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Wikidata weekly summary #448
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for CheckUser: 997kB
- There's a discussion about what the best label for required qualifier constraint happens to be.
- Events
- Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)
- Tool of the week
- Template:TP administrative area is a new template designed for all items which are instance of administrative territorial entity. It defines useful queries for those items. For example, {{QT|Q173695}} links to this page. Feedback and contributions are welcome.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: small logo or icon, lunar coordinates
- External identifiers: CINE21 person ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, Cinémathèque québécoise person ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, SAPA ID, Manus Online author ID, Lichess username, CITWF person ID, DBLP publication ID, DataTrek ID, KANTO ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: abstract, thesis committee chair, character type, Calificación de videojuegos, Regente, Nação (candomblé), Liderança, Bharati Braille, number of walks, number of hits, doubles hit, triples hit, Through point
- External identifiers: TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, World Rowing ID, MNBAQ ID, Libsyn show ID, PodBean show ID, BG School ID, JAD ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, BHCL UUID, Podtail show ID, Provenio UUID, AbandonSocios ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, International Encyclopedia of the First World War ID, SFLI ID, Game UI Database ID, DiVo person ID, e-GEDSH ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, Calaméo ID, Lumières Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey Player ID, IFF player ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, AV Production person ID, Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon ID, Studium Parisiense ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, A*dS Encyclopedia, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, The Podcast App show ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID, Play:Right video game ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, TheCocktailDB ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment :)
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!
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!
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Wikidata weekly summary #449
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
- Should we rename place of burial (P119) to place of mortal remains?
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 5 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #26 - YouTube, Facebook, 9 January
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #44, January 10
- Past: Wikidata sessions at rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) (replay)
- Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: Applying linked data model for the Bogotá Digital Library (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Wikimedia Armenia - YouTube
- Video: How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero - YouTube
- Video: How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine - YouTube
- Video: How to import library materials to Wikidata using MarcEdit and OpenRefine - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: Linking a new Wikipedia article to a Wikidata item - YouTube
- Video: Schema and Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Using Twinkle on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata (in Urdu) - YouTube
- Blog post: 52 Wikidata weeks 2020
- Blog post: Scottish nautical wrecks in wikidata
- Tool of the week
- User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: graph girth, category for the view of the item, ALA-LC romanization, liturgical rank
- External identifiers: PIAC ID, CPV Supplementary, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, ISDS ID, Mapy.cz ID, World Rowing ID (UUID format), 1914-1918-Online ID, JAD ID, Game UI Database ID, Lumières.Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey player ID, IFF player ID, Magyar életrajzi lexikon ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, Literary Encyclopedia ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Stitcher show ID, Castbox show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, PodBean show ID, Podtail show ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, The Podcast App show ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries manuscript ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries work ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries person ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries place ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries organization ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: YouTube custom URL, Author last names, Author first names, Naval flag, supplements, closed WMF project sitelink, has part (string value), member, number of data sets
- External identifiers: IFPI Danmark work ID, National Museum in Warsaw ID, Olympedia Affiliations ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Erudit article ID, Olympedia Event ID, dati.beniculturali.it ID, Barnivore product ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, Port Letter, FFF player ID (new scheme), Hungarian Film Archive ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), EuroBabeIndex ID, MFAT person ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Alpine Linux package, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, NLS place type ID, BookDepository publisher ID, National Historic People id, NFL.com ID (new scheme)
- Query examples:
- Works identified (via dedicated property P3893) as entering the public domain on 1/1/2021, ordered by number of articles on Wikimedia sites (Source)
- Painters in the collections of Paris Musées which enter the public domain on January 1 (Source)
- Map of forts related to Dutch trading companies VOC and WIC found in the Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Source)
- Map of forts in the Cologne fortress ring (Source)
- First-level administrative divisions in Germany
- Population of cities in Germany corresponds to the total number of vaccinations in Germany (Source)
- Most popular theorems according to their number of articles on Wikipedia (Source)
- Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (Source)
- Deaths in 2020 - date of birth, date of death, cause of death and country of nationality (Source)
- Summary of a UK parliamentary career seat-party-start pairs(Source)
- Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight (Source)
- Indonesian legislation related to indigenous people (Source)
- Which artist could be "D.K. 1964"? (source)
- Line graph of colleges and universities in India by year of establishment (Source)
- Graph of Indian films that are remakes of other Indian films (Source)
- Graph of academic descendants of C. R. Rao and K. Ananda Rau (Source)
- Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (Source)
- Maps of different places in West Bengal according to suffix (Source)
- Tree map of Rabindranath's poems according to the month of writing (Source)
- Count of locations of exhibitions on Wikidata (Source)
- Wikidata lexeme forms by language (Source)
- Newest database reports: 2021, Greek given names
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, no deployment has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Technical news
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)
. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason). - Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:08, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
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
- You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [1]
- You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2]
- Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [3]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [5]- Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the
watchlisttowatchwill still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6] - Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [7]
- CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [8]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).
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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)