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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

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• In the media: Taking it sleazy

• Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia

• Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties

• Humour: The Dehumourification Plan

• Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday

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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Wikidata weekly summary #592

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
  • New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
    • Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. [[https://actualitte.com/article/113238/ressources/wikimedia-2e-edition-du-mooc-wikidata. Link (in French)
    • Wikidata Days 2023, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. Registration (in Portuguess)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, Roof (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. (including comments from Selena Deckelmann (WMF) and User:Jsamwrites)
    • Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive
    • Improving equity on Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • Papers
    • Wikidata Research Articles Dataset
    • Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning
    • Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives
    • SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples
  • Videos
    • #SPARQL #Wikidata: first name, occupation and Academy, by VIGNERON - YouTube (in French)
  • Newsletters
    • Wikidata and the epistemology of robots in RAW ((in French)
    • Explore Wikidata differently with Synia in RAW (in French)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d). For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible.
  • Wikidata's eleventh birthday is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours!
  • Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • has heir or beneficiary (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title)
      • towing capacity (the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes)
      • learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
      • tribe (recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172)
    • External identifiers: ANPI person ID, Anikore anime ID, Substack profile ID, Artmajeur artist ID, FantLab translator ID, ‎wadoku ID, identifier in a register in Germany, Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • when used with property (when used with property)
      • Wikimedia Commons campaign (name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign)
      • near (for geo-objects which are located ''near'' some other geo-object)
    • External identifiers: animecons.com event id, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, BioGRID Publication, iNaturalist user ID, MyShows, NHK News topic ID, Museoitalia ID, DBpia author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica (source)
    • Largest heist by damage (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797)
  • We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238)

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 Abdulai (WMDE) 13:52, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-36

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

• EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [1]
• As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [2]
• There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. [3]
• One new wiki has been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Talysh (w:tly:) [4]

Problems

• The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [6][7]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #593

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

• Events
  • First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex). September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
  • German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023.
  • OpenRefine for beginners (in German). October 25-26, 2023.
  • The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland, for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; you can apply here.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API
  • Press
    • Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity.
  • Papers
    • Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky
    • Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis
    • KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent
  • Videos
    • Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins
    • Link data from local index to Wikidata - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno
    • Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos

• Tool of the week
  • Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here. Application deadline is September 15.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • state of transmission (state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816))
      • describes actor of (predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
      • describes undergoer of (predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
    • External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID, ‎animecons.com event ID, Museo Italia ID, Dans nos cœurs ID, WWGR player ID, futzal.rus player ID, iNaturalist user ID, alyga.lt player ID, UETK ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, SEVIS school ID, WikiChip article ID, Mageia package ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the [[w:South African National Biodiversity Institute]])
      • Educational level (school level in which the subject of the item is taught)
      • FragDenStaat tag (tag in FragDenStaat.de)
      • Plate (the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
    • External identifiers: Fansly ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, BookBrainz series ID, BookBrainz edition ID, ManyVids ID, LoverFans ID, IGI Global affiliate ID, Aparat channel ID, Pandit Project work ID, RKDexcerpts
  • Query examples:
    • Territories claimed by irredentism
    • Map of tram stop all over the world (source)
    • Map of public archives in Germany (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast).
    • WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement digital archive into Wikidata.

• Development
  • Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
  • Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231)
  • We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:23, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-37

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

• ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [8]
• When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
• The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
• As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [10]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [11]
• The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

The Center Line: Fall 2023

Volume 10, Issue 1 • Fall 2023 • About the Newsletter

Features

• A New Future for Road Articles Online

Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?

• In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?

• Obituary: Nosebagbear

• Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me

• Featured content: Catching up

• Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"

• Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic

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Wikidata weekly summary #594

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-18.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce! (see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 (Task: Import commune of France contact data from french official directory, french official directory
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 (Task: Removing good list badge from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
  • Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy (in German)
  • Videos
    • List of free software in le socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata - Nicolas Vigneron
    • Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata - Oficina Wiki Apoia
    • Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement) - Magnus Sälgö
    • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub - Wikimedia Sweden
    • From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving? - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau

• Tool of the week
  • LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
  • Wikibase resources, a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: RBC person ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID, MyShows show ID, NHK News topic ID, ‎Sitios ID, Xiaohongshu user ID, Fansly ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • chronological designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
      • Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
    • External identifiers: British Pathé ID, ProductReview ID, BISAC Subject Heading, EDItEUR Thema id, ONIX Subject Scheme id, MiMoText ID, ADVN ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, Diktyon, Codeberg username, RAWG tag ID, National Library of Albania ID, DfE Group UID, AARoads Wiki article ID, Armasanicana person ID, FloraVeg.EU species ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID
  • Query examples:
    • Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata (source)
    • Power stations of this world (source)
    • Usage state of the nuclear power plant (source)

• Development
  • We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
  • Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (phab:T330550)
  • We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-38

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

• MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [12][13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [14]
• All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [15]

Future changes

• The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #595

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot (Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
    • WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata by User:Nicereddy
  • Papers
    • Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet (A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage Library). Jacqueline J. Dearborn
    • "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. (Cao et al, 2023)
    • Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues. Tamsin L. Braisher
  • Press
    • They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how fitting that seems today - The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata fellowship.
  • Videos
    • The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location - salgo60
    • Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata - Will Kent
    • Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia - Kai Labusch
    • From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again - Crystal Yragui, Adam Schiff
    • Adventures in Korean Wikidata - Margaret Donald
    • Getting started on Wikidata - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
    • Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian - Wikidata in italiano
    • Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file - Michael Lindsey

• Tool of the week
  • User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games has some Wikidata-related ones for you.
  • Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
  • Citation.js Toolforge is a service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX, RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
  • As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine Learning team will switch the backend of ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently migrated. This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
      • ‎chronological designation (stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in support of a particular statement may not be the same as the publication date or volume)
    • External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, Diktyon ID, RAWG tag ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Demo (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
      • ETCS level (ETCS level of implementation)
      • adoption variant (variant of this loanword with the same origin)
      • Temaportalen ID ()
    • External identifiers: Metacritic game ID, BAN ID, handlingar.se ID, identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, South African NPO number
  • Query examples:
    • Subclass of blogger (source)
    • List of taxon name as first having been described by Dennis P. Gordon (source)
    • Gallery of wood cuts made before 1600, including file description and the link to the Wikimedia Commons file (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 38, 2023) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance - an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical works.
    • WikiProject Museum AI projects - aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into Wikidata and create a data model for it.

• Development
  • Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear (phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • We made improvements to the store part of the tool (phab:T335864) and fixed small issues (phab:T344336,, phab:T343344)
    • We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
  • We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
  • We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (phab:T342857)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item

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 Abdulai (WMDE) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:57, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-39

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 Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [16]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
• The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
• Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes

• New variables will be added to AbuseFilter: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [17][18]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)