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Wikidata weekly summary #432

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Semantic Wikibase has been released by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18, workflows for SPARQL queries and QuickStatements Facebook, YouTube
  • OpenRefine 3.4 was released
  • How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata. By Addshore
  • Wikidata Training Workshop 2, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
    • Contributing to Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
    • Contributing to Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
  • Video: How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr Sara Thomas

• Tool of the week
  • wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard is a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: LSG local body code, NYARC Discovery ID, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, ICP artist ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Firefox add-on ID, NHK Archives Portal person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, InciWeb ID, YUAG ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to form or aspect, blocked on the territory of, Liturgical category, Flickr image URL, turning radius, number of reboots, financials URL, SI base units, rank insignia2
    • External identifiers: Syro-Malabar Church Parish ID, Database of Umgebinde houses in Bohemian Switzerland ID, Re-Member ID, DIL ID, Naver Vibe Artist ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust person ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, VA facility ID, Hikr Waypoint ID, tvmaze ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Danish educational institution number, Past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, photoLondon ID, uta-net.com song ID, Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial
    • A table of the 100 highest fees charged for using various kinds of facilities, normalized to United States dollars - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Youngest age of UK MPs leaving office since 1900 (Source)
    • Longest time UK MPs lived after leaving office since 1900 (Source)
    • British cabinet members with past military service (Source)
    • Earliest written record of 10 largest Czech cities (Source)
    • Churches dedicated to Czech patron St. Wenceslas (blue) and Moravian patrons St. Cyril and Methodeus (orange) (Source)
    • German municipality names ending with -in, -ing, -heim (Source)

• Development
  • Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
  • Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
  • Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
  • Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
  • Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
  • More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:43, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [1]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
• All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [2]

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
• OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [3]
• The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [4][5]
• Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
• Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 40

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020

• New partnerships
  • Al Manhal
  • Ancestry
  • RILM
• #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
• AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 40

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020

• New partnerships
  • Al Manhal
  • Ancestry
  • RILM
• #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
• AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --14:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Bloch's theorem

Hi @SS49, thank you for completing the move of Bloch's theorem. Unfortunately, the new page is at Bloch's Theorem rather than the lowercase Bloch's theorem. I believe we were all in agreement about moving it there, is there any way you could move it once more to fix the capitalization error? The disambiguation page is unnecessary, there are only two articles and both include hatnotes pointing to the other, so Bloch's Theorem should just take the place of the disambiguation page at Bloch's theorem. This was first noticed by the original proposer, @Forbes72, who seems to be the only other involved editor (though we did have an IP user chime in with support). Thanks again!

@Footlessmouse:,  Done Thank you for pointing it out. ~SS49~ {talk} 09:15, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2020)

The history of Asian art includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. Pictured is Buddhist Temple in the Mountains, 11th century, China, ink on silk, by Li Cheng. Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Asian art Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Grease (song) • Skurfing (sport) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 September 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #433

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy

• Events
  • Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
  • "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
  • Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
  • Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
    • A brief intro to Wikidata and how to set up an account
    • How to add a new item to Wikidata
    • How to add an image to Wikidata
  • Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
  • All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
  • Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
    • External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
    • External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID
  • Query examples:
    • Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
    • List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
    • Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
    • Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
    • Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
    • Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
    • Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest (Source)
    • Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
    • Map of sports pitches for team sports that require between 10 and 20 players on the field - Wikidata/OSM query

• Development
  • Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
  • Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
  • Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
  • Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
  • Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:16, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [6][7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Importing a Template to Fanon Wiki

Hello, I'm SkyGuy94. I was wondering if You could help with something. I want to import the traditional Mongolian script template to Fanon Wiki, where I am an active user. The current method I'm using on Fanon Wiki results in the mongol script I use to be aligned this "ᠵᠢᠱᠢᠶ᠎ᠡ ᠲᠧᠺᠰᠲ". As you can see, while the text is in the right direction, the bottom end of the text is aligned to the bottom of the line and ascending upwards instead of the top end being aligned to the top of the line and descending downwards. That just doesn't look authentic. Is there any way to properly import the template and all its components to Fanon wiki. I'd try to do it myself, but my programing skills are far below mediocre and I'm worried I'd mess it up if I tried. --SkyGuy94 (talk) 19:04, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

