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Wikidata weekly summary #492

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: handling of data objects for pages in the project namespace

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Sam Oyeyele will join us to discuss the AfroCine project. doc, Nov. 2nd.
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—November 3rd, 2021. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 09:00-10:00 PDT / 12:00-13:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #14, COP26
  • Past:
    • WikidataCon 2021 happened \o/
      • Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
      • Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
      • List of birthday presents
        • WikidataComplete gadget by Dhairya3124
        • Wikidata Subgraph Analysis by Aisha Khatun
        • UseAsRef 2.0 by Epìdosis
        • KGTK project by Pedro Szekely
        • Wikidata Map (series of updates of the all-coordinates-on-wikidata, made available at commons:Wikidata map) by Addshore
        • Special episode of Wikipediapodden with an interview with Denny about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions by Ainali
        • Lua access for Lexemes on beta by LydiaPintscher
        • Editathon documentation page by bunch of lovely glam professionals
        • Learn wikidata course by Clifford Anderson and co
        • Wikxhibit by Tarfah Alrashed
        • Integraality updates by Jean-Frédéric
        • iNaturalist BioBlitz by Pigsonthewing

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog post
    • Challenge A to Z 2021 (in French)
  • Papers
    • Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers about the Complex Portal (Q47196990) <> Wikidata connection
    • (fr) Les libellés francophones genrés dans Wikidata (notebook Observablehq)
  • Videos
    • Working hour on preferences and common.js Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Semantic web tutorial # 3 | What is Wikidata? (in French) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries around Boyer collection of the Clermont Auvergne Métropole heritage library (in French) - YouTube
    • New Item creation (in Japanese) - YouTube
  • Research projects
    • Creating and evolving knowledge graphs at scale for explainable AI

• Tool of the week
  • Cemeteries.wiki by Yamen is a project to display Dataviz and statistics about cemeteries all over the world. (2021-11-01)
  • ... and remember you can propose a new tool or gadget!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: term in higher taxon, official forum
    • External identifiers: NatureScot Sitelink ID, Refuges.info ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, George Eastman Museum people ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, UAE University Libraries ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, Toolhub ID, Research Data Australia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: date of recording, Candidate position, MTBdata
    • External identifiers: Vokrug.tv person ID, Standing Waters Database ID, State Duma person ID, Federation Council person ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, FRACS profile ID, NER portfolio ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, SEEK company ID, Levels.fyi company ID, romaq.org ID, NWT Species ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Douyin User ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, ACE Repertory writer ID, Indonesian Hospital ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of French bridges and tunnels carrying an high-speed railway line
    • List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in French (ie using the generic as male form) (source)
    • List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in English (ie using the generic as male form)(source)
    • consorts of Selim III (source)
    • Coordinates of the birthplaces of people with family name Autrique (Source)
    • Coordinates of battles (Source)
    • Geographical distribution of votive boats historic monuments in France (Source)
    • Relationship among accepted NFDI consortia (Source)
  • Newest database reports: top missing property by number of identifiers: spouse (P26)

• Development
  • WikidataCon! \o/
  • Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
  • Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
  • Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
  • Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:37, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44

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

• There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

1. The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
3. Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
4. Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
5. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
6. BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
7. Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
8. Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:56, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #493

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, November 9 at 18:00 CET
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #61 - YouTube, Facebook, November 13 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #86, November 14 at 13.00 UTC
    • Wikidata webinar at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Greek). Nov 8, 2021 17:00 UTC+1
    • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour! Monday 15 November 2021, 3PM - 4PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration: Zoom registration link
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #15, COP26 (2/2)
  • Past
    • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
    • Wikidata SPARQL tutorial around the Saint-Brieuc museum (in French)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Media
    • User:Theklan at Radio Euskadi (Q3100760): Wikidata: una base de datos editable, multilingüe, libre y con datos de todo conocimiento (Spanish)
  • Blogs
    • TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1 , Part 2
    • With help of their prof, U of T students go from being Wikidata novices to international conference presenters
    • Crowdsourcing the Scene at the Boston Rock City Edit-a-Thon
  • Videos
    • Basic tutorial on how to improve Wikidata items (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Metadata of cultural institutes: import strategies on Wikidata in the case of the Tuscany Region (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB - YouTube
    • Using Wikidata entities and properties in schema.org markup and linked data - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • are occupation labels gender neutral? a tool to explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages.
  • RAWGraphs, a dataviz tool which allows SPARQL queries (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
  • OpenRefine 3.5.0 was released

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Museu da Pessoa History, Conway polyhedron notation
    • External identifiers: Tennis Abstract player ID, Women in the Legislature ID, StopGame ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Biografija.ru ID, Derrieux agency person ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, Penza Encyclopedia ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, Musées Nationaux Recuperation ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Nynorskordboka-ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Indonesian parliament candidate ID 2019, Trove work ID, Vokrug.tv show ID, Apple maps ID, Federation Council person ID, Meetup group id, Glitchwave genre ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: original catalog description, Kanobu ID, Yandex.Question person ID, 発車メロディ
    • External identifiers: Listen Notes podcast ID, WhatsApp number, CNKI Journal ID, Baidu Scholar Journal ID, AllHomes research location ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Coles Online product ID, Woolworths product ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, NVE Bre ID, Databáze-her.cz ID, FederalPress Encyclopedia ID, babesdirectory, DHAC ID, Naver TV ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, live.ijf competition ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, The-Sports.org competition ID, StarHit ID, Nasha Versia ID, LocalWiki ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Comparably company ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Chemical ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of virtual twins (pair with the same dates of birth and death) in Wikidata (source)
    • People recently buried in a cemetery nearby without an image of the grave (P1442) on Wikidata (source)
    • List of lexemes in French associated with occupation items (source)
    • Towns with less than 1000 people that have a cathedral (Source)
    • Musical works based on literary works (Source)
    • Main surnames of people born in the Puy-de-Dôme, France (Source)
    • Members of the Ukrainian national sports team (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
  • We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (phab:T275251)
  • We have put a version of WBStack on wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the coming weeks.

