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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
- At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at
Special:MentorDashboard
. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project. The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008),
action=ajax
, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1]An old ResourceLoader module,
jquery.jStorage
, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch tomediawiki.storage
instead. [2]
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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, December 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #498
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- Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking (schema.org/ Full Fact)
- Most liked Wikidata tweets (addshore)
- Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021 (addshore)
- Papers
- Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
- "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL
- embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Blazegraph failure playbook now available
- Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries
- When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol, protective marking, recording date
- External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID, Indonesian Hospital ID, Music of Armenia ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, World of Shakespeare ID, AllHomes research location ID, Australian Trade Mark Number, Harvard Art Museums ID, BookDepository publisher ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, German Newspaper Portal ID, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Dissernet journal ID, Dissernet person ID, centrasia.org person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, Pandora track ID, Nintendo64EVER ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: alphabetical index, International Standard Content Number ISCN, Number of likes, homophone form, Roovet Sound
- External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID, Famitsu game ID, JSTOR artwork ID, NYPL Copyright Entries, Kinomania.ru film ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), Irish Times Profile ID, All About Birds ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, f6s id, IRIS Marche IDs, Viber group ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, AAGM Artwork ID, Muz-TV ID, MTV Russia ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Cities
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
- Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (phab:T294637, phab:T294159)
- Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202)
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!
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 are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,
[[WB:]]
will go to the local language default for the[[Project:]]
namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).
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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #499
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- Discussions
- New request for comments:
- Other:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
- Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #21, Celebration
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikidata user and project talk page connection graph
- Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia
- Integrating the PM20 companies archive: part 3 of the data donation to Wikidata
- Parliamentary debates are made more transparent and accessible with Wikidata
- A parliamentary document says more than a thousand words (in Swedish)
- The Longest Serving MP in Sweden
- "With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon. "To help overcome this challenge, researchers use several sources of commonplace knowledge like Wikidata to obtain a “reasoned” AI response."
- Papers
- Videos
- Tutorial for Wikidata Mix'n'Match tool for database pairing (in Czech) - YouTube
- SPARQL queries on Wikidata - basic level (in Italian) - YouTube
- Presentation about the Wikidata community (in Italian) - YouTube
- Wikidata Advanced Course (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - YouTube
- Querying Wikidata: Museums, Volcanoes (in French) - YouTube
- Wikidata Fundamentals (in French) by CAPACOA - YouTube
- Wikidata Workshop: The basics by CAPACOA - YouTube
- Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate - YouTube
- Creating items on Wikidata using OpenRefine (without sound — subtitles only) - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- NoclaimsBot adds the first statements on items without claims based on templates used on the linked Wikipedia article.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
- Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), currently in beta, will soon be in production with a planned General Availability date of 1 Feb 2022. See the Upcoming General Availability release discussion page for more details.
- Seth started an essay to summarize the multiple data-related projects going on between Wikimedia Projects at the moment: User:Lectrician1/The grand mess of data on Wikimedia.
- When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” by using “!Sxx” instead of “Sxx” syntax to start a new reference group.
- Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
- Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: iTunes genre
- External identifiers: Pandora album ID, Indonesian College Code, Institute of History of Ukraine ID, Academy of Athens authority ID, ThENC@ ID, CDAEM person ID, Famitsu game ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, Levels.fyi company ID, U-PAD author ID, CAMPUS author ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, iTunes genre ID, Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Category for work of subject, Honorary citizens category of entity, Kanobu numeric ID, cadastral district, official shop URL, website, documented files
- External identifiers: street number in Austria, EU Whoiswho ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Österreichische Schulkennzahl, iCSO ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, Lur Encyclopedia ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, KSH code (historical), Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, WikiStrinda ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Film.ru film ID, Film.ru actor ID, Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID
- Query examples:
- Shijian (SJ 实践) experimental satellites (source)
- Age of living Hawthorn FC players (source)
- People died on their 50th birthday (Source)
- Relationship between London School of Economics doctoral advisors and students (source)
- Map of twinned towns (or partners) of municipalities of Puy-de-Dôme (source)
- Map of the places named in reference the horse (source)
- Map of bridges in Kaliningrad (source)
- Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
- Wikidata items which are the most linked by lexemes using the property “item for this sense” (source)
- Actors in Christmas movies: by frequency, with film titles and sample film item (source)
- Filming locations of Christmas movies, with film titles and sample film item (source)
- Recent Christmas movies lacking filming location (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)
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!
