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The Bugle: Issue CXCVIII, October 2022

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: Meet some of the project coordinators

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Wikidata weekly summary #542

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
    • RobertgarrigosBOT
      • Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
    • Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
    • Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
    • Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
  • Papers
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #94
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 10: Adding references to Wikidata items
    • Qichwabase as a Wikibase instance - Wikibase as a core technology to support a harmonization process of the Quechua language and knowledge.
  • Dataviz
    • Career of Nobel laureates in literature
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers careers in dataviz
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
    • 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
    • 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
  • The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
  • The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
  • Job opening
    • Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
    • External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
    • External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
    • Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
    • How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
    • Streets of Paris that meet (source)
    • Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
    • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
  • Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
  • The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
  • Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
  • Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
  • Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
  • Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
  • Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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) 17:36, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-42

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

Recent changes

• The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [1]
• A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
• Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [2]
• Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [3]

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [4]

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Wikidata weekly summary #543

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AniMangaDBImportBot
      • Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
    • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
    • Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables
  • Past
    • The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
      • Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports
      • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • The Impact of Wikidata and its Community – Part 1, Part 2
    • Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
    • What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
    • Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
    • Volunteers speaking Turkic languages ​​met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
  • Videos
    • Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #95
    • GND meets Wikibase
    • COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
    • Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
    • Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
    • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
  • Papers
    • Towards improving Wikidata reuse with emerging patterns
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections
    • Empirical Study of Elite Networks with Wikidata
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data
  • Dataviz
    • Nobel laureates in Economics
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 awesome tools and little helpers to help you around Wikidata
    • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • Documenting our languages with Lexeme by Asaf Bartov

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.

Wikidata passed another milestone on October 19.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata has crossed the mark of 100,000,000 items
  • The Small wiki toolkits team are looking for feedback on the ongoing workshop series around bots and scripts development.
  • Job openings
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d)
      • Data Analyst Wikidata (m/f/d)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
    • External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to (source)
    • People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin (source)
    • Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics (source)
    • Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association (source)
    • Flags containing the colors white and yellow (source)
    • AI models (source)
    • Swedes accused for churel (source)
    • Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (phab:T307866)
  • Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360)
  • Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289)
  • REST API:
    • Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681)
    • Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358)

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) 17:23, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-43

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

Recent changes

• There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
• On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems

• Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [6]
• Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [7][8][9]
• Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes

• The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu. [10]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #544

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 November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
  • Past
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
    • Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
      • Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
      • Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
      • Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
    • Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday collaborative video (Youtube, Commons)
    • Livestream with Jan Ainali, Abbe98, Denny Vrandečić and Sandra Fauconnier for Wikidata's birthday (Youtube)
  • Threads
    • History of Wikidata by Denny Vrandečić
    • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
    • 10 WikiProjects you should join
    • 10 tools and helpers to help you around Wikidata
    • 10 websites and apps built on top of Wikidata
    • 10 queries that teach you something about the world
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: embargoed until
    • External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
    • External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID
  • Query examples:
    • Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
    • Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
    • Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
    • French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
    • Graph of filmi music composers (source)
    • Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
    • Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
  • Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
  • REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)

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) 19:19, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-44

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

Recent changes

• When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [11]
• In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
• The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [13]
• It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [14]
• It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [15]
• It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [16]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

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  • Isabelle Belato
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  • Atama
  • Astronautics~enwiki
  • Athaenara
  • Eddie891
  • GraemeL
  • Marianocecowski
  • Natalya
  • Pratyeka
  • SB Johnny

Interface administrator changes

• TheresNoTime
• Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

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  • Blablubbs
  • Firefly
• Joe Roe

Oversight changes

• DGG

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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Wikidata weekly summary #545

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MsynBot 10, Mr Robot
  • New request for comments: Create items for property proposals
  • Other discussions: State of the Wikidata, thoughts on data quality and structure (on the mailing-list)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
    • Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
    • Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Analysis of City Information on Wikidata by Jsamwrites
    • Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia by Tim Sherratt
    • Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Papers
    • Leveraging Wikidata's edit history in knowledge graph refinement tasks (Gonzalez-Hevia and Gayo-Avello)
  • Videos
    • Practical Linked Open Data for Small Archives (in English)
    • Live Wikidata editing #97 with Jan and Albin

