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Wikidata weekly summary #613

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
• New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Books: Banned books, Wikipedia and Wikidata - Volume 54, Number 2, 2023 of the focus on International Library and Information Work. Professor Núria Ferran of Women and Wikipedia.
• Papers
  • Assisted Knowledge Graph Authoring: Human-Supervised Knowledge Graph Construction from Natural Language - a Web app allowing domain experts to create natural language Wikidata-based knowledge graphs. By Gohsen & Stein (2024).
  • Large Language Models are Superpositions of All Characters: Attaining Arbitrary Role-play via Self-Alignment - Lu, K., Yu, B., Zhou, C. & Zhou, J., (2024),. This paper explores using Knowledge Graph data silos to enrich interactions and dialogues with AI NPC's in roleplay videogames.
  • Narrowing the Knowledge Evaluation Gap: Open-Domain Question Answering with Multi-Granularity Answers - evaluating predicted answers against a set of multi-granularity answers based on Wikidata. By Yona et al, (2024).
• Videos
  • Introduction to Wikidata Query Tool - Learn A Wiki Skill (LAWS). If you are a Wikidata beginner, enjoy this video provided by Open Foundation West Africa.
  • Wikibase Cloud For Cultural Heritage Data Online and the SNARC Hub for Name Authority Records relating to Wales and the Welsh Language, with Jason J. Evans.
  • How to use Wikidata in research: good practices for using and sharing open data (Portugese). A training session by Rute Correia of Wikimedia Portugal.
• WikidataCon 2023 - (English Audio)
  • Wikifunctions: fulfilling one of Wikidata's missing promises? - with Denny Vrandečić
  • Structured data and collaborative curation: WikiProjects and Wikidata - with Daniel Mietchen.
  • Spreading our Data further with Wikibase REST API by L. Pintscher.
• Presentations:
  • Wikibase for a Research Project - A slidedeck provided by Ruth v.d. Bussche presented at Provenance Loves Wiki '24
  • Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 slides on Linking Boetticher and 19th Century Paintings through Wikidata and Wikisource
• Notebooks: GLAM2: Geolocated and Labeled Articles Map - much like the previously shared GLAM1 visually representing distribution of Good & Featured Articles but in a different visualisation.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata's insights for featured and good Wikipedia articles, a new Observable's notebook which helps exploring good articles or featured articles in any Wikipedia using Wikidata properties such as P31, P21, P106, P17, P27, etc.
• SpeedPatrolling - This tool helps Wikidata editors to patrol recent changes.
• metaphacts and Ontotext launch a new end-user interface on top of the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: try it here!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
• The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure(s) (mathematical structure(s) obtained by deleting some data of the subject)
  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
  • simulates (item simulated, imitated, or made to appear real by this item)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
  • combines media (media files that composes this media file)
  • clerked for (this person has held a clerkship with the judge)
• Newest External identifiers: RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju word ID, Stage username, Qué series ver series ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, ‎Playstation Store concept ID, Pallaalcentro player ID, Rowing Canada ID, Rugby Database ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, Nebula channel ID, fiba.basketball player ID, Académie de Stanislas member ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Bandcamp track ID, NientePopCorn movie ID, NientePopCorn series ID, NientePopCorn person ID, Bavarian school ID, BookBrainz edition ID, British Pathé asset ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID, Merkur author page, ‎Globoplay ID, BindingDB ID, FFTT player ID, Czech geological location ID, etymologiebank.nl ID, Bluesky handle, ‎Parliament of Victoria ID, ArchDaily architecture office ID, HistoryMakers Maker Directory ID, OKRB 011-2022 code, Plant Illustrations taxon ID, Plant Illustrations species ID, Bantumen Powerlist 100, International Hockey Federation competition ID, IndExs Exsiccata editor ID, COSL profile ID, ‎The Models Resource entity ID, HbVar ID, TracesOfWar award ID, Latindex 2022 ID, Flashback lexicon ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Number of delegates ()
  • afd-verbot.de person id ()
  • date of application (date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier)
  • authorized image (Proposing to distinguish images with reliable source from GLAM partners or cultural institutions)
  • Dejure.org-Schlagwort (de) (searchword in Dejure.org)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: VD 17 ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, MobiTUKI English-Swahili Dictionary entry, Singerman Identifier, X place ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, The StoryGraph Author ID, EDIT16 title & place IDs, Myths on Maps Identifier, Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, Archives départementales du Vaucluse Fonds ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, Sundance Institute Archive ID, Mindat taxon ID, notify.moe ID, nimi.li id, Nintendo eShop (UK) ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • The 100 smallest mountains in France (source)
  • French Prime ministers ordered by age when they start in office (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 - The International Botanical Congress (IBC) takes place once every six years. The organisers of this WikiProject see this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata and to train them in its use. We will also use this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany.
  • WikiProject Health Data Space - This project is about organising data related to health data spaces, in particular the efforts to create a European Health Data Space. Initially it will focus on Sweden.
• Newest database reports: Differences in birth and death dates - This is list of reports when birth date or death date in Wikidata differs from other sources:
• Showcase Items: Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513) - NASA and ESA space telescope (launched 1990)
• Showcase Lexemes: šťastný (L204262) (Czech) - having luck, fortune, happy. This is our first Czech showcase lexeme and it just so happens to be the largest Lexeme on Wikidata!

