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Wikidata weekly summary #614

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

Discussions

• New request for permissions/Bot:
  • SamoasambiaBot - Adding coordinate values from fiwiki articles, and 2.) adding location statements based on the coordinates.
  • MidleadingBot 5 - Create items for books in National Diet Library (Q477675).
• Closed request for comments:
  • Closure reason listed as "Not an RfC discussion":
    Moto GP Riders Links, Improve performance of label, description and alias retrieval, Create massive changes in one property for specific categories/properties, Auto analysis and breakdown of links (for social account reference), Separating citations from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata, Items for external links
  • Closure reason listed as "No Consensus":
    Remove watchlist summary, Unify GO articles and enzyme articles
  • Closure reason listed as "Stale":
    Potd, Population data model, Handling of data objects for pages in project namespace, Shouldn't there be a feature adding Qualifiers inside Qualifiers?, Auto sorting according to weight assigned, Should we create new properties for beaches, Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?, A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata, Structured path for property definition changes, Improved instructions for translation admin

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 6, 2024: Wikimedia user Dnshitobu will discuss Wikidata for Education, the Dagbani NLP project, and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group/sister communities. In the last part of the meeting, Dnshitobu will lead a discussion of your ideas for Wikidata Affinity Group activities in 2024 using Jamboard. Agenda
• Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon February 6, 17:00 - 18:00 CET. Toronto Metropolitan University. Edit-A-Thon's are also being hosted on Feb. 8th 16:00 CET and Feb. 15th 18:00 CET.
• Wikidata 101 is a clinic, part of the #LoveDataWeek hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University; February 13th 11:00 - 12:30 EST in LIB 387 - Library Collaboratory building.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: #LD42023 II: Getting to Know Each Other, Librarians in the Wikidata World by SEgt-WMF
  • 20th Century Press Archives: access extension and full-text search via Wikidata
• Papers
  • Wikidata Challenges in the Semantic Web Community by Andrea Westerinen. This presentation was given at the Data Modelling Days conference.
  • Comparative Study on the Approaches of Name Authority Control and Wikidata Identity Management pages 63 - 74 of the Proceedings of the 18th International ISKO Conference (2024). Authored by Chen C. & Yuxuan Z.
• Videos
  • Connecting People, Connecting Archives Project (CACP) – Wikidata Workshop (Arabic). Archivists and scholars collaborated to align objectives and methods for the Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project. The aim of the workshop was to understand biographical data in archives.
  • Wikibase SPARQL Demo A live demo of the SPARQL MediaWiki extension during the February 2024 Wikibase Stakeholder Group meetup.
• Podcasts: Between the Brackets, Episode 155 - Alan Ang and Kris Litson discuss Wikidata partnerships and outreach.
• Notebooks
  • Mapping of a director's work a tool which explores the narrative locations of works directed by a filmmaker.
  • Mapping of a writer's work : a tool which explores the narrative locations of works written by an author.

Tool of the week

• A Query and UI for exploring works of Venezuelan authors, artists, scientists and creators in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata development goals for 2024 Q1 has been updated: Wikidata:Development plan

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • official list URL (URL of a website listing instances of the subject, maintained by the authority on the subject)
  • Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
  • semantic derivation (links a lexeme sense to a particular sense it is derived from)
  • date of application (date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier)
• Newest External identifiers: VMH ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web version), Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, LoverFans ID, DigiListan artist ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID, Qantas hotel ID, Veterans Legacy Memorial ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, IFOPT stop ID, Jinji Koshinjyo ID (1st edition), Jinji Koshinjyo ID (4th edition), Jinji Koshinjyo ID (8th edition), TheTVDB season ID, TheTVDB company ID, TheTVDB award ID, Kialo ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Myths on Maps identifier, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, XWord Info author ID, Bluesky DID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Lobbypedia ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, VD 17 ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • smells of ()
  • moment of onset of sexual maturity (the point in time after which an individual attains the ability to reproduce sexually)
  • url namespace (URL prefix behind which values of this property can be found using a search engine)
  • ultima verba (last words spoken by a subject)
  • Performing organization (organization that received funding to create this entity)
  • filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant Mémoire des lieux d'un bâtiment, PlaymakerStats.com executive ID, Identifiant du Référentiel national des bâtiments, Dictionary of American Regional English ID, Dictionary of Old English ID, Encyclopedia Mythica ID, Shamela Author ID, Oxford English Dictionary object identifier, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID, PROSPEROPatches game ID, ORBISPatches game ID, Quake Wiki ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, Trakt-Film-ID, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Projects with which New Zealand Thesis people overlap (source)
  • Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
  • Largest companies by revenue in USD
• Newest database reports: Popular Items without claims (Items with the most links but without statements)
• Showcase Items: Airbus (Q67) - European aircraft manufacturer
• Showcase Lexemes: sala (L578377) - translates to "human" or "charcoal" in Dagbanli