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: collection items at
    • External identifiers: Language of Bindings ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, AUTC herritage object ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Universal Content Identifier, Léonore Web ID, BritBox ID (UK version), OMED ID, Municipal Library of Trikala ID, MMB ID, HiSCoD ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ILAMDIR ID, Cannabis Database ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, island code of Indonesia, SR-Archiv print media ID, SR-Archiv record ID, EuDML work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official demo URL, WMOOV movie ID, press information URL, contact page URL, sitemap URL, REGON, Check Digit, impressum URL, from language & to language, object identifies
    • External identifiers: Oblio author ID, Pittori Liguri ID, Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, SciSpace author ID, RomArchive person ID, Webtoon creator ID, Archives West repository ID, npm scope, Team Norway profile ID, identifiant USTC, worldofsam ID, Open Supply Hub organization ID, Kotobank ID, Weblio ID, Haymarket Books Author ID, ILNM ID, BookWalker series ID, IRIS Sicily IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Intangible cultural heritage (source)
    • Wikimedians with Mastodon accounts
    • Politicians with Mastodon accounts (source)
    • Graph of the characters of the book "We Are Here" (source)
    • Map of birth places of women mentioned in the book "Femmes de lettres en Bretagne" (source)
    • Participants in the 1955 Bandung Conference (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
  • Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
  • Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
  • Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
  • REST API:
    • Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

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  • 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!

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Recent changes

• An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [17]

Problems

• Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Wikidata weekly summary #546

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 11
      • Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular daily
    • VojtěchDostálBot 1
      • Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 10
      • Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
    • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n)
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Awesome Wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information
    • The Wednesday index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article
    • The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria
    • Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon
    • Checking lexical forms - Abstract Wikipedia Updates
  • Papers
    • Building the European Social Innovation Database with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
    • WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark
  • Videos
    • Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest.
    • David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube
    • Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube
    • 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
  • Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, JioSaavn artist ID, England Hockey ID, UWIND ID, NCUA Charter ID, FDIC Certificate ID, Niconico ID, Camp Wild ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, MSVF ID, Central Library of Volos authority ID, Aerodrome identification Code, UOM ID, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, Levadia Library ID, IHF profile ID, ihg Hotel ID, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Louisiana Plant ID, WMOOV movie ID, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: subfunction, mastodon URL, unique name, user input & output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme, fruit color, headline, chapter or section
    • External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID, Wyndham Hotel ID, Hilton Hotel ID, DML-CZ publication ID, Accor Hotel ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon, Hlídač státu, Kirjasampo ID, Boksampo ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID, KOBIS people ID, RISM siglum, Infopédia ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
  • Query examples:
    • Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata
    • Mastodon accounts of researchers (source)
    • Most annotated servers according to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address (source)
    • European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude (source)
    • Map of water bodies in France (source)
    • Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize (source)
    • Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
    • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
  • Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
  • New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

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: 2022-46

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

Recent changes

• At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [18]
• The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [19]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
• There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [20]

Future changes

• Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [21]
• Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.

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Wikidata weekly summary #547

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cewbot 5
      • Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
    • Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Apple Podcasts is auto-tagging episodes with topics
  • Papers
    • Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
    • Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube
    • SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
    • Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: build system, tiratge, official demo URL, pinout, sitemap URL
    • External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID, Baidu Tieba name, DrugCentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID, Musicsperlacobla composer ID, Boig Sardanista sardana ID, npm scope, IRIS UNICT author ID, IRIS UNIME author ID, IRIS UNIPA author ID, IRIS UNIKORE author ID, Hlídač státu person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has visual representation, chapter and verse in the Bible, commit hash, official server list URL, translation management URL
    • External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID, SNE publisher ID, Livres Hebdo ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, AniList staff ID, ECOF saint ID, DFK Paris person ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID
  • Query examples:
    • Finding the first revision and original creator of items with mwapi
    • Mastodon accounts (with Twitter equivalents) (source)
    • Gender balances of winners of literary awards (source)
  • Newest templates:
    • Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki

• Development
  • REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
    • Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
    • Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)

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: 2022-47

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

• The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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Wikidata weekly summary #548

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (RfP scheduled to end after 4 December 2022 17:22 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Identifier sync bot
      • Task: Add database identifiers to items, mainly journal article items.
    • BorkedBot 9
      • Task: Import values of YouTube handle based on YouTube channel ID (P2397) and vice versa.
    • Botcrux 11
      • Task/s: Replace stated in (P248) to publisher (P123) where the value is World Athletics (Q1158).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
    • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (November 2022) log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • When information expands, ronnabytes and quettabytes come to the rescue.
    • Understanding the Knowledge Graph: Examples, Uses and More
    • Plotting the age of parliament with Livebook
    • Programming Languages Influence Ranking
  • Papers
    • Mapping Process for the Task: Wikidata Statements to Text as Wikipedia Sentences
    • KnowGL: Knowledge Generation and Linking from Text
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #99
    • WikiMentorAfrica - Displaying Wikidata DataViz on external web pages day - YouTube (part1, part 2)
    • Wikidata Workshop (Digital Humanities on Wikipedia - Archiving of COVID-19 under debate) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Creating a Wikidata item (in Estonian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2022 (in Chinese) - YouTube
      • The past and future of Wikidata in Taiwan
      • An Attempt to Connect Wikidata with OpenStreetMap
      • Wikidata teaching experience in National Cheng Kung University's "Integrating Wiki into History Teaching"
      • Is it composition or construction? Talking about the System Thinking of "Data Translation" Opening up in Data Dictionary
  • Other
    • Summary of the tabular style data discussion at Wikidata 10th Birthday in Utrecht, the Netherlands

• Tool of the week
  • The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube))

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenCheck is a new effort to build an open community-powered identity verification system, among other things with the help of Wikidata.
  • The Digital Benin website is linking to Wikidata identifiers, making more exploration and understanding possible beyond what the site itself has: https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109380697777661025
  • Wikidata is on Mastodon: wikis.world/@wikidata. Remember to toot using the #Wikidata hashtag so people can find related topics.
  • New product managers have joined the Wikimedia Deutschland development team:
    • Arian Bozorg, Junior Product Manager for Wikidata
    • Jon Amar, Wikibase Suite Product Manager

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎fedpress.ru person ID, ‎UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID, ‎OVO ID, ‎Best Western hotel ID, ‎Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, ‎New Zealand Legislation ID, ‎Travel Weekly hotel ID, ‎fruit color, ‎e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, ‎Accor hotel ID, ‎OpenCritic outlet ID, ‎Aathavanitli Gani film ID, ‎ID of část obce díl, ‎Livres Hebdo ID, ‎AniList staff ID, ‎Dictionary.com entry, ‎Golfdata ID, ‎Collins Online English Dictionary entry
  • New property proposals to review: Verbalization by lexeme, Cultural Good of Croatia ID, access via, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, image of feces, image of fauna tracks, hackage package, Packagist package, supports authentication method, package registry usernames, Go package path, Dongqiudi.com player ID, Plazi reference ID, Kanjipedia ID, kino1tv.ru ID, EuDML journal ID, Jiten Online kanji ID, lexeme of other gender, serves resource, YouTube handle, Wikimedia Phabricator project, ISFDB award ID, Trismegistos author ID, Africultures Structure-ID, African American Visual Artists Database ID, Lighthouse Directory page, UniProt Disease ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, object pertains to, negates property, GCD issue ID, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, Nîmes cemetieres person ID, LMÍ id, kód adresního místa podle RÚIAN, IdnaMapping, экологическая группа растений, International Computer Game Collection work ID, JLect entry ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Au Senate ID, manchu.work lexeme ID, Israeli Opera site (English) person id, of instances of, subclass of with uncertain existance, vazn, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Sense relationships connected to semantic roles, TV Maze episode ID
  • Query examples:
    • Translated Wikidata property labels (top 100 languages) (source)
    • Dentists who are notable footballers (source)
    • Map of obelisks over 40 m high (source)
    • Notable doctoral student/advisor pairs where at least one of them is within the Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on Mastodon (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
    • Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
    • Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
    • Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
  • Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
    • Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
  • Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:
    • Improved the markers that indicate the field is required input (phab:T322683)
    • Improved a help link (phab:T315161)