Development

• [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
• Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
• mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
• IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
  • We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (phab:T355293)

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Diplomacy
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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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Hi, the bot didn't remove the class parameter here [1], why is that? Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 19:18, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Super Dromaeosaurus, {{WikiProject Video games}} is in Category:WikiProjects using a non-standard quality scale. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:22, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-05

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

• Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [2]
• There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [3][4]
• On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [5]
• Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [6]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfkll Bot duplicating corrupt WikiProject banners

In this edit the Qwerfjkl bot has apparently duplicated a corrupt WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography banner on Talk:Long Arm of the Law (film), when it should have merged the two version of WikiProject Crime [and Criminal Biography] banners or simply not done anything with the second corrupt and invalid banner syntax. Looks like it tried to do too many things and became confused. This should have been flagged as a corrupt banner shell. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 11:13, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Yeah that's GIGO. Can't be too hard on the bot there, as it was corrupted already. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:17, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Cameron Dewe, that is indeed GIGO. Nothing I can really do here. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:50, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ and @Qwerfjkl: Perhaps it is GIGO, but it does seem to have turned what was garbage into complete trash. It would have been OK if it had just migrated the class variables into the banner shell, but it looked like it was trying to add a second banner shell after the first banner shell was closed off. Just bringing it to people's attention in case something was wrong, or it happens again. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 09:55, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Yep, appreciate you bringing it here. It is not reasonable to expect the bot to handle every conceivable error that is possible to make, and hopefully this particular case will not recur — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:57, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

And if it does reoccur; well you now know how the bot reacts, and I can now see it produces a result that indicates a human might need to manually clean up the resulting mess to fix things properly. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 10:09, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Cameron Dewe, people can mess things up in a million different ways, and there's nothing I can do to reliably detect it. In this case the WPBS wasn't properly closed, so my parser didn't recognise it as a template. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:54, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: Understood. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 11:26, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia page Talk:Santa Monica Film Festival & Moxie Awards has been changed by Qwerfjkl (bot)"

Forgive me for undoing your edit to "Wikipedia page Talk:Santa Monica Film Festival & Moxie Awards has been changed by Qwerfjkl (bot)" Upon reading, I noticed that BOT made the edit, and I assumed it was an undesired external modification. Please advise. Thank you! Albert 07:30, 31 January 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adequay (talk • contribs)

Adequay, if you didn't mean to revert the edit, you could undo the revert? — Qwerfjkltalk 14:11, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2024

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• Opinion: Until it happens to you

• Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry

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• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

• Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

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• Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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Why no class?

[7] — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:27, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Martin, there was a conflict between C and Start. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Bug?

[8] — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:11, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

MSGJ, that's a GIGO situation. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:22, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Homuti (15:53, 1 February 2024)

Hello Sir,

Greetings!

Give me some editing tasks. I just signed up for Wikipedia and am browsing to find out what to do. I hold an MA in Geography. I wish to add original content and new entries on Wikipedia. But I need some fundamental know-how and direction on process flow. --Homuti (talk) 15:53, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Homuti, try Wikipedia:Task Center and Wikipedia:Backlog. Let me know if you have any more questions. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:56, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Noted Sir Homuti (talk) 16:00, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:00, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Qwerfjkl (bot) is breaking redirects

With this edit, the bot's task #26 broke a redirect by placing project banners at the top of the page.

This caused the Page is not a redirect, misplaced Template:R from move {{error}} on the page, which I patrol for.

I don't see the need for "Project-independent quality assessments" of redirects. Your bot should follow redirects and assess the quality of the page at the target of the redirect.

