User talk:Masssly/Archive/July 2018

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2018)

Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Popular culture Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Survival • Civil ceremony Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 2 July 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #319

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

• Events
  • Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to Wikimedia projects and minority languages, July 5-6, in Aberystwyth (Wales). A lot of Wikidata workshops will take place during this event.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • 4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, blog post at the National Library of Wales by Jason Evans, National Wikimedian of Wales
  • LIPID MAPS identifiers and endocannabinoids on Wikidata, blog post by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Change for maxlag impacts bots and semi-automated tools
  • The five-thousandth lexeme, about a interjection "jau" in Nynorsk language, has been created
  • The Commons template Wikidata infobox has now passed 1.3 million uses on Commons categories, with plenty more still to come. A new help page gives advice on how to add, extend or improve uses of it, and how to fix data problems.
  • You can discuss the right properties to describe files on Commons, to help moving on with Structured data on Commons
  • Help improving the fight against vandalism with ORES
  • Sixth birthday of Wikidata: it's time to think about what you'd like to organize in your area! There will be a phone call for organizers, and the deadline to request swag is September 7th.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: JMA Seismic Intensity Scale, permanent resident of, auxiliary verb, homograph lexeme
    • External identifiers: École normale alumnus ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer member ID, BIU Santé person ID, Medicina author ID, Étonnants voyageurs participant ID, Akadem person ID, GAMECIP platform ID, National Academy of Sciences member ID, EGROKN ID, Behind The Voice Actors franchise ID, archINFORM project ID, Behind The Voice Actors film ID, IGN video game ID, Behind The Voice Actors tv show ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales author ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, Poetry Archive poet ID, cipM poet ID, Poets & Writers author ID, Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, TDKIV term ID, GeoNLP ID, CNAP artist ID, RYM artist ID, Rendez-vous de l'histoire ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: JMA Magnitude, Coached by, Harmonized System Code, reverse lemma, reference properties, LilyPond notation, valency, section number, propdef, antonym, Central Index Key (CIK), note
    • External identifiers: Flanders Music Centre ID, Île en île ID, Fantastic Fiction ID, mhk object ID, CeBeDem ID, Ricochet ID, Common procurement vocabulary, pixiv ID, NYRB ID, The Paris Review ID, GS1 GPC brick code, Pasteur Institute ID, The Trading Card Database person ID, Legaseriea.it team ID, Deutsche Biographie person ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Poetry International Web ID, EuroVoc ID, Språkrådets termwiki ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Reseñas Biográficas (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile), abuse filter ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Collège de France professor ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of the birth places of people who have had taxa named after them (source)
    • Space observatories and their namesakes (source)
    • Timeline of computer games (source)
    • List of companies owned by Disney (source)
    • Same gender spouses (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Patents
  • Newest user-scripts: d:User:Husky/ifff-viewer-link.js (shows selected parts of images, according to P2677 qualifiers - for example d:Q17335769#P180.)

• Development
  • Working on prefilling spelling variant of new form representation (phab:T195708)
  • Start breaking down stories in order to implement Senses
  • Finding a better solution for dewiki's Modul:Wikidata isParent (phab:T179155)
  • Adding support for linking to a particular statement (phab:T169224)
  • Implement property scope constraint (phab:T197473)
  • Track maxlag for wikidata on grafana dashboard (phab:T196868)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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: 2018-27

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

Recent changes

• The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [1]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [2]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:46, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Since our last newsletter, the Structured Data team has moved into designing and building prototypes for various features. The use of multilingual captions in the UploadWizard and on the file page has been researched, designed, discussed, and built out for use. Behind the scenes, back-end work on search is taking place and designs are being drawn up for the front-end. There will soon be specifications published for the use of the first Wikidata property on Commons, "Depicts," and a prototype is to be released to go along with that.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• A workshop on what Wikidata properties Commons will need. This workshop will be open for the entire month of July 2018 at minimum.

• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
• Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

• In late February there was a discussion around how Commons generally sees data being modeled.

• The first discussion on copyright and licensing with Commons was held in March. This was a "high level" discussion, there will be a consultation later this summer about the deeper mapping of copyright and licensing in a structured way.
• In April there was an exercise for GLAM partners in metadata and ontology mapping.
• A discussion about the design for Multilingual Captions on the file page took place in May. You can still review the designs and leave feedback.
• There was an IRC office hour in June to discuss progress so far and future plans.