Development

• Wikibase REST API:
  • We are finishing the endpoint for adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (phab:T342987) and have finished the ones for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685)
  • We have documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
  • We fixed the bug where sitelink data was not including badges even when available (phab:T355293)
• IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase so we don't show IP addresses for non-logged-in users.
• mul: We finished the user testing and will now work on the remaining blockers for the first release.

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:
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-06

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

Recent changes

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
• On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [1][2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [3][4]
• Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [5]

Future changes

• 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [6][7]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Please Re-list CFD section that was closed with no real discussion

Hi Qwerfjkl. I just discovered that Category:Native American people from the San Francisco Bay Area, which I created a while back, had been listed for merging at CFD. For some reason the alert banner for my talk page did not show up on pages I was editing until a few hours ago, so I only learned of the CFD shortly after you had closed it - after just 7 days, and with only ONE editor commenting at all (a pro forma "Merge per nom" in support of merging). It was readily apparent that neither editor has any actual familiarity with the subject area - so I would dearly like to have the opportunity to make the case for keeping the category.

I'm hoping you can take care of this quickly, before it gets listed for merging at WP:CFDW. Thanks in advance. Anomalous+0 (talk) 08:33, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Anomalous+0, please give a valid rationale for why it should be kept. There is no rush; the category can always be restored.
I am happy to reopen the discussion if you give a reason why it should be kept. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:00, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi again, Qwerfjkl. I just discovered to my dismay that the Category in question was deleted a few hours ago. I unfortunately construed your reply to mean that you were gonna hold off putting it into the queue for merging long enough for me to put together a halfway decent explanation/rationale for keeping it. (Which took me longer than expected due to some urgent family issues I needed to attend to.) I've asked the deleting admin to reverse the deletion if possible, so I can avoid having to go thru the whole bothersome process of Deletion Review.

In any event, I guess I may as well go ahead and share what I put together for you:

I thought the easist way to approach this would be simply to share a somewhat random assortment of links for online articles, etc. that discuss one or another aspect of the San Francisco Bay Area's Native American community. Most of these invoke the "SF Bay Area" right in the headline. (FYI: Simply put, the SF Bay Area encompasses all the counties in the North Bay, the South Bay, and the East Bay, as they are known.)

I thought I'd start with something from right here on Wikipedia:

Ohlone#Indian_People_Organizing_for_Change
Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC) is a community-based organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its members, including Ohlone tribal members and conservation activists, work together in order to accomplish social and environmental justice within the Bay Area American Indian community.

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
http://www.muwekma.org/
The present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe is comprised of surviving American Indian lineages aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay region who trace their ancestry through the Missions Dolores, Santa Clara, and San Jose.

Ohlone women fighting to get back their land, cultural heritage in Bay Area
https://abc7news.com/ohlone-women-te-land-trust-indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans/11109855/

Bay Area's indigenous community builds a better future by reconnecting with their past
https://abc7news.com/native-american-indigenous-peoples-what-is-san-francisco-people/11268455/

American Indian Cultural District of San Francisco - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AmericanIndianCulturalDistrict
American Indian Cultural District of San Francisco, California
The purpose of the American Indian Cultural District is to honor and celebrate the San Francisco Bay Area Native American Community's culture, history, and contributions.

