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Wikidata weekly summary #419

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information.
  • Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube, Facebook
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #16, June 14
  • Upcoming: Webinar on Wikidata and cultural heritage collections, by Science Museum Group UK, June 19th

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata based Location Entity Linking
  • WikiBank: Using Wikidata to Improve Multilingual Frame-Semantic Parsing
  • Wikimedia Public (Research) Resources
  • RDF Reasoning on Large Ontologies: A Study on Cultural Heritage and Wikidata
  • What is an Open Knowledge Base anyway? (lists Wikidata as key example).
  • KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis ("we present KGTK, a data science-centric toolkit... We illustrate KGTK with real-world scenarios... such as Wikidata")
  • Video: Live Wikidata editing #8 - Wikidojo edition: YouTube, Facebook
  • Wikidata Online Workshop (in Spanish): "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" - YouTube
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Andrew Lih
    • Part 1 - Meet Andrew! - YouTube
    • Part 2 - Wikidata at the Met - YouTube
    • Part 3 - Wikidata Tools used at the Met project - YouTube
    • Part 4 - Spreadsheets & QuickStatements for mass-upload - YouTube
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Jane Darnell
    • Part 1 - Meet Jane! - YouTube
    • Part 2 - WWikidataProject Some of All Paintings - YouTube
    • Part 3 - Listeria Lists - YouTube
    • Part 4 - Modeling, provenance and new properties - YouTube
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Martin Poulter
    • Part 1 - Meet Martin! - YouTube
    • Part 2 - The residency at the Bodleian Libraries - YouTube
    • Part 3 - The Astrolabe Explorer & other datasets - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Simple Query Builder: wrap-up of the feedback loop and next steps
  • New page Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata.
  • MyCroft, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person.
  • Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone in the 2020 Community Spotlight survey.
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Bengali nouns.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: curriculum topics, attribution text, based on tabular data, living people protection class, position in biological sequence, region within image, ISCO-08 occupation code, parish church, has grouping, has sorting, has column
    • External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC registration number, AFL player ID, serial identifier on SerialZone, Absolute Games game ID, Modelhub ID, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, Medusa NRHP ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, LGBT Danmark online dictionary ID, Olympedia athlete ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage work ID, AustLit ID, Cinema Context ID, New York Times contributor ID, HBO Max ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, ESRB video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, LongTake person ID, Yle Topic ID, digilibLT work ID, PHI Latin Texts work ID, Musisque Deoque work ID, Den Store Danske ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity, introduced in version (2), height of center of mass, strike tone, number of migrations, depicted without, offset from vertical, for type elements, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, number of branches
    • External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Emmys person ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, ICP artist ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, Legacy.com person ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, Uffizi artwork ID, Ancestry.com ID, Dlive game ID, Spotify songwriter ID, MuseScore artist ID, MNBAQ artist ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Cimetières de France ID, vglist video game ID, Gramophone composer ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, CAOI person ID
  • Query examples:
    • User:PAC2/Prenoms a notebook interface (Q28405706) to explore data about a given name (Q202444) : the idea is to ask simple questions and find answers
    • Similarly the talk page of "Ada" with queries
    • Postcards of exterior and interior views of theatres on CARTHALIA (Source)
    • List of cities (or map) of Russia where no one famous was born and died (Source)
    • Turkish scientists by citation count (Source)
    • ESWC2020 papers with links to video lectures (Source)
    • Women who have been Captain Regent of San Marino (Source)
    • Species of birds (Source)
    • List of open science fellows (Source)
    • Spouses of the German Bundestag (Source)
    • MWAPI searches in wikidata about people descibed as slave traders by citizenship (Source)

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
  • Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
  • Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
  • Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
  • Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211)
  • More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991) & preparing for the next steps
  • Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:58, ngày 8 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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

• Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [1]
• Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [2]
• There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [3][4]

Changes later this week

• You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [5]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [6]

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21:12, ngày 8 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 5 • May 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse EduWiki challenge México by Wikimedia México Featured education community member of May 2020 Sharing Wikimedia Education Projects in the Philippines Turkish professors are giving Wikipedia assignments during Covid-19 days Wikidata introduced in Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade Wikipedia as career counseling tool for teenagers

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This Month in GLAM: May 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue V, May 2020 Headlines Armenia report: Edit-a-thon dedicated to International Museum Day Colombia report: A #1Lib1Ref to close the gender gap Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref 2020 from 26 to 28 May in Côte d'Ivoire France report: WikiArchives; IMD 2020: Cross-Chapter Collaboration Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2020 recap; International Museum Day 2020 Italy report: New collaborations and contents! Netherlands report: Analysis of Dutch GLAM-Wiki projects in relation to the Dutch Digital Heritage Reference Architecture, Content donation from Utrecht Archives, Detecting Wikipedia articles strongly based on single library collections and Collection highlights of the KB Sweden report: Free music on Wikipedia; NHB webinars; Wikipedia in libraries – Projekt HBTQI Switzerland report: International Museum Day 2020 UK report: Japanese art USA report: Workshops & COVID-19 Symposium Special story: Content partnership category - your help is needed WMF GLAM report: GLAM metadata standards and Wikimedia projects Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #420

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Stanglavine

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #17, June 21
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Program for Cooperative Cataloging's upcoming Wikidata pilot, June 16. Agenda
  • Past: remote Wikidata Wochenende (list of projects - in German)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • KulturNav – a hub for museum vocabularies connected to Wikidata
  • Library data as linked open data
  • Lord of the Wiki Ring: Importing Wikidata into Neo4j and analyzing family trees
  • Video: Live Wikidata editing #9 - YouTube
  • How authors and publications are linked in Wikidata Scholia (in Swedish) - YouTube
  • ISE2020 - Excursus: How to query Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL - YouTube
  • Wikidata Live editing (replay)
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Navino Evans
    • Part 1 - Meet Nav, co-founder of Histropedia - YouTube
    • Part 2 - A guided tour of Histropedia with Nav! - YouTube
    • Part 3 - The future of Histropedia - YouTube
    • Part 3 - Wikidata, entrepreneurship & innovation - YouTube
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Daniel Mietchen
    • Part 1 - Meet Daniel! - YouTube
    • Part 2 - COVID & health topics on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Part 3 - Using Scholia to explore Wikidata - YouTube
    • Part 4 - Data Completeness in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Part 5 - Open & FAIR science and Wikidata - YouTube
    • Part 6 - Why Wikidata is important for students - YouTube
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting João Alexandre Peschanski
    • Part 1 - Meet João! - YouTube
    • Part 2 - On choosing to work with Wikidata in Academia - YouTube
    • Part 3 - Auto-generating knowledge via Wikidata - YouTube
    • Part 4 - Metadata Curation and reconciliation on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Part 5 - Visualization of new data artifacts via Wikidata - YouTube
    • Part 6 - Data Archaeology via Wikidata - YouTube
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Ewan McAndrew
    • Part 1 - Meet Ewan, WiR at the Uni' of Edinburgh - YouTube
    • Part 2 - the Witch Hunts projects & Wikidata - YouTube
    • Part 3 - Why Wikidata is important for education - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New: Overview of GLAM metadata standards and (if relevant) how they are mapped and crosswalked on Wikimedia projects. Feel free to add more to the list!
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms can now group forms înto sections, and (on wide screens) distribute sections across two columns!
  • New Wikidata Lexeme Forms feature: the warning about duplicate lexemes now links to edit mode, where you can fix any forms that the existing lexeme might be missing.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone
    • External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, SIUSA archival fonds ID, qualifier for this property, SIUSA archive producer IDs, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area
    • External identifiers: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, Deku Deals ID, duden id, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, Singapore Infopedia ID
  • Query examples:
    • Rose cultivars
    • List of present-day countries and capital(s) (Source)
    • Aliases of all sovereign states in Wikidata (Source)
    • Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders (Source)
    • Statues and monuments of slaveholders or traders (Source)
    • Members of the Ku Klux Klan whose English description doesn’t mention that (Source)
    • Bases named after Union soldiers (Source)
    • Married couples who also sat in the Bundestag (Source)
    • List of virtual conferences and their environment (Source)
    • Network of the Erich Fried Prize winners (Source)
    • Notable Russian people with possible (but unproved) descent from Genghis Khan (see the query for explanation)
    • Researchers or academics with Native American ancestry
    • Count of items by ethnic group (Source)
    • Metro map of Stockholm Country showing line colors and layers (Source)
    • Countries that have no world heritage sites (Source)
    • Number of statues of women, per country (Source)
    • 1st level subdivisions of Europe (and colonies) with less than 30 inhabitants per km² (Source)

• Development
  • Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
  • Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
  • Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
  • Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
  • Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
  • More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
  • Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (phabricator:T252800)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:59, ngày 15 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25

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

• Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

• There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [7]
• Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [8]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [9]
• The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [10]

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21:38, ngày 15 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

Thư mời tham gia các biểu quyết

Chào bạn, bạn khỏe không? Hiện nay có 2 biểu quyết ở Wikipedia. Trong đó biểu quyết Wikipedia:Biểu quyết/Sửa đổi Quy chế biểu quyết có tính quan trọng, ảnh hưởng đến cách hoạt động của dự án, mong bạn bớt chút thời gian để tham gia và nêu quan điểm của bạn.

• Wikipedia:Biểu quyết/Sửa đổi Quy chế biểu quyết
• Wikipedia:Thảo luận/Đề xuất áp dụng quyền Giám sát viên tại Wikipedia tiếng Việt

Tôi mong muốn lắng nghe ý kiến và quan điểm của bạn về các biểu quyết trên. Chúc bạn sức khỏe và nhiều niềm vui khi tham gia đóng góp tại Wikipedia. AlphamaBot2 (thảo luận) 23:38, ngày 16 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Công cụ thảo luận". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

20:29, ngày 17 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #421

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Stanglavine

• Events
  • Upcoming: Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language conference (remote, July 9-10): program & concept are published, registration is open
  • Upcoming: live OpenRefine introduction et demonstration, by Vigneron, on Twitch and in French, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Past: Wikidata queries workshop, June 21st, in the frame of the Small wiki toolkits–Indic workshop series

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • When Deno meets Wikidata (blog post)
  • Writing Wikidata Queries (Workshop Notes)
  • Wikidata course at TAU: Hosting Denny Vrandečić. The future of Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia WikiLambda - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • The currentDate gadget automatically adds the current date when using retrieved in a reference.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • On Commons, c:Template:Wikidata Infobox now has over 3 million uses; see c:Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox.
  • New page about the Bibliography of Wikidata – needs help on expanding the list.
  • Upcoming domain name migration on the Wikimedia Toolforge implies that OpenRefine users need to update their Wikidata reconciliation service to the new endpoint which will be available by default in the upcoming release of OpenRefine (3.4). phab:T254172
  • Wikirecords - proposal for a Wikibase-based sister-project

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works), Library of Congress Classification (edition), Universal Decimal Classification (works), Regensburg Classification (works), study type
    • External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, qualifier for this property, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, twin town sign, floor material, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment
    • External identifiers: IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, duden id, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, GCatholic diocese ID, BBFC ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Web of Science ID, Crossref journal ID, KBpedia ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Utenlandske krigsgraver i Norge ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Directorio de Afrocubanas, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number
  • Query examples:
    • Apologies for both of the problematic queries ("MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship" in Weekly Summary #419 and "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in Weekly Summary #420). The "MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship” in #419 lists any people with the word "slave" in a label, description or alias, among them several people who are not slave traders. The "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in #420 incorrectly linked this query for enslaved people instead of this query for slavetraders.
    • Ages of US presidents/vice-presidents: today, when leaving office, at death
    • The subway network of Stockholm
    • Former footballers who have ever been an MP in the UK parliament (Source)
    • Latin American Women Writers with a GND ID (Source)
    • Roads that are named after film directors (Source)
    • Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Sweden, WikiProject Ennegreciendo/Noircir Wikimedia

• Development
  • Continue working on the infrastructure review, in order to address the most pressing infrastructure issues
  • Make the Wikibase.git code base PSR-4 compatible (phab:T172368)
  • Work on an overview of existing types of coupling in Wikibase between Repo and Client (phab:T254902)
  • More work on consistency of UX components
  • Handle failed requests to the federation source wiki when saving statements (phab:T254889)
  • Catch federated properties exceptions in getParserOutput and display error page (phab:T255010)
  • Improve the permissions for Blazegraph in wdqs docker image (phab:T237248)
  • Create entitySources config for WMF production wikis (phab:T254315)
  • Participate in fixing several incidents (phab:T255855, phab:T255410)

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-26

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

• There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [11]
• Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [12]

Changes later this week

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [14]

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18:49, ngày 22 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 6 • June 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Understanding Wikimedia Affiliates Evaluation in Education Report Understanding Wikimedia Community as Research Fellows Participants of Wiki/Ponder online workshop in Kosovo edit Wikipedia Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse – Celebrating the final unit of the online course! Wikipedia in schools competing for innovations in teaching award Meet this month's featured Wikimedia & Education community member: Oleh Kushch

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Nieuwsbrief 93 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van juni 2020 Mijlpaal voor portretfoto's op Wikipedia | Topstukken van de KB op Wikimedia Commons en Wikidata.... Mijlpaal voor portretfoto’s op Wikipedia Topstukken van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek op Wikimedia Commons en Wikidata Online plaatsen oude foto’s: gerechtshof Den Haag vernietigt uitspraak Terugblik WikiZaterdag 13 juni: OpenRefine Wikimedian in Residence Online WikiVrijdag 10 juli WikiZaterdag 11 juli: Brainstorm jaarplan 2021 Podcast Nooit Geweten Terugblik bijeenkomst Wiki goes Caribbean Wiki-uurtje Radio interview Jaarverslag 2019 Zien we jou binnenkort online? Steun Wikimedia Nederland Oude versies vindt u hier

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine

• Community view: Community open letter on renaming

• Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd

• In the media: Part collaboration and part combat

• Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals

• Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow

• Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation

• Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths

• News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice

• Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking

• Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?

• Humour: Cherchez une femme

• Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news

• On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?

• In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter

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Wikidata weekly summary #422

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Disallow merging into newer entity

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Wochenende 2020 (in German)
    • Introduction to Wikidata (video)
    • Introduction to SPARQL (video)
  • Past: Cultural heritage webinar, Science Museum group. (presentations and videos)
  • Past: Wikidata Query Service exercise (in Chinese) (video)
  • Past: Wikidata in Toronto webinar with Alex Jung (video)
  • Past: Writing Wikidata queries workshop, part of the Small Wikis Toolkit series (video recording)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, Query Service special, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez on a project to surface library holdings to indicate possible notability for persons, June 30th. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #19, July 5
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest, July 1st

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Lexemes in Wikidata: 2020 status, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Upcoming video: Live Wikidata editing #10 - with guest: YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • The Sourcerer edit game suggests some sources that could fit to a claim and helps people adding references easily.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase Live sessions is coming back with the first call about Data Modeling in the context of Libraries happening on Thursday, July 2nd at 1600 UTC.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions), Library of Congress Classification (works and editions), Universal Decimal Classification (works and editions), Regensburg Classification (works and editions), study type, number of branches, references work, tradition or theory, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, qualifier for this property, gloss quote, use with property value, use with qualifier, prompt when missing, offset from vertical
    • External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID, GCatholic person ID, Legacy.com person ID, Econlib ID, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Web of Science ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, Crossref journal ID, Duden ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, Directory of Afrocubanas ID, Emmys person ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Goodreads work ID, locality number in Austria, IDU person ID, Gramophone composer ID, Foreign war churchyards in Norway ID, Riksdagen person guid, GCatholic diocese ID, PMSA ID, BBK (library and bibliographic classification), Rate Your Music release ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Unique Property Reference Number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, twin town sign, floor material, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment, property constraint for Commons, Dowker-Thistlethwaite name, Localised title, DOI formatter, Open Data portal, subscribed by, Knot Atlas identifier, theorised by, Knotilus identifier, KnotInfo identifier, sorting weight, character designer, image set, taxon synonym string
    • External identifiers: SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Legacy.com newspaper ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, Opera Online conductor ID, KKBox track ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, BBFC ID, FIPRESCI person ID, KBpedia ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, Econlib person ID, NUKAT (non-VIAF) ID, Reposcope ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, PPN ID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Grove Art Online ID, Maniadb artist ID, Maniadb album ID, Swiss Timber Bridges, PO ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, InciWeb, HLTV ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Swedish Riksdag document, Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Nauvoo community project ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Unique Street Reference Number, TlF ID, identifiant lobbywatch.ch d'un parlementaire, identifiant Manioc livre, Bibliothèque Digital des Caraïbes, identifiant Manioc périodique, AlloCiné theater ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of U.S. Presidents
    • List of MPs currently in the Sveriges riksdag (Source)
    • Map showing people buried in Père Lachaise by place of birth (Source)
    • Existing named trees in the world (Source)
    • Artworks depicting things related to a fairy tale (Source)
  • Newest database reports: no statements/enwiki

• Development
  • It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
  • Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
  • More work on consistency of user interface components
  • Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
  • Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
  • Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
  • More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:01, ngày 29 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-27

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

• Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [15]
• Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [16]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:31, ngày 29 tháng 6 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #423

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest launch (replay)
  • Upcoming: Biohackathon 2020 Barcelona 2020 November 9th - 13th The accepted wikidata related proposal: Knowledge graphs and wikidata subsetting
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #20, July 12
  • Upcoming: Celtic Knot conference, July 9-10, including several sessions about Wikidata, a Wikidata helpdesk

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Why Ariadne uses Getty AAT over Wikidata
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #10 - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abstract Wikipedia was approved.
  • OpenRefine 3.4 beta 2 was released.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Open Data portal, theorised by, DOI formatter, set in environment, academic appointment
    • External identifiers: House Divided ID, thefreedictionary medical term ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, Grove Art Online ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, KBpedia ID, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency OBJECTID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Swiss Timber Bridges ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: taxon synonym string, PM20 subject code, PM20 geo code, number of downloads, Interactive element, course, Zoning symbol, vanDerWaalsConstant, has pattern
    • External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, Austrian encyclopedia of music online, Swiss Tunnel ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID, CPJF ID, TripAdvisor ID 2, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, public transport stop, Homebrew formula name, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, British Museum object ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, code EHESS d'une commune, IAPH code, ProtonDB video game ID
  • Query examples:
    • France has a new Prime Minister: see the list of all ministers in French history (very long scroll). If you want to know more, see this notebook
    • Open data portals in Wikidata (using the newly created property Open Data portal (P8402))
    • Objects that are named after people on Wikidata (Source)

• Development
  • More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board)
  • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other
    • Proposal to stop registering WikibaseLib as a separate extension
  • Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (phab:T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (phab:T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246339))
  • Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
  • Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
  • Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:19, ngày 6 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28

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

• The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [18]
• The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
• Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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20:18, ngày 6 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

Tin tức Soạn thảo 2020 #3

Đọc bản tin này bằng ngôn ngữ khác • Danh sách nhận bản tin đa ngôn ngữ này

Hơn 50 triệu sửa đổi đã được thực hiện bằng trình soạn thảo trực quan trên máy tính để bàn.

Vào tháng này bảy năm trước, nhóm Soạn thảo đã phát hành trình soạn thảo trực quan đến phần lớn biên tập viên Wikipedia. Kể từ đó, các biên tập viên đã đạt được những mốc quan trọng sau:

• Hơn 50 triệu sửa đổi đã được thực hiện bằng trình soạn thảo trực quan trên máy tính để bàn.
• Hơn 2 triệu bài viết mới được tạo ra bằng trình soạn thảo trực quan. Hơn 600.000 trong số này được tạo ra vào năm 2019.
• Trình soạn thảo trực quan ngày càng phổ biến. Tỷ lệ số sửa đổi bằng trình soạn thảo trực quan tăng lên theo từng năm kể từ khi nó được giới thiệu.
• Vào năm 2019, 35% số sửa đổi của những người mới tham gia (biên tập viên đã đăng nhập vào có dưới 99 sửa đổi) là bằng trình soạn thảo trực quan. Số phần trăm này tăng lên từng năm.
• Gần 5 triệu sửa đổi trên trang di động được thực hiện bằng trình soạn thảo trực quan. Phần lớn trong số này được thực hiện sau khi nhóm Soạn thảo bắt đầu cải tiến trình soạn thảo trực quan di động vào năm 2018.
• Vào ngày 17 tháng 11 năm 2019, sửa đổi đầu tiên từ ngoài vũ trụ đã được thực hiện bằng trình soạn thảo trực quan di động. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Các biên tập viên đã thực hiện hơn 7 triệu sửa đổi bằng trình soạn thảo mã wiki, trong đó bao gồm 600.000 bài viết mới. Trình soạn thảo mã wiki 2017 là chế độ mã wiki có sẵn trong Trình soạn thảo trực quan. Bạn có thể kích hoạt nó trong Cài đặt của mình.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (thảo luận)

12:48, ngày 9 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue VI, June 2020 Headlines Albania report: Wikigap 2020 in Albania Australia report: Taking training online Brazil report: Wikimedia in Brazil in times of pandemics France report: Association des archivistes français Mexico report: México free and diverse representation Netherlands report: Wiki goes Caribbean meetup and media donation & Making references to Dutch newspapers in Wikipedia more sustainable North Macedonia report: More than 130 new articles about insects Serbia report: June Highlights - Let’s make new agreements Sweden report: Free music on Wikipedia Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program Taiwan report: Research Case of the White Paper Cooperation Writing Between Taiwan Gallery and Wikidata Taiwan UK report: New project on Islamic art USA report: Juneteenth2020 +Pride Special story: Creative Commons invites Open GLAM stories from underrepresented communities WMF GLAM report: Departure of Sandra Fauconnier Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #424

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
  • Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time, by Addshore
  • Using Wikidata in Mathematica and Wolfram, by Toni Schindler
  • Fostering the presence of museums on Wikipedia and Wikidata, by Debora Lopomo
  • Extending the Met’s reach with Wikidata, by Jennie Choi
  • Wikidata-related videos from the Celtic Knot Conference:
    • Wikidata and how you can use it to support minority languages (Mohammed Sadat)
    • Wikidata-powered infoboxes (Pau Cabot)
    • Hands-on Wikidata and lexicographical data (Nicolas Vigneron and Léa Lacroix)
    • FAIR linguistic data thanks to norm data – Wikidata as part of the research project VerbaAlpina (Christina Mutter)
    • Sámi placenames on Wikidata (Jon Harald Søby)
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Introducing the Wikidata powered Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline (Jason Evans), YouTube
  • Video: Diving into Wikidata workshop (Will Kent), YouTube
  • Video: Linked data for libraries with Wikibase, Infrastructure track (Jens Ohlig), YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GQIS can now render results from a Wikidata SPARQL query with a new plugin.
  • New feature in V for Wikipedia that uses Wikidata identifiers to direct users to their favorite streaming app.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Dowker-Thistlethwaite name
    • External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Maniadb artist ID, Group Properties wiki ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, GameBanana video game ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Image link, numeric ID, peak bagging classification, vanDerWaalsConstantA, vanDerWaalsConstantB, road name formatter, road number formatter, Medical Service, Ofsted inspection rating, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, traffic sign template image, Vietnamese middle name
    • External identifiers: Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine identifier, OHM Relation ID, Filmstarts title ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, SmallGroup ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, SAH Archipedia building ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Our Campaigns candidate ID, VPE railway line ID, Churches in Limburg, The Draft Review ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, ANZSOC ID, ASCRG ID, Encyclopédie berbère, 雑誌コード, OpenStreetMap user name, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, QLD Biota ID, Australian Weed ID
  • Query examples:
    • Illustrated Basque word of the day for children
    • Oldest UK MPs at the time of election (Source)
    • Map of archives in Wikidata (Source)

• Development
  • Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
  • More work on the consistent design system
  • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
  • Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
  • Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
  • Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:27, ngày 13 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29

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 can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [19]

Problems

• Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [20][21]

Changes later this week

• Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [23][24][25][26]

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16:30, ngày 13 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: General semi protection for all property pages

• Events
  • Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
  • Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
  • Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
  • Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
  • Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities botany pilot using Wikidata QIDs
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikispore Day, including an interview of Denny Vrandečić about Abstract Wikipedia at 34'00
  • Video: Merging elements on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikibase Ecosystem - taking Wikidata further (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Frettie/consistency_check_add.js check consistency and add missing relations of a Wikidata object like father/son...

