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Wikidata weekly summary #644

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-02. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #643

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: أمين - RfP scheduled to end 9 September 2024 11:18 (UTC).

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Teester/CheckShex.js - a Userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • 🔥 Big changes are coming to the #WikidataQueryService. If you query for scholarly articles, please take a look at this announcement!
  • Is Shakespeare in German something for you? A digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975) was released with Wikidata connections. (source)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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Development

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-37

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

Feature news

  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [1][2]
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [3]

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4]
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [5]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:GeoTemplates

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A tag has been placed on Category:GeoTemplates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:39, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2024

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This Month in Education: August 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 7 • August 2024

In This Issue

Books & Bytes – Issue 64

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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 64, July – August 2024

  • The Hindu Group joins The Wikipedia Library
  • Wikimania presentation
  • New user script for easily searching The Wikipedia Library

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Pings

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Just as an FYI, <this> also doesn't work - per WP:PINGFIX (and somewhere else that I'm not finding right now), pings only work if the edit adds new lines with the ping and does not remove or alter other lines. Besides the solutions in that page for fixing pings, you can also just "fix" the ping and ping them for real in your edit summary (though some people have that disabled, and that might link to the revision instead of the comment itself). – 2804:F1...EE:9927 (talk) 19:21, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 221, September 2024

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Your Military History Newsletter

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 21:57, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Clarifying here

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I am messaging you here to avoid cluttering the Teahouse. I was not directing my message to you, but to the IP user. Perhaps, my conversation indent implied I was responding to you. I was simoply indenting to make the conversation more linear/readable. Apologies for any confusion. 13:53, 16 September 2024 (UTC) ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:53, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

I wasn't confused; my question was rhetorical. Please use indentation to indicate levels of reply, not for "neatness", per Wikipedia:Indentation. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:57, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Luis Laplace has been accepted

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Luis Laplace, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Cambalachero (talk) 15:00, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #645

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-16. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #644

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 5 - Task: update a typography error in the French description of homonym pages, seen on 1.
  • New request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - The proposal suggests allowing Wikidata bureaucrats to remove admin rights, which they currently cannot do, to streamline processes, reduce reliance on stewards, and align with practices of other wikis.
  • Proposal: Mul labels - proposal of massive addition - The proposal suggests massively adding "mul" labels to Wikidata items for given and family names, using a bot to streamline the process and reduce redundant labels.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Session 2 (September 17) - Working session using Mix‘n’Match to add Wikidata items
  • Wikidata Day 2024 (Seattle) - Agenda: Wikidata Twelfth Birthday, Training and Edit-a-thon. When: Saturday, October 26, from 12:30–4:30pm PDT

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Lagewi/references.js - "Sometimes, the data on Wikidata does not answer all your questions. Some types of information are difficult to encode in statements, or simply has not been encoded on Wikidata yet. In such cases, it might be useful to go through the references attached to claims of the entity, for additional information. To simplify this process, this user script lists all unique references based on stated in (P248) and reference URL (P854). The references are listed in a collapsible list below the table of labels and descriptions, collapsed by default to not be obtrusive." To enable it, include the following line in your common.js: mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lagewi/references.js&oldid=2039248554&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • The development team attended the annual WMDE Software Department retreat, so there wasn't much development activity this week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-38

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

Improvements and Maintenance

  •   Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
  • The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [6]
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [7]
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [8]
  •   Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [9]

Technical project updates

  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [10]

Tech in depth

  •   The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
  •   To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
    • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
    • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:59, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Changing a name on a page

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Hi,

I am trying to correct a name on the page Mary Ann Weathers but not sure how to do this.

Need your help.

Thanks. Liberationfemale (talk) 14:56, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Mary Ann Weathers page

I added as an external source the fact that the article, "An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force" is also available in my book, "Inside the Second Wave of Feminism."

Do I need to do anything else?

Thanks. Liberationfemale (talk) 17:34, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Edits made on the Cell 16 page

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I made two different edits on the Cell 16 page two days ago. One was a quote from a book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and the other was adding her and my books as external sources.

Not sure what happened and what I am doing wrong.

Please assist.

Thanks. Liberationfemale (talk) 17:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Liberationfemale: There have been no edits to Cell 16 in September. Did you perhaps forget to publish your changes? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:45, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
I just re-submitted my changes and hit "Publish changes."
Hope this takes.
Thanks. Liberationfemale (talk) 15:10, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
@Liberationfemale: Sadly not. Please try again. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:32, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
Okay. I just submitted another change and hit publish changes.
What am I doing wrong? Liberationfemale (talk) 15:37, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
@Liberationfemale: I'm not sure; are you using mobile, or desktop? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:02, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
I am using my apple macpro, laptop. Liberationfemale (talk) 20:00, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

September thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in September! - Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114, is one of the pieces in my topic of this year. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-39

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

Weekly highlight

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

 
A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
  • Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
  • The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
  •   It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [11]
  • Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [12][13]
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  •   From Wikimedia Enterprise:
    • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
    • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

  •   The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Years AD

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A tag has been placed on Category:Years AD indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 11:02, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 September 2024

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Horizon and The Rocket

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FYI, I was just listening to Gangsters (song) and this led me to start the article for Horizon Studios. I'm not planning to do much more so you might want to keep an eye on it as it's in your patch. Andrew🐉(talk) 20:57, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red October 2024

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Women in Red | October 2024, Volume 10, Issue 10, Numbers 293, 294, 318, 319, 320


Online events:

Announcements from other communities

Tip of the month:

  • Unsure how to expand a stub article? Take a look at this guidance

Other ways to participate:

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--Lajmmoore (talk 08:07, 29 September 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

About the Cardington page.

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Hello, I am 94.194.31.200. I'd like to apologise for my poor source of citing to the Cardington page. I thought it would be fine to use Wikipedia as a reliable source, as the cite note leading to the Cardington Airfield page had already been edited by me to show that Eastcotts was no longer a civil parish anymore. I struggled to find a source outside of Wikipedia about the Eastcotts abolishment. I now understand and I am going to try harder to find a source outside of Wikipedia. Thank you. 2A02:C7C:6D8A:6A00:6405:CC20:823A:2313 (talk) 15:17, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Quick note: my IP keeps changing so keep note of that 😂 2A02:C7C:6D8A:6A00:6405:CC20:823A:2313 (talk) 15:17, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
No problem; we all had to learn to edit from scratch. The IP issue is best resolved by creating and using an account - which can be entirely pseudonymous, and which gives you additional editing privileges and access to tools. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:21, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
Thanks man, but I've checked every single IP this tablet gives me, and none of them are where i live! (But you gotta feel sorry for who lives at these places) 2A02:C7C:6D8A:6A00:6405:CC20:823A:2313 (talk) 15:31, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Years of the 9th century

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A tag has been placed on Category:Years of the 9th century indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 00:40, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Pigsonthewing,
I tagged many other empty categories you created today but I didn't want to flood your User talk page with notifications. You can see them at Category:Years BC by century and Category:Years AD by century. This category tagging starts a 7 day holding period where the categories sit in Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion for a week. If, over this coming week, the categories are no longer empty, the tag can be removed. If the categories are still empty next Sunday, they will be deleted. Categories that are deleted for simply being emptied, CSD C1, they can be recreated whenever there is a need for them. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 00:53, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Pogoda klimat

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 Template:Pogoda klimat has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:42, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

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