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirit people within the American Indian/First Nations community...
https://www.baaits.org

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) Powwow [held at at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco]
https://fortmason.org/event/two-spirits-baaits-powwow

I should also mention that I listen regularly to a weekly radio program from a station in Berkeley called "Bay Native Circle", which is produced by and for Native Americans in the SF Bay Area.

Lastly, I've just discovered that we also have a Category:Native Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, which further validates the existence of Category:Native American people from the San Francisco Bay Area and should be added as a parent cat.

Honestly, I think what I've presented here should be sufficient for you to change your close on this to "Full KEEP". At the very least, it's quite certainly a "No concensus KEEP".

Regards, Anomalous+0 (talk) 12:26, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Anomalous+0, I won't change my close on this per se, but I have reopened it at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 29#Category:Native American people from the San Francisco Bay Area. Please copy your comment over there. I would recommend trying to keep it succinct rather than a large block of text. If the discussion is closed as no consensus or keep, the the category can be restored. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for re-listing Qwerfjk - much appreciated. Anomalous+0 (talk) 22:43, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

... and now I'm here to complain about relisting it again :) Given that four (Mason, Marco, Omnis Scientia, and myself) editors supported the merge and the creator of the category opposed, I am not sure why it needed to be relisted. HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 19:53, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

HouseBlaster, I felt that their arguments where not sufficiently addressed and could do with some more discussion. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:24, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Meta Financial

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Draft:Meta Financial, 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)} 19:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

massCFD script

Please modify User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massCFD.js to skip posting notifications to User talk:BrownHairedGirl. Thanks. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Pppery, I'll modify the script to avoid posting notifications to indeffed accounts or bots. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:10, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Pirasanth1987 (09:38, 8 February 2024)

How do I ask you to write an article on Authority for Virtual Tasks and Authority on Imagination Control? --Pirasanth1987 (talk) 09:38, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Pirasanth1987, 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 16:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Your bot rating articles

Dear Qwerfjkl, i saw that you wrote a bot rating articles? I would love to learn more about your criteria for rating. Because if i look on the Content assessment-site, i don't understand your rating. You rated my article on George Pusenkoff with "C", which means: "Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study." - I'd love if you would tell me, WHAT you are missing from this article, i really couldn't have covered more of his work, i did cover all. And i had inline citations, etc. - honestly, i was quite surprised about this rating. Some of my articles are rated "B" and i find this one as good as them. Kind regards, Naomi Hennig (talk) 22:01, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

The bot did not rate the article. It just moved the rating from {{WikiProject Biography}} into {{WikiProject banner shell}} — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:09, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Naomi Hennig, what Martin says. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:07, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. Question: where or how can i find out, who made this rating? Kind regards, --Naomi Hennig (talk) 14:23, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

It was rated by Nat965 in 2018, and may have improved significantly since then — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

My mistake. It was originally rated by Graeme Bartlett in 2018 — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:53, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much Martin!!! --Naomi Hennig (talk) 16:48, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ma'button (11:15, 10 February 2024)

Hello when is my profile gonna be published or approved? --Ma'button (talk) 11:15, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Ma'button, I assume you mean User:Ma'button/Sample page. You haven't submitted it as a draft, so never. See WP:YFA. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:46, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

how do I do that please help,thanks. Ma'button (talk) 16:14, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Ma'button, add {{subst:submit}} to the top of the page. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:07, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

--Hazooyi (talk) 09:25, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Purge

Re Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_January_29#Category:Russian_activists_against_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine. Did you do it? Who is doing the purge? If nobody, then this discussion was closed in a way that is not actionable and pointless, I fear. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:55, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Piotrus, I've listed it at the usual place, WP:CFDM. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:23, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Ah, that's fine. I'd suggest saying so clearly in your future similar closes. TIA, _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #615

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

Discussions

• New request for permissions/Bot:
  • CJMBot - let users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside is validated and processed, creating new items or updating existing items by adding statements and references.
  • MidLeadingBot_5 - create items for books in National Diet Library (Q477675).
• Closed request for comments: Revamping Birth related properties the use of P1545-Series ordinal was recommended.

