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Wikidata weekly summary #519
- Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
- User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
- External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
- External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID
- Query examples:
- List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
- Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
- Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
- Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
- Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
- We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).
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!
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
This Month in GLAM: April 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #520
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
- LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
- 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
- External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Similar web ranking
- External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
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!
Tech News: 2022-20
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
- Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1]
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).
Future changes
- You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [2]
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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #521
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans
- Events
- Upcoming:
- 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
- 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
- External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
- External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID
- Query examples:
- Relationships of Roman deities (source)
- Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
- Food names after a place in the UK (source)
- French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
- Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
- Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
- Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
- First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
- Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).
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!
Tech News: 2022-21
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
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [3]
- The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [4]
Problems
- The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [5]
- Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Future changes
- Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [7]
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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Commons categories
(I was redirected here from User talk:Pi bot.) I have again reverted an edit by Pi bot (talk · contribs) at Violet Keene. Firstly, does the automated account not recognize the undo flag, and its implication that edits shouldn't be automatically repeated multiple times? Secondly, the bot repeatedly says, Changing locally defined but nonexistent Commons category (Category:1=photographs by Violet Keene) to the one from Wikidata (Category:Violet Keene)
, even though c:Category:photographs by Violet Keene is most-certainly an existant category at the Commons? Thirdly, if these two errors cannot be accounted for, can the bot be manually programmed to not keep making this one edit? Thanks, — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:00, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fourthords: The problem is that [8] does not exist. The simplest way to avoid this is to correct the link, which I've already done [9] (use the lcfirst=yes parameter if you really want to keep the lower-case p). In general, though, it's better to use the main link to commons:Category:Violet Keene, since that's where any media related to Violet that aren't her photographs will end up - and even though it's empty except for the subcategory at the moment, it provides a bit of encouragement to upload more materials, and it provides context via the infobox that the subcategory does not. This is also the Commons link that will appear in the sidebar, and it's good to be consistent. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:06, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- At Template:Commons category-inline/doc, it says that the
|1=
parameter is used for "the name of the Commons category this template will link to." In the previous version of the article, that usage was working correctly and linking to c:Category:photographs by Violet Keene (not c:Category:1=photographs by Violet Keene). Is the bot's error mistaking the template parameter for part of the category name? Can that be repaired? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:26, 23 May 2022 (UTC) P.S. You don't need to link to or name my userpage upon replying; indenting under my text is the default way to know you're replying to me. - A further thought: is the bot not 'aware' that the software is first-letter agnostic, and seeing the leading "photographs" as different from "Photographs"? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:29, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fourthords: Look at the examples given, the template is rarely used with the '1=' parameter. The bot's been running since 2019, and this is the first time this issue has come up. I can modify the bot to cope with "1=" if needed, but it really seems like an edge case. The template itself doesn't work well with lower case first, without the lcfirst parameter, particularly with the comparison with Wikidata. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:30, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
the template is rarely used with the '1=' parameter.
Yet if the template is supposed to work like that regardlessly, shouldn't the bot have been programmed based on the template, not rarity? I also didn't realize the letter case malfunction was the template's error; I'm sorry for assuming the bot was at fault there. I'll let those editors know, thanks! — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC) P.S. You don't need to link to or name my userpage upon replying; indenting under my text is the default way to know you're replying to me.- It's something I have to add in to the code manually, since I'm working with the wikitext. I can do that. The template code was also from me, it would probably need a Lua editor to avoid that issue, and setting up the lcfirst parameter seemed the easiest way to go (it also works then if you don't manually define the link, in which case it uses the value from Wikidata directly). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:38, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fourthords: bot code updated. With WP:THREAD, I know that's the default way, but I don't know if you're watching this page - hence the courtesy ping. If you reply to me on another page, please do the same, otherwise I might miss your message. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- That's good to know, thanks!I don't know what "courtesy ping" means in this context. The only way I know if you reply is by watching your talk page, or if you left a note at mine. I think we're by-and-large done, now, but I tend to watch longer than strictly necessary just in case. (I also tend to accidentally watch pages more often that I think, probably by mishandling the keyboard while editing.) Thanks! — Fourthords | =Λ= | 13:11, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fourthords: See Help:Notifications - you should get an alert in the top-right when you're pinged, it saves watching pages. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- No!! That became a real site feature‽ Somebody was testing something like that eons ago, and it was hellish: trying to make the English Wikipedia a damnable social network or some nonsense. I asked an administrator to disable it for me, since I couldn't get it to go away. I never ever would have guessed it would become an actual feature! What dreck! Seriously, thank you for that info, 100%.Actually, as you are somebody who edits or makes enwp templates, maybe you can help? According to that page, even mentioning another user's page will bombard them with this crap, much less using the {{user}} template like I have for ages. Is it possible to not annoy the everloving piss out of my fellow editors, when I just want to link to their page? I can't fathom how many editors I've pissed off (for who knows how long) by putting a stick in their eyes all the damned time. Thanks, — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:46, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- It works really well - I use it a lot. We need more tools like this, it's hardly making Wikipedia a social network (although TBH I think we could do with a bit more of that to help with community cohesiveness!). I really wouldn't worry about accidental notifications - every editor can turn off the notifications if they want (Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:31, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- No!! That became a real site feature‽ Somebody was testing something like that eons ago, and it was hellish: trying to make the English Wikipedia a damnable social network or some nonsense. I asked an administrator to disable it for me, since I couldn't get it to go away. I never ever would have guessed it would become an actual feature! What dreck! Seriously, thank you for that info, 100%.Actually, as you are somebody who edits or makes enwp templates, maybe you can help? According to that page, even mentioning another user's page will bombard them with this crap, much less using the {{user}} template like I have for ages. Is it possible to not annoy the everloving piss out of my fellow editors, when I just want to link to their page? I can't fathom how many editors I've pissed off (for who knows how long) by putting a stick in their eyes all the damned time. Thanks, — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:46, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fourthords: See Help:Notifications - you should get an alert in the top-right when you're pinged, it saves watching pages. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- That's good to know, thanks!I don't know what "courtesy ping" means in this context. The only way I know if you reply is by watching your talk page, or if you left a note at mine. I think we're by-and-large done, now, but I tend to watch longer than strictly necessary just in case. (I also tend to accidentally watch pages more often that I think, probably by mishandling the keyboard while editing.) Thanks! — Fourthords | =Λ= | 13:11, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fourthords: bot code updated. With WP:THREAD, I know that's the default way, but I don't know if you're watching this page - hence the courtesy ping. If you reply to me on another page, please do the same, otherwise I might miss your message. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- It's something I have to add in to the code manually, since I'm working with the wikitext. I can do that. The template code was also from me, it would probably need a Lua editor to avoid that issue, and setting up the lcfirst parameter seemed the easiest way to go (it also works then if you don't manually define the link, in which case it uses the value from Wikidata directly). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:38, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fourthords: Look at the examples given, the template is rarely used with the '1=' parameter. The bot's been running since 2019, and this is the first time this issue has come up. I can modify the bot to cope with "1=" if needed, but it really seems like an edge case. The template itself doesn't work well with lower case first, without the lcfirst parameter, particularly with the comparison with Wikidata. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:30, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- At Template:Commons category-inline/doc, it says that the
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
Wikidata weekly summary #522
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project Agenda
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names, by Tiago Lubiana
- Papers
- The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
- Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
- Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
- Videos
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Template Item documentation is now automatically displayed in the header of each item's talk page via MediaWiki:Talkpageheader.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
- Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: candidate position
- External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
- External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier
- Query examples:
- List of candidates for the next French legislative elections (source)
- Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata (source)
- Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre / percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre
- Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970 (source)
- Top 100 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata (source)
- Biennales that aren’t biennial (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (phab:T307087), all statements of an item (phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (phab:T307088))
- Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (phab:T307915, decision)
- Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (phab:T306008)
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!
Tech News: 2022-22
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- In the AbuseFilter extension, an
ip_in_ranges()
function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multipleip_in_range()
expressions joined by|
into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [10] - The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [11][12]
- The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the
uciprange
parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [13] - A new parser function will be introduced:
{{=}}
. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [14]
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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
Tech News: 2022-23
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
- A new
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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #523
- Events
- June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
- June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
- July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
- There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
- Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
- A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
- External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
- External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID
- Deleted properties:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
- REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).
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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Hello Mike Peel! I am recently unblocked. I want to remove the contents in my user page. Is it allowed? Is it to be done by me or by an admin? In fact, i also want to delete my user page and my user talk page for a fresh start. Is it allowed? If so, how shall I request it procedurally? --Haoreima (talk) 17:58, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Haoreima: See Wikipedia:User_pages#Ownership_and_editing_of_user_pages and, if needed, Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G7._Author_requests_deletion. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:02, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
- So, is {{Db-g7}} applicable for both user page and user talk page? --Haoreima (talk) 18:07, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
- Probably better to blank those, if you really need to, rather than deleting them. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:21, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #524
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
- Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
- William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05)
- OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
- Past
- 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
- LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
- Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
- Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
- Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
- DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
- How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
- Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
- FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
- The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
- Wikidata Testimonials
- Tool of the week
- ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
- Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
- Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
- Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
- Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
- New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: orchestrator
- External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
- External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID
- Query examples:
- Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
- Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
- items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
- Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
- A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
- Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
- Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
- Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
- In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
- Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
- Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
- Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
- REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)
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!