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:33, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

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

• Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [2][3]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [4]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

File:COVID-19 Digital Vaccination Record Card South Africa.jpg listed for discussion

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #494

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Create massive changes in one property for spesific categories/properties?

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Bug Triage Hour on API issues. Monday 15th November at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones) (Etherpad)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Éder Porto will be discussing adding journal articles to Wikidata Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project/Chapter 17. doc, Nov. 16th.
    • Open Source Publishing Tools in Wikidata, 16 November 2021. Part of the Open Publishing Fest.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #62 - YouTube, Facebook, November 20 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #87, November 21 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #16, Books
  • Past
    • Introduction to Wikidata: GWMAB con IAML Italia replay (in Italian)
    • WikiData4Education_Aligning the sum of all knowledge with school curricula, WikiIndaba (replay)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
    • Own metadata for own blog posts - science communication and bibliographies with open data and Wikidata
    • How we're tracking elections in symbiosis with Wikidata
    • Recent updates and improvements to Wikidata Query Service
      • How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow
      • The trouble with triples
      • Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF
  • Videos
    • Fuzheado and T Cells to demonstrate how to discover, track and work with sets of Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata Introduction course (in German) - 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Wikidata in Educational Institutions / Academic research at Wikimedia Polska / Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
  • Podcasts
    • Siobhan Leachman - Wikimedia Editor and Citizen Scientist

• Tool of the week
  • Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
  • What kind of articles have you created? an Observable notebook which use Wikidata API to get the value of P31 for the list of articles created by a user.
  • OpenRefine is hiring a part-time Project director (paid position).
  • Hewell public beta app: is a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your hometown.
  • Full Fact is using the MediaWiki Action API in their workflow to help add some Wikidata identifiers to their mark-up.
  • Magnus replaced some live SPARQL queries in Mix’n’match with a database cache. Main page now loads faster.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, Standing Waters Database ID, Vokrug.tv person ID, Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Philosophica ID, Castforward ID, Baidu Scholar journal ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Tabakalera ID, mathematical symbol, included as part, specific impulse by weight, Newgrounds username
    • External identifiers: 7 Days person ID, DBLP event ID, Osmose Agency person ID, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, IRIS Umbria IDs, biografiA ID, Global Geoparks Network ID (new), identifiant Numelyo
  • Query examples:
    • List of properties which have instances or subclass of humans as possible value with male and female form in French (source)
    • Different people with same label / birthday / occupation in a specified year
    • Narrative locations of the book Itinerary from Paris to Mont-d'Or (Source)
    • Maps of tombs of unknown soldiers (Source)
    • Most common first names (> 5) among people with a Wikidata item and born in Auvergne (Source)
    • Student-Teacher relationship based on entries in 'Das Geistige Berlin' (1897) (Source)
    • Relative frequency of reasons MPs' terms end, since 1870 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: recently ended TV series

• Development
  • The language codes agq (Aghem, T288335) and mcn (Massa, T293884) are now supported.
  • Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
  • Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
  • Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
  • Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:35, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:A1 road (Lesotho)

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Tech News: 2021-46

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

• Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems

• Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [5]
• There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).

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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Accelerit moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Accelerit, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. scope_creep^Talk 01:08, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of FireStream (ISP)

The article FireStream (ISP) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable ISP.

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Proposed deletion of MyOwnISP

The article MyOwnISP has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable ISP.

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Speedy deletion nomination of OpenWeb (ISP)

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A tag has been placed on OpenWeb (ISP), 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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of MyOwnISP

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A tag has been placed on MyOwnISP, 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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of FireStream (ISP)

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Meet-Up 13

Thank you for creating the upcoming 13th meeting.--Schnabel Mchuchu (WMZA) (talk) 09:26, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Schnabel Mchuchu--Schnabel Mchuchu (WMZA) (talk) 09:26, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Schnabel Mchuchu (WMZA):, hope to see you at this upcoming Wikipedia:Meetup/South Africa/South Africa 13 TapticInfo (talk) 16:57, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi TapticInfo, how do I become a moderator? may we can set up a meet where you show me,

. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schnabel Mchuchu (WMZA) (talk • contribs) 09:42, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Schnabel Mchuchu (WMZA): , I think it would be best to explain and confirm it at the meetup-13 on the 27th of November. TapticInfo (talk) 14:31, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Okay no problem see you then — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schnabel Mchuchu (WMZA) (talk • contribs) 07:43, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #495

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Wikidata:Requests for comment/How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ?

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
    • Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
    • ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
  • Past
    • Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Using Wikidata to promote epistemic equity
    • How Penn's Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better
  • Videos
    • How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
    • Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
    • ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase team.
  • Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
  • This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
  • A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
  • The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
  • [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: train melody
    • External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
    • External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
    • Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
    • Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
    • UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
    • Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
    • Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
    • Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
    • Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)

• Development
  • Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
  • Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
  • The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
  • Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Speedy deletion nomination of Atomic Access

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A tag has been placed on Atomic Access requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of BitCo

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A tag has been placed on BitCo requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

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Wikidata weekly summary #496

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

• Discussions
  • Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
    • Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session log, month of November 2021
    • Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata (in Swedish)
    • Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
    • (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
    • Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
  • Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
    • External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
    • External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
    • Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
    • Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
    • List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
    • Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
    • List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
    • Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
    • List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
    • Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
    • Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
    • Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
    • List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
    • Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
  • Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
  • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-48

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

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21:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)