Or, if you insist on assessing these, place the assessment below the redirect and the {{redirect category shell}}. Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 02:34, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Wbm1058, yes, I noticed those problems earlier and fixed that bug. The bot also no longer runs on talk pages of redirects. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:12, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Wbm1058, actually, not sure I updated the code correctly. Working now, anyway. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:03, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Closing CfDs and incoming links

Hello!

I notice that Category:People of former regions and territories of the United States, which was renamed and deleted following a CFD you closed on 10 January, still has an incoming link here. AFAIK the process for processing deletion following CfD involves a manual check of incoming links in main and category userspaces. However I'm not sure who does that when the closer and the processing admin are different users. In your opinion, what went wrong? Place Clichy (talk) 20:56, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Place Clichy, AFAIK we have never checked for incoming links. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:23, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

It is mentioned at WP:CFDAI § Implementing a rename, merge or delete, 2nd bullet point: Go to the old category and check "what links here". I am unable to understand which admin processed this close from the history of WP:CFDW/WP:CFDWM, and I don't see an edit from you on CFDWM around the time of the closing of the discussion.

@Fayenatic london: you have been helpful on this topic before (1, 2). Do you see how the process went wrong this time? Place Clichy (talk) 22:15, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

The simple answer is that the process hasn't gone wrong (yet), it's just running very slowly. There is a backlog of processed nominations at WP:CFDW which have yet to be checked and removed. That is to say, the redlinked catgory is still listed there. – Fayenatic London 22:27, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london: oh OK. I saw that the category had already been renamed (by the bot) and therefore assumed that the process was through. I had not noticed that the category was still listed at CFDW. Place Clichy (talk) 22:31, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

I came to ask about Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 17#Category:Underwater diving on Guam. The closure was done January 25th and was a decision to Rename but this hasn't happened. On CFDs, who is responsible for carrying out the decisions that arise out of closing discussions? It doesn't seem to be the closer so does it just fall to an editor who volunteers? Or do bots handle everything? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I went to look at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working but I didn't see this category listed for the bot to handle. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:02, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

That's pending processing by an admin at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working. The entire process has become badly backlogged because only three admins are handling it and there is a lot of work to do. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:58, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl bot and SIAs

At Talk:Ladies' seal (among a couple hundred others), Qwerfjkl bot has removed class=SIA. That shouldn't happen. You could replace SIA with list when doing PIQA, or just move SIA to the PIQA class (this is what Cewbot is doing at e.g. Talk:Devil's bite). Plantdrew (talk) 19:49, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Plantdrew, I was not aware SIA was a standard class rating. @Martin? (I have changed the code for now to recognise SIA). — Qwerfjkltalk 20:12, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

|class=SIA is an alias for |class=List. This was a compromise reached last year to allow some projects to join PIQA. There are some other aliases for List-class: "si" and "sl". It might be better to just change these to "List" when encountered — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:17, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

For now I've just added those as acceptable class values (and changed my capitalisation code so they'll be capitalised correctly). I'll try to add code to convert them to class=List when I have more time, but I've been a tad busy in real life lately. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:23, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I should add that when I said a couple hundred others, I was thinking about the contents of Category:Unassessed plant articles. Some other projects that used SIA as a class that are now treated as unassessed are Category:Unassessed Spiders articles (8 articles), and Category:Unassessed Ships articles (2,142 articles). Some of the ship articles (especially the ones disambiguated with a year) never had an assessment, but many were treated as SIAs/lists until Qwerfjkl bot went through (e.g. Brazilian submarine Humaitá).

WikiProject Mountains has some articles with {{mountainindex}}; there's only one unassessed mountain article now, which is Buena Vista Hills; that had class set as disambig, but Qwerfjkl bot removed it without adding it to PIQA. I guess mountain pages with the SIA template and a talk page assessment of disambig are something to watch out for. Plantdrew (talk) 20:55, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Plantdrew, I was thinking of checking all of Category:Unassessed articles, and restore where they used to have sia. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:27, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

That would be great. Plantdrew (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Please ping me if I forget to do this within a few days. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:33, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to ignore this if it wouldn't help, but (I think) I've linked all of the subcategories of Category:List-Class articles from User:A smart kitten/sandbox2, so that the latter page can be fed into Special:RecentChangesLinked. Doing that & setting RecentChangesLinked to only show categorisation changes, ignore edits from humans, & forcing the recent-changes-displayed-limit to 5000 gives me this page, and Ctrl+F on it for removed from category gives 2,132 matches. Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 23:39, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