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead (relevant for people using pageterms submodule of the query API module on Wikibase repository wikis)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: version control system, interactive elements, course, peak bagging classification, public transport stop, descriptive solubility, applies if regular expression matches, energy consumption per transaction, content partnership category, Van Der Waals Constant a, Van Der Waals Constant b
    • External identifiers: Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, EHESS ID of a French commune, OpenHistoricalMap relation ID, IAPH code, Knot Atlas identifier, Knotinfo identifier, Swiss Tunnel ID, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID, Swedish Riksdag document ID, Artprice artist ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Digital Library of the Caribbean ID, Homebrew formula name, Our Campaigns candidate ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, Unique Street Reference Number, Benerail station ID, Churches in Limburg, Vmusic.bg artist ID, US Quaternary Fault ID, ASCRG 2016 ID, ANZSOC 2011 ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, SAH Archipedia building ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: BTI Status Index, BTI Governance Index, lyricsmule, number of majors offered, nationality (cultural identity), image of view, web interface software
    • External identifiers: Native Plants Database ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, OpenCritic critic ID, DATAtourisme ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, AHECC 2017 ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, Unsplash User ID, South Africa EMIS code, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, HLTV Player ID, HLTV Team ID, SÚKL code, Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers, Science Fiction Awards Database author id, Fototeka person ID, Henrik Ibsen skrifter ID
  • Query examples:
    • Painters in Wikidata with the surname Ruiz (Source)
    • Cities with female mayor (Source)
    • MPs in the current UK parliament with identified mythical ancestors (Source)
    • Indian subcontinent rail lines (Source)
    • List of countries by age of the head of government (Source)
    • Cities of the United States between 100,000 and 600,000 inhabitants with the counties and states they are located in (Source)
  • Newest database reports: list of 1000, 2000 (without statements) and 10000 (filtered) random items

• Development
  • More work on the consistent design system
  • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
    • load WikibaseClient through the JSON file (phab:T257435),
    • decoupling Client from Lib/Repo in the JavaScript code (phab:T256054),
    • reduce the uses of Repo classes (phab:T255885, phab:T255882)
    • Move all the special pages (phab:T257444), API modules (phab:T257443) and hooks (phab:T257445) from the PHP entry point to the JSON file
    • Merge the registration of WikibaseLib into the Repo and Client extensions (phab:T257432) and merge WikibaseView into Repo (phab:T258043)
  • Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
  • Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
  • Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
  • Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
  • Federated Properties:
    • Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
    • Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
  • Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (WMDE) 14:58, ngày 20 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30

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

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

• There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [27]
• Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [28]
• Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [29]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a Bản để in ra link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [30]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

19:12, ngày 20 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

Thư mời tham gia biểu quyết nhân sự

Chào bạn, Wikipedia Tiếng Việt hiện nay đã có hơn 1.2 triệu bài vì vậy cần thiết phải có đội ngũ nhân sự mới để quản lý nội dung cũng như đánh giá lại năng lực các BQV cũ. Mời bạn tham gia các biểu quyết tại:

• Wikipedia:Biểu quyết chọn bảo quản viên/Thienhau2003
• Wikipedia:Biểu quyết chọn bảo quản viên/P.T.Đ
• Wikipedia:Biểu quyết bất tín nhiệm bảo quản viên/TuanUt

Trân trọng! Alphama (thảo luận · đóng góp)

Tech News: 2020-31

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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [31]
• The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Chế độ Vectơ cũ in your local or global preferences in section Tùy chọn giao diện. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
• On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

• The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [32][33]
• Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [34]
• Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [35]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

13:53, ngày 27 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #426

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

• Events
  • The Wikidata track of the LD4 conference on Linked Data in Libraries takes place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July. Free, upon registration.
  • Seeking feedback on a possible WikiCite@Wikidata's 8th Birthday online conference; and what content/format/timing preferences you have. Please respond to this short survey. [Privacy policy: https://w.wiki/XfN]
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July. Agenda
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st. Notes of the discussions
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1 Facebook YouTube
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #23, August 2

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Croiser des données avec OpenRefine by Ash_Crow (in French, how to match data from inside and outside Wikidata with Open Refine)
  • "OBA: An Ontology-Based Framework for Creating REST APIs for Knowledge Graphs"
  • Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
  • Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
    • Part 1 - Introduction to Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
    • Part 2 - Usage of Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
    • Part 3 - Components of a Wikidata item - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese). YouTube
  • Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata. YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) launches in Beta. This SPARQL endpoint for Structured Data on Commons can federate with Wikidata's Query Service. (Announcement & discussion)
  • A new OpenRefine reconciliation service for Wikidata is available. Add it in OpenRefine with https://wikidata.reconci.link/en/api or by replacing en by any other Wikimedia language code.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: pertainym, BTI Governance Index, BTI Status Index, Ofsted inspection rating, distribution map of taxon
    • External identifiers: Wiki-Rennes ID, Queensland Biota ID, Australian Weed ID, Encyclopedie berbere ID, Japanese magazine code, Lobbywatch.ch ID of a member of parliament, IVS ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, PM20 geo code, PM20 subject code, DATAtourisme ID, OpenCritic critic ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, SmallGroup ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, AHECC 2017 ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: booking URL, member of lexicon, screen (display) resolution, in pixels, Size comparison diagram, Butcher tableau, related laws and regulations, Water area
    • External identifiers: Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD ID, Jisho word id, UK Research and Innovation organisation ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, Opta football competition ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey), Árvore de Interesse Público ID, MinDat taxon ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Twitter topics numeric ID, People Australia ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap (Source)
    • Number of MPs elected to the Swedish parliament for each election back to 1970 (Source)

• Development
  • Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
  • Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
  • Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
  • Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
  • Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
  • Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
  • Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
  • Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, ngày 27 tháng 7 năm 2020 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 94 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van juli 2020 Maand van de Geschiedenis | Wikiproject Corona.... Wat gaat WMNL doen in 2021? Maand van de Geschiedenis Wikiproject Corona OpenRefine café Data over levende personen op Wikidata en Wikipedia Werk met een open licentie delen op sociale media Adopteer (en wikificeer) een vertaling! Linked Data Foto's als nalatenschap aan de wereld Beter plaatjes vinden op Wikimedia Commons Help mee foto’s van het Caribisch gebied beter vindbaar te maken Wiki-uurtje Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba: coach gezocht! Zien we jou binnenkort online? Steun Wikimedia Nederland Oude versies vindt u hier

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

• COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

• News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

• In the media: Dog days gone bad

• Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

• Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

• Traffic report: Now for something completely different

• Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

• News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

• Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

• Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

• Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

• In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 18:26, ngày 2 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #427

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Wiki13

• Events
  • Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service.
  • Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook, YouTube
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24, August 9

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
    • (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel)
    • (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256)
    • (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed))
    • (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs)
    • (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib)
    • (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil)
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook YouTube
  • Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube
  • Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages

• Tool of the week
  • SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: height of center of mass, road number formatter, Vietnamese middle name, heraldic attitude, traffic sign template image
    • External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, South Africa EMIS code, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD resource ID, Gateway to Research organisation ID, SÚKL code, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: certified as, number of stages, convergence rate, step count, Alternative form, view, version type for works, advertisement copy
    • External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, TOPCMB ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, SAT-matrikulo, Signal number, BHF author ID, BHF magazine ID, SPLC Group ID, SPLC Individual ID, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Presence compositrices ID of work
  • Query examples:
    • Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions
    • a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
    • Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata (Source)
    • Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup (Source)
    • Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Orienteerers: tinyurl.com/y25qa8ef (source, at 53:45)
    • Animal hugs: tinyurl.com/yykvj26y (source)

• Development
  • The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
    • Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
    • REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
    • Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
    • Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:37, ngày 3 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

Các Tin tức Kỹ thuật mới nhất từ cộng đồng kỹ thuật Wikimedia. Xin hãy thông báo cho các thành viên khác về những thay đổi này. Không phải thay đổi nào cũng ảnh hưởng trực tiếp tới bạn. Các bản dịch đã có sẵn để đọc.

Vấn đề

• Tất cả các truy vấn đến Dịch vụ Truy vấn Wikidata đã gặp lỗi từ 17:50 đến 17:59 (giờ UTC) vào ngày thứ năm, 23 tháng 7. Một số truy vấn tiếp tục gặp lỗi trong thời gian dài hơn sau đó. [36]
• Các liên kết liên wiki đã bị xếp thứ tự sai trong những tuần vừa qua. Vấn đề này đã từng được nhắc đến trong Bản tin Kỹ thuật hai tuần trước. Vấn đề hiện đã được khắc phục. [37]
• Các vấn đề với tuỳ chọn "Chế độ Vectơ cũ" trong các thiết lập toàn cục. Các nhà phát triển đang tìm cách khắc phục lỗi này. [38]
• Một lỗi trong phần mở rộng Wikibase đã vô hiệu hoá mức "khoá di chuyển" và "khoá tạo trang" trong không gian tên chính (Gallery) của Wikimedia Commons. Người dùng không thể khoá trang, và các thiết lập khoá đang có bị vô hiệu hoá, khiến những người dùng vẫn có thể di chuyển và tạo các trang mà đáng ra họ không được phép. Lỗi này hiện đã được sửa. [39]

Thay đổi sắp tới trong tuần này

• Trình phát video sẽ thay đổi sang một giao diện mới đơn giản và hiện đại hơn. Trong tuần này, phiên bản trình phát video thử nghiệm sẽ được kích hoạt thành trình phát video mặc định cho người dùng trên đa số các wiki không phải là Wikipedia. Trình phát video cũ sẽ bị loại bỏ. [40]
• Các trang global.js và global.css của người dùng cũng sẽ được tải trên phiên bản di động. Bạn có thể đọc bản hướng dẫn để biết làm thế nào để ngăn không cho các style này được tải trên giao diện di động. [41]
• In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
• Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [42]
• Phiên bản mới của MediaWiki sẽ được triển khai trên các wiki thử nghiệm và MediaWiki.org từ ngày 4 tháng Tám. Nó sẽ được cài đặt trên các wiki không phải là Wikipedia và trên một số Wikipedia từ ngày 5 tháng Tám, và trên mọi wiki từ ngày 6 tháng Tám (xem lịch trình).

Tin tức Kỹ thuật do biên tập viên Bản tin Kỹ thuật chuẩn bị và được đăng bởi bot • Đóng góp • Biên dịch • Nhờ giúp đỡ • Phản hồi • Đăng ký hoặc huỷ đăng ký.

15:43, ngày 3 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 7 • July 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse About Education at the Wikimedia Polska Conference Featured education community member The importance of having an Education and Human Rights Program The Welsh Wiki-Education project Wikimedia Chile faces the challenge of mandatory virtuality WoALUG and Canadian Institute of Technology write about women in tech

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 05:27, ngày 5 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #428

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516
  • Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 (successful)

• Events
  • Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
  • Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".

• Tool of the week
  • OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe
  • With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: size comparison diagram, view
    • External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, Fototeka person ID, LibraryThing series ID, TOPCMB ID, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: image of entrance, extinction date, notation writer, raga, tala, SMARTS, Editio princeps, recording location
    • External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby, Sochy a města ID sochy, podvignaroda, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, European Investment Bank project ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id, cadastral municipality ID, NPR station ID, NYARC Discovery ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, Trismegistos Texts ID
  • Query examples:
    • Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender
    • Political alignments of the parties of world leaders (Source)
    • Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit (source)
    • Things depicted with cats (source)

• Development
  • finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
  • wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
  • working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387)
  • addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
  • fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (phabricator:T259440)
  • finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-33

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

• FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [43]

Problems

• The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [44]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [45][46]

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16:06, ngày 10 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue VII, July 2020 Headlines Albania report: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020 in Albania and Kosova Australia report: New WikiClub and Australian GLAM Research Brazil report: Important records of Brazilian history: images, metadata and edit-a-thons Finland report: Rephotography walks during the pandemic France report: Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève Germany report: Hacking the Arts Netherlands report: October history month East-West, Pictures as a legacy to the world & Photos of Mali Serbia report: Wikimedia Serbia is working on new activities Sweden report: More Swedish music – of all sorts Uganda report: Sensitisation of GLAM institutions in Uganda UK report: The effect of a Commons Picture of the Day USA report: AfroCROWD, AAPB, Philadelphia, Smithsonian Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #429

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

• Discussions
  • Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 (all successful)
  • New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item?

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26, August 23

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
  • New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project, feedback welcome
  • Help:Dataset sizing

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: alternative form
    • External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures, Manioc book ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, Unsplash User ID, EIB project ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: latest start date, earliest end date, Number of votes after transferring, map URL, type of archaeological site, record number, front and back matter
    • External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, Panteono de edukado.net, LSG local body code, MobyGames attribute ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), Proballers player ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, Chrome Webstore extension ID, CTHS publication ID, LBS Physical ID, GBIF occurence ID
  • Query examples:
    • Largest collections of Picasso content (Source). The National Gallery of Art holds the most with 303 objects
    • Bubble chart of snooker world champions (Source)
    • Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders (Source)

• Development
  • Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
  • Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
  • Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
  • Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
  • Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
  • Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
  • Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-34

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

• If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [47]
• The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [48]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [49][50]

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20:41, ngày 17 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 8 • August 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Collaboration between Karvachar Armath laboratory and Karvachar’s Wikiclub as a new educational platform for the teenagers Education cycle “Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: an instructional strategy for the teaching practice” 3rd edition of Wikipedia Education Program in Hebron, Palestine. (COVID-19 edition) Introductory Wikipedia Workshop with Future Engineers: First Step of Education Program A picture is worth a thousand words: history students research pictures on Commons

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Wikidata weekly summary #430

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata distributed birthday in October. You can organize an (online) event with your local group or favorite WikiProject! See also: calendar in progress, information for organizers, 24-hours online meetup
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will talk about gadgets and user scripts. 25 August. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #27, August 30
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata (via ArXiv)
  • Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online.
    • Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
    • Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
  • Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.

Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.

1. Project & events [$2-10k]
2. e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: SMARTS notation, tala, raga, recording location, law or regulation identifying number, earliest end date, latest start date, extinction date
    • External identifiers: Filmstarts title ID, Trismegistos text ID, SPLC Individual ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, BHF magazine ID, Macedonian cadastral municipality ID, Monumentbrowser ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938 ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister ID, BHF author ID, Proballers ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, Opera Online opera house ID, CTHS publication ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Namesakes, Engineer's Line Reference, bibliography, external auditor, ITF-identificatiecode voor speler 2020, rotated image, mirrored image, combined from, overlaid from, number of deaths in senior care homes, number of cases intensive care, negotiated by, is solution to, Commons category for the exterior of the item, Number of taxpayers, medium
    • External identifiers: Abbreviations related to ancient authors and works and to academic works regarding classical antiquity, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Emporis company ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, FBref.com squad ID, Operator licence number, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Istrapedia ID, monumenta.ch ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Art Bonus ID, The Living New Deal ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, UG Digital Collections, jewishencyclopedia.com ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, Grandterrier.net ID
  • Query examples:
    • British MPs with sons- or daughters-in-law who were also MPs (source)
    • MPs with the largest number of children or childen-in-law who became MPs (source)
    • Descendants of Robert Emett (born 1729), with counts of sitelinks and external IDs for them and their spouses (source)
    • Programming languages written by women (Source)
    • Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (Source)
    • Female soccer players who have a (known) social media account (Source)
    • Largest cities in France by population (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Works in Helsinki, and their copyright status (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Gazetteer

• Development
  • Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
  • Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (phabricator:T260532)
  • Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
  • Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
  • Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
  • Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:09, ngày 24 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

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17:59, ngày 24 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The high road and the low road

• In the media: Storytelling large and small

• Featured content: Going for the goal

• Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way

• Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax

• Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics

• News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online

• Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles

• Arbitration report: A slow couple of months

• From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?

• Obituaries: Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till

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Wikidata weekly summary #431

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

• Events
  • Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. By Global Open Initiative - YouTube (1), (2)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28, September 6
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
  • Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service, by Dr Chris Langley
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way - article by Lydia Pintscher in the Wikipedia Signpost

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
  • WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC
  • The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service.
  • reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine's API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Butcher tableau, front and back matter, external auditor
    • External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID, Chrome Webstore extension ID, PARADISEC Catalog, NPR station ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Emporis company ID, Art Bonus ID, British Museum object ID, monumenta.ch ID, The Living New Deal ID, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: parent superproperty, publisher of, performed at, Barcelona Public art identifier, opening hours (v.3), Fanbase name, aerial view, ground clearance, axle track, placeholder text element ID, displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table, Liturgical rank
    • External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945, Firefox add-on ID, London Stock Exchange company, Fatcat ID, NDL law ID, e-Gov law ID, OFAC sanction ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, YUAG ID, Grove Music Online ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of structures that have won architectural awards - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players (Source)
    • Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes (Source)
    • Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 (Source)
    • People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth (Source)
    • Location of decommissioned aircraft - OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
    • Railway network in Czechia (Source)
    • People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) (Source)
    • List of locations of Woolf's books (Source)

• Development
  • Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
  • Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
  • Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:49, ngày 31 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

• More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
• Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
• Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[51]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

• The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
• Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

15:11, ngày 31 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-36

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

Problems

• This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [52][53]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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20:10, ngày 31 tháng 8 năm 2020 (UTC)

Thư mời tham gia Wikipedia:Biểu quyết bất tín nhiệm bảo quản viên

Chào bạn, trân trọng mời bạn tham gia biểu quyết bất tín nhiệm bảo quản viên ở:

• Wikipedia:Biểu quyết bất tín nhiệm bảo quản viên/Tuanminh01 3

Một số lưu ý:

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Wikidata weekly summary #432

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Semantic Wikibase has been released by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18, workflows for SPARQL queries and QuickStatements Facebook, YouTube
  • OpenRefine 3.4 was released
  • How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata. By Addshore
  • Wikidata Training Workshop 2, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
    • Contributing to Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
    • Contributing to Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
  • Video: How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr Sara Thomas

• Tool of the week
  • wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard is a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: LSG local body code, NYARC Discovery ID, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, ICP artist ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Firefox add-on ID, NHK Archives Portal person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, InciWeb ID, YUAG ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to form or aspect, blocked on the territory of, Liturgical category, Flickr image URL, turning radius, number of reboots, financials URL, SI base units, rank insignia2
    • External identifiers: Syro-Malabar Church Parish ID, Database of Umgebinde houses in Bohemian Switzerland ID, Re-Member ID, DIL ID, Naver Vibe Artist ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust person ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, VA facility ID, Hikr Waypoint ID, tvmaze ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Danish educational institution number, Past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, photoLondon ID, uta-net.com song ID, Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial
    • A table of the 100 highest fees charged for using various kinds of facilities, normalized to United States dollars - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Youngest age of UK MPs leaving office since 1900 (Source)
    • Longest time UK MPs lived after leaving office since 1900 (Source)
    • British cabinet members with past military service (Source)
    • Earliest written record of 10 largest Czech cities (Source)
    • Churches dedicated to Czech patron St. Wenceslas (blue) and Moravian patrons St. Cyril and Methodeus (orange) (Source)
    • German municipality names ending with -in, -ing, -heim (Source)

• Development
  • Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
  • Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
  • Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
  • Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
  • Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
  • More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-37

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

Changes later this week

• Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [54]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
• All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [55]

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
• OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [56]
• The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [57][58]
• Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
• Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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This Month in GLAM: August 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue VIII, August 2020 Headlines Albania report: Wikivoyage edit-a-thon - Editing Albania and Kosovo’s travel destinations Brazil report: Open innovation and dissemination activities: wrapping up great achievements on a major GLAM in Brazil Czech Republic report: First Prague Wiki Editathon held in Prague Estonia report: Virtual exhibition about Polish-Estonian relations. Rephotography and cultural heritage Germany report: KulTour in Swabia and 8000 documents new online India report: Utilising Occasion for Content donation: A story Netherlands report: WMIN & WMNL collaboration & Japanese propaganda films Serbia report: Enriching Wiki projects in different ways Sweden report: Free music and new recordings of songs in the public domain; Autumn in the libraries; Yes, you can hack the heritage this year – online! Uganda report: Participating in the African Librarians Week (24-30 May 2020) UK report: Spanish metal and ... USA report: Wiknic & Black Artists Matter & Respect Her Crank WMF GLAM report: Wikipedia Library, new WikiCite grant programs, and GLAM office hours Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #433

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy

• Events
  • Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
  • "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
  • Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
  • Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
    • A brief intro to Wikidata and how to set up an account
    • How to add a new item to Wikidata
    • How to add an image to Wikidata
  • Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
  • All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
  • Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
    • External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
    • External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID
  • Query examples:
    • Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
    • List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
    • Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
    • Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
    • Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
    • Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
    • Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest (Source)
    • Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
    • Map of sports pitches for team sports that require between 10 and 20 players on the field - Wikidata/OSM query

• Development
  • Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
  • Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
  • Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
  • Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
  • Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-38

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

Problems

• The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [59][60]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

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16:19, ngày 14 tháng 9 năm 2020 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 95 Wikimedia Nederland

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Wikidata weekly summary #434

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • "Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata"
  • ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata on blog.wikimedia.de
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20 WLM: Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata Training Workshop 3, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association (YouTube)
    • Wikidata Query Service - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
    • Wikidata Query Service (in French) - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

• Tool of the week
  • copy-qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for the exterior of the item, axle track, Stairway To Hell ID, Oakeshott typology, construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography
    • External identifiers: Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID, TV Maze series ID, Barcelona Public art ID, University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) ID, Istrapedia ID, OnlyFans person ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, The Cutting Room Floor ID, Fatcat ID, China Treaty Database ID, e-GOV law ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Slack organization ID, Kansas Historic Resources Inventory ID, Historic Montana ID, ITF player ID 2020, BD Gest' series ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, P8624
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: defining mutations, nombre d'essais marqués, Netflix maturity rating, held event, number of paying subscribers, has census
    • External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID, identificativo Ministero dell'interno, Dallas Museum of Art ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Energy Identification Code, Wikimedia Chat channel, Symptom Ontology ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, monumentsauxmorts.fr ID, monumentsdememoire.fr ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Museen Dresden article ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NPS place ID, SSYK 2012
  • Query examples:
    • Map of anything that memorializes or is named after a Whig Party member - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of every railway station presently connected directly or indirectly to St Pancras on Wikidata
    • Age of the winners of the Tour de France (Source)
    • Location and date of death of Danish rulers (Source)
    • Map of the places & causes of death of Roman Emperors (Source)
    • Images of members of the 16th Odisha Assembly (2019-24) (Source)
    • Star signs of Japanese Prime Ministers (Source)
    • Video game series with the longest time gap between a game and its direct sequel (Source)

• Development
  • WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (phab:T261125)
  • The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
  • The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
  • P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
  • Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
  • Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
  • Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
  • Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
  • Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
  • Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
  • Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
  • Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-39

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Recent changes

• There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [61][62]

Changes later this week

• The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [63]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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This Month in Education: September 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 9 • September 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Active autumn in the Polish wiki-education Cycle "Caminos y voces de la educación con Wikipedia" Featured education community member of September 2020 The Use of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons as tool for Module Development in the Philippines Wikimedia Indonesia Education Team Launched Their Books About Wikipedia Wikimedia Serbia is organizing the first online Edu Wiki camp

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

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• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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Wikidata weekly summary #435

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

• Events
  • Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge (Best practice presentation at DCMI Virtual 2020)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 29 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: WikiNeocomensia: Wikidata + OpenRefine, workshop in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and in French, October 3
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #32, October 4

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
  • Sidestepping the limitations of collection catalogues with machine learning and Wikidata
  • Navigating the maze of Wikidata query logs by Angela Bonifati, Wim Martens, Thomas Timm
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike: Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata tutorial for lecturers (in Czech) - YouTube
  • Video: Creating and enriching linked data with Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Mix'n'Match Tutorial - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata for librarians (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
  • Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
  • Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography, opening time, closing time, engine displacement, expansion of, Netflix maturity rating, TDD number
    • External identifiers: American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust ID (person), Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Book Marks ID, Re-Member ID, SPoT skater ID, NDL law ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Dallas Museum of Art ID, FBref.com squad ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID, Lambiek comic magazines ID, Energy Identification Code, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Ministry of the Interior of Italy ID, National Park Service place ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, Open Civic Data Division ID, Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Regional Council of Tuscany ID, level of professionalness, defined in terms of, form of property constraint, Attraction to, group identity, analog television standard, ritual object, number of rooms
    • External identifiers: USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Indonesian prison database ID, LinkedIn group ID, Naver movie ID, CINE21 film ID, Movist film ID, KOBIS-ID, Max Movie film ID, The Boardr profile ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID, Google Play developer slug, Passion Patrimoine ID, FVLB work ID, BBC Sound Effects Asset ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of the 100 most recent additions of interactive OpenStreetMap maps to English Wikipedia articles - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of the birthplace of persons with an ELEM id on Wikidata (Source)

• Development
  • A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the Tự động theo dõi các trang tôi tạo và các tập tin tôi tải lên setting enabled. (The Tự động theo dõi các trang và tập tin tôi sửa setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.)
  • Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
  • Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
  • Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
  • Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
  • Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
  • WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:00, ngày 28 tháng 9 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

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

• Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [64]
• Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [65]

Problems

• Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [66]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
• The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
• In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [67]
• You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
• You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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21:24, ngày 28 tháng 9 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #436

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Fuzheado

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
  • Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
  • Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
    • External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
    • External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
    • Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available. - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
    • List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
    • Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
    • Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
    • Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
  • Newest database reports:
    • EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.