Wikimania 2018

• Three sessions about Structured Commons are officially scheduled for Wikimania 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa - July 2018.
  • Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world (Friday 20 July, 10:30 local time)
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity (Friday 20 July, 14:00 local time)
  • Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons? (Friday 20 July, 14:30 local time)
• Structured Data on Commons is also a focus area during the Wikimania 2018 Hackathon. We will, among other things, do 'live' modelling of Wikidata properties for Commons - an offline spin-off of the community consultation taking place on wiki.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
• Structured Data on Commons was presented to GLAM audiences during EuropeanaTech 2018 in Rotterdam (15 May 2018) and at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Forum in Berlin (4 June 2018).

Research

Two research projects about Wikimedia Commons are currently ongoing, or in the process of being finished:

1. Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
2. Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

Development

• Prototypes will be available for Depicts soon.

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
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• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.

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Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 21:07, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix

Greetings,

The newsletter omitted two interwiki prefixes, breaking the links on non-meta wikis as you might see above. Here are the correct links:

1. m:Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
2. m:Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

My apologies, I hope you find the corrected links helpful.

- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2018)

This cable car at Zell am See in the Austrian Alps is an example of cable transport. Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Cable transport Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Popular culture • Survival Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 July 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This Month in GLAM: June 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue VI, June 2018 Headlines From the team: New look; Promotion: flyer Armenia report: Museums workers experiencing Wikidata power Australia report: Wikipedia Making Public Histories Brazil report: A GLAMWiki on the Belgian Heritage in Brazil France report: Archaeology day in Toulouse; Institut National d'Histoire de l'art; Palais des beaux-arts de Lille Germany report: Cornerstone ceremony MiQua Indonesia report: From Eastern Indonesia on Commons Italy report: Wiki Weekend in Trentino; Fortezza delle Verrucole edit-a-thon Macedonia report: Wiki Tour in the City Library, WWI editing days & WikiGap Skopje Netherlands report: Wiki writing sprint Open Science New Zealand report: A New Zealand Wikipedian at Large Russia report: All Russia under a free license Serbia report: GLAM Seminar, WIR and GLAM/Edu camp Sweden report: SMVK upload; Swedish National Archives; Wikidata connects Swedish people / archives using Wikidata tool hub; Topographical register at the Swedish National Archives; LIBRIS XL - Bibframe 2.0 and open linked data UK report: Wikidata at Oxford USA report: Wiki Loves Pride 2018 + Bootcamp Wikidata report: Concordance, Cloud, Citations & Commons Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania 2018 Wikimedia and Libraries User Group: Poll to direct activities WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Commons and Wikimania Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2018-28

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

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [3]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [4]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [5]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [6]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [7]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [8][9]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [10]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [11]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [12]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [14]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [15]

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23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #320

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Help:Modelling

• Events
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference, including a Wikidata track, 5-6 July, Aberystwyth (Wales)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: Structured narratives in Wikipedia, São Paulo, August 9th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ewan McAndrew publishes case study for teaching data science with Wikidata: see the case study on Commons
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: a round-up" by Martin Poulter