SkyGuy94, sorry to inform you that I am not able to help you in this situation. I have no idea about this. ~SS49~ {talk} 21:45, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Do you know anyone who may be able to help? --SkyGuy94 (talk) 21:54, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

SkyGuy94, User:DannyS712 can help you. Thanks. ~SS49~ {talk} 22:18, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). 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, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2020)

Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Pig Latin Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Asian art • Grease (song) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 21 September 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #434

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • "Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata"
  • ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata on blog.wikimedia.de
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20 WLM: Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata Training Workshop 3, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association (YouTube)
    • Wikidata Query Service - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
    • Wikidata Query Service (in French) - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

• Tool of the week
  • copy-qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for the exterior of the item, axle track, Stairway To Hell ID, Oakeshott typology, construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography
    • External identifiers: Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID, TV Maze series ID, Barcelona Public art ID, University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) ID, Istrapedia ID, OnlyFans person ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, The Cutting Room Floor ID, Fatcat ID, China Treaty Database ID, e-GOV law ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Slack organization ID, Kansas Historic Resources Inventory ID, Historic Montana ID, ITF player ID 2020, BD Gest' series ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, P8624
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: defining mutations, nombre d'essais marqués, Netflix maturity rating, held event, number of paying subscribers, has census
    • External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID, identificativo Ministero dell'interno, Dallas Museum of Art ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Energy Identification Code, Wikimedia Chat channel, Symptom Ontology ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, monumentsauxmorts.fr ID, monumentsdememoire.fr ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Museen Dresden article ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NPS place ID, SSYK 2012
  • Query examples:
    • Map of anything that memorializes or is named after a Whig Party member - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of every railway station presently connected directly or indirectly to St Pancras on Wikidata
    • Age of the winners of the Tour de France (Source)
    • Location and date of death of Danish rulers (Source)
    • Map of the places & causes of death of Roman Emperors (Source)
    • Images of members of the 16th Odisha Assembly (2019-24) (Source)
    • Star signs of Japanese Prime Ministers (Source)
    • Video game series with the longest time gap between a game and its direct sequel (Source)

• Development
  • WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (phab:T261125)
  • The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
  • The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
  • P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
  • Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
  • Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
  • Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
  • Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
  • Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
  • Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
  • Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
  • Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:59, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-39

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

• There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [8][9]

Changes later this week

• The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 9 • September 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Active autumn in the Polish wiki-education Cycle "Caminos y voces de la educación con Wikipedia" Featured education community member of September 2020 The Use of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons as tool for Module Development in the Philippines Wikimedia Indonesia Education Team Launched Their Books About Wikipedia Wikimedia Serbia is organizing the first online Edu Wiki camp

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 12:48, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

• Featured content: Life finds a Way

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:48, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

• Featured content: Life finds a Way

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:54, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2020)

Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: August 2016 Aden bombing Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pig Latin • Asian art Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 September 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #435

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge (Best practice presentation at DCMI Virtual 2020)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 29 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: WikiNeocomensia: Wikidata + OpenRefine, workshop in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and in French, October 3
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #32, October 4

