion still shows. Bait30 Talk 2 me pls? 07:22, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
- Closed the discussion. Thanks! ~SS49~ {talk} 07:57, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
GOCE June newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events
Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports
March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 15:46, 5 June 2020 (UTC).
Kya problem hai bhai
Tumne kya edit kiya mere page pr .. mere ko abhi page bana na nahi ata . Mm25862 (talk) 12:41, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Mm25862: See message your talk page. ~SS49~ {talk} 12:51, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2020)
Anna Holmlund in 2015 at the FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 Finals
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Invention • Abu Nuwas Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #419
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information.
- Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube, Facebook
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #16, June 14
- Upcoming: Webinar on Wikidata and cultural heritage collections, by Science Museum Group UK, June 19th
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata based Location Entity Linking
- WikiBank: Using Wikidata to Improve Multilingual Frame-Semantic Parsing
- Wikimedia Public (Research) Resources
- RDF Reasoning on Large Ontologies: A Study on Cultural Heritage and Wikidata
- What is an Open Knowledge Base anyway? (lists Wikidata as key example).
- KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis ("we present KGTK, a data science-centric toolkit... We illustrate KGTK with real-world scenarios... such as Wikidata")
- Video: Live Wikidata editing #8 - Wikidojo edition: YouTube, Facebook
- Wikidata Online Workshop (in Spanish): "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" - YouTube
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Andrew Lih
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Jane Darnell
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Martin Poulter
- Tool of the week
- QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Simple Query Builder: wrap-up of the feedback loop and next steps
- New page Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata.
- MyCroft, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person.
- Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone in the 2020 Community Spotlight survey.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Bengali nouns.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: curriculum topics, attribution text, based on tabular data, living people protection class, position in biological sequence, region within image, ISCO-08 occupation code, parish church, has grouping, has sorting, has column
- External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC registration number, AFL player ID, serial identifier on SerialZone, Absolute Games game ID, Modelhub ID, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, Medusa NRHP ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, LGBT Danmark online dictionary ID, Olympedia athlete ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage work ID, AustLit ID, Cinema Context ID, New York Times contributor ID, HBO Max ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, ESRB video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, LongTake person ID, Yle Topic ID, digilibLT work ID, PHI Latin Texts work ID, Musisque Deoque work ID, Den Store Danske ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity, introduced in version (2), height of center of mass, strike tone, number of migrations, depicted without, offset from vertical, for type elements, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, number of branches
- External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Emmys person ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, ICP artist ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, Legacy.com person ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, Uffizi artwork ID, Ancestry.com ID, Dlive game ID, Spotify songwriter ID, MuseScore artist ID, MNBAQ artist ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Cimetières de France ID, vglist video game ID, Gramophone composer ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, CAOI person ID
- Query examples:
- User:PAC2/Prenoms a notebook interface (Q28405706) to explore data about a given name (Q202444) : the idea is to ask simple questions and find answers
- Similarly the talk page of "Ada" with queries
- Postcards of exterior and interior views of theatres on CARTHALIA (Source)
- List of cities (or map) of Russia where no one famous was born and died (Source)
- Turkish scientists by citation count (Source)
- ESWC2020 papers with links to video lectures (Source)
- Women who have been Captain Regent of San Marino (Source)
- Species of birds (Source)
- List of open science fellows (Source)
- Spouses of the German Bundestag (Source)
- MWAPI searches in wikidata about people descibed as slave traders by citizenship (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
- Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
- Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
- Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
- Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211)
- More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991) & preparing for the next steps
- Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722)
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!
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. [7]
- 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 />
. [8] - 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. [9][10]
Changes later this week
- You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [11]
- 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. [12]
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