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: There is a workshop on Commons to identify properties that files will need for statements. You are invited to participate.
  • Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, a new video tutorial by Asaf Bartov
  • Items now contain an average of 10 statements.
  • For the first time Wikidata has less than 2 million empty items.
  • Input for m:Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS is being sought.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Romanization of Belarusian (2007 system), has decorative pattern, floor number, Han character in this lexeme, Japanese pitch accent type, position of accent nucleus, position of devoiced vowel, number of viewers/listeners, signum, research measurement, model year, reference value, lower limit, upper limit
    • External identifiers: mhk object ID, Fantastic Fiction author ID, Île en île author ID, Flanders Music Centre person ID, CeBeDem composer ID, Ricochet author ID, The Paris Review interviewee ID, Whonamedit? doctor ID, Common procurement vocabulary, Pasteur Institute person ID, NYRB contributor ID, GS1 Global Product Classification brick code, The Trading Card Database person ID, Lega Serie A team ID, IPTC Newscode, Poetry International Web poet ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Gfycat user ID, pixiv ID, EuroVoc ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Biographical Articles of the Library of Congress of Chile, Collège de France professor ID, Language Council of Norways termwiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: confers, Narrative role, CJKV variant character, synonym, derived from form, station category, Number of twitter follower, mentioned in work, model year code, peninsula of location, position of nasal sonant, number of people depicted, artist-info artist ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info location ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database, The Reptile Database
    • External identifiers: Logicielsmoto identifier, House of Representatives Morocco ID, BIA PSY ID, My Heritage Surname ID, identifiant Inventaire des sanctuaires français, USNPL ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, Historia de la Medicina ID, TasteAtlas ID, GlyphWiki ID, AE member ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, French Academy in Rome ID, RHE doctor ID, Scottish Poetry Library ID, RHE professor ID, SBN books ID, Australian Poetry Library ID, A Church Near You church ID
  • Deleted properties: GHS hazard statement (P728) + GHS precautionary statements (P940), spectral line (P2224)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places in the UK starting with "Llan" (source)
    • Number and percentage of articles about female scientists for all Wikipedias (compared to all articles about scientists) (source)
    • Statements disputed by their subject (source)
    • Emulators and what they emulate (source)
    • Map of items near me that have a label in English but not in Welsh (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Categories
  • Newest tools: TopicMatcher, by MagnusManske, looks for items related to topics

• Development
  • Making progress towards being able to query for constraint violations in the query service
  • Included the dispatch lag in the maxlag parameter to give better feedback to tools and bots if they can edit at the moment (phab:T194950)
  • Added support for linking to a particular statement (not just a statement group) (phab:T169224)
  • Set up L as an alias for the Lexeme namespace (phab:T195493)
  • Worked on making lexical category, language and grammatical feature show up on WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Worked on Persistent IDs for Senses (phab:T198033)
  • Improve placeholder text for Lexeme language and lexical category field on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195439)
  • Show description on the item selector on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)
  • Add "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194771)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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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The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: This month's external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on the murder of the Romanovs Timeline: This month in World War I

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Tech News: 2018-29

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 now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [16]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [17]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [18]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [19]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

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Future changes

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• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:00, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #321

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • The EU NanoSafety Cluster as Linked Data visualized with Scholia in the EU NanoSafety Cluster Newsletter
  • Converting any SPARQL endpoint to an OpenAPI, blog post about using grlc to convert the WDQS to an OpenAPI service
  • Wikidata on Azure, blog post series about hosting Wikidata data in Azure cloud
  • Wikibase workshop in Berlin
  • Research showcase about the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Keine Schwalben: Schauspielernde Fussballspieler in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: Wikidata Cradle, by Magnus Manske, to create new items by filling a form. You can build your own forms.
  • Ordia (the tool to search for Lexemes and Forms) now displays a graph of grammatical features
  • The Wikidata Lexeme form tool got support for more languages and expanded support for the existing ones.
  • Global preferences are now available on all Wikimedia wikis
  • item Q 55 555 555 was created

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: grants academic degree, model year code
    • External identifiers: Inventory of French sanctuaries ID, BIA PSY person ID, House of Representatives of Morocco ID, My Heritage Surname ID, Logicielsmoto identifier, USNPL ID, SGJP Online ID, TasteAtlas ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, RHE doctor ID, RHE professor ID, AE member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: horizontal depth, correct form, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works, Young's modulus, Billed height, Billed weight, Billed from, IPHAN ID, Ultimate tensile strength, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, derived from language(s), description of glyph, Unicode block, mode of derivation, word with diacritical signs, rhyme, artist-info exhibition ID, invasive to, number of platform faces, state of conservation, Yield strengh, Hardness
    • External identifiers: OSM node ID, NATO Stock Number, EDIT16 IDs, GameSpot ID, SMS Power identifier, RPO ID, Split the Rock ID, Base de datos de premiados ID, legabasket.it player ID, Les voix de la poésie ID, Poetry in Voice ID, BD Gest' ID, Médicos históricos ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Boijmans work ID, RISM ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry Society of America ID, LRB ID, WikiArt ID, MAPS ID, archINFORM ID (Personen und Körperschaften), DEFA-Filmdatenbank-ID, Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català
  • Query examples:
    • Map of birthplaces of football players at 2018 FIFA World Cup
    • People born furthest from their place of education (source)
    • Timeline of discontinued Google products (based on source)
    • Paintings depicting the Bastille Day (source)