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
  • Sidestepping the limitations of collection catalogues with machine learning and Wikidata
  • Navigating the maze of Wikidata query logs by Angela Bonifati, Wim Martens, Thomas Timm
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike: Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata tutorial for lecturers (in Czech) - YouTube
  • Video: Creating and enriching linked data with Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Mix'n'Match Tutorial - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata for librarians (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
  • Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
  • Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography, opening time, closing time, engine displacement, expansion of, Netflix maturity rating, TDD number
    • External identifiers: American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust ID (person), Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Book Marks ID, Re-Member ID, SPoT skater ID, NDL law ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Dallas Museum of Art ID, FBref.com squad ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID, Lambiek comic magazines ID, Energy Identification Code, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Ministry of the Interior of Italy ID, National Park Service place ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, Open Civic Data Division ID, Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Regional Council of Tuscany ID, level of professionalness, defined in terms of, form of property constraint, Attraction to, group identity, analog television standard, ritual object, number of rooms
    • External identifiers: USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Indonesian prison database ID, LinkedIn group ID, Naver movie ID, CINE21 film ID, Movist film ID, KOBIS-ID, Max Movie film ID, The Boardr profile ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID, Google Play developer slug, Passion Patrimoine ID, FVLB work ID, BBC Sound Effects Asset ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of the 100 most recent additions of interactive OpenStreetMap maps to English Wikipedia articles - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of the birthplace of persons with an ELEM id on Wikidata (Source)

• Development
  • A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist setting enabled. (The Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.)
  • Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
  • Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
  • Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
  • Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
  • Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
  • WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)

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!

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Tech News: 2020-40

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

• Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [11]
• Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [12]

Problems

• Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
• The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
• In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [14]
• You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
• You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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21:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2020)

Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Trout Mask Replica Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: August 2016 Aden bombing • Pig Latin Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 October 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #436

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Fuzheado

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
  • Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
  • Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
    • External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
    • External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
    • Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available. - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
    • List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
    • Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
    • Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
    • Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
  • Newest database reports:
    • EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.

• Development
  • First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
  • Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
  • Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
  • Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
  • Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:06, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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 tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
• You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [15]

Problems

• There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [16]
• Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [17]
• Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
• Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [18]

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [19]

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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2020)

Many species can live at high altitudes. For example, the Himalayan pika lives at altitudes up to 4,200 m (13,800 ft). Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organisms at high altitude Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Trout Mask Replica • August 2016 Aden bombing Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 October 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2020-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [20][21][22]

Changes later this week

• Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [23][24]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

• A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [25]

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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #437

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MsynABot
  • Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado (successful)

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
  • Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
  • A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
  • LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
  • Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc

• Tool of the week
  • OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
  • The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
  • The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
    • External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
    • External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
    • Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
    • Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
    • Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
    • Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
    • National Anthems by tonality (Source)

• Development
  • The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
  • Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
  • Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
  • Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
  • Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
  • Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:28, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2020)

Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Reader Rabbit Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organisms at high altitude • Trout Mask Replica Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 19 October 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #438

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
  • WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF) (talk)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
  • Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ritual object
    • External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
    • External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
    • Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
    • UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
    • Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
    • Movie genre trends (Source)
    • Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
    • List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
    • Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
    • The most commonly depicted locations (Source)

• Development
  • Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
  • So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
  • Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
  • Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:56, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [26]
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [27]
• Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: October 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 10 • October 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Collegiate Students Fight Historical Revisionism Through Online Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Digital skills using Wikimedia Art + Feminism Editathon “¡No se olvida!” (We don’t forget!) Education news bytes Featured education community member of October 2020 Teaching Wikipedia at University of Tromsø with support from the Sámi Parliament

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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2020)

Institutions and organizations of the United Nations, an intergovernmental organization Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organization Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Reader Rabbit • Organisms at high altitude Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 26 October 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #439

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
  • Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
  • Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
  • Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
    • WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
    • Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
    • 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
    • Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
    • Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
    • Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Excerpts from Wikidata Birthday events
    • Video: How the Wikimedia Brazil contributed to Wikidata in 2020 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Video: Introduction to Wikidata and data reconciliation (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (Blog post)
  • WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
  • Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
  • Video: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperability and data access (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata for cultural institutions and GLAM-WIKI partnerships (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Wikidata Training Workshop 4, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)