A smart kitten, strange, I only get 45 matches on that page. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Huh, that's strange. Either way (and again - feel free to ignore this if it's not helpful), I've created a list (User:A smart kitten/sandbox3) of the talk pages I believe had their SI/SIA/SL class removed, which was generated from copying the output of RecentChangesLinked & using an unholy amount of find-replace. (There are only 2,095 entries on that page, rather than 2,132 - I believe the other 'removed from category' changes were FACBot promoting an article to featured list.) Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 16:31, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Scratch that, there were a few duplicates. The actual number of entries on that page is 1,931. ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 16:36, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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A smart kitten, thanks. I'll write a quick script to revert my bot on those pages, and my bot can run over them again and hopefully make the correct changes. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:10, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I've started running the revert script. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:22, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

FYI, from what I can see, the bot's now been making the correct changes :) ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 19:58, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what happened at pages like Talk:ARM DM-04 & Talk:ARM Papaloapan, but in any event the bot seems to have cleaned up after itself :) (I just wanted to let you know about these for your info, given that there doesn't currently seem to be a problem with them.) Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 22:05, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

A smart kitten, it's probably because I ran the code multiple times on them, accidentally, and each time the bot just reverted all of its previous edits. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:12, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) pinging Kanashimi, just in case this also affects Cewbot. Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 20:42, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

A smart kitten, Plantdrew said above that Cewbot was handling this fine. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

 Self-trout - my apologies to all. I must have skimmed over that bit. Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 21:04, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, I didn't notice the rating before. As mentioned above, in my current practice, the bot should not delete, but move SIA to WPBS, not convert to List. But I would like to confirm:

• Does cewbot's current practice need to be changed?
• Are there any other special ratings to be aware of?
• Is there a guideline for robots and users on how to handle SIA for PIQA? It seems that there is no such guideline...

Kanashimi (talk) 00:41, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

auto parameter in WikiProject templates

Hi! The {{WikiProject Biology}} template on Talk:Péter Kiss (mathematician) has a note about being auto-assessed based on the other WikiProject template. However, with the class parameter being moved to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, there is only one class, which is by a human. Could you change your bot so that |auto=inherit parameters are removed when the |class= parameters are removed (and templates with any |auto= parameter are ignored when determining the majority class), and maybe also fix already-converted talk pages? Thanks in advance! (Probably the other two parameter values should be moved to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, since the class is also there. However, that would require some kind of discussion, and I’m not ready to initiate that.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 08:49, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi I think this needs further discussion. Would you mind starting a thread on Template talk:WikiProject banner shell? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:55, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Mistico_Dois

Page: Maria_Helena_Vieira_da_Silva

Diff: Special:Diff/1201485887

This was an error, for sure, the name of the museum is correct, and the reference too: [9]Mistico Dois (talk) 01:55, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Mistico Dois (talk) 01:55, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Mistico Dois, |title= is missing. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:17, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Not anymore. Its the name of the painter.Mistico Dois (talk) 14:43, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Mistico Dois, in that case the problem is solved. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:10, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mogger42 (09:38, 3 February 2024)

Hey! How do I begin writing an article? Cant find the page! :) --Mogger42 (talk) 09:38, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Mogger42, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 10:06, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Cheaper Fly

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Cheaper Fly, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 13:21, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Error in bot implementation

Qwerfjkl, I am tracking the many bot updates you are doing, using this particular campaign: Implementing WP:PIQA (Task 26).

While the addition of the banner shell is helpful, I see that you have been deleting the param "listas" without replacement. That parameter helps ensure that researchers can find the valuable associated pages whose names do not start with the name of the fraternity. For example, the List of Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters has a listas param of "listas=Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters". We've not entered a campaign to rename all of these, (lists of chapters, lists of notable members, and a few others) and perhaps that is warranted. But for now, the listas param is essential to allow these pages to pop up as visible options when someone searches for that fraternity name. Would you adjust this?