Events

• Knowledge Graphs and large Language Models (KALLM) workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. Call for Papers (details) has begun (deadline May 10th)
• WMF Community Wishathon is coming next month: March 15th-17th, 2024! Sign up by Wednesday, March 15th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • What does it take to become a Spotify artist? - Skoove blog uses Wikidata and other databases to put together an infographic.
  • WiLMa Updates, OpenRefine training, Biodiversity, and Librarians (GLAM newsletter)
  • Love Data Week - My Kind of Data by Ali Smith. Shared relevant links to learn about data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data.
• Papers
  • Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers - with detailed discussion of curation of taxon-related information in Wikidata
  • Wikidata for Teaching Biology: Coloration in Felines (Spanish) - a paper that showcases Wikidata as a learning tool for students through the use of properties and statements applied to biological entities can enhance students computational and informational skills, by Marín1 D. & Michán L.
  • LIS Journals' Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Willey, E. & Radovsky S., Vol. 7 No.1 (2024) of the Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.
• Videos
  • GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 - Uruguay
    • Wikisource and Wikidata - when 2 cool kids play together. Session given by Bodhisattwa.
    • Wikidata + Education + Heritage - hosted by Sailesh Patnaik (WMF) & Nat Hernández Clavijo (WMU)
    • Using Wikidata integration on Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-Wiki content sharing - hosted by Mike Peel (WMB/WMF volunteer) & João Peschanski (WMB)
  • Advancing Drinking Water Justice at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Conference discusses how Wikidata and Wikibase Cloud can help address differences in data quality (at the 55:00 minute mark)
  • Mapping Graiguenamanagh Heritage Trail 2 - shows how to create a Heritage walking trail and add subject:wikidata to plaques to OpenStreetMap
• Notebooks
  • Au bord de l'eau Mapping Wikidata's items next to a body of water using P206 property.

Tool of the week

• MediaWiki:Gadget-dataDrainer.js - this userscript allows you to delete the data of an item. You can choose what you want to delete: labels and/or descriptions and/or aliases and or sitelinks.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A project page for the experiment has also been published.
• WMDE is currently conducting a research on Knowledge Equity in Linked Open Data. The goal is to try to better understand how the use of Wikidata, Wikibase Suite, and Wikibase Cloud both support knowledge equity and create barriers to knowledge equity when people are contributing historically and structurally marginalized knowledge and perspectives. If you are interested in participating in this project, please fill out this survey!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Environmental Performance Index (measure of understanding environmental performance and sustainability for 180 countries)
  • age of onset of sexual maturity (the point in time after which an individual attains the ability to reproduce sexually)
  • Beta Code (representation of Ancient Greek as ASCII characters)
  • phonetic value (phonetic value of signs/characters)
  • civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
• Newest External identifiers: Dongqiudi.com team ID, ‎Nintendo eShop (Europe) ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, ‎Sundance Institute Archive film ID, Sundance Institute Archive event ID, Sundance Institute Archive person ID, notify.moe anime ID, Swetrails POI-ID, UT.no ID, The StoryGraph author ID, X place ID, nixpkgs path, Shamela author ID, PROSPEROPatches game ID, ORBISPatches game ID, Quake Wiki ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • is invariant under (subject is preserved by this process / function / group of transformation)
  • formatter URL for IIIF manifest (URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID)
  • location information URL (URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator)
  • SMIRKS (A superset of "reaction SMILES" and a subset of "reaction SMARTS", is a line notation for specifying reaction transforms.)
  • appeals to (court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions)
  • in service of (qualifier, which must be used when a person is in the service of a settlement or institution through his position)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID, government.ru person ID, Kremlin.ru glossary ID, British Listed Buildings Online ID, Parsifal cluster ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Souls Grown Deep ID, OHDSI ID, identifiant Trismegistos d'une divinité, Encyclopedia Sindhiana entry, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID, GNM ID, AniSearch anime ID, livechat.me anime ID, NACSIS-CAT library ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, Texas Legislator ID, Company ID number (Slovenia), Weird Gloop article ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, literatura.kg person ID, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of items next to the Seine (source)
  • 300 most followed Mastodon accounts (source)
  • Hospitals across Scotland (source)
  • People educated at the University of Leeds with a Wikipedia article (source)
  • Compare lat/long of UK Parliament and Wikidata constituency records [federated query] (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Library and Information Science - this new Wikiproject aims to identify and fill gaps in LIS-related content. If you are interested in the areas of librarianship, information studies, metadata and indexing; then please consider joining!
  • Political murders in the Weimar Republic - Collect historic political murders in the Weimar Republic e.g. through historic newspaper articles or scientific articles.
• Newest database reports: Humans with missing claims
• Showcase Items: Cactaceae (Q14560) - family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments
• Showcase Lexemes: ग़रीब को कौड़ी अशरफ़ी है/غریب کو کوڑی اشرفی ہے (L656971) Hindustani proverb that translates to "a farthing is a pound to one who is poor"