• Tool of the week
  • WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
  • Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) develops instructional material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS): wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of rooms, permits, prohibits, economy of topic, check-in time, check-out time
    • External identifiers: CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article, GADM ID, Lambiek Special pages ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, ILO Thesaurus ID, AVN performer ID, CCFr library ID, xHamster performer ID, AWMDB performer ID, Normattiva ID, American Heritage place ID, BHL name ID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Minecraft UUID, Nachlässe in Austria ID, AniList anime ID, National Park Service people ID, AniList manga ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, O*NET OnLine code, Opta football competition ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, The Boardr profile ID, Great Places ID, PIM award ID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, DC Historic Sites place ID, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: annual average daily traffic, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par, Online catalog, funeral, Inaugural address, Hong Kong film rating, word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
    • External identifiers: aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole, Base constructions bibliothèques ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Malmö Museer, IMVDb music video ID, NSSDCA ID, Docker Hub repository, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Persée article ID, Geneanet Family Name ID, Blogger user profile ID, USL League One ID, Stolperstein identifiers, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID
  • Query examples:
    • Commemorative plaques and their subjects in Aberdeen, Scotland; with photos of plaque and subject and Wikipedia links. (Source)
    • Cities with female mayor (Source)
    • Most common variants of the name "Susanne" in each country (Source)
    • Birthplaces of art historians (Source)
    • Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (Source)
    • Birthplace of Olympique de Marseille players (Source)
    • COVID-19 deaths by month (Source)
  • Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
    • Get information of Europeana item using federated query

• Development
  • Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
  • Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
  • Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
  • Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
  • Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
  • Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
  • Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
  • Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
  • Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
  • Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report

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!

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Tech News: 2020-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [28]
• Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [29]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [30]
• There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [31]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [32]

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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Happy Bijaya Dashami!

Jamara and Tika

Wishing you joy & happiness during this festive season. Happy Bada Dashain! ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 06:49, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

CAPTAIN MEDUSA, Thank you so much 🤗🤗 and happy dashain to you too friend. ~SS49~ {talk} 13:15, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Growth team updates #15

Welcome to the fifteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Variants C and D deployed

Variant D in Portuguese Wikipedia

Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We hope they will increase the number of users using suggested edits. They both make suggested edits the clear place where newcomers should get started on the page. They have some differences in their workflows, because we want to test which design is better. We deployed these variants on October 19; half of newcomers get each variant. After about 5 weeks, we will analyze the data from the tests. The goal is to determine which variant is helping more newcomers to make more suggested edits. We will identify the better variant and then use it with all newcomers.

Structured tasks: add a link

Concept A for add a link.

As we discussed in previous newsletters, the team is working on our first "structured task": the "add a link" task. After community discussion on design ideas, we ran user tests on the mobile designs. We decided on the design concept we want to use moving forward: Concept A. We're now engineering the backend for this feature. Next, we will be running user tests for desktop designs.

Learn more about the findings.

Community news

• We recently deployed the Growth features to Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish Wikipedias. 18 wikis now have Growth features. Learn more about getting the features.
• Have you recently checked if all interface messages are translated for your language?

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10:09, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes

John M Wolfson

Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes

EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla

Yunshui

Oversight changes

Anarchyte

Yunshui

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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The Signpost: 1 November 2020

• News and notes: Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking

• In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books

• Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20

• Op-Ed: Anti-vandalism with masked IPs: the steps forward

• Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story

• Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.

• Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?

• Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner

• News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year

• Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters

• In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia

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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2020)

Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Cultural exchange Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organization • Reader Rabbit Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 2 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2020-45

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

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [33]
• There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [34]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
• Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [35]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [36]

Future changes

• A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [37]
• In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #440

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
  • Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
  • Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
  • Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
  • Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
  • Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
  • SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons, by Zbyszko Papierski
  • Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to query wikidata with SPARQL, by Lianna D'amato
  • CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
  • Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
  • Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
  • Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
  • Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
  • All videos from the WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference are now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.

This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.

1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.