• Development
  • First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
  • Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
  • Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
  • Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
  • Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:06, ngày 5 tháng 10 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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

Recent changes

• There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
• You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [68]

Problems

• There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [69]
• Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [70]
• Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
• Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [71]

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [72]

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16:24, ngày 5 tháng 10 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42

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

• Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [73][74][75]

Changes later this week

• Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [76][77]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

• A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [78]

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15:24, ngày 12 tháng 10 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #437

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MsynABot
  • Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado (successful)

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
  • Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
  • A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
  • LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
  • Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc

• Tool of the week
  • OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
  • The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
  • The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
    • External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
    • External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
    • Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
    • Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
    • Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
    • Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
    • National Anthems by tonality (Source)

• Development
  • The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
  • Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
  • Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
  • Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
  • Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
  • Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:28, ngày 12 tháng 10 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue IX, September 2020 Headlines Brazil report: Wikidata birthday celebrations, Wiki Loves Monuments, new partnerships and more! Colombia report: GLAM and virtual education France report: AAF training course; Workshops in Strasbourg; European Heritage Days: Rennes; Wiki Loves Monuments Germany report: Ahoy! Wikipedians set sail to document the reality of modern seafaring Indonesia report: New GLAM partnerships on data donation; Commons structured data edit-a-thon Norway report: Students taking on GLAM Wiki women in red Sweden report: Musikverket: more folk music and photos; Hack for Heritage 2020; Wiki Loves Monuments; Wikipedia in the libraries; Digital Book Fair on Wikipedia UK report: National Lottery; Khalili Collections USA report: Virtual events MetFashion, 19SuffrageStories, WikiCari Festival and more Open Access report: New publication about access to digitised cultural heritage WMF GLAM report: Launching Wikisource Pagelist Widget Calendar: ctober's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #438

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

• Discussions
  • Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
  • WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF) (thảo luận)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
  • Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ritual object
    • External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
    • External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
    • Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
    • UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
    • Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
    • Movie genre trends (Source)
    • Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
    • List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
    • Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
    • The most commonly depicted locations (Source)

• Development
  • Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
  • So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
  • Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
  • Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-43

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [79]
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [80]
• Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:31, ngày 19 tháng 10 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: October 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 10 • October 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Collegiate Students Fight Historical Revisionism Through Online Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Digital skills using Wikimedia Art + Feminism Editathon “¡No se olvida!” (We don’t forget!) Education news bytes Featured education community member of October 2020 Teaching Wikipedia at University of Tromsø with support from the Sámi Parliament

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This Month in Education: October 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 10 • October 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Collegiate Students Fight Historical Revisionism Through Online Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Digital skills using Wikimedia Art + Feminism Editathon “¡No se olvida!” (We don’t forget!) Education news bytes Featured education community member of October 2020 Teaching Wikipedia at University of Tromsø with support from the Sámi Parliament

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Wikidata weekly summary #439

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

• Events
  • Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
  • Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
  • Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
  • Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
    • WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
    • Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
    • 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
    • Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
    • Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
    • Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Excerpts from Wikidata Birthday events
    • Video: How the Wikimedia Brazil contributed to Wikidata in 2020 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Video: Introduction to Wikidata and data reconciliation (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (Blog post)
  • WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
  • Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
  • Video: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperability and data access (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata for cultural institutions and GLAM-WIKI partnerships (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Wikidata Training Workshop 4, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)

• Tool of the week
  • WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
  • Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) develops instructional material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS): wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of rooms, permits, prohibits, economy of topic, check-in time, check-out time
    • External identifiers: CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article, GADM ID, Lambiek Special pages ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, ILO Thesaurus ID, AVN performer ID, CCFr library ID, xHamster performer ID, AWMDB performer ID, Normattiva ID, American Heritage place ID, BHL name ID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Minecraft UUID, Nachlässe in Austria ID, AniList anime ID, National Park Service people ID, AniList manga ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, O*NET OnLine code, Opta football competition ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, The Boardr profile ID, Great Places ID, PIM award ID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, DC Historic Sites place ID, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: annual average daily traffic, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par, Online catalog, funeral, Inaugural address, Hong Kong film rating, word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
    • External identifiers: aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole, Base constructions bibliothèques ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Malmö Museer, IMVDb music video ID, NSSDCA ID, Docker Hub repository, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Persée article ID, Geneanet Family Name ID, Blogger user profile ID, USL League One ID, Stolperstein identifiers, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID
  • Query examples:
    • Commemorative plaques and their subjects in Aberdeen, Scotland; with photos of plaque and subject and Wikipedia links. (Source)
    • Cities with female mayor (Source)
    • Most common variants of the name "Susanne" in each country (Source)
    • Birthplaces of art historians (Source)
    • Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (Source)
    • Birthplace of Olympique de Marseille players (Source)
    • COVID-19 deaths by month (Source)
  • Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
    • Get information of Europeana item using federated query

• Development
  • Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
  • Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
  • Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
  • Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
  • Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
  • Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
  • Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
  • Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
  • Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
  • Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-44

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [81]
• Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [82]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [83]
• There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Đã bị lùi lại" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [84]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [85]

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17:38, ngày 26 tháng 10 năm 2020 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 96 Wikimedia Nederland

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Tech News: 2020-45

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

Recent changes

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [86]
• There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [87]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
• Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [88]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [89]

Future changes

• A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [90]
• In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:09, ngày 2 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #440

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
  • Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
  • Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
  • Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
  • Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
  • Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
  • SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons, by Zbyszko Papierski
  • Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to query wikidata with SPARQL, by Lianna D'amato
  • CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
  • Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
  • Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
  • Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
  • Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
  • All videos from the WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference are now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.

This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.

1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.

• Tool of the week
  • reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
    • All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia Commons (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
    • Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
    • Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
    • Happy Birthday from Semantic MediaWiki
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms ?language_code feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit
    • Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
    • Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
    • Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
    • Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
    • Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
    • Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
    • User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
  • The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a distributed format. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
  • The Election Tracker, uses Wikidata to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
  • Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11 are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
  • witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for accused witches in Scotland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
    • External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
    • External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki
  • Query examples:
    • Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
    • Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
    • Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
    • Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
    • Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
    • Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
    • Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
    • Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
    • Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
    • Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
    • Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
    • Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
    • Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
  • Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography

• Development
  • Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
  • Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
  • Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266673)
  • The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:47, ngày 2 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #441

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
  • Other
    • "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
    • Value label constraint

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
  • Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
  • Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
  • Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. by Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
  • Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as {{Used}}. Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01.
  • Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
    • External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
    • External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID
  • Query examples:
    • Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
    • POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
    • Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
    • People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
    • Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
    • Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
    • Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
    • List of longest Cars (Source)

• Development
  • Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
  • Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
  • Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
  • Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
  • Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
  • Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:53, ngày 9 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

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

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [91]
• From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [92][93]

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15:50, ngày 9 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue X, October 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wikipedia in African Libraries Project Brazil report: Abre-te Código hackathon, Wikidata related events and news from our partners Finland report: Postponed Hack4FI GLAM hackathon turned into an online global Hack4OpenGLAM France report: Partnership with BNU Strasbourg Germany report: Coding da Vinci cultural data hackathon heads to Lower Saxony India report: Mapping GLAM in Maharashtra, India Indonesia report: Bulan Sejarah Indonesia 2.0; Structured data edit-a-thon; Proofreading mini contest Netherlands report: National History Month: East to West, Dutch libraries and Wikipedia New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large Norway report: The Sámi Languages on wiki Serbia report: Many activities are in our way Sweden report: Librarians learn about Wikidata; More Swedish literature on Wikidata; Online Edit-a-thon Dalarna; Applications to the Swedish Innovation Agency; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Librarians and Projekt HBTQI; GLAM Statistical Tool UK report: Enamels of the World USA report: American Archive of Public Broadcasting; Smithsonian Women in Finance Edit-a-thon; Black Lunch Table; San Diego/October 2020; WikiWednesday Salon Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2020-47

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

• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [94][95]

Changes later this week

• If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [96]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:37, ngày 16 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #442

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 17 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: SWIB20 (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference, multiple Wikidata-related presentations, free and online, November 23-27
  • Upcoming: Editathon (or "connection sprint") on parliamentarian documents in Swedish, November 20
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Dan Shick on creating and managing community documentation, November 17. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #39, November 22
  • Past: ELIXIR BioHackathon 2020 updates:
    • Project #13: >20 thousand PDB ligand identifiers added and new formatter URL: https://twitter.com/ESchymanski/status/1326875606177492993
    • Project #33: Using wikidata query service in the taxon_mapper in Molseq - connecting molecular (genbank) and specimen (GBIF) data app
    • Project #35: Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas with Wikidata starting at 18:00

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Knowledge graph (in Polish) by Zbyszko Papierski on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 6:45 pm to 9:30 pm GMT+1
  • Video: A Linked and Open Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age by Martina Trognitz, recorded in April 2019
  • Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas
  • Video: Introduction to Gene Wiki
  • Video: ISB Biocuration 2020 Online Workshop: Genewiki 2 Methodology - Updating with bots
  • Video: An Introduction to Wikibase and Wikidata. Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24
  • Video: Programming for Cultural Heritage: Using Python to retrieve data from Wikidata
  • Video: Wikipedia & Wikidata for Middle East Librarians
  • Video: OpenStreetMap & Wikidata using Sophox - OpenStreetMap US Connect 2020
  • Video: Adding Pashas to Wikidata. 7 videos: Wikipedia to OpenRefine, Standardizing dates, Standardizing names in OpenRefine, Wikidata reconciliation, Adding additional data, Combining Arabic and English Lists, Wikidata Schema
  • Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".

• Tool of the week
  • ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dedicated heritage entity, defining mutations, digitised by, for color scheme, parent (unspecified)
    • External identifiers: MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID, IMVDb music video ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, Docker Hub repository, USL League One ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, ClassInd game ID, AAGM people ID, AAGM site ID, AniDB tag ID, UAF person ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Opera Online performer ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica ID, BBFC reference, AlKindi ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Twitch tag ID, European Film Awards ID, MSRI institution ID, MSRI person ID, stolpersteine-berlin.de Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-hamburg.de Stolperstein identifier, LIMIS person ID, NSDOK Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-bremen.de Stolperstein identifier, snublestein.no Stolperstein identifier, AIWARDS ID, Twitch team ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: use as citation in Wikimedia page, GitLab username, given name identical to this family name, population connectée, indexed in bibliographic review, ISDS ID, inscription image, Wanfang article ID, CQVIP article ID, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CIP data sheet
    • External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IAFD distributor ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, FISG person ID, Ligue 1 player ID, Ligue 2 player ID, AAA ID, Museum Day ID, TeachMe tutor ID, ISOF place, CRGPG ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, Geneall ID, Namuwiki (2), Union des artistes ID, Kinorium Movie ID, Kinorium Person ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, Foodlocate Restaurant ID, Musica Brasilis ID, IEV number, CONOR authority IDs, LibraryThing venue ID, BPI ID, PromoDj ID, Salzburgwiki, Drizly Product ID, Baijiahao ID, ESPN men's college basketball team ID
  • Query examples:
    • Rivers and canals in the United Kingdom.
    • Map of images taken for the Wicipics photography campaign in Wales (Source)
    • Number of people and terms of UK parties since the 1945 election (Source)
    • UK MPs who have voluntarily resigned their seats and then come back for a different seat in the same Parliament (Source)
    • Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (Source)
    • Date of birth of current French prefects and their sources (Source)
    • Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (Source)
    • Living 'notable' people with the given name "Karen" per 100k per country (Source)
    • Paintings in the Suter Art Gallery (Source)
    • Chilean ministers who were not educated at any high school (Source)
    • Age of US presidents start and end time (Source)
    • Map of Welsh Railways (Source)
    • Connections of railways of the Netherlands (Source)
    • Distinct languages of Wikidata lexemes. Top 5 are Russian-101144, English-69066, Latin-32106, Hebrew-28286 and Basque-22904.(Source)
    • Death place of all Basque people with known birthplace on Wikipedia, by century. Interactive map on kepler.gl (Source)

• Development
  • Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
  • Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
  • Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
  • Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
  • Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
  • Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-48

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

• Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [97]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [98]

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17:19, ngày 23 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

ikidata weekly summary #443

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Workshop 2020 presentations YouTube playlist
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 24 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: rC3, the remote version of the Chaos Communication Congress, on December 27-30. Like in previous years, the WikipakaWG will host sessions and workshops related to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. The call for participation is open until November 30th.
  • Upcoming: Ghana Histo Cita-thon. Friday 27th November 2020. 9am to 2pm UTC.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #40, November 29

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata, the collaborative database for machines and humans. Blogpost by Àlex Hinojo (in Catalan)
  • 24 hours of open data - The meetup for the eighth Wikidata birthday, Blogpost by Lea Lacroix (in German)
  • The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata. Blogpost by Jan Ainali (in Swedish)
  • WikiPathways: connecting communities: research article outlining, among other things, how Wikidata is used and integrated
  • Using SPARQL to combine Wikidata and OSM triples
  • ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
  • TU Dresden lecture on Knowledge Graphs (replay)
    • Wikidata introduction - YouTube
    • Content model of Wikidata - YouTube
    • How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The proposals phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until November 30th. You can submit wishes in various categories, like Wikidata.
  • SMWCon 2020 virtual conference is from 24 to 26 November 2020. Do not forget to register at Hopin!
  • The note-taking app Kanopi got first pieces of Wikidata integration.
  • The Listeria Evolution: Listeria has got an update
  • Wikimedia Deutschland has two open positions around the Wikidata development team; Full Stack Developer and Partner Relationship Manager

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: epithet, attraction to, hairstyle, poverty incidence
    • External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IMMuB album ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset ID, IAFD film distributor ID, Yandex Zen ID, NCAA school code, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Monuments de mémoire ID, Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism ID, Xfinity Stream ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, edition humboldt digital ID, GitLab username, AAA attraction ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, Museum Day ID, PAN member, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, MetaSat ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, SPOnG game ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, LibraryThing venue ID, Union des artistes ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, PromoDj ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: vénéré à, Number of blood donors, People reached, number of awards, has positive marker, ID pattern, lunar coordinates, adjacent to, date posted, ITRANS, National Library at Kolkata romanization, complementary property, MTRCB rating, DBLP conference ID, fait l'objet d'une vénération à
    • External identifiers: DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Hyperion Records person ID, Arken, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, AAA campground ID, AstroGen ID, Reliwiki page ID, Sonneveld-index, SIL ID, AniDB Episode ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, Lumni ID, Archives at Yale Names ID
  • Query examples:
    • Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points (Source)
    • Map of Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 participant's institutions (federated query) (Source)
    • Women who play chess and have a Wikipedia article in Spanish (They are 132 while men have 899 entries) (Source)
    • Timeline of Dietary Advocates (Source)
    • Philosophers born between 0 and 500 grouped by the decade where they lived (Source)
    • Video games from ?country (template) (Source)

• Development
  • Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
  • Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275)
  • Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502)
  • Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023)
  • Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936)
  • Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (phab:T264538)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:21, ngày 23 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #444

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December. Agenda
  • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
  • Online edition of the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award ceremony, on Friday, December 11th at 17:00 UTC.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #41, December 6

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Linking OpenStreetMap with knowledge graphs — Link discovery for schema-agnostic volunteered geographic information (the KGs referred to are Wikidata & DBPedia)
  • "Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis": an analysis linking news articles to information on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • Wikidata Bib v0, prototype for personalized analytics of scientific readings using Wikidata.
  • Video: Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph by Roderic Page
  • Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
    • ORCID for Wikidata: A workflow for matching author and publication items in Wikidata
    • id.loc.gov and Wikidata, one year later

• Tool of the week
  • osm2kg is a tool to facilitate matching Wikidata entries to OSM nodes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing.
  • The University of Nevada has an open position around Wikidata; Digital Collections Wikimedian-in-Residence
  • Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24^th, and will end on December 7^th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
  • Wiki Movimento Brasil will support WikidataCon 2021
  • Wikidata descriptions changes will be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist on Wikimedia wikis

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: facial hair, identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, Water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index
    • External identifiers: Absolute Games person ID, FIS grass skier ID, FISG athlete ID, Kinorium movie ID, CONOR.AL ID, CONOR.BG ID, CONOR.KS ID, CONOR.SR ID, Musica Brasilis ID, Salzburgwiki ID, IEV number, British Phonographic Industry ID, CRGPG ID, Drizly product ID, Canada Business Number, FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ELSPA rating, cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Filmstriben film-ID, Mailing List, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data
    • External identifiers: vets.cz ID, Parler ID, HAL Journal id, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Gab ID, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, SKD ID, DIA ID, ZOBODAT, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, theses.cz ID, curid
  • Query examples:
    • Politicians with an account at GitHub, CPAN, or Wikimedia (Source)
    • Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (Source)
    • Number of programming languages and their paradigms (Source)
    • Museums within 2 miles of MoMA (federated query) (Source)
    • Largest cities of the world ordered by population (Source)
    • Italian politicians who served as a minister in more than one cabinet since 1990 (Source)
    • People born after 1800 whose “name in native language” is in Latin (Source)
    • UK statues and whether they are of nobles and/or women (Source)
    • Location of German cities with a population count greater than 50.000 (Source)
    • Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (Source)
  • Schema examples: museum

• Development
  • Development on the Query Builder is continuing. You can follow along at https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org
  • Fixed an issue where language fallback indicators were still shown when falling back from a variant of the language (phab:T267502)
  • Fixed an issue on Lexeme pages where language and lexical category fields turn red on unfocus even though no changes were made (phab:T266936)
  • Working on improving what happens to sitelinks when an article is moved to a unsupported namespace (phab:T261275))
  • Investigating a significant increase in skipped Item IDs (phab:T268625)
  • Addressing the feedback for the draft of the REST API spec

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:44, ngày 30 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

• The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [99][100]
• The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [101]

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17:44, ngày 30 tháng 11 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

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 now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [102][103]

Changes later this week

• Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [104][105]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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16:14, ngày 7 tháng 12 năm 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #445

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

• Discussions
  • Comment on a proposal for proposed deletion system

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia, presented in English by Mike Peel (Wiki Movimento Brasil). The event is supported by a WikiCite e-scholarship. December 8th 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT), via YouTube.
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 8 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia 2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony, December 11th at 17:00 GMT (details)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #42, December 13

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade. The Washington Post writes about enslaved.org, a Wikibase instance run at Michigan State University, that collects and creates Linked Open Data about the transatlantic slave trade. (Source)
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata by and with Alicia Fagerving from Wikipedia Day 2020
  • Video: How to use Wikidata Mix'n'match tool - YouTube
  • Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
    • Linking K10plus library union catalog with Wikidata
    • Building Wikidata One Branch of Knowledge at a Time

• Tool of the week
  • User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have a central repository for wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index, road name formatter, ELSPA rating, kunya, religion or world view
    • External identifiers: FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID, BG EIK, All the Tropes identifier, Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID, Reliwiki page ID, Arken ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, Archives at Yale names ID, HAL journal id, Parler username, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery artwork ID, CINE21 film ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, Sonneveld-index, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), NSSDCA ID, ZOBODAT person ID, ZOBODAT taxon ID, DIA ID, SKD ID, Max Movie film ID, Gab username, Movist film ID, KOBIS ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, SMB-digital ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, CQVIP article ID, DBLP conference ID, Filmstriben film-ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Mailing List, curid, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data, archaeological site of, does not have cause, conductor for, reason for normal rank, value is one of, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, lineage marker, has surface, DBLP journal id
    • External identifiers: U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, theses.cz ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, CollEx-Persée ID, The Galileo Project ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum ID, Max-Movie-Personen-ID, CINE21 person ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Basic Formal Ontology ID, Fichier des décès ID
  • Query examples:
    • Russian cuisine
    • Belgian artists that rise to the public domain in 2021 (Source)
    • Asian food made from noodles (Source)
    • Bubble diagram by wiki page numbers in each language on objects kept at the Bardo National Museum (note: Commons is counted as English) (Source)
    • Amusement parks around the world (Source)
  • Schema examples: Video game

• Development
  • Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
  • Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (phab:T269102)
  • Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (phab:T191831)
  • Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (phab:T263258)
  • Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (phab:T268625)
  • Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs: Docker Image Repository, Tarball Repository

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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:31, ngày 7 tháng 12 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XI, November 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Launch of Wikipedia in African Libraries Project Pilot Cohort Brazil report: Accessibility through audio descriptions, GLAM tutorials, WikidataCon 2021 and more updates on Brazilian GLAMs Canada report: Taking a tour of CAPACOA workshops and some recent example sets from commons Germany report: German symphony orchestra releases audio samples under free license India report: Re-licensing of content on water & rivers in India Indonesia report: #WikiSejarah WPWP Campaign Netherlands report: Wikipedia and Education, Funding granted for two projects in 2021, KB completes collection highlights project Serbia report: GLAM in Serbia makes important steps in the digitization of cultural heritage Spain report: Edit-a-thons on women scientists and painters Sweden report: Music, UNESCO and Wikidata UK report: Hundreds of Khalili images USA report: Black Lunch Table & Museum Computer Network Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #446

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
  • Past: m:WikiConference North America/2020
  • Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
  • Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
  • Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
  • Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
  • Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
  • Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
  • Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • datao.net is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
  • Complex constraint check for recency of value
  • The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
  • Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
    • External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
    • External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID
  • Query examples:
    • All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
    • (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
    • Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
    • Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
    • Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
    • Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
    • Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
    • Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
    • Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
  • Schema examples:
    • Schema for stumbling stones
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Agriculture

• Development
  • We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-51

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

Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [106]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:34, ngày 14 tháng 12 năm 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 11 • November 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Celebrating 10 years of student editing in the United States and Canada Cooperation in digital education – Wikimedia Polska conference Education Team 2020 Year End Review Featured education community members of 2020 Fifteen years of implementation of the Wikipedia Education Program in Serbia Hablon User Group and UP Internet Freedom Network Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Online trainings on Wikipedia with high school students of Kosova Photographics and free culture training in Cameroon and Switzerland The article about Wiki-education in the science magazine The first Online EduWiki Camp in Serbia Wikimedia Mexico’s Education Program celebrates Open Access Week 2020 Wikipedia as a Tool to Educate and to Be Educated

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Wikidata weekly summary #447

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

• Events
  • Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
    • Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
    • Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
    • Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall knowledge base of the Internet
    • Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
  • Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Complex constraint about labels' language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
    • External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
    • External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID
  • Deleted properties: street address (P969)
  • Query examples:
    • Tex-Mex singers (Source)
    • Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales) (Source)
    • Vito Russo Test in Wikidata
    • Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes (Source)
    • Patronage of rapid-transit transportation (Source)
    • People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they played
  • Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
  • Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names

• Development
  • Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
  • Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (phab:T267023)
  • Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (phab:T266638)
  • Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (phab:T267502)
  • Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (phab:T250550)

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
  • Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
  • 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:50, ngày 21 tháng 12 năm 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

• The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [107]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
• Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [108]
• Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [109]

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20:53, ngày 21 tháng 12 năm 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent

• In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds

• Arbitration report: 2020 election results

• Opinion: How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear

• Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.

• Traffic report: 2020 wraps up

• News from the WMF: What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next

• Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions

• Essay: Subjective importance

• Op-Ed: An unforgettable year we might wish to forget

• Gallery: Angels in the architecture

• Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

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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:
    • Check Corona vaccine progress using Wikidata SPARQL to get metadata about the countries see notebook - SPARQL query

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:34, ngày 28 tháng 12 năm 2020 (UTC)

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)
    • Introduction to Wikidata
    • Wikidata for datajournalists
  • Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
    • Wikidata one year in Taiwan, what is our results and what is our future plan
    • Challenges of GLAM Taiwan

• 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

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, ngày 4 tháng 1 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

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. [110]
• 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. [111]
• 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. [112]
  • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [113]
  • 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. [114]
• Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [115]
• Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [116]
• CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [117]
• 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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15:42, ngày 11 tháng 1 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #450

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful)
  • New request for comments: How should we develop and deploy documentation for items?

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
  • Past: SMWCon videos are published incl. quite a few Wikidata related ones
  • Past: Wiki Workshop 2021 is accepting submissions. The deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1.
  • Past: Czech editaton (Q102733400) finished (30.11.2020-31.12.2020). Purpose was connect NKCR AUT ID (P691) to Wikidata by hand in (Q28054658). Detailed info.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogpost: The nobody who could overtake Wikipedia (in German)
  • Blogpost: Documenting Software Applications on Wikidata, by John Samuel
  • Article: Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership: The case of Belgian prime minsters in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Paper: Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust - an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research making the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development.
  • Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that 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

• Tool of the week
  • QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
  • You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
  • Wikidata Walkabout browsing tool has had some important recent improvements in language support, interface, etc. See a list of all comedy films directed by a vegetarian (in Spanish)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Bharati Braille, Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica's video game rating, solution to, archaeological site of
    • External identifiers: AV Production person ID, Mediafilm ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID, Libsyn show ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, SFLI ID, e-GEDSH ID, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Barnivore product ID, AVN movie ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, BG School ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, BHCL UUID, Calaméo ID, Studium Parisiense ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, DiVo person ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), Alpine Linux package, A*dS Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: minutes played, two-pointers made, two-pointers attempted, three-pointers attempted, three-pointers made, free throws made, free throws attempted, field goals made, personal fouls, Short DOI, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, number of vaccinations, category for software under a license, assessment outcome, quality for this class, Template combines topics, CCCM Museum (Macau Museum) object ID, CCCM Museum Object ID, Medium, FL number, Notable ascent
    • External identifiers: CantoDict identifiers, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, POSIX locale identifier, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, BABEL author ID, Songlexikon ID, FANZA AV actress ID, VAi Building ID, Biographies.net person ID, Literature.com book ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, TikTok music ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Conservapedia Article, NZ Museums ID, Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, WreckSite ID
  • Query examples:
    • Mathematicians born in prime number years featuring Albert Einstein, Pierre de Fermat, Georg Ohm, Carl Gauss, Évariste Galois, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, James Maxwell et al.
    • Timeline of coups d'état of the 21st century (including attempted ones) (Source)
    • Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata (Source)
    • Children of which were born with by a person, and their step child
    • Map of the shortest railway path (in terms of number of stations) between Dibrugarh and the Scottish Highlands (Source)
    • Map of place of birth of Olympique de Marseille football players (Source)
    • Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (Source)
    • Map of beaches in Mexico (Source)
    • Graph of shared borders between Indian districts (Source)
    • Descendants of Upendrakishore Roy (Source)
    • Timeline of Indian High Commissioners to Britain (Source)
    • A tree map of items for artworks depicting Mughal emperors (Source)
    • Example of documented usage of different Bengali words (Source)
    • 'Llan' place names in the UK (Source)
    • Organizations with DZI donation seal approval according to donation amount (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Russian given names

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
  • Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
  • Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
  • Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)

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

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

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This Month in GLAM: December 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XII, December 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wrap up of the Wikipedia in African Libraries project pilot cohort Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters New Zealand report: Māori Women Weavers Edit-a-thon Serbia report: GLAMorous end of 2020 Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments submissions livestreamed; Nordiska museet uploads; Sjung med oss, Mamma! UK report: Wales, Women in Leeds, and the Hajj USA report: WikiConference North America and Salons WMF GLAM report: The GLAM & Culture office hours Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: December 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XII, December 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wrap up of the Wikipedia in African Libraries project pilot cohort Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters New Zealand report: Māori Women Weavers Edit-a-thon Serbia report: GLAMorous end of 2020 Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments submissions livestreamed; Nordiska museet uploads; Sjung med oss, Mamma! UK report: Wales, Women in Leeds, and the Hajj USA report: WikiConference North America and Salons WMF GLAM report: The GLAM & Culture office hours Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #451

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Alphama (RfP scheduled to end after 24 January 2021 15:12 (UTC))
  • Other: Wikidata will be one of the communities involved in the Phase 2 of the Universal Code of Conduct consultation. Have your say at the consultation talk page or get in contact with the UCoC facilitator, User:Sannita (WMF).

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook, 23 January
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #46, January 24

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogpost: Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q, by Mike Peel and Andy Mabbett.
  • Video: Wikidata editing #27: #Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Dealing with more than one date value in Wikidata (using preferential rank) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lagewi/navigation.js userscript enables adding links to list subclasses and instances to Wikidata items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New dashboard for lexicographical data statistics: Wikidata Datamodel Lexemes
  • The Wikidata Analytics dashboards are now available at a new URL: https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/ (announcement)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: date canceled, subdivision of this unit
    • External identifiers: dati.beniculturali.it agent ID, dati.beniculturali.it site ID, dati.beniculturali.it cultural heritage ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, National Historic People ID, Olympedia event ID, TheCocktailDB drink ID, TheCocktailDB ingredient ID, Fichier des personnes décédées ID, POSIX locale identifier, National Museum in Warsaw ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: shadows, Sacrament conferred by, logo image within scope, BAMID film rating, ABC News Topic, number of rooms to rent
    • External identifiers: Portal da Literatura author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Parabola package, JAANUS ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, BiblioLMC ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, StrategyWiki page, Encyclopedia of Brno Object ID, Holocaust.cz ID, Australian Fungi ID, DeCS ID, Australian Lichen ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, The Language Council of Norway Term ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, SISSCO ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
    • The people of the government of Bangladesh on 13 January 2005 (Source)
    • Buildings in the Basque Country dedicated to San Roque (Source)
    • List of words for "beard" in Eighth Schedule languages (Source)
    • Map of train services starting at Howrah station (Source)
    • Map of big sculptures of New Zealand (Source)
    • Map of mosques in Bangladesh according to architectural style (Source)
    • UK deaths per month since 2005 split by sex/gender (Source)
    • Timeline of Indian cricket tours abroad (Source)
    • Timeline of inception of Mexican universities (Source)
    • Mangifera species and mango cultivars (Source)
    • Locations where The Antartic Circumpolar Voyage expedition passed (Source)
    • English Language forms missing an audio pronunciation -- you can contribute via LinguaLibre
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Greek War of Independence, development of content relative to the Chiến tranh giành độc lập Hy Lạp (Q182062) (this year is the 200th anniversary, from its beginning in 1821)

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
  • Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
  • Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
  • Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
  • Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-03

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

• The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [118]
• MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most Wikipedias.

• The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
• It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

• As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
• We have preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[119]
• The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[120] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
• A large A/B test will start soon.[121] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. You can still turn it on or off for your own account in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[122] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at notifications-talk.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:38, ngày 21 tháng 1 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 1 • January 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Featured education community member of January 2021 Open Education Global 2020 Conference Reading Wikipedia in Bolivia The impact of war on young Wikimedians in Stepanakert The Possibility of Open-Access Learning Portals in the Philippines Training Resources about Author’s Rights published by Wiki in Africa

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This Month in Education: January 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 1 • January 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Featured education community member of January 2021 Open Education Global 2020 Conference Reading Wikipedia in Bolivia The impact of war on young Wikimedians in Stepanakert The Possibility of Open-Access Learning Portals in the Philippines Training Resources about Author’s Rights published by Wiki in Africa

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Wikidata weekly summary #452

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
  • Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
  • Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: Adding New Literature Sources to the Wikidata Integrator, by Charles Tapley Hoyt
  • Blog: Using Wikidata for teaching computer programming using real-world cases (in Basque)
  • Bog: Wikidata: data for everyone (in Dutch)
  • Methodology paper: A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses
  • Video: Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Wikidata for research (webinar in French) - YouTube
  • Video: Let's make sparks with SPARQL tools(in French), by Nicolas Vigneron -YouTube
  • Video: Wrap up presentation of the SWAT4HCLS hackathon project
    • Creating subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
    • Linking the complex portal with other FAIR sources through - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis to go live on 2021-02-08. If you are a Cloud VPS user or Toolforge developer, check your tools after that date to make sure they are properly running.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: character type, derived from organism type, applicable “stated in” value, number of aid beneficiaries
    • External identifiers: BABEL author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, Parabola package, FL number, Hungarian Film Archive ID, IFPI Danmark work ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, NZ Museums ID, StrategyWiki page, Australian Fungi ID, Discord invite ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, JAANUS ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: onscreen participant, catégorie d'établissement sanitaire et social, code Activité principale exercée, catégorie d'entreprise, Imagehash perceptual hash
    • External identifiers: SISSCO ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID, Malpedia ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Sachsen-Anhalt, Swiss Games Showcase ID, Baudenkmal-ID Niedersachsen, PeriodO ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, Pantone color ID, Family Video Game Database ID, AAR ID, github topic, TeatralRo ID, Landshuth ID, Patrinum ID, ChemRxiv ID, TlF ID, PO ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, CinefanRo person ID, CinefanRo film ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer IDs, BookBub Author ID, HERIS-ID
  • Query examples:
    • Czech religious buildings used also as a fire station
    • Common ingredients to prepare a sandwich (Source)
    • Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)
    • Mexican presidents who have an image of their signature on Wikidata (Source)
    • Timeline of Mexican writers who were born between 1800 and 1900 (Source)
    • TV-Series in Spain by Decade (Source)
    • Diplomats who are also art collectors (Source)

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
  • Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
  • Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
  • Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
  • Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
  • Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
    • Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
    • Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
    • Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-04

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

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [123][124]

Changes later this week

• Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [125]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:30, ngày 25 tháng 1 năm 2021 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 98 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van januari 2021 Wikipedia 20 jaar | Donatie Afrika-collecties | Lockdown Challenge.... Wikipedia 20 jaar Donatie Afrika-collecties Handleiding Wiki bijeenkomst organiseren 13 februari Online WikiZaterdag Steunbetuiging Wikimedia Foundation Nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst Save the date: 12 maart PublicSpaces Conference #1 - Towards a Common Internet Wist je dat… WikiVrijdagen 2021 OCLC Internationale Vrouwendag op Wikipedia - hulp is welkom! Wikidata WikiWoordenboek meer gebruikt dan ooit Zien we jou in februari? Oude versies vindt u hier

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The Signpost: 31 January 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021

• Special report: Wiki reporting on the insurrection

• In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades

• Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation

• In the media: The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists

• Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically

• Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years

• News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world

• Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers

• Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia

• Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020

• Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen

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Wikidata weekly summary #453

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

• Events
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
  • Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Set preferences and common.js (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
  • Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
  • A new tool, Ranker (documentation, announcement tweet and video), lets you edit the ranks of multiple statements at once.
  • The SPARQL endpoint for linguaLibre is now available (Source)
  • New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
  • Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Query Service(WDQS) Data Analyst Consultant. Apply today!
  • Clean-up tasks to experiment with bots or other tools

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: BAMID film rating
    • External identifiers: Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, 45cat 7" release ID, ABC News topic ID, Aracne author ID, Econlib person ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Songlexikon ID, Swiss Games Showcase ID, MNBAQ ID, Art in the Christian Tradition ID, Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, AAR ID, BiblioLMC ID, Cultural heritage ID in Lower Saxony, GitHub topic, Discord username
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: represented in sport by, photographer of, reissue, master's thesis, service status information URL, unusualness, Debian Package Tracker ID, Seismic classification
    • External identifiers: Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, EMS ID, FloGrappling ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Wolfram language WordData word ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, Finna ID, LexML ID, Swedish Literature Bank placeID, BVFE author ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources authority ID, playDB play ID, playDB artist ID, DicoPolHiS ID, Pandektis ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Baudenkmal), Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Bodendenkmal), Whiskybase distillery ID
  • Query examples:
    • Basque lexemes and their attestations in a 1745 Spanish-Basque dictionary, with links to dictionary entries in Wikisource
    • Lexemes describing a color (Source)
    • Danish-Hebrew Lexeme pairs (Source)
    • Lexemes in Swedish with usage example that demonstrates both a form and a sense and a reference (Source)
    • Episodes of the TV series "The Mentalist"
    • Nationality of authors publishing papers relevant to the Australian fauna (Source)
    • Number of musicians on Wikidata by country (Source)
    • Map of ISO 3166-2 codes (Source)
    • Map films that have been filmed in Mexico (Source)
    • Map of Githubtopics on Wikidata (Source)
    • Eye color distribution of the people on Wikidata (Source)
    • Timeline with the start date of the Summer Olympics (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Czech given names

• Development
  • Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
  • Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
  • Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
  • Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
  • Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
  • Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
  • Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
  • Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
  • Wikibase Release Strategy
    • Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
    • Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-05

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

• IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [126]

Changes later this week

• You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [127]
• Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [128][129]
• Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [130]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [131][132]
• Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, ngày 1 tháng 2 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [133]

Changes later this week

• You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [134]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

• When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [135][136]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [137]
• Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [138]

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17:41, ngày 8 tháng 2 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #454

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

• Events
  • Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay)
  • Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Add to calendar). You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.[139]
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49, February 14
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook, February 14
  • Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata
  • Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group - (YouTube)
  • Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
  • Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January
  • New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published. In addition, you will find here the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
  • Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder, your feedback is welcome
  • Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page.
  • New updates to Mix'n'match:
    • Import/update function for Mix’n’match catalogs (manual) (source)
    • Refreshed the Mix’n’match dataset for potential new human Wikidata items (source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of vaccinations, Commons media contributed by
    • External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Erudit article ID, Holocaust.cz person ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, SISSCO ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Patrinum ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, BVFE author ID, Family Video Game Database ID, LexML Brazil ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Debian Package Tracker ID, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IPHAE ID, FLOSS policy URL, Digest, subsidy, fingerprint
    • External identifiers: TlF Artist ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, GTDB taxon, Joods Monument ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID, AllMusic IDs, Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID, Astro Awani topic ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Can I use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
  • Query examples:
    • directors of episodes of The Mentalist (source)
    • Articles from The Wētā entomology journal (Source)
    • Town halls of the municipalities that surround Nantes (Source)
    • Caves containing prehistoric art (Source)
    • Endemic birds in a place located in France (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Brazilian Laws

• Development
  • Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
  • Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
  • Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
  • Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
  • Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
  • Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
  • Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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

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

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This Month in GLAM: January 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue I, January 2021 Headlines Belgium report: The Public Domain Tool; Data Donations; Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium 2020 Brazil report: Heading 2021 with new (and renewed!) GLAM-Wiki projects Colombia report: Public domain day in Colombia Finland report: AvoinGLAM France report: #1lib1ref; Training courses; What's next ?; Wikidata and archaeology vocabulary Germany report: Coding da Vinci Niedersachsen wraps up Serbia report: A month in the spirit of references Sweden report: Record numbers of digital museum visits UK report: Protests & Suffragettes - Wikipedia work in 2020; Khalili Collections USA report: Wiki 20 WMF GLAM report: Digital Public Library of America makes an impact in 2020 Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #455

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

• Discussions
  • Other: Tool ideas/ImproveWikidata

• Events
  • Past: Linked Open Storytelling - Winter School 2021 - Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen (in German) (reply on YouTube)
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 16 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook, February 20
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #50, February 21

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog post: The promise of Wikidata: How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source, by Monika Sengul-Jones
  • Blog post: Data donation to Wikidata, part 2: country/subject dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archives (by Joachim Neubert, ZBW Labs)
  • Blog post: Bibliography and Citations of Hausa Folklore by Anasskoko
  • Video: Querying Linked (Wiki)data with SPARQL ✨ (presentation by Lucas Werkmeister at rC3, 90 minutes)
  • Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abstract Wikipedia presents prototypes of two tools that could help people to visualize, exemplify, and better guide our understanding of the coverage of lexicographic data in Wikidata.
  • Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
  • Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
  • Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
  • Guidelines and compensation for UX research lead by Wikimedia Germany (announcement)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: service status information URL, first family name in Portuguese name, time played, coordinates of depicted place
    • External identifiers: CompositionToday composers showcase ID, Royal Museums Greenwich artwork ID, Saint Louis Art Museum artwork ID, AZLyrics.com song ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, WreckSite ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Doktori.hu ID, Portal da Literatura ID, IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, letterer, set during recurring event, number of references, sensors, Applying institution
    • External identifiers: Lexikon Literatur in Tirol, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, Baidu Baike ID (2), Kickstarter username, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, Curling.fi player ID, RILM ID, Swiss vote ID, svoyak.info player ID, Germanistenverzeichnis, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, CinemaRx title ID, Sinemalar title ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Armenian Book ID, identifiant inventaire Occitanie, AaRC title ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, BFS ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID
  • Query examples:
    • Spanish Wikipedia articles about women astronauts (Source)
    • Websites related to works in the Women's & Gender History DH list (Source)
    • List of states with more than one official language (Source)
    • Location of the organizations in the Name Assigning Authority Number (NAAN) registry (Source)
    • List of locations named after the planned language Esperanto or its founder, L. L. Zamenhof
    • Use the MediaWiki API to get the content of a Wikipedia category into a query
    • Number of scholarly articles sharing their datasets (Source)
    • Most specific taxon that includes two given species (Source)

• Development
  • Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
  • Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
  • Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
  • Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
  • Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
  • Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
  • Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
  • Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
  • Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-07

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

Problems

• There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [140][141]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [142]

Changes later this week

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

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17:56, ngày 15 tháng 2 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #456

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber - RfP scheduled to end after 24 February 2021 14:19 (UTC)
  • New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes. Notes available here
  • Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[143]
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #51, February 28

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogpost: Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2020 edition
  • Video: Basic tutorial on how to annotate an article with Wikidata tags for the ANN project - YouTube
  • Video: The Wikidata community: tools to communicate, ask for help, exchange ideas and opinions (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: REfB (Reference Bot): Adding new references to WikiData statements by Houcemeddine Turki - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Knowledge graphs lecture - RDF, Wikidata, SHACL, ShEx (in Russian) - YouTube
  • Podcast: Adam Shorland talks about Wikidata and Wikibase on Between The Brackets Mediawiki podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • LexemeForms-SearchPage adds links on the search results page for creating new lexemes using the Lexeme Forms tool based on the languages in your Babel box.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Vglist is a video game library tracking web app that is mostly based on Wikidata.
  • WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats: Meetings with the Wikidata community on Feb 24 and Mar 3.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: coordinates of depicted place, thesis committee member, number of at bats
    • External identifiers: IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, VAi building ID, Heritage Information System ID in the database of cultural heritage in Austria, Joods Monument ID, Lumni person ID, Open Tree of Life ID, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, People Australia ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands ID, EMS ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, Lexikon Literatur in Tirol ID, Curling.fi player ID, De Lakenhal artwork ID, Hauts-de-France Inventory identifier, Tree of Life contributor ID, Taiwan River Code, RILM ID, playDB artist ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, Centre-Val de Loire Inventory identifier, Occitanie Inventory identifier, playDB play ID, Biblioteca Franco Serantini ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: sensors, Applying institution, FAQ url, digital distribution platform, Bandcamp Tag, Anzahl der Staffeln, PDDikti ID, template applies category, workers represented by, alt text, demographics of topic
    • External identifiers: AaRC title ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, TaDiRAH ID (2), Oklahoma's NRHP ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, Discogs genre ID, Sauvons nos tombes person ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, CPC-PR ID, Obituaries Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Women Australia ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmitalia film ID, Filmitalia person ID, Resident Advisor Venue ID, GB1900 ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, Mixcloud ID, Labour Australia ID, Mexicana Repositorio, Science Magazine author ID, Everipedia ID, ARAE ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of vegan restaurants
    • List of food that are iconic to particular countries (Source)
    • Map of monuments in Lower Saxony, Germany (Source)
    • Map of former plantations in Surinam (Source)
    • Map of Wats in Thailand - (Source)
    • Localities in Mexico and contain 𝐒𝐚n in their name (Source)
    • Female mycologists born pre-1900, sorted by number of sitelinks (Source)
    • Women scientists who were born between the year 1500 and 1900 (Source)

• Development
  • Fixed wrongly encoded HTML in some messages in the Wikidata Bridge (phab:T272350)
  • Working on showing all languages in the language suggester for monolingual text Properties (phab:T124758)
  • Fixed an issue with spaces in external identifier URLs being replaced by "+" (phab:T271126)
  • Added a rate limit for creating Item IDs, which should help with decreasing the number of skipped Q-IDs (phab:T272032)
  • Fixed an issue where whitespace was stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
  • Fixing the case where you cannot easily edit negative quantities after saving (phab:T274129)
  • Working on making it possible to query for quantity values in the Query Builder (phab:T268942)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-08

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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [144]
• The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [145]

Problems

• Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [146]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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This Month in Education: February 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 2 • February 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Wikimedia Education news bytes Featured education community member of February 2021 Karvachar Wikiclub continues its activities online Over 4,000 more references added! 1Lib1Ref campaign in Poland Philippines Climate Change Translate-a-thon

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The Signpost: 28 February 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Maher stepping down

• Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video

• Opinion: The call for feedback on community seats is a distraction

• In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house

• News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism

• Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day

• Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

• Gallery: What is Black history and culture?

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Wikidata weekly summary #457

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber (unsussesful)
  • New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements

• Events
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 2 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook, March 6
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #52, March 7
  • Upcoming: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes, March 22nd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogpost: Wikidata and Correspondence Archives (Enriching basic metadata with a knowledge graph)
  • Blogpost: The promise of Wikidata - How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source (at DataJournalism.com)
  • Video: Accra Archive Wikidata and Wikipedia Workshop (GLAMS Campaign Ghana) - YouTube
  • Video: COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Identify and describe items of bibliographic interest (articles, monographs, authors) on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: Visualizing the global research ecosystem via Wikidata and Scholia - YouTube
  • Video: Demo: How to upload new bibliography and create dashboards on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Reconciliation Open Refine Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
  • Video: Reconciling researchers to Wikidata via Google Sheets - YouTube
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
  • Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
  • User:Lucas Werkmeister/addStatementCountsToCategories.js, is a userscript that shows the number of statements of the linked item for all pages in a category.
  • Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
  • Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
  • Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
  • We found a way to improve the performance of scrolling on the Item page by changing how we move the Property labels as you scroll through the page. You should see the effect after the next deployment.
  • BBC Things includes links to Wikidata to provide a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and their audiences.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of at bats, number of hits, bases on balls, runs batted in, letterer, sensors, FAQ URL, set during recurring event, stolen bases, doubles hit, triples hit
    • External identifiers: Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID, AllMusic genre/style ID, DicoPolHiS ID, EuroBabeIndex.com ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer person ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer organization ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer family ID, BookBub author ID, TlF artist ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, teatral.ro play/theater ID, CineFAN.ro title ID, CinemaRX title ID, Sinemalar title ID, Swissvote ID, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté inventory identifier, Île-de-France inventory identifier, Normandie inventory identifier, Pays de la Loire inventory identifier, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, Swedish Literature Bank place ID, Opera Online conductor ID, Discogs genre ID, Discogs style ID, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, bashenc.online ID, Provenio UUID, JedeSchule.de ID, ARAE ID, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, DzygaMDB person ID, NLS place type ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: demographics of topic, strikeouts, district heating, number of signatories, opt-out, payer, secondary topic, grant number, Future Salaries ID, Index égalité professionnelle F/H, Commons incompatible image URL, verbal ability
    • External identifiers: Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, ANPI person ID, ANPI person numeric ID, APS author ID, EEVA author ID, Archives West finding aid ID, BiographySampo person ID, Discord server numeric ID, Discord user numeric ID, CUT ID, Amathus ID, EUC ID, UPSA ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Dark Horse contributor ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Cyprus Library ID, MyMusic artist ID, LFCHistory.net player ID, MeSH qualifier ID
  • Query examples:
    • Hungarian church buildings sorted by confessions (Source)
    • Where Czechs most died if not in their place of birth (Source)
    • Most popular tonalities (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Templates for templates in Wikidata

• Development
  • Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
  • Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
  • Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
  • Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
  • Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
  • Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758)
  • Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (phab:T271126)
  • Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
  • Continuing to build out the Query Builder and focusing on input for quantity and date queries (phab:T268942 and phab:T272697)
  • Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-09

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

• Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
• A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

• There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [147]
• Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [148]

Changes later this week

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #458

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

• Events
  • Past: SORSE - Wikidata as a research tool for data modelling and integration in the humanities (replay on YouTube)
  • Past: Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 2021-03-06 , Đài Bắc (Q1867), Đài Trung (Q245023), Đài Nam (Q140631) and online stream (FB and Youtube)
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Đài Bắc (Q1867) Meetup 2021-03-08 (Q61752245)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[149]
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #53, March 14

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • "Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
  • Papers
    • Open Natural Products Research: Curation and Dissemination of Biological Occurrences of Chemical Structures through Wikidata
    • A paper describing COVIWD: COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard
  • Videos
    • Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
    • Working hour on items of bibliographic interest in Wikidata (in Italian) -YouTube
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 -Youtube Live
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • Panoviewer.js inserts an iframe from the Panoviewer tool to photosphere image (P4640) statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata has now items about nine million people: 99,991,000,000 to do (project chat)
  • A new browser for Wikidata is available: the SLING knowledge base browser by User:Mringgaard. It is lightning fast and entirely based on modern Web components.
  • Help choose focus languages for improvements to the lexicographic extension of Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia. Nominations should be submitted by April 7, and the decision will be made by April 14 by the teams taking your comments into account.
  • Help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting ends before Monday March 15th 23:59 UTC.
  • PetScan can now generate KML map overlay data. E.g. University towns in Germany. (Map view)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: supplement to, seismic classification, reissue of, staking percentage, affiliated worker organisation, demographics of topic, assessment outcome, notation writer
    • External identifiers: Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Obituaries Australia ID, XXXBios female performer ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, Whiskybase distillery ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, Women Australia ID, Labour Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Pontifical University of Salamanca ID, EEVA author ID, Nauvoo Community Project ID, Cyprus Library ID, Cyprus University of Technology ID, Amathus ID, European University Cyprus ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, Resident Advisor club ID, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, CPC-PR ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Oklahoma's NRHP ID, ChemRxiv ID, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Inventory ID, FFF player ID (new scheme), Physics Magazine author ID, Ligue 1 player ID, ANPI person numeric ID, Science Magazine author ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: verbal ability, 易玩應用程序標識符, earned run average, named place on map, inhabitants of topic, consequence of text, writing style, applicant, co-applicant, Cantonese romanisation, repairability
    • External identifiers: MeSH qualifier ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava person ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe, Museum of the jewish people ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona author ID, Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, PorcelanaBrasil ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, JaneladaHistoria ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, Inforegister ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, AWB lemma ID, MWB lemma ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID
  • Query examples:
    • Deceased people with verified Twitter accounts (source)
    • members of Ludlamshöhle, a society in Vienna (1819-1826) (source)
    • Things discovered or invented by women (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales (WD:WP EMEW)
  • Newest database reports:
    • Gadget usage statistics - Includes gadgets enabled in preferences or common.js

• Development
  • Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
  • Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
  • Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
  • Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:01, ngày 8 tháng 3 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-10

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

• Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
• Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [150]
• When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [151]

Problems

• Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [152]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
• The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [153]

Future changes

• There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
• Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [154][155]
• New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:51, ngày 8 tháng 3 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue II, February 2021 Headlines Albania report: Recruiting two PMs; Budget Report 2020; Wikipedia 20th Bday Australia report: Who do we think we are? Brazil report: New GLAM tutorials in Portuguese Estonia report: WikiMuseum Finland report: Focus on learning Indonesia report: PD Day 2021 in Indonesia, #1lib1ref, Wikisource workshop Netherlands report: Historical Maps; Share your Data on colonial heritage; Knowledge platform for heritage institutions Serbia report: Amazing results of the January #1Lib1Ref campaign Sweden report: Medieval ballads; Project HBTQI Switzerland report: 50 Years Women's Suffrage in Switzerland & More UK report: Khalili Collections USA report: Black History Month and Smithsonian anniversary WMF GLAM report: Project Grants, Analytics for GLAMs, and Shared Citations Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #459

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Minorax (RfP scheduled to end after 19 March 2021 11:23 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, from March 15th to April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • March 15: Kickstart and open discussion about lexicographical data
    • March 16: SPARQL queries about Lexemes (in French) with Vigneron
    • March 17: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
    • March 20: Live editing on Lexemes with Ainali and Abbe98
    • March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #54, March 21
  • Upcoming: Wikidata - The Linked Open Data Platform Everyone Can Contribute To (Public talk) - Registration link

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Internet Archive Scholar is launched - Wikidata is thanked in the acknowledgements
    • 10 basic but essential SPARQL queries for lexicographical data on Wikidata
    • Using Wikidata to model Aberdeen’s Industrial Heritage
    • Carnegie Hall experienced a veritable rock explosion during its 1971-72 season, with 70 rock concerts between September 1971 and June 1972
    • Writing your own data to Wikidata using spreadsheets: Part 1
  • Videos
    • OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taiwan Meetup Record - Odysee
    • RDF data model of Wikidata - YouTube
    • OpenRefine​ / SPARQL editing session with Saint-Raymond Museum in Toulouse. By VIGNERON - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook
    • An initial look at the TopicTagger tool for Wikidata - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeToggleSections.js script allows to expand/collapse the sections on lexeme pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
  • DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
  • The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
  • Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: assessment outcome, music transcriber, subsidy, inverse agonist of, gender equality index, transitivity, script style
    • External identifiers: Oklahoma's NRHP ID, ChemRxiv ID, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Inventory ID, FFF player ID (new scheme), Physics Magazine author ID, Ligue 1 player ID, ANPI person numeric ID, Science Magazine author ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, ANSI/NISO standard ID, Kickstarter username, DeCS ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava History person ID, LFChistory.net player ID, Pandektis ID, Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Catalogue of the Capitular Library of Verona author ID, AaRC film ID, GB1900 ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, EncyclopediaPR ID, Filmitalia person ID, TikTok music ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Astro Awani topic ID, TapTap application ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, svoyak.info player ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Max Movie person ID, EudraCT trial ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, operator licence number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cantonese romanisation, repairability, Gedong Kirtya classification, Valence, has graphical element, Antarctic Specially Protected Area ID, CBO Occupation Code (en) / Classificação Brasileira de Ocupações (CBO) (pt), Reason for unknown/no value, generalization of/generalized by, acronym, Sales of arms and military services, formé en même temps que, Suggested fields
    • External identifiers: AWB lemma ID, MWB lemma ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID, SVKKL authority ID, Demozoo Group ID, GameSpot developer ID, Washington Place Names ID, PatER ID, Latin Place Names ID, Enslaved ID, Ávvir topic ID, Salaborsa building ID, storiaememoriadibologna ID, UniversalMusic France artist ID, Oxford African American Studies Center ID, La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID, MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú researcher ID, Fortalezas.org ID, Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID, France24 topic ID, CNA topic ID, Portrait Archive ID, athletics.lv athlete id, temples.ru ID
  • Query examples:
    • Latin American women who are activists and were born between 1900-1999 (ordered by the number of articles written on Wikipedia) (Source)
    • Transportation routes in Zurich named after women (Source)
    • Location of buildings designed by Zaha Hadid (Source)
    • Proportion of Basque men / women in Donostialdea region (Source)
    • Count of the industry companies on Wikidata belong to (Source)
    • Danish verbs-derived-from-non-verbs (Source)
    • Mountains of the Basque Country (Source)

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
  • Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
  • Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
  • Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-11

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

• Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
• Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [156]

Problems

• Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [157][158]
• You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
• You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [159]

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23:22, ngày 15 tháng 3 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-12

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

Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
• The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Công cụ thảo luận" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 tháng Ba at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [160]

Future changes

• Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [161][162]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [163]

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16:52, ngày 22 tháng 3 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #460

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Signed Statements (T138708)

• Events
  • Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
    • March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
    • March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
    • March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
    • March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
  • Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021 (Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
  • Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[164]
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #55, March 28

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study (Using Wikidata to study whether prayers have an effect)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Taiwan @ g0v tw hackath43n - Youtube
    • Live editing lexemes YouTube, Facebook
    • Live editing lexemes (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Wikidata international women's rights day SPARQL queries (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata by Peteforsyth - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Sparql_rc is a recent changes feed that only shows you changes in an area of Wikidata you care about. It now also supports Lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Portuguese nouns
    • masculine
    • feminine
  • erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
  • ~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: pHash checksum, Jyutping transliteration, Yale romanization, Cantonese Pinyin, Cantonese Transliteration Scheme transliteration, Gedong Kirtya Classification, has graphical element
    • External identifiers: TaDiRAH ID, AWB lemma ID, Latin Place Names ID, Enslaved person ID, MyMusic artist ID, Ávvir topic ID, Dark Horse creator ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Inforegister ID, SVKKL authority ID, BiographySampo person ID, PatER ID, Cartigli di Bologna ID, Universal Music France artist ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Washington Place Names ID, Storiaememoriadibologna ID, Oxford African American Studies Center ID, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Archives West finding aid ID, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID, Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID, NFL.com ID (new scheme), Bavarian Monument Map object ID (architectural monument), MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID, MeSH qualifier ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (ground monument), temples.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: zugeschrieben, IMDb rating, death rate, trade union membership rate, identifier shared with lexeme, introduced on, instances are former instances of, presentation template, voted on by, has supplier, キロ程
    • External identifiers: Slovník českých filosofů ID, Encyklopedie migrace ID, Encyclopedia of Migration ID, Tacoma Local History & Biography Index ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Obituary Index ID, Rombase ID, Stalker author ID, ODLIS ID, Enslaved place ID, CAOI person ID, IBSF-Wettbewerbs-ID, FranceArchives agent ID, Pango lineage code, Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID, Place Names NI ID, NMRShiftDB Structure ID, Modernist Commons ID, Megale Kypriake Enkyklopaideia ID, Encyclopédie de l’humanisme méditerranéen ID, Sociologické encyklopedie ID, Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID, Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ID, Routes & Places ID, Rekhta Author ID, Rekhta Book ID, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija person ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija concept ID
  • Query examples:
    • Railway junctions in Scotland (Source)
    • Maps of Y-shaped subway lines (Source)
    • Map of the hometown of Real Sociedad / Athletic Club players (Source)
    • Count of type of things with IIIF links known to Wikidata (Source)
    • Successful candidates during 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly in each constituencies (Source)
    • COVID-19 external Identifier URLs in Wikidata (Source)
    • Public spaces whose names are of women (Source)
    • Place of birth of females with biography articles on Basque Wikipedia (Source)
    • Map of places in iNaturalist (Source)
    • Number of elements of scientists by nationality (Source)

• Development
  • Work on the first version of the Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
  • Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (phab:T165061)
  • Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (phab:T275611)
  • Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (phab:T263730)
  • Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches

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

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This Month in Education: March 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 3 • March 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse A Wikipedia Webinar for Indonesian Women Teachers Educational program of GLAM Macedonia Filling the Gaps & Open Education Week Meet this month's featured Wikimedia & Education community member: Bara'a Zama'reh Using Wikipedia and Bridging the Gender Gap: In-Service training for Teachers in Philippines

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments

• In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan

• News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond

• Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise

• From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

• Essay: Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia

• Obituary: Yoninah

• From the editor: What else can we say?

• Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees

• Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack

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Wikidata weekly summary #461

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Minorax, welcome onboard!

• Events
  • Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • March 30: Live SPARQL queries about Lexemes in French by Vigneron
    • March 30: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
    • April 1: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
    • April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
    • April 5: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook, April 3
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #56, April 4
  • Upcoming: WikiCommons metadata analysis tool is intended to be developed at the online hackathon at hack.glam.opendata.ch, 16-17 April 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Dataroundtripping Wikidata - Wikicommons - Runestones pictures
  • Papers
    • FAIR and open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata and Wikipedia
    • Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese)
  • Videos
    • Live Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Live SPARQL queries on Lexemes by Vigneron (in English): on Youtube

• Tool of the week
  • d:User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js userscript is a proper entity suggester that gives a fixed set of properties for various languages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sitelinks links for two new Wikipedias can be entered: Atayal Wikipedia (Q105723660) and Seediq Wikipedia (Q105975521)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: does not have cause, external georeferencing URL
    • External identifiers: Discord server numeric ID, France24 topic ID (French), France24 topic ID (English), France24 topic ID (Spanish), France24 topic ID (Arabic), PeriodO period ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Portrait Archive ID, Porcelana Brasil ID, Slovník českých filosofů ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, MWB lemma ID, Encyclopedia of Migration ID, Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID, Encyklopedie migrace ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Obituary Index ID, Encyclopedia of Mediterranean Humanism ID, Modernist Commons ID, Rombase ID (English), Filmitalia film ID, CNA topic ID, Fortalezas.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Ottoman Association ID, url text, audio transcription 2, OFDb person ID, won sets, Number of stitches
    • External identifiers: Biblio.com ID, Czech Encyclopedia of Theater identifiers (Czech and German), Identifiant des Collections du Louvre, Verified Handles VHID, Michigan State University Library Record Number, Washington Flora Checklist ID, Washington Flora Checklist species ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, KATOTTH identifier, Viasona ID, Musikasten ID, Discover the networks, GCD publisher ID, Image Comics creator ID, BLPL ID, MnM ID, Arca author ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, IFCVPF ID, American University of Beirut's Libraries Title ID, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID, USCG MIC ID, Berlin Bezirkslexika identifiers, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Brapci author ID, ÖCV Biolex ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Donald P. Bellisario credits as screenwriter or director
    • Interwiki table from P6720, with end date for prefixes that are no longer in use (source)
    • Index map of Ordnance Survey Old Series preparatory drawings, with georeferencer links (source)
    • Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (source)
    • Music releases with incomplete track lists, showing diff count (Source)
    • Date and place of birth of female musicians in Nigeria (Source)
    • Scholarly articles on multilingualism and bilingualism (Source)
    • Things in Czechia which changed coordinate location at some point (Source)
    • Images about women programmers (Source)
    • UK railway stations connected from Topsham railway station (Source)
    • Most awarded person affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark (Source)
  • Newest database reports: current TV seasons

• Development
  • The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
  • Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.

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) 13:50, ngày 29 tháng 3 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13

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

• Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [165]
• IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [166]

Problems

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [167]
• Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [168][169]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

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Tech News: 2021-14

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

• Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [170]

Changes later this week

• The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [171]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

• PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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Wikidata weekly summary #462

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

• Events
  • Past (Q106114408): "InChI and InChIKey in Wikidata and Scholia", https://zenodo.org/record/4633789
  • Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
    • April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
    • April 8: Documentation Q&A
    • April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
    • April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[172]
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #57, April 11
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Đài Bắc (Q1867) Meetup 2021-04-12 (Q61752245)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (English), supported by WikiCite, April 13
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Aplicativos de metadados (Portuguese), on metadata apps, April 29

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Adicionando cientistas ao sistema Wikidata/Scholia (Portuguese)
  • Papers
    • Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages "fostering development of technology for the languages of Africa with a Wikidata-derived resource of lists of 1.9M names across 28 African languages".
  • Videos
    • SPARQL queries around lexemes, words, lexicography (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Editing lexemes on Wikidata (in Swedish) by Ainali - YouTube
    • WikiActivate sessions introduction to Wikidata - YouTube 1, 2
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Launch of Climate Lexeme Week (Youtube, Facebook)

• Tool of the week
  • QRank is a tool providing a rank for Wikidata entities based on page view statistics from several Wikimedia projects.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The final version of the Wikibase Yearly Summary 2020 has been published.
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
  • User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
  • LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Ukrainian national romanization, law digest, Unicode character name, trade union membership rate, placeholder text element ID
    • External identifiers: Place Names NI ID, FranceArchives agent ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, ODLIS ID, Sociologická encyklopedie ID, BMZ lemma ID, FindeB lemma ID, Lexer lemma ID, LexerN lemma ID, Enslaved place ID, The Mountaineers Routes & Places ID, Adelung lemma ID, DWB lemma ID, DWB2 lemma ID, GWB lemma ID, Meyers lemma ID, RDWB1 lemma ID, Wander lemma ID, Česká divadelní encyklopedie ID, Tschechische Theaterenzyklopädie ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index ID, Louvre Museum ARK ID, Verified Handles VHID, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Armenian Book ID, athletics.lv athlete ID, Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID, Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ID, GameSpot developer ID, Musée national de la Marine ID, OFDb person ID, NMRShiftDB structure ID, Tacoma Local History & Biography Index ID, Megale Kypriake Enkyklopaideia ID, Washington Flora Checklist ID, American University of Beirut's Libraries title ID, USCG MIC, Arca author ID, BLPL author ID, Viasona ID, ÖCV Biolex ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: specific part, personal library at, departement, antipode, MovieMeter person ID, bicycle
    • External identifiers: CNN contributor ID, Our Campaigns race ID, Proveana ID, Storybook ID, Wissens-Aggregator Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit (WIAG) ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, The World Factbook country ID, SonyLIV show ID, EGID, Letecká badatelna accident ID, Camptocamp ID, National Inventory of Dams ID, PeakVisor ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Urban Archive ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, Podchaser Creator Id, La Réunion des Livres ID, vindskyddskartan.se ID, naturkartan.se ID, ANPI place numeric ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Virginia House of Delegates ID, Generals of World War II ID, DCinemaToday Organization ID, Swedish Bioguiden Movie Theater ID, bio.se Movie Theater ID, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women ID, Terras Indígenas ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Europalexikon ID, Politiklexikon ID, Encyklopedie antropologie ID
  • Query examples:
    • interwiki prefixes without corresponding Wikidata property by 2019 linkcount (some filtered) (source)
    • Women whose article on English Wikipedia has the featured article badge (source)
    • Map of males and females after which streets are named (Leiden, NL) (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of trans women and men with articles in the Basque Wikipedia (source)
    • Map of institutions where UNR faculty got their academic degrees (source)
    • Map of location of sense usage (P6084) by language
    • Botanists with image of signature and optional IPNI author ID (source)
    • Subclasses of musical instrument with the most individual instances (source, result starts with: bell, organ)
    • list of U.S. state songs, anthems, marches, hymns, cantatas, or missing (source)
    • Adjacency map of Ordnance Survey Old Series preparatory drawings (source)
    • Ordinals in all languages/notations: 0th to 100th (source)
    • locked-room mysteries (source)

• Development
  • We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
  • Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
  • Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
  • Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
  • Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)

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

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

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This Month in GLAM: March 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue III, March 2021 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wikipedia in African Libraries Albania report: Wiki Loves Folklore 2021; I edit Wikipedia Brazil report: The Brazilian House is the theme of new GLAM dissemination activities Finland report: Enriching indigenous items in Wikidata Germany report: A virtual exhibition on 20 years of Wikipedia Netherlands report: Wikimedians in Residence for Media Art Project LIMA, Wikimedia and libraries, Wikimedia training related to shared heritage Sweden report: GLAM in Sweden in March UK report: Leeds Museums & Galleries, the British Library and the Khalili Collections USA report: Women's History Month in the US WMF GLAM report: Media Search, Image Suggestion API, and Project Grants Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #463

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Is it worth to import labels from interlanguage links of other wikipedia projects to wikidata

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII - Gathering and modelling of metadata pertaining to all Brazilian laws. April 13, 14-18 (UTC-3). register
  • Upcoming: closing of d:Wikidata:Events/30 lexic-o-days 2021, April 14. If you participated in the contribution month, please drop a line about your work on the outcomes page.
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook, April 17
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #58, April 18
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Much more than a mere technology: A systematic review of Wikidata in libraries, by Karim Tharani
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Data imports for Wikidata Lexemes (panel discussion 30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
    • Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data (30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
    • Wiki2Prop: A Multi-Modal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
    • Wiki World Heritage User Group: Capacity Building Wikidata Training - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • EditSum, a user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A simple portal of women that study metabolomics powered by Wikidata
  • Do you have any cool Wikidata tips and tricks that you use? Share them with everyone on Twitter under the hashtag #WikidataTips
  • Entitree is a graph generator that can display family trees, but also other graphs like taxa or company subsidiaries.
  • Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: personal library at
    • External identifiers: ScoreStorybook company ID, Camptocamp ID, Biblio.com ID, CNN contributor ID, IFVPF ID, Musikasten ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Demozoo group ID, Image Comics creator ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Commons-Kategorie für Portraits, pH, taxonomic treatment, Degrees day, NBM identifier, size of unit under command, Archdiocese of Liverpool identifier
    • External identifiers: HistoryLink essay number, National Provider Identifier, Singers.com ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Wikiroute ID, ID v Databázi periodického tisku pro veřejnost, GLEI RAL, OpenCorporates register id, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, hPSCreg ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, Trap Danmark ID
  • Query examples:
    • Danish lexemes matched to sentences (Source)
    • Twitter usernames and number of subscribers (Source)
    • Latin American musicians without a Wikipedia article in Spanish but with an article in another language (Source)

• Development
  • Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
  • Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
  • Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
  • Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #464

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata - HackaLOD Online sessions (replay in Dutch)
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
  • Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
  • Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #59, April 25

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikibase: the Software for Open Data projects
  • Videos
    • Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
    • Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Adding information through EntitySchemas to Wikidata Andra Waagmeester and Jose Labra
    • SPARQL query requests around lexicography mapping] by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Fast Linking of Mathematical Wikidata Entities in Wikipedia Articles Using Annotation Recommendation - YouTube
    • Wiki2Prop: A Multimodal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws - YouTube
    • Librarians and Wikidata. A short tour - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release
  • Another history of Denelezh
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: pH value, introduced on, ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
    • External identifiers: Generals of World War II ID, La Réunion des Livres ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija concept ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija person ID, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women ID, Urban Archive ID, GCD publisher ID, Letecká badatelna accident ID, Proveana ID, KATOTTH ID, La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID, Politiklexikon ID, Europalexikon ID, National Inventory of Dams ID, Wissens-Aggregator Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit ID, Indigenous Lands in Brazil ID, Virginia House of Delegates ID, CAOI person ID, Encyklopedie antropologie ID, Our Campaigns race ID, Olympedia affiliations ID, ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: translator name string, scope note, LIMA media artist ID, CofE archives ID, CofE archives name ID, CofE archives place ID, has artist file in, term in higher taxon, accessibility statement URL, Hotel des Causses
    • External identifiers: Dialnet thesis ID, IAU member ID, MileSplit ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Malaysian school code, synonymer.se Swedish synonym ID, Prague City Gallery inventory number in Art for the City, Yukon Archives authority record ID, Cimiterium ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, HERO-tunniste, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, J! Archive player ID, Gender Glossar ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries Title ID, music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID
  • Query examples:
    • Artists on Spotify that lack a Spotify Artist ID (P1902) on Wikidata (Source)
    • Timeline of the discovery of elements in the periodic table (Source)
    • 19th-century depictions of sunflowers (Source)
    • Czech art collections by size (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cyprus

• Development
  • Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
  • Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
  • Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
  • Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
  • Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
  • Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
  • Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
  • Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-16

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

Recent changes

• Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [173][174]
• If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [175][176][177]
• Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [178]
• The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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16:48, ngày 19 tháng 4 năm 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: The Trump Organization's paid editors

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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This Month in Education: April 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 4 • April 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Collaboration with Brusov State University Editing contest "Meet Russia" Educational project: Wikipedia at the University with the University Center for Economic-Administrative Sciences (Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas (CUCEA)) of the University of Guadalajara Regional Meeting of Latin American Education by the EWOC Students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade have started an internship program

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Wikidata weekly summary #465

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

• Discussions
  • Other: Scientific papers' labels in other languages than English
• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
  • Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
  • Upcoming: OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Đài Bắc (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
  • COSCUP 2021 CFP is now open
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 1
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #60, May 2

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • User:Lucas Werkmeister/P642 considered harmful
  • New extension: Wikibase EDTF by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
  • Videos
    • OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Meetup #27 - Wikidata Lexeme Teaching - LBRY, Odysee
    • (Workshop) Introduction to Wikidata by Lucie Aimée Kaffee
    • Graphic Possibilities Comics Wikidata Tutorial
    • SPARQL tutorial (in Portuguese)
    • An Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam)
    • Wikidata tutorials in Albanian (1, 2, 3, 4)
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French)
    • (Workshop) #1Lib1Ref​ on Wikidata
    • Adding an article to Wikidata by DOI (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
    • Item Quality Evaluator
    • Constraint Violation Checker
  • Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
  • RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
  • SPARQL-Blockly is a tool to visualise and construct SPARQL queries as visual blocks (Wikidata example)
  • Wikibase/FAQ is a living document of a list of frequently asked questions about Wikibase. Community members are welcome to contribute to it.
  • RIP Liz Marley
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
    • External identifiers: ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID, Bioguiden movie theater ID, MovieMeter person ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú ID, SonyLIV show ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, IAU member ID, LIMA media artist ID, Singers.com ID, HistoryLink essay number, inventory number of a work of art in the Art for the City database, Cimiterium ID, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, Malaysian school code, Trap Danmark ID, Finna ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Mitte ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, CofE archives ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: accessibility statement URL, symbol represents, main upper course, Political Graveyard geography ID, diel cycle, Taxon holotype location, Smithsonian trinomial prefix, Digital Atlas of Idaho taxon ID, hardware threading standard
    • External identifiers: music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Digital DISCI ID, The Draft Review ID 2, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, IUCN Green List ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation ID, UNITER Award person ID, ID právnické osoby vedené Ministerstvem kultury ČR, CEV Team-ID, Anime Filler List show id, CEV Coach-ID, memento.wien person ID, MyBIS ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, am.hayazg.info ID, The Criterion Collection film ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, Gopo Award ID, Director Identification Number, TheTVDB character ID, JECFA number, Norges Fotballforbund klubb ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Parliament of Romania person ID, Apple TV movie ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of road vehicles crashing into Montague Street Bridge, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • Coal-fired power plants in Germany (Source)
    • Average lifespan by profession (Select the desired columns and get labels) (Source)
    • The number of natural disasters in various countries since 1970 (Source)
    • Heads of states/governments whose cause of death was a military casualty (Source)
    • List of French stations sorted by number of tracks (Source)
    • Relationship of the different Corona viruses (Source)
    • Map of about one third of the ancient trees in Bulgaria (Source)
    • Lexemes without statements or senses by language
  • Newest database reports: Doctor Who companions

• Development
  • wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
  • We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
  • Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
  • Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
  • Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
  • Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
  • Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.