Development

• The new mul language code is now ready for beta testing. You can find out more at Help talk:Default values for labels and aliases.
• The graph split testing for the Wikidata Query Service has started. Please find more details in the "Other Noteworthy Stuff" section above.
• IP Masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP Masking feature, so that IP addresses for non-logged-in users are no longer published.
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the route for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685) and we continue work on the one for adding/ replacing and modifying a sitelink on an Item (phab:T342987, phab:T342988)
  • We now handle of case sensitive statement IDs in GET, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests as HTTP redirect (phab:T354261)
  • We documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
  • We fixed the bug where sitelink data did not include badges (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:
• 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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The Signpost: 13 February 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

• Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

• In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part

• Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?

• Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football

• Crossword: Our crossword to bear

• Comix: Strongly

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Tech News: 2024-07

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

Recent changes

• The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [8][9][10] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [11][12]

Problems

• There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [13][14]
• As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[15] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [16]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from ManuGood (17:48, 14 February 2024)

Hi! Just wanted to ask a quick question about the notice triangle at the top left part of an article being drafted. If the notice says: "find sources," and sources are added, but the notice is still showing, does that mean the sources added do not fit the requirements? Thank you! --ManuGood (talk) 17:48, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

ManuGood, no, the template has no way of detecting whether you've added sources or not (and more sources is always better, so long as the sources are reliable). — Qwerfjkltalk 18:21, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay, very helpful. Thank you! ManuGood (talk) 18:24, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Stopping notifications

Hi there, for the last 7-10 days I've been getting multiple (up to 20/day) email notifications from this bot of changes to talk pages and article pages. Can these be stopped? Thanks. MurielMary (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

You can select your preferences at Special:GlobalPreferences#mw-prefsection-echo — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:45, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

I am also getting hundreds of these notices which are extremely annoying. I tried all kinds of ways to stop this. You say "select your preferences" above but I have no idea which preferences to select..--Hazooyi (talk) 09:27, 11 February 2024 (UTC).

Would you be so good as to stop sending me changes from this bot also. Something has gone wrong, I think. I have never asked to be apprised of changes to this page. I am getting a lot of notifications about changes to it also. Many thanks. William Macadam (talk) 12:10, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

William Macadam, I have no control over your notifications, nor do I know what preferences you have enabled. Try fiddling around with your notification preferences. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:12, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

One way to stop getting these bot activity notifications would be to turn off all notifications, which is the first option in the "Notifications" tab – change the "Send me" pulldown to "Do not send me any email notifications". This is, however, probably more than you would want. Another option would be to change from individual e-mails to a single daily summary (same pulldown). Otherwise, set a rule in your e-mail client to just delete any e-mail with "Qwerfjkl (bot)" in the subject line — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 10:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Is there a progress report for the bot? About how long will it take to finish the run? — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 10:37, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