• Tool of the week
  • reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
    • All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia Commons (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
    • Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
    • Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
    • Happy Birthday from Semantic MediaWiki
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms ?language_code feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit
    • Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
    • Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
    • Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
    • Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
    • Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
    • Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
    • User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
  • The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a distributed format. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
  • The Election Tracker, uses Wikidata to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
  • Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11 are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
  • witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for accused witches in Scotland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
    • External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
    • External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki
  • Query examples:
    • Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
    • Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
    • Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
    • Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
    • Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
    • Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
    • Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
    • Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
    • Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
    • Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
    • Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
    • Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
    • Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
  • Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography

• Development
  • Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
  • Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
  • Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266673)
  • The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:47, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2020)

An example of Chinese folklore is The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, a Chinese folk tale. Pictured is a depiction in the tale of the reunion of the couple of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd on the bridge of magpies. The artwork displayed is in the Long Corridor of the Summer Palace in Beijing. Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Chinese folklore Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Cultural exchange • Organization Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 9 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #441

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
  • Other
    • "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
    • Value label constraint

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
  • Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
  • Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
  • Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. by Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
  • Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as {{Used}}. Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01.
  • Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
    • External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
    • External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID
  • Query examples:
    • Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
    • POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
    • Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
    • People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
    • Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
    • Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
    • Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
    • List of longest Cars (Source)

• Development
  • Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
  • Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
  • Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
  • Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
  • Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
  • Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [38]
• From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [39][40]

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15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2020)

An illustration of the Pre-Columbian abacus, the Nepohualtzintzin, one of the many pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans. Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Chinese folklore • Cultural exchange Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 16 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2020-47

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

• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [41][42]

Changes later this week

• If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [43]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:35, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #442

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 17 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: SWIB20 (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference, multiple Wikidata-related presentations, free and online, November 23-27
  • Upcoming: Editathon (or "connection sprint") on parliamentarian documents in Swedish, November 20
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Dan Shick on creating and managing community documentation, November 17. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #39, November 22
  • Past: ELIXIR BioHackathon 2020 updates:
    • Project #13: >20 thousand PDB ligand identifiers added and new formatter URL: https://twitter.com/ESchymanski/status/1326875606177492993
    • Project #33: Using wikidata query service in the taxon_mapper in Molseq - connecting molecular (genbank) and specimen (GBIF) data app
    • Project #35: Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas with Wikidata starting at 18:00

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Knowledge graph (in Polish) by Zbyszko Papierski on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 6:45 pm to 9:30 pm GMT+1
  • Video: A Linked and Open Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age by Martina Trognitz, recorded in April 2019
  • Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas
  • Video: Introduction to Gene Wiki
  • Video: ISB Biocuration 2020 Online Workshop: Genewiki 2 Methodology - Updating with bots
  • Video: An Introduction to Wikibase and Wikidata. Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24
  • Video: Programming for Cultural Heritage: Using Python to retrieve data from Wikidata
  • Video: Wikipedia & Wikidata for Middle East Librarians
  • Video: OpenStreetMap & Wikidata using Sophox - OpenStreetMap US Connect 2020
  • Video: Adding Pashas to Wikidata. 7 videos: Wikipedia to OpenRefine, Standardizing dates, Standardizing names in OpenRefine, Wikidata reconciliation, Adding additional data, Combining Arabic and English Lists, Wikidata Schema
  • Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".

• Tool of the week
  • ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dedicated heritage entity, defining mutations, digitised by, for color scheme, parent (unspecified)
    • External identifiers: MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID, IMVDb music video ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, Docker Hub repository, USL League One ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, ClassInd game ID, AAGM people ID, AAGM site ID, AniDB tag ID, UAF person ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Opera Online performer ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica ID, BBFC reference, AlKindi ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Twitch tag ID, European Film Awards ID, MSRI institution ID, MSRI person ID, stolpersteine-berlin.de Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-hamburg.de Stolperstein identifier, LIMIS person ID, NSDOK Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-bremen.de Stolperstein identifier, snublestein.no Stolperstein identifier, AIWARDS ID, Twitch team ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: use as citation in Wikimedia page, GitLab username, given name identical to this family name, population connectée, indexed in bibliographic review, ISDS ID, inscription image, Wanfang article ID, CQVIP article ID, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CIP data sheet
    • External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IAFD distributor ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, FISG person ID, Ligue 1 player ID, Ligue 2 player ID, AAA ID, Museum Day ID, TeachMe tutor ID, ISOF place, CRGPG ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, Geneall ID, Namuwiki (2), Union des artistes ID, Kinorium Movie ID, Kinorium Person ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, Foodlocate Restaurant ID, Musica Brasilis ID, IEV number, CONOR authority IDs, LibraryThing venue ID, BPI ID, PromoDj ID, Salzburgwiki, Drizly Product ID, Baijiahao ID, ESPN men's college basketball team ID
  • Query examples:
    • Rivers and canals in the United Kingdom.
    • Map of images taken for the Wicipics photography campaign in Wales (Source)
    • Number of people and terms of UK parties since the 1945 election (Source)
    • UK MPs who have voluntarily resigned their seats and then come back for a different seat in the same Parliament (Source)
    • Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (Source)
    • Date of birth of current French prefects and their sources (Source)
    • Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (Source)
    • Living 'notable' people with the given name "Karen" per 100k per country (Source)
    • Paintings in the Suter Art Gallery (Source)
    • Chilean ministers who were not educated at any high school (Source)
    • Age of US presidents start and end time (Source)
    • Map of Welsh Railways (Source)
    • Connections of railways of the Netherlands (Source)
    • Distinct languages of Wikidata lexemes. Top 5 are Russian-101144, English-69066, Latin-32106, Hebrew-28286 and Basque-22904.(Source)
    • Death place of all Basque people with known birthplace on Wikipedia, by century. Interactive map on kepler.gl (Source)