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
  • Go through the list of pages with sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) and update them either to intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) or remove the sitelink. We have worklists for many languages.
  • 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: 2022-48

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

• A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [23][24][25]
• On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [26]

Future changes

• How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [27]

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - November 2022 Newsletter

This is our twentyfirst newsletter, covering November 2022. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17.

Activities

• Current: Women in Climate Change editathon in various languages (1 December 2022 - 31 January 2023) (SDG 5 & 13) [17]
• Past: Wikipedia and sustainability, how to increase knowledge on climate change? (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Wikidata editathon in Swedish during COP 27 (SDG 13) [2]

News

• Wikimedia Nederland signed the Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant (SDG all) [3]
• WikiProject Govdirectory was featured as Digital Public Goods (SDG 16) [11]
• The theme for Wiki Loves Africa 2023 has been revealed: Climate and weather (SDG 13) [16]

Resources

• Let's Connect learning report - pilot phase 2022 (SDG 17) [15]

Research

• Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing [SDG 15) [7]
• A longitudinal analysis of gender diversity in Wikipedia articles (SDG 5) [13]

Videos

• 10 Anos de Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, por Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (SDG 11) [14]

New WikiProjects

• Myosotis Pilot (SDG 15) [12]

New Wikidata properties

• Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus (SDG 11) [4]
• Louisiana Plant ID (SDG 15) [5]
• DrugCentral ID (SDG 3) [8]
• Probes And Drugs ID (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata query examples

• Map of water bodies in France (SDG 14) [6]
• Gender balances of winners of literary awards (SDG 5) [10]

Links

• [1] https://www.wikimedia.nl/session_wikiconnl22/
• [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Swedish_Riksdag_documents/Kopplingssprint_COP_27
• [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Environmental_Sustainability_Covenant
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11184
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11189
• [6] https://w.wiki/5wCp
• [7] https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e97374
• [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11198
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11199
• [10] https://w.wiki/5$BR
• [11] https://mailchi.mp/c3e4c371c62a/announcing-new-dpga-members-and-strengthening-dpi-12387620
• [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum_of_New_Zealand_Te_Papa_Tongarewa/What_We%27ve_Done/Myosotis_Pilot
• [13] https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wednesday-index
• [14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgh5_oD1yec
• [15] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Let%27s_Connect_learning_report_-_pilot_phase_2022.pdf
• [16] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023
• [17] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change_2022

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Wikidata weekly summary #549

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • TaxonomyBot
  • New request for comments:
    • Remove watchlist summary