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.
  • Take a list of cities in your country, add {{Item documentation}} in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:46, ngày 26 tháng 4 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17

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

• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [179][180][181]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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21:24, ngày 26 tháng 4 năm 2021 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 101 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van april 2021 Wikimedia-training: gedeeld erfgoed | Wikipedia in de bibliotheek | Verjaardag Wikipedia... Wikimedia-training: gedeeld erfgoed – Suriname en het Caribisch gebied Wikipedia in de bibliotheek - vervolgstappen Programma WikiVrijdagen bekend WikiGap Challenge - winnaar bekend Verjaardag Wikipedia HackaLOD Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 De Papiamentse Wikipedia is er klaar voor Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort online? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Tech News: 2021-18

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

• Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

• The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [182]
• Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [183]

Changes later this week

• Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [184][185]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [186]

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15:43, ngày 3 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #466

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
  • Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
  • Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
  • Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
  • Videos
    • Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
    • Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

• Tool of the week
  • Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
  • TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
  • Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: field of usage, artist files at, accessibility statement URL, degrees day, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID
    • External identifiers: J! Archive player ID, CofE archives name ID, HERO ID, GLEI RAL, Archdiocese of Liverpool parish ID, Yukon Archives authority record ID, CofE archives place ID, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID, Digital DISCI ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Clubhouse account, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, hat Gedenkort, Secondary Archive artist ID, date of probate
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, DC Books store book ID, ctext data entity ID, SAIA authority ID, AdServio school ID, Apple Music label ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, DHLE, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, Scholarpedia article ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, Universal equine life number, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, Sigla ID, Bing Entity ID, light characteristic, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Identificativo Polo bibliografico della Ricerca, LTit person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List number of albums (Q482994) by language (P407) in descending order (Source)
    • Map of Scottish council areas (Source)
    • Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known by Wikidata (Source)
    • List of actors and actresses who died during 2020 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: new screenwriters

• Development
  • Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
  • Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
  • Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
  • Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
  • Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
  • Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
  • Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

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) 15:45, ngày 3 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #466

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
  • Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
  • Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
  • Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
  • Videos
    • Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
    • Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

• Tool of the week
  • Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
  • TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
  • Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: field of usage, artist files at, accessibility statement URL, degrees day, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID
    • External identifiers: J! Archive player ID, CofE archives name ID, HERO ID, GLEI RAL, Archdiocese of Liverpool parish ID, Yukon Archives authority record ID, CofE archives place ID, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID, Digital DISCI ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Clubhouse account, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, hat Gedenkort, Secondary Archive artist ID, date of probate
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, DC Books store book ID, ctext data entity ID, SAIA authority ID, AdServio school ID, Apple Music label ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, DHLE, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, Scholarpedia article ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, Universal equine life number, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, Sigla ID, Bing Entity ID, light characteristic, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Identificativo Polo bibliografico della Ricerca, LTit person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List number of albums (Q482994) by language (P407) in descending order (Source)
    • Map of Scottish council areas (Source)
    • Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known by Wikidata (Source)
    • List of actors and actresses who died during 2020 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: new screenwriters

• Development
  • Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
  • Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
  • Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
  • Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
  • Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
  • Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
  • Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

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) 12:58, ngày 4 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #467

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

• Events
  • Ongoing
    • Wikidata contest for International Museum from May 3-18 2021
  • Upcoming
    • OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
    • Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 11 at 18:00 CEST
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #62, May 16
    • Wikidata Bug triage hour about constraints, May 17
    • COSCUP 2021 Call For Papers now open
    • Wikimedia Taiwan x NCKUHis Digital humanities Wikidata Workshop National Cheng Kung University (Q706708), 2021-05-29 ~ 2021-05-31

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack setting changes, Federated properties, Wikidata entity mapping & more (covering some of the recent UI and setting changes that happened on WBStack in the past months by Addshore
    • Academic ancestor graphs from Wikidata
  • Papers
    • Roderic D. M. Page, Wikidata and the Bibliography of Life, doi:10.1101/2021.05.04.442638
    • Friederike Ehrhart, et al. Aresource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes (Q106708178), doi:10.1038/S41597-021-00905-Y
  • Videos
    • SPARQL #Wikidata​ retour aux bases #3 - YouTube
    • Wikidata, Linked Data… all the data! Knowledge representation for everybody - YouTube
    • Wikidata Nigeria tutorials on YouTube - How to contribute to Wikidata, add statements for streets named after a person
    • SPARQL Wikidata tutorial (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
  • May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
  • Template:Generic queries for filmmakers is a new wikidata template which defines generic SPARQL queries specific for filmmakers.
  • Template:Generic queries for occupations is a new wikidata template with generic queries for items of items such as occupations or professions
  • Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Digital Atlas of Idaho URL, identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription
    • External identifiers: MyBIS species ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, NBM authority ID, MileSplit ID, Mixcloud ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, am.hayazg.info ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, The Draft Review ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, IUCN Green List ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Senate of Romania person ID, Chamber of Deputies of Romania person ID, LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway Club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official podcast, Danish redlist ID, Velocity Relative to Earth, athletics program, North Carolina session law
    • External identifiers: vedidk ID, MyBIS protected area ID, COG ID, Badok ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity person ID, DTB-Gerätturner-ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, University of Washington Campus Map ID, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - diplomatic mission IDs, SOUNZ work ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, Repositório da Produção USP Person ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, SOSBrutalism ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, OSDN project, SOR bird ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number, ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of French firms without SIREN id (P1616) ordered by number of sitelinks with search links in annuaire-entreprises‧data‧gouv.fr : the query makes it easy to find the SIREN number (P1616) (source Property talk P1616)
    • Number of works per year by researchers supervised by Lars Kai Hansen (source)
    • Count of sitelinks of Nigerians on Wikidata (Source)
    • 30 largest cities with female mayor (Source)
    • Recent locations of boundary stones in Upper Lusatia (see pictures by clicking on the dots) (Source)
    • Types of items in Australia that don't have identifier properties (Source)

• Development
  • Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
  • Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
  • Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
  • Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
  • Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
  • Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-19

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:09, ngày 10 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IV, April 2021 Headlines Albania report: WikiGap 2021; Workshop “When State Security was engaged in Science”; Women in STEM; International Roma Day Edit-a-thon Australia report: A Wealth of Wiki Women Belgium report: Projects by Wikimedia Belgium Brazil report: Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia celebrates Wikipedia 20 Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2021 report DRCongo report: WMDRC - UG report: Wikipedia in library Estonia report: Finding new ways of making art visible + 360° panoramas of Estonian museums Finland report: Saami place names France report: Journée Wikimédia Culture et numérique 2021; French open content report Germany report: Northern Exposure for cultural heritage data India report: Proofread competition on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with British Library Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2021; Museum Daerah Deli Serdang is now on Commons Italy report: A Wikipedian in residence at the Civic Museum of Modena: report Netherlands report: WikiVrijdagen with Atria and IHLIA, Wikimedians in Residence will increase the visibility of media art on Wikipedia, Wikimedia training: shared heritage, Papiamentu and Papiamento: Wikipedia is up and ready to go! New Zealand report: West Coast WikiCon and Performing Arts Aotearoa Serbia report: Great impact of cooperations Spain report: New partnerships Sweden report: More music; Enriching GLAM photos with SDC; Swedish GLAM survey Switzerland report: GLAMhack 2021 & more UK report: University of Edinburgh Library Wikimedia Community of Interest; Khalili Collections; British Library USA report: The Met, Smithsonian, and a busy Edit-a-thon season Wikipedia Library report: Fostering Connections: Wikimedia and Libraries Global Meetup Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Extended Date Time Format for Wikibase WMF GLAM report: Wikimedia Hackathon, Product Updates, and Office Hours Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2021-20

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

Recent changes

• There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [187] [188] [189]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [190][191]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [192]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [193]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:49, ngày 17 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #468

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata
    • IP Masking Engagement
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion). Outcome --> no change to WD:N
    • Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties. Outcome --> constraints were removed

• Events
  • Ongoing:
    • Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to infoberd-bw.de
  • Upcoming
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
    • May 21-22, 2021 [194] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
    • OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Hiba Arnaout et al, Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata (full text link)
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #44 - YouTube
      • Link to all the Wikipedia Weekly Network/Live Wikidata Editing sessions by Ainali and Abbe98
    • Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons und Wikipedia bearbeiten 2021/001 (in German) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #4 - YouTube
    • How to use Wikidata to list nearby tourist places on a web page (in French) - YouTube
    • How to add lexemes to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
    • How to edit library data in Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Editing the drawings in the Gambara Bovardi collection at the Levi Foundation in Venice on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js is a user script that replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT when editing hyphenation snaks.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 20k+ DOIs of Chinese language scientific journal articles have now been added to WD, thanks to scraping->validation->matching->quickstatements workflow built by Stevenliuyi (via a WikiCite eScholarship)
  • Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
  • Template:Item documentation displays Template:Generic queries for occupations for items of class occupation (Q12737077) and Template:Generic queries for filmmakers for items with occupation (P106) filmmaker (Q2526255)
  • Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription, counterpart position, earned run average, official podcast, diel cycle, intended background color, scope note
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Memento Vienna person ID, universal equine life number, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Apple Music label ID (US version), bio.se movie theater ID, MyBIS protected area ID, Dialnet thesis ID, hPSCreg cell line ID, Michigan State University Library Comic Art Collection Record Number, LTit person ID, JECFA number, Badok ID, Sigla ID, DCinemaToday company ID, CEV coach ID, CEV team ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity ID, AdServio ID, PeakVisor peak ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Anime Filler List show ID, Anime Filler List episode slug, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Danish 2010 redlist identifier, synonymer.se ID, SOUNZ work ID, vedidk ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, UNITER Award person ID, sense on DHLE
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: infects, setlist, oral history at, DIVA author ID, DIVA record ID, type of lens
    • External identifiers: ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, CDep.Ro NGO ID, causesanti.va ID, Adevărul topic ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts ID, cIMeC.Ro Museum ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Styria Museum ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Archive Alsharekh person ID, Douban series ID, RomArchive IDs, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, Scholasticon person ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, WMF lang code
  • Deleted properties: iFixit repairability score (P7478)
  • Query examples:
    • Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (Source)
    • List of Wikimedia language codes (Source)
    • Plant genera that honor women (Source)
    • Poets whose fathers are lawyers (Source)
    • Phrase-book for types of food (mapping Catalan and English) (Source)

• Development
  • Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
  • Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
  • Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
  • Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
  • Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
  • Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
  • Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)

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.
  • Near 6,100 items have the Template:Item documentation in their talk page. Help deploy this template.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:18, ngày 17 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #469

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

• Events
  • Past
    • HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube
  • Ongoing
    • #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
      • #1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th May 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
    • 27/05 (17h UTC): Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process with Ederporto, Pharos e Susannaanas (in English), on YouTube
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 25 at 18:00 CEST
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook, May 29 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #64, May 30
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: The history, present and future of WBStack & WBaas (Wikibase as a service) 27 May 2021, 1PM Eastern US. Please fill in this form to register!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora. Wikidata was used to generate sentences to train a language model.
    • An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
  • Videos
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 - Main track - Saturday 22
    • Curating bibliographic metadata of scholarly publications: demo of Wikidata-based Scholia workflows
    • Demo of Ordia, a Wikidata tool to visualize lexicographic information from Wikidata
    • Adding references to Wikidata items, as part of #1Lib1Ref campaign (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (screenshot)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The prefix [[lexemes:]] allows to link to a search for lexemes on any Wikimedia wiki. Sample: lexemes:describe (project chat announcement).
  • The wikidata-lang JS module got a major update, and now makes accessible pre-generated mappings between Wikidata ids, Wikimedia language code (P424), ISO 639-1 code (P218), ISO 639-2 code (P219), ISO 639-3 code (P220), and ISO 639-6 code (P221), that can also be used by non-JS programs by fetching the desired JSON. Examples:
    • mapping of Wikimedia language codes to Wikidata ids
    • mapping of ISO 639-2 to Wikimedia language codes
  • Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
    • User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms: Portuguese modal adverb - Deployed support for Portuguese modal adverbs in the Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool
    • User:Jon Harald Søby/addSenseImage.js - User script to add images to sense statements on lexemes
    • Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#identifierInput.js - fixing a bug in IdentifierInput.js gadget for Wikidata to better handle when a property has no format restraints

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: type of lens, oral history at, official map URL
    • External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Apple TV movie ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, causesanti.va ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, North Carolina session law, #SOSBrutalism ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, Museums in Styria ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID, SOR bird ID, ToateAnimalele ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca entity ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID, OSDN project, Scholasticon person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: music for work, in sense, academic calendar type
    • External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID, Buzer.de law identification, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, Apple TV show ID, Apple TV episode ID, Australian Music Centre work ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Unified book number, GLEI ELF, RBF event ID, Poetsgate poet ID, Badkartan.se ID, Book Owners Online person ID, ifixit device ID, Price One Penny Author ID, Price One Penny Publisher ID, Price One Penny Work ID, Medical Institution Code, AlternativeTo software ID, RoBasketballFed IDs, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Enciclopedia della Matematica ID
  • Query examples:
    • Danish idioms (Source)
    • Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (Source)
    • Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title
    • 20th-century UK parliaments with count of father/mother who were MPs (Source)
    • The tallest known female politicians (Source)
    • Writing systems/characters and their year of appearance (Source)
    • Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)

• Development
  • Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
  • Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
  • Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
  • Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
  • Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:45, ngày 24 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

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 Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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17:06, ngày 24 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 102 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van mei 2021 Samenwerking met Wikimedia Indonesia | Fysieke bijeenkomsten... Samenwerking met Wikimedia Indonesia Arctic Knot Conference Fysieke bijeenkomsten Wikimedia Wikimedians in Residence gaan de zichtbaarheid van mediakunst op Wikipedia vergroten Help mee informatie over de Limes aan te vullen QR-codes Pajottenland en Zennevalei ALV Introductie nieuw bestuurslid Heleen Ririassa Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort op een van deze online bijeenkomsten? Oude versies vindt u hier

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This Month in Education: May 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 5 • May 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue A Multimedia-Rich Wikiversity MOOC from Brazil Meet this month's featured Wikimedia & Education community member: Maria Weronika Kmoch Offline workshop with Nikola Koperniku High School in Albania Wiki Education Program Organized with the University Students for the First time in Bangladesh Wikimedia Commons workshop with high school students in Kosovo Wikipedia training for the Bearers of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Poland “Writing a Wikipedia article isn’t as difficult and unimaginable as it seems”: A case for Wikipedia Education Program in Ukraine

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Wikidata weekly summary #470

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous. Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated.

• Events
  • Past
    • Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings- May 2021
    • How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021) - working hour (2)
    • SPARQL #Wikidata divers
      • Session du mardi 18 mai
      • Session du mardi 25 mai
  • Upcoming
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [195], June 1st.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #65, June 6
    • Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, to solve issues related to its affilation to the Wikimedia Foundation, June 9
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Mapping of ImageNet and Wikidata for Knowledge Graphs Enabled Computer Vision
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process
    • Use of VanderBot Wikidata API writing script (testing)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • User:So9q/ordia-link.js - is a script to add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
  • dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
  • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
    • automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
    • automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
    • and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: district heating grid
    • External identifiers: DiVA authority-person, CDep.Ro NGO ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, PoetsGate poet ID, Repositório da Produção da USP person ID, ctext data entity ID, Australian Music Centre work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Martian coordinates, gobbledygook
    • External identifiers: Nevada Women's History Project ID, AADFI member ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Price One Penny Periodical ID, Price One Penny Library ID, composers.am person ID, armradioarchive.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, AZGS Document Repository ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, PAS member ID, ℒoviℱm Top Songs ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800-2000) ID, BIU Santé image bank ID, cadastral plot in France, Internet Game Database developer ID, allabolag.se person ID, Olschki author ID
  • Query examples:
    • People with bird-like surnames in Czech (Source)
    • Properties used to link from preprints (Q580922) to scholarly articles (Q13442814) (Source)
    • Birthplace of Spanish poets (Source)
    • UK Parliaments since 1801 with number of members, number of distinct member-terms, and count of missing seats/parties. (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Fresnel lenses of lighthouses

• Development
  • Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
  • Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
  • Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
  • Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
  • Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
  • Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-22

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

• There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [196]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:05, ngày 31 tháng 5 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #471

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

• Events
  • Past:
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 (replay) "Wikidata Live Querying" by Lucas Werkmeister
    • SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 1/2 (in French) - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, Wednesday, June 9, 16:00 UTC
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook, June 12 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #66, June 13
    • (Dutch) 16 june 2021, 15.00-16.30 CEST, "Universiteitsbibliotheek: Bijzondere Collecties zichtbaar en vindbaar maken in Wikidata", during "Digitaal Erfgoed @UM | zichtbaar, bruikbaar, houdbaar"

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • "Wikidata and R: a perfect pair" by Evolution and evolvability and Canley. A WikiCite eScholarship.
    • "Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata", by Ederporto. A WikiCite project grant project.
  • Papers
    • (Preprint) KGPool: Dynamic Knowledge Graph Context Selection for Relation Extraction (Wikidata dataset used in evaluation)
    • (Article) “Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge”
    • (Presentation) Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties by User:Jsamwrites at Contribuling
  • Videos
    • Understanding data import into Wikidata via Quickstatements (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Workshop for "Cita": a Wikidata addon for Zotero, hosted by Diegodlh - English & en español. A WikiCite grant project.
    • Wikidata: Municipalities of Romania + a map of places in Kuopio - YouTube
    • Wikidata Editing training (in Tamil) - YouTube
    • Excursus: Wikidata Knowledge Graph - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Image Positions is a tool to show and add relative position within image (P2677) qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata items as areas on the item’s image (P18).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Badkartan.se ID, Eionet bathingWaterIdentifier, ifixit device ID, AlternativeTo software ID, Price One Penny author ID, Nevada Women's History Project ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID, Price One Penny work ID, Price One Penny library ID, Price One Penny publisher ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Range, not found in, LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation
    • External identifiers: DIP-ID, Castforward ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, EBAF ID, FCCOS ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, GCD creator ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties used to describe themselves (Inspiration)
    • Most common name in Germany by year of birth (Source)
    • Famous (not French) people born in France (Source)

• Development
  • You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883, example query with a title)
  • Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689)
  • Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312)
  • Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (phab:T219215)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-23

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [197][198][199]
• Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [200]
• The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [201][202]

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20:02, ngày 7 tháng 6 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue V, May 2021 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: A busy month at AfLIA Argentina report: Museum, Archives and Libraries on May Armenia report: Presence of Museums in Wiki Projects Australia report: Librarians unite across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand for 1Lib1Ref Brazil report: Wiki Loves Bahia: 2021 is the year of Bahia on Wikipedia in Portuguese Côte d'Ivoire report: Glam-wiki 2021 29 May in Côte d'Ivoire India report: Collaboration continues with British Library Indonesia report: #1lib1ref in Indonesia; Online talk show with Wikimedia Nederland Italy report: Conference, webinar and projects Kosovo report: National Gallery of Kosovo Collection now on Wikidata Netherlands report: Over 15,000 images available from Elsinga Collection, 1.9 million records on slavery and slave trade digitally accessible New Zealand report: A busy month in Aotearoa North Macedonia report: GLAM activities of GLAM Macedonia Serbia report: A month in the sign of edit-a-thons Spain report: Viquiprojecte:Muixeranga Sweden report: Working with UN Human Rights; Aftermath to the fiddler competition; Music manuscripts from the 18th century; Digital visions; Should museums work with Wikipedia?; Wikidata project with museums has results Switzerland report: Strengthening GLAM Partnerships Uganda report: Wikipedia for Museums in Uganda UK report: British Library, Khalili Collections USA report: Hackathon outputs, data roundtripping and Asian American heritage Special story: Wikimedia Hackathon report: Upgrading GLAM tech tools and PAWS Wikisource report: Indic Wikisource community online gathering WMF GLAM report: Grants and conferences Wiki World Heritage User Group report: May's report Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #472

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

• Events
  • Past
    • SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 2/2 (session 8) - YouTube
    • Open Repositories 2021: Wikidata Integration with Repository Contents - YouTube
    • Information Service Engineering 2021
      • SPARQL complex queries, SPARQL aggregation and variable assignment, Wikidata SPARQL examples
      • SPARQL Federated Queries, DBpedia and Wikidata, SPARQL query aggregation and variable assignment
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Diego de la Hera on Cita, a Wikidata add-on for Zotero. Agenda, June 15
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 19 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #67, June 20
    • OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-07-05

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Gateway into Linked Data: Breaking silos with Wikidata - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
  • WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
  • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: personality trait of fictional character
    • External identifiers: Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Olschki author ID, French Etalab parcel visualization code, Geneanet family name ID, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, DIP ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, Internet Game Database developer ID, Book Owners Online person ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation, sex or gender of the position, regime, earliest known OpenTimestamps, Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros, named after lexeme
    • External identifiers: TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, GCD creator ID, Memobase ID, Central records of collections ID, Musica Baltica person ID, Standard Citation Forms ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, PRISM Break project ID, Idaho Species ID, Room of Names ID, ZKM person ID, fotodok ID, IFFR film director ID, EUIPO OoC-name id, Gutenberg Biographics ID, EUIPO OoC-work id, Games@Mail.ru ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Handlingar.se, NAD agent ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, OlympicsIL ID
  • Query examples:
    • Lakes within 10 km of Berlin
    • Old bath pictures from Swedish Digitalmuseum
    • Bath water in Sweden with distance to the center of the lake it is connected to
    • Bath water in Sweden located in Nature reserves (protected area, geojson)
    • Map of the standard English and Welsh spellings of all places in the database (Source)
    • Films directed by Agnès Varda and their publication date (Source)
    • List of women who hold or have held the position of rector at a university (Source)
  • Schema examples:
    • EntitySchema:E319 - European bath waters
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject European Bath Waters - Europe is open up and its summer - lets add bath waters to Wikidata

• Development
  • Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
  • Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
  • Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:41, ngày 14 tháng 6 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24

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

• Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [203]
• Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [204]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
• German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [205]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [206][207]

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20:26, ngày 14 tháng 6 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #473

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
    • 24/06 (17:30 UTC): Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for tainacan with Ederporto and Dalton Lopes Martins (https://tainacan.org/en/ Tainacan) (in English), on YouTube
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #68, June 27
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 26 at 18:00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Beyond VIAF. Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries (with detailed statistics on VIAF and Wikidata)
  • Videos
    • Using OpenRefine and creating wikidata schema - YouTube
    • Query SPARQL Wikidata around genealogy (in French) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Template:PositionHolderHistory displays the full list of position holders for a given position.
  • Template:Generic queries for positions new template with generic queries for positions.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. phab:T275958
  • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
  • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
  • Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: not found in, named place on map
    • External identifiers: Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, Memobase ID, Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging ID, Skipsrevyen ID, EBAF authority ID, LdiF person ID, Musica Baltica person ID, EGID, RBF event ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: named after lexeme, replacement value, Qualis rank, role of component, table of contents available at URL, DICOM modality page, Flemish Heritage Themes ID
    • External identifiers: OlympicsIL ID, EBIDAT ID, Crosscut author ID, identifier BNM, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID, Handzone player ID, BES-Net user ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Research Resource Identifier, VK artist ID, MonumentalTrees.com, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, E-Flora BC species ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of public bookcases
    • SPARQL Jupyter notebook to explore generic queries for positions (using PAWS)
    • Biographies that can be linked in different Wikipedias (apart from deWP) (Source)
    • Vulnerable, endangered or extinct languages with number of lexemes in Wikidata (Source)
    • Articles in English Wikipedia about women that have the good article badge but do not have an article written in Spanish (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Outdoor Gyms

• Development
  • Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (phab:T284854)
  • Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219)
  • Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820)
  • Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
  • Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
  • Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
    • Testing infrastructure investigation and decision
    • Investigation: How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:23, ngày 21 tháng 6 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25

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 otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [208]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [209]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:49, ngày 21 tháng 6 năm 2021 (UTC)

Final Call for Candidates for AffCom - June 2021

Affiliations Committee (AffCom) logo

This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.

This is a final Call for Candidates for the June 2021 Affiliations Committee election.

If you are interested in running, please post your application and follow all four steps on the nomination page by 30 June 2021 23:59 hours UTC.

If you know somebody you think may be interested, please share this with them and encourage them to consider it. If you have any questions about this process or the requirements, please email affcom@wikimedia.org before the application deadline or reach out to any of the current members.

On behalf of the AffCom elections committee,

--- FULBERT (talk) 14:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 6 • June 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Can children write articles for a wiki encyclopedia? Editing contest "Biosphere reserves in the world" Training & workshop on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with students from Municipal Learning Center, Gurrakoc Wiki for Human Rights Campaign in the Philippines Wikipedia makes children and teachers happy! Workshop with the students of Language Faculty of Philology, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina"

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Nieuwsbrief 103 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van juni 2021 Twintig jaar Wikipedia | #WPWP... Twintig jaar Wikipedia Save the date: Wikimeet 14 augustus Wikimedia Foundation zoekt bestuursleden Nieuwe functionaliteiten voor de topstukken van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek #WPWP Regionaal Archief Alkmaar doneert Elsinga-collectie 1,9 miljoen archiefstukken over slavernij en slavenhandel digitaal ontsloten ALV Maand van de Geschiedenis 2021 Wist je dat… Technisch beheer Schijndelwiki.nl Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Editing news 2021 #2

Đọc bản tin này bằng ngôn ngữ khác • Danh sách nhận bản tin đa ngôn ngữ này

Khi những người mới đến đã có công cụ Trả lời và cố gắng đăng trên một trang thảo luận, họ sẽ thành công hơn trong việc đăng bình luận. (Nguồn)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

Các kết quả chính là:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

Những kết quả này giúp nhóm Biên tập tự tin rằng công cụ này hữu ích.