• Development
  • Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
  • Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
  • Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
  • Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
  • Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
  • Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)

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!

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Books & Bytes – Issue 41

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

• New partnership: Taxmann
• WikiCite
• 1Lib1Ref 2021

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Tech News: 2020-48

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

• Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [44]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [45]

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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

ikidata weekly summary #443

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Workshop 2020 presentations YouTube playlist
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 24 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: rC3, the remote version of the Chaos Communication Congress, on December 27-30. Like in previous years, the WikipakaWG will host sessions and workshops related to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. The call for participation is open until November 30th.
  • Upcoming: Ghana Histo Cita-thon. Friday 27th November 2020. 9am to 2pm UTC.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #40, November 29

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata, the collaborative database for machines and humans. Blogpost by Àlex Hinojo (in Catalan)
  • 24 hours of open data - The meetup for the eighth Wikidata birthday, Blogpost by Lea Lacroix (in German)
  • The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata. Blogpost by Jan Ainali (in Swedish)
  • WikiPathways: connecting communities: research article outlining, among other things, how Wikidata is used and integrated
  • Using SPARQL to combine Wikidata and OSM triples
  • ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
  • TU Dresden lecture on Knowledge Graphs (replay)
    • Wikidata introduction - YouTube
    • Content model of Wikidata - YouTube
    • How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The proposals phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until November 30th. You can submit wishes in various categories, like Wikidata.
  • SMWCon 2020 virtual conference is from 24 to 26 November 2020. Do not forget to register at Hopin!
  • The note-taking app Kanopi got first pieces of Wikidata integration.
  • The Listeria Evolution: Listeria has got an update
  • Wikimedia Deutschland has two open positions around the Wikidata development team; Full Stack Developer and Partner Relationship Manager

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: epithet, attraction to, hairstyle, poverty incidence
    • External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IMMuB album ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset ID, IAFD film distributor ID, Yandex Zen ID, NCAA school code, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Monuments de mémoire ID, Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism ID, Xfinity Stream ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, edition humboldt digital ID, GitLab username, AAA attraction ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, Museum Day ID, PAN member, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, MetaSat ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, SPOnG game ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, LibraryThing venue ID, Union des artistes ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, PromoDj ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: vénéré à, Number of blood donors, People reached, number of awards, has positive marker, ID pattern, lunar coordinates, adjacent to, date posted, ITRANS, National Library at Kolkata romanization, complementary property, MTRCB rating, DBLP conference ID, fait l'objet d'une vénération à
    • External identifiers: DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Hyperion Records person ID, Arken, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, AAA campground ID, AstroGen ID, Reliwiki page ID, Sonneveld-index, SIL ID, AniDB Episode ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, Lumni ID, Archives at Yale Names ID
  • Query examples:
    • Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points (Source)
    • Map of Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 participant's institutions (federated query) (Source)
    • Women who play chess and have a Wikipedia article in Spanish (They are 132 while men have 899 entries) (Source)
    • Timeline of Dietary Advocates (Source)
    • Philosophers born between 0 and 500 grouped by the decade where they lived (Source)
    • Video games from ?country (template) (Source)

• Development
  • Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
  • Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275)
  • Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502)
  • Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023)
  • Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936)
  • Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (phab:T264538)

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!