GhostInTheMachine, hard to say. Currently I'm running the bot on Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell without a project-independent quality rating which has about a million members left, and had about 2 million when I started a week or two ago. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:53, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I will add a cat counter to my daily report — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 12:19, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

• Yet again I am here. Please avoid edits like these [17]. Kanashimi, your bot is problematic. It is the one right now with the most spam, as Qwerfjkl bot has noticeably slowed down (thank you for that). It was keeping both the blp and living parameters, and it does not remove this 1= thing. It also uses an alphabetic order instead of random selection like Qwerfjkl bot does. Is it not possible for you two to share the code of your bots, so that they synchronise? I don't even know why are we using two bots instead of one on a faster editing rate. Super Ψ Dro 10:06, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

  Umm, that was Qwerfjkl (bot) that made that edit — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:44, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I know, that's why I left a message here and not at Kanashimi's talk page. Super Ψ Dro 14:47, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

• Super Dromaeosaurus, yes, I'm working on fixing cosmetic edits like that. We're writing code in different languages using different frameworks, so it's hard to share code. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:05, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay then, I have a minimum idea of how programming languages work so I trust you on it being hard. Super Ψ Dro 14:47, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Missed project

[18] from a couple of weeks ago. Bot missed the water polo project. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:34, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps you could run through those again? There are a lot of water polo articles in Category:WikiProject banners with redundant class parameter — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:35, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

MSGJ, it's not in any category I can use to detect it. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:38, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Please can you fix the water polo articles? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:53, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Martin, I could add Template:WikiProject Water polo to Category:WikiProject banner wrapper templates? — Qwerfjkltalk 17:04, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Martin, I've fixed them. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:03, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

The invention of "Paint By Numbers" (PBN) in 1927

My Father, Joseph E. Elicker,(1909-1991) when he was just 18 years old, and being in show business, saw the need for large movie posters for the fronts of movie theaters. No printing presses were large enough to print posters so he started "Poster Design Service" on Broadway in New York city. He hired illustrative artists in Hollywood to paint several paintings showing the stars of movie films as they were produced and include the theme of the movie (ie. cowboy, military , dancing, etc.) These were all copyrighted, then sent back to NYC where they were transformed into Paint by Numbers format with numbers of the various colors to recreate an original. Theater owners subscribed to the service and received a filmstrip with the portraits in PBN format, projected to the wall on poster board and fill in the numbers with numbered paints supplied by the company. Then fill in the numbers and he had any sized large poster desired. The company failed in 1932 when presses we introduced. In 2002 I visited the Smithsonian in DC and met with the curator, Mr. Larry Byrd and he was extremely excited to see the hundreds of PBN paintings that I still own. All of the STARS of Hollywood. 2601:41:C781:A690:1088:378F:8A69:783C (talk) 00:54, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Gvtyhbiju (07:46, 16 February 2024)

How do I upload a image --Gvtyhbiju (talk) 07:46, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Gvtyhbiju, see Help:Uploading images. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:46, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Redirecting after CFD

Hi, thanks for all you do at CFD. With the current volumes of work I don't blame anyone for oversights, but please look out for cases that should be redirected for category navigation or other reasons (e.g. Cape Colony people), and include * REDIRECT at the start of each line when listing those at WT:CFDW. – Fayenatic London 17:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Fayenatic london, I normally only add REDIRECT if explicitly mentioned in the discussion. I'll try to add it in cases where it would be useful even if not discussed. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:02, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Quick PIQA question

I may be missing something, but how come Qwerfjkl (bot) removed the class=stub parameters from the individual wikiprojects in Special:Diff/1207922746? All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 03:48, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