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
    • Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
    • The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
    • Animals to Play H-O-R-S-E With
    • Mini hackathon in Utrecht, by Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Structural Quality Metrics to Evaluate Knowledge Graphs
    • Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets
  • Videos
    • How to edit a Wikidata item to appear in an Infobox on Wikipedia (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Library data on Wikidata: a case study of the National Library of Latvia - YouTube
    • Wikidata / National Archives of Australia Project with Tim Sherratt - YouTube
    • How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects - YouTube
    • 2022 edition: Timelapse of railway stations in Denmark (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 14: How To Add References To Wikidata Articles (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday celebration events, By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
    • Wikidata Istanbul 2022
      • Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) by Asaf Bartov (Day 1: English, Turkish)
      • Modeling Our Languages ​​with Lexeme (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata Querying with SPARQL (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • Wikidata and GLAM: Museums of Turkey (Day 3: Turkish, English)
      • Potential Benefits of Wikidata to the Health System, Nevit Dilmen (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Useful Wikipedia Tools, Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Handy Wikidata Gadgets by Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, English)
      • Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and Beyond, Lydia Pintscher (Day 1: Turkish, English)
      • Structured Data Across Wikimedia by Luca Martinelli (Day 2, English)
      • Getting Inspiration from Projects Using Wikidata, Neslihan Turan (Day 1: Turkish, English)
  • Podcasts
    • WikiProject Biography, a podcast episode presenting Wikidata:WikiProject Biography
  • Thread
    • The advent of Wikiviz, 24 dataviz about Wikipedia and Wikidata until Christmas
  • Other
    • A rap battle between Wikipedia and Wikidata as envisaged by ChatGPT

• Tool of the week
  • How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opportunities: Post-doc in Natural Language Processing (1.0 FTE), University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: has biological vector, EuDML journal ID, SciSpace author ID, Oblio author ID, Dams in Japan number, SNE publisher ID, KOBIS people ID, OpenML dataset ID, DFK Paris person ID, PIM publication ID, Pittori Liguri ID, USTC identifier, EPA ID, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959 ID, YouTube handle, hackage package, Observation.org place ID, Diskograf artist ID, KBR person ID, Miraheze article ID, ILNM ID, Trismegistos author ID, Packagist package, translation contribution URL, Cinemaazi people ID, Cinemaazi film ID, MAK Collection Online person ID, MAK Collection Online object ID, BookWalker series ID (JP version), list item, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, alt text
  • New property proposals to review: Amazon Browse Node, Beatport release ID, Bandcamp release ID, subject of qualifier, has part part of, property metamodelling, MangaUpdates IDs, man page, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, MyAnimeList magazine ID, OpenPlaques place ID, is a number of, source of action & destination of action, CSD Refcode, Ès lettres ID, is the change of, removed in version (2), PodLink ID, KOBIS film festival ID, KOBIS film company ID, DBpia journal ID, DBpia publisher ID, tuxDB game ID, Crunchyroll series ID, US-DMF ID, Dehkhoda ID, CocoaPods pod, Appsight app, Appsight SDK, Maven groupID and Maven artifactID, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, Game Boy hardware database ID, Bane NOR Network Statement station ID, Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID, has duplicate Wikimedia page, GBDB ID, Lygaeoidea Species File ID
  • Query examples:
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Researchers with a Mastodon account and a known field of work (source)
    • Count per each language of unique language codes used in lemmas for Lexemes in that language

• Development
  • Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
  • Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
  • Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
    • Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
    • Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
    • Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
    • Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
    • Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
  • Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
  • Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
  • Query Service:
    • Making the popup less intrusive that leads to the Query Builder (phab:T296135)
    • Adding tooltips for Lexemes (phab:T255245)
    • Unifying the way to get a link to a query (phab:T324218)
  • mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
  • REST API:
    • Finalized json format for sitelinks and data values (phab:T321483, phab:T322734)
    • Investigating rate limiting (phab:T322746)

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: 2022-49

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

Recent changes

• The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [28][29]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since October. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz focused on July and August 2022 request months; and articles tagged for c/e in December 2021 and January 2022. Seventeen of those who signed up claimed at least one copy-edit, and between them copy-edited forty-six articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: In the November Backlog Elimination Drive, thirty editors signed up, twenty-two of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Both target months—December 2021 and January 2022—were cleared, and February was added to the target months. Sixteen requests were copy-edited and 239 articles were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our seven-day-long December 2022 Copy Editing Blitz begins on 17 December at 00:01 (UTC)*. It will focus on articles tagged for copy-edit in February 2022, and pending requests from September and October. Barnstars awarded will be available here. Progress report: As of 22:40, 8 December 2022, GOCE copyeditors have processed 357 requests since 1 January, there were seventy-four requests outstanding and the backlog stands at 1,791 articles. We always need skilled copy-editors; please help out if you can. Election news: Nomination of candidates for the GOCE's Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2023 is open and continues until 23:59 on 15 December. Voting begins at 00:01 on 16 December and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Coordinators serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on June 30. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, please nominate yourself or any editor you consider suitable—with their permission, of course!. It's your Guild and it doesn't coordinate itself. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers and best seasonal wishes from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu, and Zippybonzo. *All times and dates on this newsletter are UTC. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue CC, December 2022

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The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #550

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DL2204bot 2
      • Task/s: Correct messy entries for scholarly articles of Uztaro. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Q12268801) and Aldiri. Arkitektura eta abar (Q12253132) journals, add 2020-2022 articles.
    • Kalliope 7.3
      • Task/s: Update User:Kalliope 7.3/List of bots every hour.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 2
      • Task/s: For all items that have an enwiki page that starts with Template:Taxonomy/, set instance of (P31) taxonomy template (Q115595777).

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 13, 2022: Wikimedia Search Platform Team will be sharing updates on Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and Blazegraph. For background, see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update. Agenda.
    • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel.
    • Next Wikimedia Research Showcase - December 14. "A year in review from the WMF Research team: Tying our work to the research community".
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #71, Qatar 2022
  • Past
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 7, 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MatchID enriched with Wiki links
    • Another successful Wikidata Project with UVA
  • Papers
    • The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers...Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
    • Computational Metabolomics: From Spectra to Knowledge (Dagstuhl Seminar 22181) (Q115647969), with:
      • 3.7 Wikidata: empowering metabolomics research
      • 3.14 CxSMILES: computation ready representation for compound classes (about CXSMILES (P10718))
  • Videos
    • Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers, By Daniel Mietchen - short, full talk
    • Using and Editing Wikidata - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase for Libraries and Librarians (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #100 - YouTube
    • Tutorial for adding OSM data with the Wikidata tag and adding Wikidata items (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • BNElab, contribution and reuse in Wikidata (in Guaani) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • qualifier-constraint-usage.js: Shows what properties this qualifier is a required and allowed qualifier on at the bottom of the qualifier page

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations. Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎contact page URL, ‎Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers ID, ‎press information URL, ‎changeset, ‎RomArchive person ID, ‎African American Visual Artists Database ID, ‎Bureau of Meteorology location ID, ‎Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ID, ‎Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, ‎manchu.work lexeme ID, ‎Professional Referee Organization ID, ‎CIViC gene ID, ‎Athletics Canada ID, ‎is a number of, ‎Ma'agarim ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID, ‎Tanzania Parliament member ID, ‎JCDb ID, ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (1st edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (2nd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (3rd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (4th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (5th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (6th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (7th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (8th edition), ‎man page, ‎Amazon.com browse node, ‎TV Maze episode ID, ‎International Computer Game Collection work ID, ‎Cultural Good of Croatia ID, ‎JLect entry ID, ‎Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, ‎Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Inscriptions ID
  • New property proposals to review: number of penalty kicks scored, Play:Right series ID, OWID identifiers, Wikidata property example statement ID, Mangadex IDs, WSJ article ID, maturity level, official list URL, thumbnail sharpness, Play:Right company ID, IRIS Apulia IDs, Geograph Germany image ID, Spiritains ID, Play:Right class ID, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, INKR title ID, Kitsu IDs, Game-Rave ID, Anime-Planet IDs, has value, ComicWalker content ID, STEDT ID, Middle English Dictionary ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, Adventure's Planet ID, value of property identifies, not, frame rate, Copernicus EMS ID, Sega-Saturn.net ID, PLDB ID, ArchWiki ID, has right, (not) officially recognized by, Famicom World ID, property describes
  • Query examples:
    • Person(s) after whom both a warship and a microarchitecture are named (source)
    • Institutions that have contributed to all #vBIB conferences so far (source)
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Mountains in Iceland with no Cebuano Wikipedia sitelink (source)
    • Universities that have an associated Mastodon account (source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We would love to have some feedback on the JSON format for the REST API
    • Planning the final pieces that still need doing before the first release
  • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
  • Query Service:
    • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
    • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
    • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
    • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
  • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

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) 16:30, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-50

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

• An A/B test has begun at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site will have access to the Reply tool and other features. [30]
• The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [31]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
• The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [32]

Events

• The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel and added to Commons afterwards.

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Wikidata weekly summary #551

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot
      • Task/s: Update population of Hungarian municipalities.
    • BjoeBot
      • Task/s: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
    • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
    • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #72, Rooms 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Fork of User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia
    • Reconciling a Mix’n’Match catalog to Wikidata via Google Sheets
    • Celebrating the Wikipedia and Wikidata Birthday in school
  • Papers
    • Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #101 - YouTube
    • LOD as a way of thinking in the era of digital humanities - a preliminary study on Wikidata/Wikibase practice (in Chinease) - YouTube
    • ESEAP 2022 - Wikidata workshop: Intro to Wikidata, Identifiers & Entity Explosion, OpenRefine & Biota - YouTube
    • What is the Wikidata database, how to contribute, how to write queries in SPARQL by Valerio Bozzolan (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap by Edward Betts - YouTube
    • How to create a wikidata entry for a journalist - YouTube
    • LOD is the future - Wikibase application of Rhizome, an independent digital art agency in New York (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Coolest Tool Award 2022 - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
  • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd got an update where it now will try to predict good statements to add to Wikidata from Wikipedia articles.
  • Writing SPARQL queries can be very challenging. You can find inspiration by browsing and searching in this dataset of 2,400 queries collected from Wikidata. (source)
  • The French Wikipedia now uses a Wikidata-based list for the pages on specific dates, without relying on ListeriaBot. Who was born on a December 19th and has an article in French? You now can have the answer thanks to a Wikidata query by going to the page 1er décembre on frwiki and clicking on the infobox link "Naissances du jour". This is a link to a Wikidata list provided by the query service. The query is generated by the template fr:Modèle:Naissances un jour du mois. This follows another such template used to find all persons with a certain surname on frwiki, used on all surnames pages and on some disambiguation pages, fr:Modèle:Liste des personnes ou_personnages par prénom. For the surname Victor (Q539581) (view with Reasonator, SQID) this generates on the page w:fr:Victor_(prénom) a query such as this one.
  • Wikidata now has more than 100,000,000 items! Exactly which item was the 100 millionth is unknown as of writing, but there are some clues for anyone who wants to dig into it.
  • Survey: What are your most important Wikimedia content partnerships tools in 2022? Closes on January 8, 2023.
  • Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January until Monday, Feb 6, 2023
  • There is a new website to collect contact information for heritage organizations in Georgia for the purpose of disaster response with the data coming from Wikidata.
  • Wikibase 1.38 release is delayed until January 2023
  • Job opportunities
    • Postdoc, PhDs, and technician opportunities related to Wikibase project at University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: This section is currently empty due to technical issues with the bot responsible for filling it. If you are interested in keeping track of new properties on Wikidata, you can check the property proposal page for updates.
  • New property proposals to review: RPG Site game ID,member of tribe, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Panjab Digital Library ID, Oh!FM-7 ID, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, model lexeme, format string, travel advisory category, location URL match pattern, Tabelog restaurant ID, service options, RetroAchievements ID, statut administratif, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, relative statement frequency, Mertens-Pack Number (MP3), Nintendo-Online ID, does not use, is not part of, object is, Nintendo World Report ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, ntower ID, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, digital equivalent of, property describes, Computer Science Ontology topic, BookWalker series ID (global version), Le Grenier du Mac ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Football skills! (source)
    • Concepts with more individuals having Mastodon IDs (source)
    • Mastodon follower/subscriber figures (source)
    • Lexeme senses which are described in Jaehoon Yeon and Lucien Brown's Comprehensive Grammar of Korean (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
  • Query Service:
    • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
    • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
    • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
    • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
  • mul language code:
    • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
    • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
  • Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
  • Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (phab:T272132)

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, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

• On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [33]
• A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [34]
• One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [35]

Problems

• Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [36]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
• The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [37] [38]

Future changes

• Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [39]
• The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
• Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

• You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #552

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 3
      • Task/s: Automatically adds qualifiers number of records (P4876) and point in time (P585) to claims of Mix'n'match catalog ID (P2264).
    • Dexbot 16
      • Task: Delete empty items
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • BjoeBot (approved)
      • Task: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #73, Mystery theme #2

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How the "open world hypothesis" of knowledge graph affects model evaluation (in Chinese)
  • Papers
    • Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
  • Videos
    • Early demo of the Wikibase Export extension

• Tool of the week
  • Fediscope (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 2022 proof of concept of a Wikibase "fast import" API. Outcomes of this workshop have been published, along with the recorded video.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • prior to last week's status update: ‎MyAnimeList magazine ID, ‎Online Torwali Dictionary ID, ‎Google Product Taxonomy ID, ‎IRIS UNIBA author ID, ‎IRIS UNIFG author ID, ‎IRIS LUM author ID, ‎IRIS UNISALENTO author ID, ‎tuxDB game ID, ‎GCD issue ID, ‎Geograph Deutschland image ID, ‎ResearchGate journal ID, ‎Lygaeoidea Species File ID, ‎Beatport release ID, ‎Diskograf song ID, ‎Diskograf label ID, ‎INKR title ID, ‎BRUZZ topic ID, ‎negates property, ‎Kanjipedia kanji ID
    • since last week's status update: Adventure's Planet ID, Play:Right class ID, GBDB ID, MangaUpdates publisher ID, MangaUpdates author ID, grading system, KOBIS film festival ID, Bandcamp release ID, Anime-Planet people ID, Anime-Planet character ID, ‎Czech structural object ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Anime-Planet anime ID, Anime-Planet manga ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Cinematografo.it film ID (new), Cinematografo.it name or company ID (new), identifier French basketball championship (new schema), The Israeli Opera person ID (heb), Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, OpenStates person ID, ntower ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, ‎worldofsam ID, Twitter community ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, CSO topic ID, Expertes ID, MTV Germany music video ID, CCFr document ID, Crunchyroll series ID, Game-Rave ID, Dehkhoda ID, ‎membership number, impressum URL, Parliamentary Office number in United Kingdom, Parliamentary Archives ID in United Kingdom, Mac OS creator code, 18th Century Russian Dictionary ID, Play:Right company ID, Play:Right series ID, Little Academic Dictionary ID
  • New property proposals to review: Garuda journal ID, Sinta Journal ID, pixiv comic IDs, British Music Collection score ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Autori sardi ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, UVL source ID, British Music Collection composer ID Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Concepticon ID, Image stabilitzer, Strazha ID, N-Anime ID, Pocket Gamer ID, Image processor, Minimum focusing distance, Museo Egizio in Turin ID, amstrad.es ID, superclass of, Dark Patterns Games ID, Life stage, Tribal Council number, Objective, eBookJapan books ID, VG-lista song ID, VG-lista album ID, microtransaction.zone ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, use with article, Cambridge Dictionary entry, Cambridge Dictionary entry (American English), Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, MQWW poetID, record of, Classic Adventures Solution Archive game ID, MQWW workID, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, Jeju's culture and language ID, Strong's number, World Loanword Database word ID, World Loanword Database meaning ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of nonprofit organizations / NGOs on the fediverse that Wikidata knows about (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Dec. 24th) (source)
    • Alpha-3 codes for countries in Europe (source)
    • Location of paintings in the Paintings Department of the Louvre made by women source
    • Most frequent birth places for Italian SBN authors (source)

• 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
  • 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) 15:18, 27 December 2022 (UTC)