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2020)

In macroeconomics, an industry is a branch of an economy that produces a closely related set of raw materials, goods, or services. Pictured is a cement factory in Malmö, Sweden, which is a part of the manufacturing industry. Hello, SS49. The following is WikiProject Articles for improvement's weekly selection: Industry Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans • Chinese folklore Get involved with the AFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 20:33, 23 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Wikidata weekly summary #444

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December. Agenda
  • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
  • Online edition of the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award ceremony, on Friday, December 11th at 17:00 UTC.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #41, December 6

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Linking OpenStreetMap with knowledge graphs — Link discovery for schema-agnostic volunteered geographic information (the KGs referred to are Wikidata & DBPedia)
  • "Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis": an analysis linking news articles to information on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • Wikidata Bib v0, prototype for personalized analytics of scientific readings using Wikidata.
  • Video: Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph by Roderic Page
  • Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
    • ORCID for Wikidata: A workflow for matching author and publication items in Wikidata
    • id.loc.gov and Wikidata, one year later

• Tool of the week
  • osm2kg is a tool to facilitate matching Wikidata entries to OSM nodes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing.
  • The University of Nevada has an open position around Wikidata; Digital Collections Wikimedian-in-Residence
  • Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24^th, and will end on December 7^th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
  • Wiki Movimento Brasil will support WikidataCon 2021
  • Wikidata descriptions changes will be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist on Wikimedia wikis

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: facial hair, identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, Water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index
    • External identifiers: Absolute Games person ID, FIS grass skier ID, FISG athlete ID, Kinorium movie ID, CONOR.AL ID, CONOR.BG ID, CONOR.KS ID, CONOR.SR ID, Musica Brasilis ID, Salzburgwiki ID, IEV number, British Phonographic Industry ID, CRGPG ID, Drizly product ID, Canada Business Number, FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ELSPA rating, cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Filmstriben film-ID, Mailing List, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data
    • External identifiers: vets.cz ID, Parler ID, HAL Journal id, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Gab ID, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, SKD ID, DIA ID, ZOBODAT, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, theses.cz ID, curid
  • Query examples:
    • Politicians with an account at GitHub, CPAN, or Wikimedia (Source)
    • Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (Source)
    • Number of programming languages and their paradigms (Source)
    • Museums within 2 miles of MoMA (federated query) (Source)
    • Largest cities of the world ordered by population (Source)
    • Italian politicians who served as a minister in more than one cabinet since 1990 (Source)
    • People born after 1800 whose “name in native language” is in Latin (Source)
    • UK statues and whether they are of nobles and/or women (Source)
    • Location of German cities with a population count greater than 50.000 (Source)
    • Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (Source)
  • Schema examples: museum

• Development
  • Development on the Query Builder is continuing. You can follow along at https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org
  • Fixed an issue where language fallback indicators were still shown when falling back from a variant of the language (phab:T267502)
  • Fixed an issue on Lexeme pages where language and lexical category fields turn red on unfocus even though no changes were made (phab:T266936)
  • Working on improving what happens to sitelinks when an article is moved to a unsupported namespace (phab:T261275))
  • Investigating a significant increase in skipped Item IDs (phab:T268625)
  • Addressing the feedback for the draft of the REST API spec

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

• The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [46][47]
• The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [48]

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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2020)

in 2013 Spanish singer Julio Iglesias was celebrated for being the artist in Latin music with the most records sold in history. Hello, SS49. The article for improvement of the week is: Latin music (genre) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Industry • List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 23:16, 30 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •