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Tech News: 2024-13

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

• An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [1][2]

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

• Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

• Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

• Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

• Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

• News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

• In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled

• Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

• Humour: Letters from the editors

• Comix: Layout issue

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Tech News: 2024-14

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

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [4][5]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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Wikidata weekly summary #622

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 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata. Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! Agenda
  • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by AWesterinen)
• Videos
  • Wikipedia Weekly: Ep. 255 (Swedish) - Hosted by Jan Ainali and Magnus. This week covers scarcely clicked sources, API uses and wave at beautiful images.
  • Wikimedia Ghana is bringing together Ghanians to enrich and translate content for the Ga Language and Twi Language as part of the Wikidata For Education Project.
  • Mapping Linguistic territories using Wikidata and SPARQL - a topic presented by Camilo Fique, shows how to use Wikidata and the WDQS as tools for mapping linguistics. In this example, Camilo uses toponyms, specifically Human Settlements.
  • Evaluating Named Entity Disambiguation with Wikidata & SpaCy - creating a Named Entity Disambiguation model in SpaCy with the entity linker based on a custom knowledge base derived from Wikidata and Wikipedia, by Matthew Pellegrino.
• Notebooks: Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament, a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.

Tool of the week

• Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• MEPs: Sitelinks and Gender differences - this Notebook by PAC explores the completeness or lack of content differentiated by gender of MEP's in the Wikimedia Projects, helping highlight lack of representation and information.
• Metadata schemas and vocabularies for TU Delft's digitized special collections
• Dashboard of Members of European parlianent - by PAC02
• ORACC & Cuneiform Project - repository of LOD datasets for the FACTGRID Wikibase instance for the Cuneiform project.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • form decomposition (decomposition of a word)
  • nanopublication identifier (RDF-based publication, with references and history)
  • media modality (which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature)
  • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
  • Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
  • image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
• Newest External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, ‎Oyez Project ID, ‎Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
  • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
  • follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
  • intervener ()
  • WEM facility code ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Oxford Reference entry, Peertube Channel Address, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, AllSkaters persons ID, BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog Author ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, BeSoccer player ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, KupiGolos game ID, ffspb.org player ID, Touhou Wiki id, TUESPWiki id, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • List of masters theses written in Māori (source)
  • Tram systems with 1435mm wide rails (source)
  • Location and official opening of statues in Denmark (source)
  • Map of objects on the banks of the Kama and the rivers flowing into it (source)
  • Remakes of Soviet films with their popularity (source)
  • Images for all monuments with a Bavarian monument authority ID in Passau administrative district (source)
  • Most frequent objects depicted on coats of arms (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Azerbaijan - aims to organize data related to Azerbaijan.
  • WikiProject Paralympics - The goal of WikiProject Paralympics is to improve items about Paralympic Games, Paralympians, and Paralympic events.
  • Lieder - This project aims to collect all Lieder, Lieder cycles and Poems as well as Composers and Poets related to them.
  • Cultural venues - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most complete high-quality database of cultural venues, such as theatres, concert halls, etc.
  • Cal State University Building/San Bernardino - Aims to document and lists guidelines for the California State University San Bernardino's participation in the California State University Wikidata Building Project.
  • Epigraphy - Aims to create Items of epigraphs on Wikidata.
• Newest database reports: This query shows that there are 8000 botanists with a standard botanical abbreviation, IPNI code, and little else. Help expand, merge, and otherwise help us know who these folks are! (source)
• Showcase Items: INS Vikrant(Q2283194) - 1961 Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy
• Showcase Lexemes: لله قوریسین/Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish interjectional locution 'God forbid!'

Development

• mul language code: We are continuing the work on fixing remaining issues for the next stage of releasing it (phab:T356200)
• REST API:
  • We continued work on modifying the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
  • We continued work on creating Items (phab:T342990)
• EntitySchemas: We continued work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T359419)

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: Sandwich
• 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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Wikidata weekly summary #623

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 2024-04-08. Translations are available.

Events

• Did you manage to see the first weekend and sessions of the Leveling Up Days 2024, well fret not as there is another weekend of Wikidata-related sessions to come. Day 4 begins Friday April 12, join via Jitsi - see you there!
• Wikidata - collect and use open data (Italian) - April 19 at the University of Catania, Léa Lacroix and Luca Martinelli (WMIT) will give an overview of Wikidata's use for sharing data, querying data and some of its main applications.
• Build Open Data through Wikidata: a database integration model (Taiwanese) - April 9 19:00 - 20:00. Wang Wenyue (WMTW) will lead this discussion on how Wikidata can re-connect and index a topic that may be documented in multiple various places online.
• Wikimania 2024: Submission deadline extended to April 10, 12:00 UTC! Get your Wikidata submissions in.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Told Cities: Unveiling the Heritage and Chronicles of UNESCO World Heritage Cities - initiated by Wiki World Heritage, this project aims to comprehensively document UNESCO World Heritage Cities using Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
• Videos
  • Wikidata editing #113 (English) at Wikidata Leveling Up Days. Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists.
  • Panel: 10 years of FAIR principle - Lydia Pintscher joins a panel to talk about implementation of FAIR principles and how Wikidata and Wikibase can contribute.

Tool of the week

• Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Only 13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • nanopublication identifier (RDF-based publication, with references and history)
  • media modality (which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature)
  • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
  • Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
  • image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
  • base units (property that lists the different units that a unit is derived from, would be useful to add a qualifier for the exponent of each unit)
  • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations)
  • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
• Newest External identifiers: OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
  • follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
  • WEM facility code ()
  • API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
  • Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''type of representation''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, BSWW team ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, ffspb.org player ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Oxford Reference subject ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Tolkien-style plurals (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Lexemes with a Sense related to a geolocated Item
  • Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Hijri Calendar - aims to create and improve Items for Hijri Calendar dates such as 1 Ramadan (Q4886009).
  • MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
• Newest database reports: birthdays today - People born this day of the year (primarily currently living people)
• Showcase Items: John Cale (Q45909) - Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
• Showcase Lexemes: armastuskolmnurk (L415173) - Estonian noun, translated "love triangle"

Development

• REST API:
  • We continued the work on the endpoint for creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
  • We continued the work on the endpoint for modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (]]phab:T347394]])
• EntitySchemas: Work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements is continuing.
• mul language code: We are fixing remaining issues uncovered during testing. (phab:T355059, phab:T356200, phab:T135871, phab:T356201)

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: Misc
• 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!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) · 15:43, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15

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

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [6][7]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [9][10]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [11]

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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #622

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 2024-04-15.
Translations are available.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
  • DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID (P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID (P227), IdRef ID (P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) or Library of Congress authority ID (P244)

Events

• The next Wikidata Bug triage hour is happening on April 15th at 16UTC. It will focus on mobile editing of statements.
• Telegram Office Hour - 04-10-2024 log - if you missed all the exciting updates, you can see them all here on the Archived log.
• The Leveling Up Days 2024 was concluded, you can watch the videos available on the program page and contribute to the captions on Wikimedia Commons.
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 16, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is, amazingly, 5 years old this month, and we are planning a very Zoomy celebration befitting our virtual community. We are hoping you can join and share some reflections. Feel free to sign our anniversary card and update your Zoom background to something festive! Agenda
• Documenting Nigeria's Supreme Court Cases - this online event is a contest to enrich and connect the verdicts and sitting Judges of Nigerian Supreme Court cases. Points will be awarded for contributions. Event ends: 28 April 00:00 UTC.
• Edit-A-Thon of the LOD user group: Midwest Collaborative Library Services - registration is now open for this online event, taking place 22 - 26 April.
• II International Convention on GLAM Wikiverse and Gender - June 5, Aula Rubió, Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona (UB), 9:30-1:30 p.m.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Working towards a Brazilian History Knowledge Graph - Mike Young describes the progress towards building a KG on Brazilian history and how Wikidata supported this endeavour, especially for linking poiticians, movements, constitutions, laws and events that may not be notable for individual Wikipedia articles.
  • Reimagining cultural heritage data - this article by Jason Evans documents the efforts of the Llyfgrell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) to open their archives and datasets to Wikidata and the creation of their Wikibase-powered SNARC Tool (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru).
  • Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata how to remove the mismatches between Wikidata and Openstreetmap for villages of a district in Andhra Pradesh (India)
  • Andhra Pradesh/Notes/Arjunaraoc/Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata
• Presentations
  • Wikidata: your friendly (University's) knowledge graph - Christian Erlinger on behalf of the University of Innsbruck has produced this slidedeck showing how Wikidata can be used for science and research communication.
  • Workshop: Making the Colombian public domain visible on Wikidata (in Spanish) - Fundación Conector with the support of Wikimedia Colombia presented this workshop to create items in Wikidata about Colombian authors. This is part of the directory of Colombian authors in Public domain
• Papers: Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies - analyze the ontologies of Wikidata and the taxonomy of Wikipedia. Centelles, M. and Ferran-Ferrer, N. (2024)
• Videos
  • Wikidata per la ricerca (Wikidata for research): online conference, organized on 9 April 2024 by Wikimedia Italia, by Epìdosis (in Italian: slides and video)
  • Demonstration of the XML-TEI Wikidata Geocoder Tool (French) - This tool from PhilippGam will showcase how the Wikidata Geocoder tool can extract information such as PersName, PlaceName, geographic coordinates and images from XML-TEI files. Try it here.
  • Live Wikidata Editing #113 with User:Abbe98 and User:Ainali explain the thought process behind how they edit whilst looking at biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists, during the Leveling Up Days 2024 event.
  • WikiConference NA 2023
    • Open scholarly communication with Wikidata - Daniel Mietchen talks about the benefits of Wikidata and the Wikimedia platforms to enhance researcher and collaborative workflows.
    • Wikidata for open museum data sharing - Rhonda Yearwood explains how Wikidata can facilitate and provide a platform for the open sharing of Museum and Gallery datasets.
    • Wikidata's usefulness for university knowledge sharing- Will (Wiki Ed) hosts workshops on Wikidata and advocates Wikidata as a way for Universities to share general reference knowledge.
  • FOSSGIS 2024 Modelling with 'Fuzziness' / 'Wobbliness' in Geodata (German) - Florian Thiery presents a paper on data-driven use cases for modeling vague or uncertain georeference data, to adhere to FAIR principles as closely as possible.
• Notebooks: Medias by country

Tool of the week

• Missing biographies, a companion tool which helps identifies people without a biography in a given Wikipedia using Wikidata
• It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
• Only 6 more days to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• General datatypes:
  • nanopublication identifier (RDF-based publication, with references and history)
  • media modality (which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature)
  • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
  • Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
  • image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
  • derived from base unit (the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from)
  • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations)
  • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
  • ‎API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
  • follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
  • WEM facility code ()
  • Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
  • EBITDA ()
  • Authorised capital ()
  • is fake of (the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for)
  • image decay (image decay suffered by an old photograph)
  • number of submissions (number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference)
  • number of accepted contributions (number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference)
  • risk group (Risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification {{Q|125449255}})
  • electoral symbol (symbol allocated to a political party / candidate for use on ballots)
  • tartan image (image of the item's tartan)
  • tartan (subject's tartan)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, az.lib.ru author ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, HCERES organisation ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, Duden Sense ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Algerian trademark number, YList ID, WDF players ID, GovTrack person, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, pressball.by football manager ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, Delisted Games ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, Kritikanstvo IDs, case number (mainland China), myabandonware.com game id, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of river names in german coloured by gender
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
  • Albums - A WikiProject about music album releases
  • Algeria - Aims to collaborate on Algeria-related topics
• Showcase Items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) - Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
• Showcase Lexemes: kone (L6888) - Finish noun, translate to "machine"

Development

• mul langauge code: We are finishing the polishing for the first proper release coming soon.
• EntitySchema: We are continuing the work on the new datatype that will make it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
• REST API:
  • We continued work on creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
  • We continued work on modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)

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: Misc (2/n)
• 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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Tech News: 2024-16

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

Problems

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [12][13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [14][15]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [16]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [17]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [18]

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Wikidata weekly summary #624

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 2024-04-22.
Translations are available.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
  • IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back

Events

• It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikimedia begins mapping of Anambra MDAs, streets, markets on Wikidata - The Wikimedia Anambra Network and the Anambra State ICT Agency are collaborating on a project to map ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), streets, and markets in Anambra State on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata
  • Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata + AI audio abstract

Tool of the week

• Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
• There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• General datatypes:
  • Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
  • image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
  • derived from base unit (the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from)
  • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations)
  • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
  • ‎API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
  • leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
  • ‎creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions)
  • beneficial owner (natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation)
  • official server list URL (website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software)
  • EBITDA (accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted)
  • date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
  • number of accepted contributions (number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference)
  • electoral symbol (symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots)
  • authorised capital (maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders)
  • number of submissions (number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference)
  • follows spelling pattern (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID, ‎WildTangent Games ID, HCERES organisation ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Hanslick Online person ID, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, mosff.ru staff ID, PeerTube channel address, WDF player ID, ‎The Spriters Resource game ID, ‎Cemu Wiki article ID, ‎Génération Nintendo game ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, Zillow zpid, Aragonario ID (6th version), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, Algerian trademark number ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, ‎Delisted Games ID, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, pressball.by football manager ID, Duden sense ID, GovTrack person ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Kritikanstvo game ID, Kritikanstvo publication ID, Kritikanstvo critic ID, myabandonware.com game ID, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • WEM facility code ()
  • Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
  • is fake of (the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for)
  • image decay (image decay suffered by an old photograph)
  • risk group (risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual)
  • tartan image (image of the item's tartan)
  • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
  • hasFeldpostNumber (Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars.)
  • total deposits (total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution)
  • Total loans (total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution)
  • source of transfer & destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender])
  • type of deterioration (to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc.)
  • rythme narratif (video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions)
  • event role (item that describes a role in an event class)
  • Patent Abstract (Abstract of the patent)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, YList ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, case number (mainland China), English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID, Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID, Pitchbook Company Profile, Cbonds Company Profile, Sonic Retro article ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID, identifiant Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego, Algerian district ID, The Spriters Resource platform ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID, PEGI game ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Flora Croatica Database taxon ID, Algerian province ID, more kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, World Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Gentoo Guru ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • World map of subway maps
  • View of the associative network of artists to societies (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now source
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject NZThesisProject Wikidata library training Christchurch 2024 - The aim is to organize an event to show participants how adding New Zealand collections to Wikidata can be useful, and to train participants to improve Wikidata Items so that tools such as Scholia, which builds academic profiles, will be demonstrated.
  • WikiProject Islam - Aims to collaborate on Islam-related topics
  • WikiProject Algerian History - The goal of this project is to ensure the completeness of the history of Algeria (Q473761) during its historic period to modern time in Wikidata.
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject India/General Elections 2024 task force - is an initiative to create and up-to-date information related to general election (Q1076105) in India (Q668).
• Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same sitelink name
• Showcase Items: Bertus Aafjes (Q353003) - Dutch poet and writer (1914–1993)
• Showcase Lexemes: dismesso (L1200000) - "discontinued/disused" in Italian