Nhìn về phía trước

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Công cụ thảo luận" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (thảo luận)

14:12, ngày 24 tháng 6 năm 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 June 2021

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Wikidata weekly summary #474

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)

• Events
  • Past:
    • log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24
  • Upcoming:
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [210], June 29th.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
    • Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
  • Papers
    • Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools)
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, for the #ArcticKnot.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot.
    • Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube
    • Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube
    • Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
  • Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact for the Wikibase Community User Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page before 2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC), after which voting will commence.
  • Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale.
  • Wikidata Vertical Analysis by AKhatun (WMF)
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns
  • A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: date of resignation, curid, consequence of text
    • External identifiers: RBF event ID, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID, ZKM person ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, Fotodok ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Vindskyddskartan.se ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: delta of, Astrological sign, announced at, contact point (2)
    • External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID, Classical Archives composer ID, UFC ID, Tapology ID, Bellator ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, Ethereum token address, Legie 100 legionary ID, PsycNET ID, Index Theologicus ID, MK ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, African Film Database ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID, HockeyLive player ID, eishockey.info player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Street names in Alsatian (source)
    • What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? (Source)
    • UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata (Source)
    • Count of statements by property for theatrical plays (Source)
    • Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
  • Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
  • Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
  • Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
  • Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
  • Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
  • Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
  • Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
  • Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
  • Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
  • Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
  • The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
  • Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
  • It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
  • Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
  • A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
  • "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
  • There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, ngày 28 tháng 6 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26

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

• Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [211]
• Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [212]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [213][214]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
• A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [215][216]

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16:31, ngày 28 tháng 6 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #475

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)

• Events
  • Past:
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Schema explorers and how they can help guide adoption of common standards
    • Tackling Technical Debt, big and small, in Wikidata and Wikibase
  • Papers
    • A Study of the Quality of Wikidata
    • Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries
  • Videos
    • (workshop) Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians - YouTube
    • Adding descriptions and statements to Wikidata using Quickstatements - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: voted on by, Qualis rank, author given names, author last name, delta of
    • External identifiers: Gutenberg Biographics ID, Idaho Species ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, Classical Archives composer ID, Crosscut author ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, E-Flora BC species ID, LexM ID, BES-Net user ID, VK artist ID, Legie 100 legionary ID, Buzer.de law identification, Games@Mail.ru ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, FOIH themes ID, African Film Database ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: code name, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, Impact factor, dependency grammar relations, biological target, URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state
    • External identifiers: fotoCH photographer ID, Raakvlak inventory number, cultural broadcasting archive station ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, MANTO ID, e-Rad researcher ID, WMO code
  • Query examples:
    • List of pairs of senses on the same lexeme that have the same gloss in at least one language (Source)
    • Which British Monarch saw most US Presidents; which US President saw most British Monarchs? (graph view) (dimensions view) (Source)
    • All paintings (Q3305213) that depict (P180) a painting (Source)
    • Count of qualifiers used in performer (P175) statements (Source)
    • Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (Source)
    • Latin American female mathematicians who are not on spanish Wikipedia but have an article in another language (Source)
    • US Governors and their religion, if listed (Source)
    • Living soccer players whose birthday is on January 1st (Source)
    • Museums nearby Cēsis (Q107582) (Source)
    • Distribution of public toilets per administrative units in Wales (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
  • Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
  • Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
  • Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
  • A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
  • A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:08, ngày 5 tháng 7 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-27

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

Tech News

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

• AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [217]

Problems

• InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [218]

Changes later this week

• The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [219][220]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [221]

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17:33, ngày 5 tháng 7 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VI, June 2021 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: African Librarians Week 2021 Albania report: CEE Spring Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: A course on opening cultural collections Belgium report: Edit-a-thons with Wiki Women Design Brazil report: A metadata roundtripping model for museums France report: European Archaeology Days; Edit-a-thon in Romanity Museum Guinea report: GLAM with Harmattan Guinée 15 June 2021 in Conakry Italy report: Festival and edit-a-thon dedicated to the world of archives Netherlands report: Training at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; training for Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean has concluded New Zealand report: Making artists visible Serbia report: Wikidata development and culture of Rudnik and Takovo region Spain report: Museums writing challenge and Viquimarató Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas Sweden report: Free music; Kulturarv som gymnasiearbete; Statistics Sweden – now as open data; KTH library training Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program Uganda report: Wikipedia for Museums in Uganda UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections Ukraine report: #1Lib1Ref in Ukrainian Wikipedia USA report: Meetup/CCCCWI; Vaccine Safety Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; San Diego Wiknic; Black Lunch Table / Black visual artists Special story: Play, experiment and cross borders at Hack4OpenGLAM Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts Structured Data on Commons development and is searching for two developers WMF GLAM report: Conferences and Structured data modeling Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #476

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
    • -akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)

• Events
  • Past:
    • LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
    • SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
    • SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [222], July 13th.
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
    • A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
  • Papers
    • (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
  • Videos
    • Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
    • Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
    • Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
  • The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: Wikidata:Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to Wikidata:Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
  • OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
    1. Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
    2. Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
  • For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
    • External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
    • External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
    • Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
    • Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
  • Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
  • Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
  • We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
  • We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
  • Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
  • Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
  • Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
  • Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:14, ngày 12 tháng 7 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29

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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [223][224]
• Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [225]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).

Future changes

• How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
• The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:31, ngày 19 tháng 7 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #478

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

• Events
  • Past:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72, July 25
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata English & Italian by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project.
    • Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill
    • Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R
    • Introducing the MathFoldr Project
  • Videos
    • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project (by Mahir256) - YouTube
    • Bringing IIIF Manifests to Life in Wikidata with Mirador 3 (2021 IIIF Annual Conference) - YouTube
    • Moving Wikipedia's InfoBox to Wikidata (in Taiwanese) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice)
    • Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice).
    • A first look at featured articles in Wikipedia in French using Wikidata (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS)

• Tool of the week
  • searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS
  • For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel, Laurentius and Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
  • Sitelinks to the recently created Tachelhit Wikipedia and Dagbani Wikipedia are being added.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, number of request signatories, translation of
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, Città e Cattedrali ID, MANTO ID, WMO code, IFPNI author ID, Landshuth ID, Pladias ID, Central records of collections ID, Podchaser creator ID, Steam Greenlight game ID, CEICE school code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, URL for freedom of information requests, Legal History, bridge number, Notable role, inventory number, Weverse user ID, ITU radio emission designation
    • External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID, eBru ID, Daum Cafe ID, Douyin Video ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, SDBM IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID, The New Yorker ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, Marmiton ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, PubFacts author ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of all stages of all tour de France (source)
    • Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (source)
    • Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (Source)
    • Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (Source)
    • Unemployment rate in Sweden by year (1970-2020) (Source)
    • Serious plane crashes with only one survivor (Source)
    • Mayors' genders of U.S. cities above 100k population (Source)
    • Global usage of pronouns (in English Language) (Source)
    • Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility
  • Newest database reports: language names in Italian (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now.
  • Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105)
  • Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919)
  • Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items (phab:T280910)
  • SPARQL was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example)

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

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

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The Signpost: 25 July 2021

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Wikidata weekly summary #479

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

• Events
  • Next Wikidata and Wikibase office hour on July 28th at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group
  • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
  • 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries
    • Issues and Challenges in optimum utilization of Linked Data in Indian libraries
    • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project
    • Tutorial: Wikidata: Intro to the Basics
    • Tutorial: Writing Data to Wikidata Using Spreadsheets
    • Wikibase: Free, Flexible and Collaborative Linked Data
    • Rune inscriptions in Wikidata / Wikibase; Sampo Model and Portal Series on the Semantic Web
    • Wikidata In Classroom • Creating Linked Data from Books and Magazines
    • LD4 meeting: Wikidata Affinity Group
  • Introduction to Wikidata (in Indonesian) part 1, part 2, part 3
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [226], July 27th.
  • COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
  • Openstreetmap x Wikidata meetup 2021.08.09 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Typed Citations in the Journal of Cheminformatics
    • What happens in Wikibase when you make a new Item?
    • Discovering new comics with Wikidata’s powerful tools
    • Two metadata directions. Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization
    • Still mapping! "Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
    • Making the Camino de Santiago visible on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on lexeme pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions is hiring software engineers and an engineering manager.
  • Job opening: Digital Channels Outreach Manager ("mentions contributing to Wikidata and Wikimedia platforms")

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia Incubator URL, symbol represents, bridge number
    • External identifiers: Adventure Corner video game ID, FRB person ID, Apple TV episode ID, Apple TV show ID, FRB event ID, Wikidata language code, Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Plant life-form, cabinet, title of a church
    • External identifiers: VI.BE Platform ID, Smartify artwork ID, Women Also Know History ID, IrishTheatre.ie Company ID, BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of all stage winners in the Tour de France with links to the list of stages won (source)
    • Map of miniature parks (Source)
    • Map of open data portals (Source)
    • Video games published before 1980, and their authors (Source)
    • Protected bridges over the Zadorra river basin (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory

• Development
  • Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
  • Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (WMDE) 15:04, ngày 26 tháng 7 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30

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

• A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).

Future changes

• If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preference Bật chế độ đáp ứng. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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21:11, ngày 26 tháng 7 năm 2021 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 104 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van juli 2021 Maand van de Geschiedenis | WikiconNL 2021... Maand van de Geschiedenis 2021 Wikimeet 14 augustus WikiconNL 2021 Eerste concept nieuw Beleid Vriendelijke Ruimtes Jaarplan 2022 Meerjarenstrategie Masterclass serie voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Cariben is afgerond WikiZaterdag 11 september. Thema: Vrije kennis - ook voor kinderen? Wikimania Wikimedian-in-Residence bij Maastricht University Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Wikidata weekly summary #480

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

• Events
  • July 2021 Wikidata+Wikibase office hours logs
  • July 2021 Wikibase Live sessions logs

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • What is Wikidata (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Mahir256/syndepgraph.js is used to make interesting SVG-based syntactic dependency graphs generated with {{Syndepgraph}} to appear.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Portuguese version of the Wikidata Query Service tutorial tool is now available.
  • Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
  • The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
  • New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: symbol represents, bridge number, syntactic dependency head relationship, syntactic dependency head position
    • External identifiers: Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, IRIS SNS author ID, U.S. Ski & Snowboard athlete ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cabinet, title of a church, Apple App Store classification, amount of medals, GRAC/GRB content descriptor, GRAC/GRB rating category, Igromania developer/publisher ID, commentator, FLOSS development policy URL
    • External identifiers: BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, police zone ID, Tax identification number, Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, The Women’s Print History Project person ID, USA Climbing member ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Vokrug sveta Encyclopedia ID, Nationalencyklopedin ID, MPAA certificate number, Magyar írók élete és munkái ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of film directors who have worked with Jean-François Stevenin the most (source) Jean-François Stevenin is a French actor, dead the 27th of July
    • French municipalities containing the word "ville" (Source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (Source)
    • Museums within 70 km of Dresden (Source)

• Development
  • Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. Focusing on wrapping up the store part of the tool and moving on to the UI for reviewing mismatches.
  • Made it so that Special:EntityData doesn't throw an exception when called with an invalid flavor parameter (phabricator:T286275)
  • Limit languages of entity stubs in RDF output (Breaking change)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:53, ngày 2 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31

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

• If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
• Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems

• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [227][228]

Changes later this week

• When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [229]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

• The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
• The Beta Feature for Công cụ thảo luận will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:47, ngày 2 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 7 • July 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue University celebrates 10th anniversary with an Editathon A paper on Students' Attitudes Towards the Use of Wikipedia Announcing the Training of Trainers program for "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" MOOC Conocimiento Abierto y Software Libre Updates on the Leamos Wikipedia en Bolivia 2021 Virtual lessons on Wikipedia from Wikimedia Polska for schools

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Wikidata weekly summary #477

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [230], Aug 10th.
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
    • Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Past:
    • JOSS2021 National Diet Library-sponsored session "Linked Data, Wikidata, GLAM" (in Japanese)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Generic queries for musicians new wikidata template to explore the work of a musician.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:So9q/duplicate item.js is a userscript that can duplicate the current item, minus sitelinks and descriptions (not allowed by Wikidata).
  • Collection of Wikidata:Weekly summary query examples (2015-2021) by MKar

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: edition/version, open source software policy URL
    • External identifiers: Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID, Women Also Know History ID, Marmiton ID, Knesset member ID, The New Yorker contributor ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, BNM bibliographic record ID, Treccani's Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, e-Rad researcher number, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: FLOSS development policy URL, Umění pro město ID, broadcast of, dissertation program, DDB-Person-Nummer
    • External identifiers: GSSO ID, COD ID, ARTEINFORMADO Person ID, CDAEM Person ID, ASE person ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, IRIS Pisa IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Shironet ID, Paleobotany ID, arheologi.ro ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Welsh lakes and reservoirs (Source)
    • Gender statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org
    • Statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org by their value of instance of property
    • Place of birth of Swedish 1912 Summer Olympics participants (Source)
    • Interactive map with all Olympic Games medalists by place of birth (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
  • Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
  • Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)

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 deploy Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:57, ngày 9 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32

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

• You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [231]

Changes later this week

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
• The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [232]
• Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [233]

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16:20, ngày 9 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VII, July 2021 Headlines Albania report: Collaboration with the New Vision Organization in Tirana; Summer of Wikivoyage Campaign 2021 Australia report: Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges Brazil report: A wikicontest to celebrate and make visible the state of Bahia India report: Rabimas proofread contest ends on Bengali Wikisource New Zealand report: New Zealand holds its second Wikimedia conference, and a performing arts Wikiproject gathers steam Serbia report: New chances for GLAM success Sweden report: Photos of Childrens theatre UK report: A Thousand Images of Islam, British Library Updates USA report: Smithsonian Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History; San Diego 73; Black Lunch Table Black artists WMF GLAM report: A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 07:23, ngày 11 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VII, July 2021 Headlines Albania report: Collaboration with the New Vision Organization in Tirana; Summer of Wikivoyage Campaign 2021 Australia report: Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges Brazil report: A wikicontest to celebrate and make visible the state of Bahia India report: Rabimas proofread contest ends on Bengali Wikisource New Zealand report: New Zealand holds its second Wikimedia conference, and a performing arts Wikiproject gathers steam Serbia report: New chances for GLAM success Sweden report: Photos of Childrens theatre UK report: A Thousand Images of Islam, British Library Updates USA report: Smithsonian Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History; San Diego 73; Black Lunch Table Black artists WMF GLAM report: A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 11:42, ngày 11 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #481

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

• Events
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
      • Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion
      • Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata
      • Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q
      • Making feedback loops work for Wikidata
      • Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going?
  • Upcoming:
    • A biodiversity-themed hackathon is being organized at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium for September 20-24. Three of the ten proposed topics are Wikidata-related — biodiversity-related Wikidata lexemes, taxonomic names, and women in biodiversity research. Remote participation is possible.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
  • Videos
    • Guide to fetch Wikipedia data from Wikidata using Wikibase-SDK and node.js (in Hindi) - YouTube
    • How to create an item on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Books
    • SPARQL wikibook

• Tool of the week
  • Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:So9q/KORP-link.js is a userscript to add a link to the Swedish corpus KORP in the Tools section on items.
  • WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: performed at, Smithsonian trinomial format regex, setlist, number of Classification of the Functions of Government
    • External identifiers: Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, ASE person ID, Alsharek Archive author ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, ARPI author ID, IRIS SSSUP author ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dissertation program, CDDA designationType, container, remix of, insurance number (building), numéro de parcelle
    • External identifiers: SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Palynodata taxa ID, arheologi.ro ID, DDB-Person-Nummer, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID, Svenska Ord ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage object ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage institutions ID, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Mapping the Lives ID, MART catalog person ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Palynodata publications ID, opaquenamespace ID, HarperCollins product ID, Derrieux Agency person ID, Lambic.Info ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, GLN, Unconsenting Media ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Iași Central University Library ID, Volleybox ID, Team-Deutschland-Paralympics-ID, ISL ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, ASJC
  • Query examples:
    • List of properties which have instances or subclass of organisations as possible value (source)
    • List of classes which are used as value constraints for the properties (source)
    • Concepts, processes, practices, etc. linked to the philosophical concept of power (Source)
    • Twelve Times table using Wikidata items (Source)
    • Newly protected World Heritage sites in 2021 (Source)
    • Total number of wins for each world snooker champion (Source)
    • Who was the UK Prime Minister when each of the English Premier League/First Division title winners last won the title (Source)
    • Map of the birthplace of sports team players by decade (lines link birthplace to home venue location) (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Neighborhood Public Art in Boston

• Development
  • Cut save-time for edits in half (phab:T288639)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
  • Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
  • Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
  • Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:31, ngày 16 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33

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 add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [234]

Problems

• There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [235][236][237]

Các thay đổi vào cuối tuần này

• A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [238]
• Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
• In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [239]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

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19:27, ngày 16 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #482

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MusikBot II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Érica Azzellini and Éder Porto on MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link, August 24.
    • BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
  • Past:
    • Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
      • Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata
      • Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects
    • Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Articles
    • 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights -

      

      In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
  • Blogs
    • Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher - Charles Tapley Hoyt
    • The Invisible Citation Commons - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein
    • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries - Bob DuCharme
    • Wikidata or scraping Wikipedia - Denny Vrandečić
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube

• Tools of the week
  • Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed: Try it!
  • The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources from Zotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
  • Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, mix or remix of
    • External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, PsycNET ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: hunting areas, number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID
    • External identifiers: TeamNL player ID, Finnish National Gallery ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, NDL earlier law ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs, KNHB ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code
  • Query examples:
    • Predicates implicated in non-scholarly-article item bloat (source)
    • Church of Scotland Synods as Geoshapes (Source)
    • Map of the origin of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts, current location (Source)
    • Current principal local authorities in England

• Development
  • Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder
  • Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
  • ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
  • Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:46, ngày 23 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34

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 Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).

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21:58, ngày 23 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).

For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. Cảm ơn!

20:34, ngày 24 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 8 • August 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue GLAM-wiki Summer in the City: Polish Teachers met in Warsaw Wikipedia for School – our largest article contest for Ukrainian teachers The importance of Social Service: Modality of educational linkage with ITESM, Querétaro campus and Wikimedia Mexico Wikimania 2021 and the unschooling vibes around Wikipedia by Wikimedia Polska, Education team Open Foundation West Africa Introduces KIWIX Offline to the National Association of Graduate Teachers

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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban

• In the media: Vive la différence!

• Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year

• Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs

• News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia

• Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cycles, and world heritage

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• Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan

• Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #483

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Labs XXXI in English on the topic of Reimagining Wikidata from the margins, August 31
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook, September 4 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #77, September 5
    • Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about data quality, September 13
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021 Come with anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session (August 26th, 2021) logs
    • RubyConfTW 2021
      • Wikidata basics (in Chinese)
      • Wikidata and Open Streetmaps (in Chinese)
      • Using the MediaWiki open data API to solve data description problems (in Chinese)
      • Moving Wikipedia's Infobox to Wikidata's Property:Taiwanese place names (in Chinese)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Why Are Citations Not Part of Discussions on Open Knowledge?
    • Mapping Diversity Puts The Gender Gap of Toponymy On Paper (in Italian)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata: Behind the Scenes of the Great Wikipedia Data Repository (in Spanish)
    • Bring data from Wikidata and any other LOD Knowledge Graph to your Roam graph
  • Notebooks
    • What are the Wikipedia articles you've created about? a notebook which show how to compute statistics about the articles you've created in Wikipedia by "instance of" (P31) property

Wikidata2Ical

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
  • Wikibase Installation & Updating survey has been published!
  • The Board of Trustees election has started. Votes will be accepted until 23:59 31 August 2021 (UTC). View candidate statements, verify your eligibility and vote now.
  • Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
  • WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, remix of, container, release of
    • External identifiers: Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username, Team Deutschland Paralympics ID, BMC ID, Kartridge game ID, ISL ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Daum Cafe ID, Freeview show ID, Unconsenting Media ID, TeamNL athlete ID, Volleybox ID, COD ID, allabolag.se person ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry ID, GSSO ID, Fontaines de France ID, KNHB ID, DC Books book ID, Igromania developer/publisher ID, Deutsche Sporthilfe ID, Finnish National Gallery artwork ID, Igromania series ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, Svenska ord ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID, uses natural resource, created for, number of triples, reprinted in, Eneström Number, літературний редактор
    • External identifiers: Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code, Government Publications Number, Food.com ID, Dewan Negara ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, BBC Food ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II author ID, IndieMag game ID, Bleus Handisport-ID, Overnia, Edizioni Ares author ID, hmmlid, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Naver Post member ID, eAmbrosia ID, DC Character ID, Postimees topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Items in Sweden with coordinate location and elevation above sea-level statements (Source)
    • Map of UK's most extreme cities (Source)
    • All current principal Local Authorities in England (Source)

• Development
  • Wikidata:Mismatch Finder development continues. We are now working on the frontend. First pieces are starting to be visible at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org (but nothing usable yet)
  • Fixed an issue with unicode characters in constraints checks (phab:T289805)
  • Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
  • Continued work on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Continued work on new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 12:58, ngày 30 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35

Các Tin tức kỹ thuật mới nhất từ cộng đồng kỹ thuật Wikimedia. Xin hãy thông báo cho các thành viên khác về những thay đổi này. Không phải thay đổi nào cũng ảnh hưởng trực tiếp tới bạn. Các bản dịch đã có sẵn để đọc.

Thay đổi gần đây

• Một số cú pháp bản nhạc không còn hoạt động nữa và có thể cần được cập nhật, bạn có thể kiểm tra Category:Trang có lỗi kết xuất khuông nhạc trên wiki của mình để biết danh sách các trang có lỗi.

Vấn đề

• Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [240]

Thay đổi sắp tới trong tuần này

• Các thông số về cách bạn lấy token từ API MediaWiki đã được thay đổi vào năm 2014. Cách cũ sẽ không còn hoạt động kể từ ngày 1 tháng 9. Các tập lệnh, bot và công cụ sử dụng các tham số từ trước khi thay đổi năm 2014 cần được cập nhật. Bạn có thể đọc thêm về điều này.
• Phiên bản mới của MediaWiki sẽ được đưa lên wiki thử nghiệm và MediaWiki.org từ ngày 31 tháng Tám. Nó sẽ được cập nhật tại các wiki (trừ Wikipedia) và một vài Wikipedia từ ngày 1 tháng Chín. Nó sẽ được cập nhật trên mọi wiki từ ngày 2 tháng Chín (thời gian biểu).

Thay đổi trong tương lai

• Bạn sẽ có thể đọc nhưng không thể chỉnh sửa Commons trong vài phút vào ngày 6 tháng Chín. Điều này sẽ xảy ra vào khoảng 05:00 UTC. Điều này là để bảo trì cơ sở dữ liệu.
• Tất cả wiki sẽ ở chế độ chỉ đọc trong vài phút trong tuần của ngày 13 tháng 9. Thông tin chi tiết sẽ được công bố trên Tech News sau. Thông tin cũng sẽ được đăng trên các wiki trong những tuần tới. [241]

Tin tức Kỹ thuật được chuẩn bị bởi các biên tập viên của Tin tức và được đăng bởi bot • Đóng góp • Biên dịch • Nhờ giúp đỡ • Phản hồi • Đăng ký/Huỷ đăng ký.

16:01, ngày 30 tháng 8 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #484

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [242], Sep 7th.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A new R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata: tidywikidatar
    • A global directory of official governmental online accounts and services, by Albin Larsson and Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Creating and Querying Personalized Versions of Wikidata on a Laptop
    • Type or Individual? Evidence of Large-Scale Conceptual Disarray in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
  • Other
    • Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
    • Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
    • Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
    • Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
  • In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
    • External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
    • Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
    • Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
    • Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)

• Development
  • Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
  • Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
  • Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
  • Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
  • We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.

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!
  • Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:21, ngày 6 tháng 9 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36

Các Tin tức kỹ thuật mới nhất từ cộng đồng kỹ thuật Wikimedia. Xin hãy thông báo cho các thành viên khác về những thay đổi này. Không phải thay đổi nào cũng ảnh hưởng trực tiếp tới bạn. Các bản dịch đã có sẵn để đọc.

Thay đổi gần đây

• Các wiki đã triển khai các tính năng Tăng trưởng đã tham gia thử nghiệm A/B kể từ khi triển khai, trong đó một số người mới đến không nhận được các tính năng mới. Giờ đây, tất cả những người mới đến trên 21 wiki nhỏ nhất trong số đó sẽ nhận được các tính năng. [243]

Thay đổi sắp tới trong tuần này

• Không có phiên bản phần mềm MediaWiki nào mới được triển khai trong tuần này.

Thay đổi trong tương lai

• Vào năm 2017, thư viện jQuery được cung cấp đã được nâng cấp từ phiên bản 1 lên 3, với một lớp tương thích. Quá trình di chuyển sẽ sớm kết thúc, để giúp cho trang web tải nhanh hơn cho mọi người. Nếu bạn duy trì một tiện ích hoặc tập lệnh người dùng, hãy kiểm tra xem bạn có bất kỳ lỗi JQMIGRATE nào không và sửa chúng, nếu không chúng sẽ bị hỏng. [244][245]
• Năm ngoái, cộng đồng Wikipedia tiếng Bồ Đào Nha đã bắt tay vào một cuộc thử nghiệm để bắt buộc phải đăng nhập để chỉnh sửa. báo cáo tác động của thử nghiệm này đã sẵn sàng. Trong tương lai, nhóm Công cụ Chống quấy rối đang tìm kiếm các dự án sẵn sàng thử nghiệm với việc hạn chế chỉnh sửa IP trên wiki của họ trong một khoảng thừi gian ngắn. Tìm hiểu thêm.

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15:20, ngày 6 tháng 9 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VIII, August 2021 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Australia report: How Australian libraries are turning to Wikipedia during the global pandemic Brazil report: Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America discusses GLAM and decolonization Côte d'Ivoire report: Glam-wiki 2021 10 Juillet en Côte d'Ivoire France report: Wikimedian in residence; Some projects for this autumn India report: Second proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library Italy report: Summer school in July and two new WiR in August Netherlands report: 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg New Zealand report: A Wikimedian at New Zealand Opera Serbia report: Villas and castles of Serbia Sweden report: History, history and future UK report: Khalili Collections reaches 30 articles USA report: Wiki salons and Kearny Mesa Special story: Hack4OpenGLAM is ready to start Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts SDC development WMF GLAM report: GLAM conversations and feedbacks for a better Wikimedia movement Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: August 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VIII, August 2021 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Australia report: How Australian libraries are turning to Wikipedia during the global pandemic Brazil report: Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America discusses GLAM and decolonization Côte d'Ivoire report: Glam-wiki 2021 10 Juillet en Côte d'Ivoire France report: Wikimedian in residence; Some projects for this autumn India report: Second proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library Italy report: Summer school in July and two new WiR in August Netherlands report: 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg New Zealand report: A Wikimedian at New Zealand Opera Serbia report: Villas and castles of Serbia Sweden report: History, history and future UK report: Khalili Collections reaches 30 articles USA report: Wiki salons and Kearny Mesa Special story: Hack4OpenGLAM is ready to start Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts SDC development WMF GLAM report: GLAM conversations and feedbacks for a better Wikimedia movement Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #485

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
    • Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
      • 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
      • 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
      • 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
    • Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
  • Past:
    • Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
  • other
    • Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Wikipedia podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
  • Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: GRAC rating
    • External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
    • External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
    • List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
    • count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
    • List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
    • People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
    • Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
    • Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)
• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
  • Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
  • Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
  • All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:05, ngày 13 tháng 9 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

Các Tin tức kỹ thuật mới nhất từ cộng đồng kỹ thuật Wikimedia. Xin hãy thông báo cho các thành viên khác về những thay đổi này. Không phải thay đổi nào cũng ảnh hưởng trực tiếp tới bạn. Các bản dịch đã có sẵn để đọc.

Thay đổi gần đây

• 45 Wikipedia mới hiện có quyền truy cập vào tính năng Tăng trưởng. [246]
• Phần lớn Wikipedia hiện có quyền truy cập vào các tính năng Tăng trưởng. Nhóm Tăng trưởng đã xuất bản trang Câu hỏi thường gặp về các tính năng. Câu hỏi thường gặp có thể được dịch này bao gồm mô tả về các tính năng, cách sử dụng chúng, cách thay đổi cấu hình và hơn thế nữa.

Vấn đề

• Tất cả wiki sẽ ở chế độ chỉ đọc trong vài phút vào ngày 14 tháng 9. Việc này được lên kế hoạch vào lúc 14:00 UTC. [247]

Thay đổi trong nửa sau tuần này

• Phiên bản mới của MediaWiki sẽ được triển khai trên các wiki thử nghiệm và MediaWiki.org từ ngày 14 tháng Chín. Nó sẽ được cài đặt trên các wiki không phải là Wikipedia và trên một số Wikipedia từ ngày 15 tháng Chín, và trên mọi wiki từ ngày 16 tháng Chín (xem lịch trình).
• Bắt đầu từ tuần này, Wikipedia bằng tiếng Ý sẽ nhận được các bản cập nhật phần mềm hàng tuần vào các ngày thứ Tư. Wiki này từng nhận các bản cập nhật vào thứ Năm. Do sự thay đổi này, các lỗi sẽ được phát hiện và sửa sớm hơn. [248]
• Bạn có thể thêm các liên kết ngôn ngữ trong thanh bên trong giao diện Vector mới một lần nữa. Bạn thực hiện việc này bằng cách liên kết trang với một khoản mục Wikidata. Giao diện Vector mới đã di chuyển các liên kết ngôn ngữ nhưng phần chọn ngôn ngữ mới vẫn chưa thể thêm liên kết ngôn ngữ. [249]
• Công cụ cú pháp tô sáng đánh dấu mã bằng các màu khác nhau. Bây giờ nó có thể làm tô sáng 23 ngôn ngữ mã mới. Ngoài ra, golang hiện có thể được sử dụng làm bí danh cho Ngôn ngữ lập trình Go và chế độ output đặc biệt đã được thêm vào để hiển thị đầu ra của chương trình. [250][251]

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15:34, ngày 13 tháng 9 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #486

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [252], Sep 21st.
    • Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
  • Ongoing:
    • The Creative Commons Global Summit and Hack4OpenGLAM hackathon take place from September 20 until 24 (fully online). Several sessions and projects are related to Wikidata and/or Wikibase (see schedule search).
  • Past:
    • Data Quality Days:
      • Periodic editathons as a way to improve data quality on Wikidata: an experiment in Italy - YouTube
      • Bringing Czech authority files into 21st century: Integration with Wikidata - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Mapping the Scottish Reformation - using Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project - YouTube
    • OpenSym 2021: WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #53 (user scripts and gadgets that can help you edit) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Sign up here if you want to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: created for, Candomblé nation, NZTCS conservation status, Mexican video game rating category
    • External identifiers: INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry-Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Every Noise at Once ID, Spotify show episode ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Bing entity ID, TermCymru ID, NZTCS ID, Online Begraafplaatsen person ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Naver Post member ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: relevant date for copyright, issuing agency, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods ID, main subject for, type host taxon, has thematic relation, location of lexeme usage, ODOT county code, illustrative content
    • External identifiers: e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Google Fonts ID, Kallías, Owler company ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Allrugby, SLSP editions ID, Issuu ID, XXI Secolo ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, HJP ID, NVE reservoir ID, Biografija.ru ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, IRIS Tuscany IDs, Joshua Project people group ID, Flipboard ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide (2021- Version) ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Poetsgate poem ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Zenodo Communities ID, National Union Catalog ID
  • Query examples:
    • Biological taxa named after (metal (and other) music bands
    • Works by Dante Alighieri (1265 - September 13/14, 1321)
    • Cumulative page views for candidates in Czech parliamentary election 2021, split by party (Source)

• Development
  • The new Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service will be in production 18 Oct 2021
  • Working on changing the way sitelinks to Wikimedia Commons are created from Item data; now using topic's main category (P910) and category related to list (P1754) before Commons category (P373) (T232927)
  • Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
  • Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
  • Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
  • Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
  • Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
  • Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
  • Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:14, ngày 20 tháng 9 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38

Các Tin tức kỹ thuật mới nhất từ cộng đồng kỹ thuật Wikimedia. Xin hãy thông báo cho các thành viên khác về những thay đổi này. Không phải thay đổi nào cũng ảnh hưởng trực tiếp tới bạn. Các bản dịch đã có sẵn để đọc.

Thay đổi gần đây

• Các tính năng Tăng trưởng hiện đã được triển khai cho hầu hết các Wikipedia. Đối với phần lớn Wikipedia nhỏ, các tính năng chỉ có sẵn cho người dùng có kinh nghiệm, để thử nghiệm các tính năng và cấu hình chúng. Các tính năng sẽ có sẵn cho người mới bắt đầu từ ngày 20 tháng 9 năm 2021.
• MediaWiki có một tính năng làm nổi bật các liên kết cục bộ đến các bài viết ngắn theo một phong cách khác. Mỗi người dùng có thể chọn kích thước của bài viết "sơ khai". Tính năng này rất kém về hiệu suất và sau khi tham khảo ý kiến, tính năng này đã bị loại bỏ. [253]
• Một thay đổi kỹ thuật đã được thực hiện đối với giao diện MonoBook để cho phép các tác vụ bảo trì và bảo dưỡng dễ dàng hơn. Điều này đã dẫn đến một số thay đổi nhỏ đối với HTML giúp cho HTML của MonoBook nhất quán với các giao diện khác. Đã có nhiều nỗ lực để giảm thiểu tác động đến người chỉnh sửa, nhưng vui lòng ping Jon (WMF) trên wiki hoặc trong phabricator nếu có bất kỳ sự cố nào được báo cáo.

Vấn đề

• Đã xảy ra sự cố với việc tìm kiếm vào tuần trước. Nhiều yêu cầu tìm kiếm đã không thể được xử lý trong 2 giờ do sự khởi động lại một cách ngẫu nhiên của máy chủ tìm kiếm. [254]

Thay đổi sắp tới trong tuần này

• Phiên bản mới của MediaWiki sẽ được triển khai trên các wiki thử nghiệm và MediaWiki.org từ ngày 21 tháng Chín. Nó sẽ được cài đặt trên các wiki không phải là Wikipedia và trên một số Wikipedia từ ngày 22 tháng Chín, và trên mọi wiki từ ngày 23 tháng Chín (xem lịch trình).
• meta=proofreadpage API đã thay đổi. Tham số piprop đã được đổi tên thành prpiprop. Người dùng API nên cập nhật mã của họ để tránh cảnh báo thông số không được chấp nhận. Người dùng Pywikibot nên nâng cấp lên phiên bản 6.6.0. [255]

Các thay đổi trong tương lai

• Reply tool sẽ được triển khai cho các wiki còn lại trong những tuần tới. Nó hiện là một phần của "Công cụ thảo luận" trong tính năng Beta ở hầu hết các wiki. Bạn có thể tắt tính năng này trong Tùy chọn Sửa đổi. [256]
• Thông báo trước đó về sự thay đổi về cách bạn lấy token từ API đã bị trì hoãn đến ngày 21 tháng 9 do không tương thích với Pywikibot. Các nhà khai thác bot sử dụng Pywikibot có thể theo dõi T291202 để biết tiến trình sửa lỗi và nên lên kế hoạch nâng cấp lên phiên bản 6.6.1 khi nó được phát hành.

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18:31, ngày 20 tháng 9 năm 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 9 • September 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Cultural history on Wikipedia Education program in Ukraine is finally back to offline! Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Module Distribution in the Philippines Senior Citizens WikiTown 2021: Týn nad Vltavou #WikiXLaEducación: New contest to include articles about education on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans

• In the media: The future of Wikipedia

• Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned

• Op-Ed: I've been desysopped

• Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages

• Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators

• Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings

• Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?

• Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11

• News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund

• WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful

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Wikidata weekly summary #487

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021 14:36 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #55 (with OpenRefine) - YouTube, Facebook, October 2 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #81, October 3
    • COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard, 30 Sep 2021, Time: 13.00-14.00 WIB (join details)
  • Past:
    • Data Quality Days: You can find slides, videos and notes for many of the sessions on the event page.
    • Wiki Movimento Brasil. The universe of libraries:
      • Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies (in Portuguese)
      • Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge powers (in Portuguese)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #54 - YouTube, Facebook

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting Cell Ontology and Wikidata via Mix’n’match
  • Papers
    • WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides, source code, Short Video)
  • Videos
    • How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Demo: create Wikidata lexemes from Goethe's "Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" - YouTube
    • Demo of adding a string to Wikidata as a lexeme and linking it to the corresponding Wikidata item - YouTube
    • Wikidata Query Service assistance (in French) - YouTube
    • Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical Subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
  • Other
    • Chirpanalytica: "Give me your Twitter name and I'll tell you which party you choose". "What if you could automatically determine the political orientation of a person using just a Twitter account? This is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years".
    • That Wikidata Buzz - Siobhan Leachman talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon community awards.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL
    • External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID
    • External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS)
  • Query examples:
    • Given name "Filaret" ranked within similar names (source: talk page of item)
    • Start time of open access journals known to Wikidata (Source)
    • Mouths of rivers flowing into the Arctic (Source)
    • What chocolate mousse is called in different languages (Source)
    • Women in Wikidata whose husbands are economists with articles on the English Wikipedia, but they themselves lack articles (adapted from Source)
    • Same with husbands (adapted from Source)
    • People employed by the ZDF with an image on Commons and a link to the German language Wikipedia (Source)
    • Coordinates of the birth places of people named Antoine (Source)
    • Place of birth of people named Antoine, Tony, Antonio, etc
    • UK MPs who had the most identified descendants who were themselves MPs (Source)
  • Newest database reports: top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (works again)

• Development
  • Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
  • Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
  • Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
  • Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-39

Các Tin tức kỹ thuật mới nhất từ cộng đồng kỹ thuật Wikimedia. Xin hãy thông báo cho các thành viên khác về những thay đổi này. Không phải thay đổi nào cũng ảnh hưởng trực tiếp tới bạn. Các bản dịch đã có sẵn để đọc.

Thay đổi gần đây

• iOS15 có một chức năng mới được gọi là Private Relay (trang web của Apple). Điều này có thể ẩn IP của người dùng khi họ sử dụng trình duyệt Safari. Điều này giống như sử dụng VPN trong đó chúng ta thấy một địa chỉ IP khác để thay thế. Đây là lựa chọn opt-in và chỉ dành cho những người trả thêm tiền cho iCloud. Nó sẽ đến với người dùng Safari trên OSX sau. Có một thảo luận kỹ thuật về ý nghĩa của điều này đối với các wiki của Wikimedia.

Vấn đề

• Một số tiện ích và tập lệnh người dùng thêm các mục vào phần portlet (công cụ bài viết) của giao diện. Một thay đổi gần đây đối với HTML có thể đã làm cho các liên kết đó có kích thước phông chữ khác. Điều này có thể được khắc phục bằng cách thêm lớp CSS .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [257]

Thay đổi trong nửa sau tuần này

• Phiên bản mới của MediaWiki sẽ được triển khai trên các wiki thử nghiệm và MediaWiki.org từ ngày 28 tháng Chín. Nó sẽ được cài đặt trên các wiki không phải là Wikipedia và trên một số Wikipedia từ ngày 29 tháng Chín, và trên mọi wiki từ ngày 30 tháng Chín (xem lịch trình).
• Phần mở rộng GettingStarted được xây dựng vào năm 2013 và cung cấp một quy trình tích hợp cho người dùng tài khoản mới trên một số phiên bản của Wikipedia. Tuy nhiên, các tính năng Tăng trưởng mới phát triển gần đây đã cung cấp một trải nghiệm tích hợp tốt hơn. Vì giờ phần lớn các Wikipedia đã tiếp cận được với các tính năng Tăng trưởng nên GettingStarted sẽ ngưng hoạt động từ ngày 4 tháng 10. [258]
• Một số ít người dùng sẽ không thể truy cập vào các wiki của Wikimedia sau ngày 30 tháng 9. Điều này là do một chứng chỉ cũ root certificate sẽ không còn hoạt động. Họ cũng sẽ gặp vấn đề với nhiều trang web khác. Người dùng đã cập nhật phần mềm của họ trong năm năm qua se không có vấn đề gì. Người dùng ở châu Âu, châu Phi và châu Á ít có khả năng gặp vấn đề ngay lập tức ngay cả khi phần mềm của họ quá cũ. Bạn có thể đọc thêm
• Bạn có thể nhận thông báo khi ai đó để lại bình luận trên trang thảo luận của người dùng hoặc đề cập đến bạn trong một bình luận trên trang thảo luận. Nhấp vào liên kết thông báo sẽ đưa bạn đến bình luận đó và làm nổi bật nó. Trước đây, hành động tương tự sẽ đưa bạn lên đầu phần có chứa bình luận. Bạn có thể tìm thấy thông tin thêm trong T282029.

Các thay đổi trong tương lai

• Công cụ trả lời sẽ được triển khai cho các wiki còn lại trong những tuần tới. Nó hiện là một phần của "Công cụ thảo luận" trong Tính năng beta ở hầu hết các wiki. Bạn sẽ có thể tắt nó trong Tùy chọn Sửa đổi. Xem danh sách các wiki. [259]

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22:22, ngày 27 tháng 9 năm 2021 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 105 Wikimedia Nederland

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Tech News: 2021-40

Các Tin tức kỹ thuật mới nhất từ cộng đồng kỹ thuật Wikimedia. Xin hãy thông báo cho các thành viên khác về những thay đổi này. Không phải thay đổi nào cũng ảnh hưởng trực tiếp tới bạn. Các bản dịch đã có sẵn để đọc.

Thay đổi gần đây

• Một cách hiệu quả hơn để gửi các thay đổi từ Wikidata đến wiki Wikimedia cho thấy chúng đã được áp dụng đã được kích hoạt cho 10 wiki sau: MediaWiki.org, Wikipedia tiếng Ý, tiếng Catalan, tiếng Do Thái và tiếng Việt, Wikisource tiếng Pháp và Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary và Wikinews tiếng Anh. Nếu bạn nhận thấy bất cứ điều gì kỳ lạ về cách các thay đổi từ Wikidata xuất hiện trong những thay đổi gần đây hoặc danh sách theo dõi của bạn trên các wiki đó, bạn có thể cho báo cáo cho các nhà phát triển biết.

Thay đổi trong nửa sau tuần này

• Phiên bản mới của MediaWiki sẽ được triển khai trên các wiki thử nghiệm và MediaWiki.org từ ngày 5 tháng Mười. Nó sẽ được cài đặt trên các wiki không phải là Wikipedia và trên một số Wikipedia từ ngày 6 tháng Mười, và trên mọi wiki từ ngày 7 tháng Mười (xem lịch trình).
• Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [260]
• A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. Nếu bạn nhận thấy bất cứ điều gì kỳ lạ về cách các thay đổi từ Wikidata xuất hiện trong những thay đổi gần đây hoặc danh sách theo dõi của bạn trên các wiki đó, bạn có thể cho báo cáo cho các nhà phát triển biết.

Các thay đổi trong tương lai

• Bạn có thể sớm nhận được thông báo liên wiki trong ứng dụng Wikipedia trên iOS. Bạn cũng có thể nhận thông báo dưới dạng thông báo đẩy. Nhiều cập nhật thông báo sẽ có trong các phiên bản sau. [261]
• JavaScript mw.config sẽ sớm không còn chứa các giá trị cho wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, wgIllegalFileChars, $ltr-code5, $ltr-code6, $ltr-code7 và $ltr-code8. Chúng hiện đang được ghi lại là để sử dụng nội bộ và không phải là một phần của các biến "ổn định" có sẵn để sử dụng trong JavaScript của wiki. [262]
• The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [263]

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16:31, ngày 4 tháng 10 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #488

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: BrokenSegue. Welcome onboard \o/

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-10-04, Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Stephanie Sapienza and Emily Frazier on Unlocking the airwaves, a digital archive project that compiles early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). Agenda with call link, October 5.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French, by Vigneron, October 5 at 18:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • New Wikidata Lexemes Challenge! Help to improve lexicographical data on Wikidata. This week's theme: Seasons.
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session logs (September 2021)
    • LD4 - video presentation start 05:00 Keepin 'N Sync... with wikidata ... and ORCID...and GBIF - slides by David Shorthouse
      • The Magnus list that was mentioned at 27:00 (please update list)
      • Ticket created related to problem mentioned with WD objects getting deleted - T291659
    • 2021-09-30, Talk "COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard" at Seminar Pekanan IR-NLP — slides in English, video in Indonesian (source)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • What can querying Wikidata do for me?
    • https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/01/synchronising-wikidata-and-wikipedia-an-outreachy-project/
  • Papers: Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: The case of Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata for beginners Part. 1 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
• ItemSubjector is Python console tool that helps add main subject (P921) to groups of items in a semi-automatic way.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
  • You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
  • Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL, number of evacuated, template populates category, number of tries marked, madhhab
    • External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru person ID, Kallías ID, Convict Records of Australia ID, Croatian Language Portal identifier, Issuu ID, Flipboard ID, Umění pro město ID, BBC Food ID, Baijiahao ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts institution ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts object ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Zenodo communities ID, XXI Secolo ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Postimees topic ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID, original description, Bowers acronym, mul label property, stylized name
    • External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS), IRIS Sapienza author ID, AFNIL publisher ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, TMOK ID, Kastra ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Österreichischer Fußball-Bund ID, MYmovies-Personenkennung, IGI Global Dictionary ID, L'Unificazione ID, EMBO member ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women born in Nigeria with an article in Basque for Listeria (Source)
    • Still life paintings by women (Source)
    • Map of cemeteries in New Zealand (Source)
    • Right Livelihood Award laureates (Source)
    • Chelsea FC players, with English Wikipedia article, Commons image, etc (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks: P22 (father) (works again)

• Development
  • Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (phab:T291377)
  • Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
  • Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (phab:T289473)
  • Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.

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) 16:36, ngày 4 tháng 10 năm 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41

Các Tin tức kỹ thuật mới nhất từ cộng đồng kỹ thuật Wikimedia. Xin hãy thông báo cho các thành viên khác về những thay đổi này. Không phải thay đổi nào cũng ảnh hưởng trực tiếp tới bạn. Các bản dịch đã có sẵn để đọc.

Thay đổi sắp tới trong tuần này

• Phiên bản mới của MediaWiki sẽ được triển khai trên các wiki thử nghiệm và MediaWiki.org từ ngày 12 tháng Mười. Nó sẽ được cài đặt trên các wiki không phải là Wikipedia và trên một số Wikipedia từ ngày 13 tháng Mười, và trên mọi wiki từ ngày 14 tháng Mười (xem lịch trình).

• Tuỳ chon "đầu đề được đánh số tự động" đang được gỡ bỏ. Bạn có thể đọc phab:T284921 vì những lý do và cuộc thảo luận về nó. Sự thay đổi này đã được công bố công bố trước đó Một snippet viết bằng JavaScript có sẵn có thể được sử dụng để tạo Tiện ích trên wiki vẫn muốn hỗ trợ tự động đánh số.

Họp mặt

• Bạn có thể tham gia cuộc họp về Cải tiến Phiên bản Máy tính. Một bản trình bày về các tính năng mới nhất sẽ được trình diễn. Sự kiện này sẽ diễn ra vào thứ Ba, ngày 12 tháng 10 lúc 16:00 UTC. Xem cách tham gia.

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15:30, ngày 11 tháng 10 năm 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #489

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
    • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #83, October 17
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #11, Perception and Senses

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata in African Language Communities
    • Media art on Wikipedia wants to make collections and metadata more accessible (in Dutch)
  • Papers
    • Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Scripts and gadgets in Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Coupling Wikipedia Categories with Wikidata Statements for Better Semantics - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Neguess is a Wikidata entity guessing game with negative clues. (demo video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
  • You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
  • Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
  • Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!
  • The WMF Search team will begin data transfer for the new Streaming Updater today (11 Oct 2021).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dissertation program, date of probate
    • External identifiers: Densho Encyclopedia ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, DWDS lemma ID, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID, Database of Czech Amateur Theater person ID, WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: registration number, present in non-fictional work, NIK (Nomor Induk Kependudukan), reports to, excitation energy, merger, split-off, choreography for
    • External identifiers: AllSides ID, Apple maps id, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, NLI archive ID, CANTIC ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Chi era Costui - Plaque ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, Apple Music track ID
  • Query examples:
    • Share of women for each Nobel prize (source)
    • Nobel Prize statistics on number of recipients for award wrt. gender (interactive plot) (source)
    • Share of women among Nobel prize winners by decade
    • Notable books on linked data, semantic technologies, and semantic knowledge graphs (source)
    • Benelux railway stations connected from Brussels-South railway station (Q800587) (source)
    • Date of opening and closing of railway stations in Denmark (Source)
    • Map or Talaiotic archeological culture sites located in the Menorca island in Spain (source)
    • Location of all the meteorological stations in Navarre (source)
    • Photos of participants in the Pandora Papers (source)
    • Diameter, size and mass of balls (source)
    • French departments with their shape
    • Longest rivers located in France and which did not gave their name to a department (source)
    • Statues measuring more than 30 m in height (excluding the pedestal) (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
  • Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (phab:T289473)
  • Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (phab:T285758)
  • Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (phab:T292203)
  • Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (phab:T289417)
  • Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.

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

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

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This Month in GLAM: September 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IX, September 2021 Headlines Albania report: Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign Argentina report: New parnership agreements and more training! Australia report: Preserving paralympic history Belgium report: Wikimedia Belgium GLAM report September 2021 Brazil report: WikidataCon's right around the corner: find out how to participate France report: Wikidata training in Musée de Grenoble Italy report: Call for Italian museums, archives and libraries Kosovo report: Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign Netherlands report: GLAM at WikiconNL2021, ISA-campaign Tag the species Naturalis en Rijksmuseum Serbia report: New WiR and presentation of our activities Spain report: Women Gastronomes Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Uploads from museums in Göteborg; Wiki Loves Monuments; LGBTQIA+ edit-a-thon UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections USA report: New page patrol not assuming good faith towards workshop editors Content Partnerships Hub report: Working towards a thematic hub on content partnerships Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: First steps for Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service WMF GLAM report: Updates on grant-funded technical projects Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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