You've also delete the param "class=list" from our specific Project listing (Fraternities and Sororities). In one case I noted it was bumped elsewhere within the shell, which is fine, but would you confirm that that second line has been added, and not lost? I only recently noticed the addition as a second line within the shell, and thought it may be missing from other locations. Jax MN (talk) 21:12, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Jax MN, can you give an example diff of where you have encountered any issues? The bot shouldn't be removing either listas or class=list. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

[10] The bot acted correctly on that page. The listas is only required once, and so the bot is moving it to the banner shell and out of the separate banners. It is also correct to move |class=list as that was moved into the banner shell, which is the whole benefit of PIQA — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

I will continue to review these pages for any syntax problems. I scanned several dozen, after reading your request here, and only found a few instances where our original code had neglected to add a LISTAS param, but where it would have been useful. I've subsequently added it. I will respond further if I find any errors. Thanks for engaging on this item. Jax MN (talk) 23:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any concerns. But everything looks good from my point of view at the moment — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:09, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

A follow-up question. The mainspace article, List of Theta Tau chapters had {{DEFAULTSORT:Theta Tau, list of chapters}} as an active template at the bottom of the article. Since the LISTAS field is used in the project banner shell on the TALK page, I removed that DEFAULTSORT template from the article itself. While it appears both would work, were these actions correct, as sort of a Best Practices edit? Jax MN (talk) 18:37, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Jax MN, I'm no expert on article formatting, but I'm fairly sure the listas from the talk page isn't going to propagate to the main page, so I wouldn't remove the DEFAULTSORT magic word. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:42, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Sir Henry Price, 1st Baronet

Re Sir Henry Price entry: How can Qwerfjkl (bot) change his entry to be suddenly listed under Biography:Sports and games? The entry does not mention either. He was a tailor, businessman, philanthropist and supporter of international relations and botany.William Macadam (talk) 20:10, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

William Macadam, the bot did not change any wikiprojects in this diff. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:20, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Disruptions caused by the Qwerfjkl bot

I have come across a few instances where the bot is introducing an unwanted curly parenthesis (}) in assessment revisions on article talk pages. An example can be seen in the history of Talk:Silvana Lattmann where the bot has introduced a curly after living=no in:

WikiProject Biography|living=no}|a&e-work-group=yes|s&a-work-group=yes

This causes the remaining wikiprojects to display unassessed. I have recently come across a few of these in connection with women's biographies which suddenly show up as unassessed. kanashimi: The same error is introduced by Cewbot as shown in the history of Talk:Avelina Gil. I think both these bots should be disabled before more unintended errors are introduced. Hopefully the errors can now be identified and corrected.--Ipigott (talk) 11:05, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ Maybe we could add a tracking category for invalid parameter values of any type? Kanashimi (talk) 11:19, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Ipigott, the curly bracket was already there in both cases. This is not a bot problem. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:19, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that our, Qwerfjkl. I suppose there are two ways of looking at this. Before the bot changed the display, all talk page assessment entries provided results. Although there was indeed an error in the biography line beforehand, it was only after the bot had updated the display that some of projects were listed "unassessed". As a result, items which had never previously caused problems needed to be revisited. Fortunately I think we have been able to catch and correct most of those which also list WP Women or WP Women's History (I have corrected a few others over the past few days) but I imagine many biographies of men also need attention. I see that for Silvana Lattmann it was Peaceray who introduced the error at 18:06 on 19 June 2021. For Avelina Gil, it was MerielGJones at 19:28 on 19 June 2021. It therefore looks as if one was copying from the other. I don't know if it's possible to see what other edits they made on this date but it would be useful to identify them and correct them.--Ipigott (talk) 12:35, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Ipigott, this is a flaw in how the WPBS works, which itself is due to a limitation in lua pattern matching. Probably the best thing to do here is a tracking category. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:48, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

I was just looking at this when you replied. It should be possible to use Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Find and replace to find |living=yes}| and replace it with |living=yes| but I am not up to doing that myself. Perhaps you can help.--Ipigott (talk) 12:52, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Ipigott, I'm unconvinced this is a widespread problem. The only other case I could find was this one. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:57, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

That's very reassuring. We must have been able to correct all the others. But it just shows how careful you have to be to make sure you don't accidentally hit an unwanted character on your keyboard when working on assessments. Thanks for your help and for developing bots which save us so much work. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 13:07, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

I think any mistaken additions of a single curly bracket on my part are likely to be a one-time mistake. Peaceray (talk) 23:03, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. LibStar (talk) 04:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl 103.253.47.30 (talk) 05:34, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

PIQA question

Hi there! In this edit to WikiProjects for a redirect, should your bot also remove the |class= parameters, especially the incorrect |class=stub? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Here's another example. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:36, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

GoingBatty, see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 24, it's resolved by the WPBS automatically. Yes, it would probably be better if my bot did it as part of cleanup, but currently it only handles cases where there is no unified class. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:55, 5 February 2024 (UTC)