A smart kitten, it looks like the bot recognised that the majority rating was stub, realised there was already a class in WPBS, but still removed the classes from the wikiprojects because they had the majority rating. Should be fixed now. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:12, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the info :) Do you know if this bug only affected talk pages that had WikiProjects with a conflicting quality rating to the project-independent rating in the banner shell? If so, unless I'm missing something, I can use Quarry to generate a list of affected talk pages by querying the recentchanges table for bot edits that removed a page from Category:Articles with conflicting quality ratings - see quarry:query/80446 for what I've just chucked together. (I'm not sure if there's an easy way to find affected talk pages that were edited >30 days ago, though.) All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 16:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

A smart kitten, yes, your assumption is correct. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:52, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

This is a concerning error. How was stub the majority rating? The majority was List-class which is why Cewbot made that the PIQA rating in the edit before yours. You two really need to coordinate so that you don't process the same articles. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:25, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Martin, because two wikiprojects had stub-class and only one (the WPBS) had list-class. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:52, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

That is a false comparison as it is actually 3/2 isn't it? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:59, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Martin, that's not how the bot considers classes, regardless of the technical accuracy. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:18, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Empty Shell

FYI, this edit didn't go perfectly, and I think it messed up Cewbot's edit right after yours. The expected content was lower down the page instead of at the top, and you added a duplicate shell, so Cewbot then just moved it from the lower to the top and left the lower shell in place. I fixed it here. Pinging Cewbot operator @Kanashimi: ) for awareness. Thank you both for your edits. Zinnober9 (talk) 21:58, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Zinnober9, my bot only looks at the first section, it ignores the rest of the page. (It would also skip the page if it saw multiple WPBSes.) — Qwerfjkltalk 22:21, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

I actually have a design that the robot will clean up empty WPBS. looks like I need to make the robot smarter. Kanashimi (talk) 23:02, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Pham199320 (08:22, 17 February 2024)

OK --Pham199320 (talk) 08:22, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from PaulBKilmer on User:Qwerfjkl (17:24, 17 February 2024)

Hello. I’m trying to add a name (Nicholas Di Virgilio, internationally acclaimed opera singer) to the “notable people” paragraph of the Wikipedia article on North Tonawanda, NY. It won’t publish because I can’t figure out how to provide sources. Two such sources are contained in other Wikipedia articles on the Benjamin Britten “War Requiem” and the “Mozart Requiem” performance at the memorial service for President John F. Kennedy with the Boston Symphony, Eric Leinsdorf conducting. How do I cite such sources when confronted with with the filter rejection of my addition? Thank you! Paul Kilmer --PaulBKilmer (talk) 17:24, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

PaulBKilmer, I can see you were hit by Special:AbuseLog/37029463. I'm not quite sure how that filter works, but you can file a false positive report at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:58, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!! PaulBKilmer (talk) 21:26, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

I got it to work. Thank you!! PaulBKilmer (talk) 21:36, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Avpreddy (04:09, 18 February 2024)

What is your name bro --Avpreddy (talk) 04:09, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:20, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Talk page layout questions

Hi there! Could you please review how your bot reorganized the templates in this edit and this edit? It seems that the bot's edits did not conform with WP:TPL. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:29, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

GoingBatty, I'm using Category:Talk message boxes per User talk:Kanashimi/Archive 1#Talk page layout. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your reply. The discussion you mentioned shows that Kanashimi has changed their bot when I've pointed out issues. GoingBatty (talk) 15:13, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

GoingBatty, we were talking about talk order and you suggested Category:Talk message boxes should be used. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:26, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: No, I said:

I've added {{Old peer review}} to WP:TPL, as you requested. However, there are 800+ talk message boxes (plus their redirects) that aren't listed there. The use of "such as" and "e.g." on WP:TPL indicate to me that there is not consensus to have that page be a comprehensive list of every template.

Could you please change your bot so that WikiProjects are not moved below {{User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn}} and {{Annual readership}}? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:36, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

GoingBatty, looks like I misinterpreted that. Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:49, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Changes to font design

Thank you for the reply, could you help direct me to where you said I could change to font design to what it was pre Thursday on my mobile phone for Wiki on the topic page please. VileName8089289 (talk) 21:33, 18 February 2024 (UTC)