Development

• mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
• REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
  • Create an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
  • Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
• Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.

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: Other objects and tools
• 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!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 11:07, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

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

Recent changes

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [19]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [20][21]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [22]

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024

• In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV

• News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)

• Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users

• Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:38, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #625

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

Events

• Nubuke Wikidata Workshop - Sat. 27 April 1100 - 1400 GMT at the Nubuke Foundation, Lome Close Accra, Ghana.
• There's still time for nominating your favorite tool in the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners unveiled at Wikimania 2024
• Coordinate Me 2024 - an international Wikidata competition around content with geodata. The competition starts on 1 May 2024 and ends on 31 May 2024.
• Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is just around the corner, taking place in Tallinn, Estonia from 02 - 06 May. We hope there will be lots of Wikidata hacking projects worked on.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: Museums around the world, according to Wikidata - Wikimedia's own blog, Diff, has this interesting graphic showing museums around the world. To explore further, check the Wikidata Query.
• Papers
  • Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata - This paper documents the experiences mapping PanglaoDB's free text cell types and genes i Wikidata to improve reusability and fairness. By Tiago Lubiana & João Vitor F. Cavalcante.
  • Exploring Wikidata for Social Science Research (Portugese) - Highlights the relevance of open resources such as Wikidata for the Social Sciences, providing access to information that facilitates research in the social, economic and cultural areas. By Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado.
  • Integrating Wikidata with Data Sleuthing Techniques For Enhanced Knowledge Discovery of Hidden Figures - this is a training resource to find and enrich Items on Natural History collector's.
• Videos
  • The Data Mine: Wikimedia Content Quality 2024 - a short video on how to find mismatched data between Wikidata on other data sources.
  • MWCon Spring 2024 (Day 3) - This session of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference explores the different extensions you can use with Wikibase. See the rest of the program here
  • Getting Started with OpenRefine - Introducing OpenRefine, importing data, filtering and faceting and bulk editing, as well as how to connect to other data sources for reconciling your data. By Margaret Heller & Diana Rusch.
  • A Decade of Scholarly Research on Open Knowledge Graphs - Houcemeddine Turki host this presentation of the LREC-COLING 2024's findings. You can read the full paper here.
  • Beyond Wikidata: building a universal knowledge graph with MediaWiki and Wikibase - James Hare explores Wikibase as a focused alternative to creating a knowledge graph around a specific theme or project.

Tool of the week

• Antvaset's Wikidata Ontology explorer - explore Wikidata's Ontology in this top-down tree explorer. By Anton Vasetenkov.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland closed their Call for Software Contributions! Discover the project proposals submitted and share your feedback.
• Release of Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.7WMDE .18 - minor security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.7
• OpenRefine 3.8.0 was released

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
    • ‎API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
    • leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
    • ‎creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions)
    • beneficial owner (natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation)
    • official server list URL (website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software)
    • EBITDA (accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted)
    • date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
    • number of accepted contributions (number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference)
    • electoral symbol (symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots)
    • authorised capital (maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders)
    • number of submissions (number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference)
    • follows spelling pattern (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
    • risk group (risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual)
    • timetable/schedule URL (link to the timetable or the schedule (in PDF, HTML, image format) for the given service or the event schedule. The current timetable/schedule should have preferred rank.)
    • deterioration (to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc.)
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Tech News: 2024-18

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [23]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [24]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [25]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [26]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [27]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [28]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [29]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [30]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [31]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [32]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [33][34]

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