• Development
  • Worked on persistent storage for Senses on Lexemes - started by giving them a stable ID (phabricator:T198033)
  • Adding "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phabricator:T194771)
  • Made the Items used for Language, Lexical Category and Grammatical Feature show up on Special:WhatLinksHere (phabricator:T195302)
  • When adding a new Form the spelling variant is now filled out automatically based on the Lemma's (phabricator:195708)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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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Draft:Velile Soha

Hi. I moved the article to draft space, since you're obviously still working on it. Good luck. Kleuske (talk) 13:01, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

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396		Ferguson unrest (talk)	Cleanup
36		Corruption in Spain (talk)	Expand
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473		Police brutality (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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592		Prosecutor (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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258		California Genocide (talk)	Merge
4		Lim1 transcription factor (talk)	Merge
386		History of the Quran (talk)	Wikify
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47		Dorset Police (talk)	Wikify
4		Isaac Kaledzi (talk)	Orphan
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4		Choirmaster (musician) (talk)	Orphan
8		Benjamin Kunbuor (talk)	Stub
38		Kweku Baako Jnr (talk)	Stub
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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2018)

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August 2018 at Women in Red

		An exciting new month for Women in Red! August 2018 worldwide online editathons: New: Indigenous women Women of marginalized populations Women writers Geofocus: Bottom 10 Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative Notable women, broadly-construed! For the first time, this month we are trying out our Monthly achievement initiative All creators of new biographies can keep track of their progress and earn virtual awards. It can be used in conjunction with the above editathons or for any women's biography created in August. Try it out when you create your first biography of the month.
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Tech News: 2018-30

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

• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [20]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [21]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (calendar).

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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #322

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat

• Events
  • Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America
  • Past: Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events. The slides are usually listed from the talk's page on Wikimania wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
  • HarvestTemplates is now compatible with EditGroups: you can easily revert any run that goes wrong (even if it is not your own).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Harmonized System Code, section number, CJKV variant character, ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, position of nasal sonant, LilyPond notation, hardness, accreditation
    • External identifiers: A Church Near You church ID, Australian Poetry Library poet ID, French Academy in Rome resident ID, GlyphWiki ID, Historia de la Medicina person ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID, Scottish Poetry Library poet ID, The Reptile Database ID, Legabasket.it player ID, Les Voix de la poésie poet ID, RPO poet ID, SBN books ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info artist ID, artist-info location ID, BD Gest' author ID, EDIT16 catalogue author ID, EDIT16 catalogue printer ID, GameSpot ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID, Médicos históricos doctor ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Base de datos de premiados person ID, Boijmans work ID, IPHAN ID, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, LRB contributor ID, Poetry Society of America poet ID, RISM work ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry In Voice poet ID, artist-info exhibition ID, archINFORM person or group ID, MAPS poet ID, DEFA film database ID, identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català, Znicenekostely ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Moisture absorption, date of release, Ideographic description sequences, Cangjie input, four-corner method, Hangul, Eumhun, Jyutping, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Bàng-uâ-cê, Kienning Colloquial Romanized, Guangdong Hakka Romanization, Sichuanese Pinyin, Peng'im, Unusually granulated item, Wine color, IANA service name, Toughness, upregulated by, Elongation at break, relative date properties, Prison History ID, CONDEPHAAT ID, copyright status, city that hosted Wikimania, Vietnamese pronunciation, Work hardening strain, Heat treating, EDb company ID, Water absorption, Schematic, passive voice, Normalized Unicode character, Enciclovida ID, Relative humidity, Poisson's ratio, Microstructure, key strength, Weakness
    • External identifiers: identifiant de l'Inventaire de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 東京文化財研究所物故者識別拡張子, IDs from alternativa teatral, Virtual Laboratory ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Swedish Parish place names register, oric.org identifier, Kopaliński Online ID, Altmetric ID, Open Media Database person ID, Python Package Index project, CPAN project, RubyGems gem, CRAN project, L'île ID, National Road DataBase ID, Literature Ireland ID, Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, RedTube ID, CICLIC ID, Interbibly ID, Le Monde ID, Courrier international ID, Courrier international source ID, Tebeosfera ID, Baidu ScholarID, College de France professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1809-1909), Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1909-1939), KLEKs building ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Fictional characters married to their siblings (source)
    • Translations of disease names in South-African languages (source)
    • All Wikidata properties (which are not identifiers) without a label in Afrikaans (source)
    • List of people born or dead in Canton de Vaud (Switzerland), with archives where their documents are stored (source)
    • Timeline of serial killers (source)
    • Map of disasters, color-coded by disaster type (source)

• Development
  • More work on showing Lexemes and Forms in Special:WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Fix wrong translations of Form related strings (phab:T191614)
  • Fix error message for non empty item (phab:T194371)
  • More work on storing Senses (phab:T198032)
  • More work on easy Wikibase Docker instance config generation (phab:T198841)

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22		Corruption in Ireland (talk)	Add sources
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17		2000 in association football (talk)	Add sources
14,511		FIFA (talk)	Add sources
186		Corruption in Nigeria (talk)	Add sources
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30		Corruption in Angola (talk)	Cleanup
62		Corruption in South Africa (talk)	Cleanup
5		Discrimination in Ghana (talk)	Expand
1,043		Los Angeles Police Department (talk)	Expand
1,143		Volkswagen emissions scandal (talk)	Expand
8		Kusasi people (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
146		Liberalism and progressivism within Islam (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
430		Cronyism (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
211		Pick-up sticks (talk)	Merge
27		AARON (talk)	Merge
10		Sex Workers' Rights Movement (talk)	Merge
11		Corruption in Tanzania (talk)	Wikify
18		Corruption in Albania (talk)	Wikify
29		Ramin Jahanbegloo (talk)	Wikify
5		Cynthia Lamptey (talk)	Orphan
44		Kume Preko (talk)	Orphan
2		William Tevie (talk)	Orphan
16		Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (talk)	Stub
8		Kafui Danku (talk)	Stub
33		As-Sajda (talk)	Stub
25		Corruption in Ethiopia (talk)	Stub
25		Corruption in Australia (talk)	Stub
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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Masssly/Archive, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2018)

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Tech News: 2018-31

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

Recent changes

• The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [23]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [24][25]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [26][27]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).

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Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #323

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Help:Modelling

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris (fr): a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
  • populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
  • user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
  • Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: four-corner method, Cangjie input, toughness, Unicode block, fanqie, horizontal depth, valency, yield strength, Hangul of a Chinese character
    • External identifiers: Virtual Laboratory person ID, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier, CONDEPHAAT ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, Altmetric ID, Central Index Key, L'île author ID, Kopaliński Online ID, Open Media Database person ID, Prison History ID, Swedish place name register SOFI
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: toponym, Bpk-Identifikator, number of arrests, Multi-channel network, Coefficient of friction, expiration date, number of persons depicted, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, surface roughness, environment, force, atomic mass, fatigue limit, Pitting resistance equivalent number, casting director, touringclub.it destinazione, organizational unit id
    • External identifiers: INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, IDIH ID, CNRS ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, Tebeosfera character ID, QS World University URL, MUSE journal ID, Times Higher Education World University ID, iNaturalist observation ID, Indian census area code (2011), archINFORM ID (Orte), code Transport Canada, Lyrically artist ID, Flight Report Airline ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, PRELIB ID
  • Query examples:
    • Ancient Greek pottery items stored in Museum St-Raymond, France (source)
    • Timeline of early aviators who died in an accident (source)
    • Timeline of direct-to-video sequels of theatrical movies (source)
    • Music albums from Argentina (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: iNaturalist
  • Newest database reports: list of lexemes, number of lexemes by languages and lexical categories

• Development
  • Corrected several translation errors on Lexeme page (confusing Form word) (phabricator:T191614)
  • Working on merging of Lexemes (phabricator:T198105)
  • Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (phabricator:T195386)
  • Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (phabricator:T198032, phabricator:T198199)
  • Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
  • Fixed validation of input length on Special:NewItem (phabricator:T145932)
  • Fixed issue with embedded view of query results (phabricator:T200409)
  • Fixed change dispatching issues (phabricator:T200420)
  • Investigated issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be (phabricator:T199983)

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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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The Signpost: 31 July 2018

• From the editor: If only if

• Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise

• Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality

• News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR

• In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set

• Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose

• Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes

• Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else

• Technology report: New bots, new prefs

• Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July

• Blog: Motivation of two editors

• Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons

• Humour: It's all the same

• Essay: Wikipedia does not need you

• From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

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