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 10 January 2022.
Recent changes
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (
<DynamicPageList>
) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [4]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [5]
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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Your recent contributions to Talk:Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle. Bike seat sniffer (talk) 21:56, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
A cookie for you!
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Great minds think alike [6]. Thanks for your due diligence! Missvain (talk) 21:58, 23 December 2021 (UTC) |
- @Missvain: Much appreciated, and appreciate the prompt block! I was just about to report the vandal to AIV too! FWIW, for some reason, I can hear a duck faintly quacking in the distance. OhKayeSierra (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Joyous Season
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I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. Huggums537 (talk) 19:56, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Coffee/Holidays}} to your fellow editors' talk pages.
- @Huggums537: Thank you! Happy Holidays to you and yours, and best wishes for 2022. OhKayeSierra (talk) 20:01, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Gift of an "Elon Musk" revert?
Hi there. Would you mind reverting the latest disruptive edit on Elon Musk? Unfortunately, I have already committed three reverts or undo's this Christmas Eve and I wouldn't want to risk being (incidentally) added to the Naughty list. Best! QRep2020 (talk) 23:12, 24 December 2021 (UTC)]
- @QRep2020: I did try to revert to the last WP:STABLE version, but this user ended up reverting me as well. I voluntarily stick to a 1 revert rule (aside from obvious vandalism), so I'm unable to handle the issue further, unfortunately. I recommend reporting the user to WP:AN3. You're more familiar with the issues with this article than I am. OhKayeSierra (talk) 23:43, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Hello OhKayeSierra, Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:19, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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- @ToBeFree: Thank you so much! I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season, and best wishes for 2022! OhKayeSierra (talk) 03:08, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #500
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- Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
- Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
- “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
- Q207742 is about the natural number 500
- Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
- The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
- Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500
- Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
- Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
- Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year
- Past:
- Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
- WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
- Wikidata talks:
- Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.
- A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.
- Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
- Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development
- How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander
- Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations
- Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons
- IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria
- Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula
- Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism
- Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations
- Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia
- Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language
- Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata
- Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world
- Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry
- A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org
- Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata
- Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration
- From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata
- Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion
- From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience
- Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages
- IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field
- A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
- Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
- Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
- Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America
- Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern
- Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education
- Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata
- Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata
- Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata
- The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention
- Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata
- Measuring and monitoring data quality
- Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel
- Integrating Wikidata into education
- Integrating Wikidata into education
- Wikidata in Australia showcase
- Wikidata and R: a perfect pair
- Writing schemas for Wikidata
- Overview of ontology issues
- Wikidata and OCCRP
- Wikibase talks:
- Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session
- How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?
- Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph
- "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph
- Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session
- How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase
- Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup
- Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud
- Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture
- Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session
- Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia
- Wikidata talks:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 now available.
- If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251.
- Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
- Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: type host, CSS code
- External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
- External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID
- Query examples:
- Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon, (ordered by country) (source)
- Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
- UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP (source)
- Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- 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!
The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, December 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
- The functionaries email list (functionaries-en
lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
Wikidata weekly summary #501
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- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
- Past:
- Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
- Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
- Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
- External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
- External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016
- Query examples:
- Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
- Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
- Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
- Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
- People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
- Average height of people named Joe (Source)
- Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #502
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- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
- New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
- Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. to local time!
- Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
- The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
- Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
- The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
- if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
- if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
- New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
- Post WikidataCon 2021
- Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
- Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
- Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
- External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
- External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID
- Query examples:
- Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
- Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
- Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
- Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
- Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
- Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
- Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
- World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
- Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
- Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
- Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
- Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)
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.
- Looking back at 2021
- Developments rolled out in 2021:
- New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
- Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
- Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
- Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
- Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
- Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
- Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
- New entities in 2021:
- Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
- Properties P9003 to P10223
- Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164
- Developments rolled out in 2021:
- 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!
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
oauth_consumer
variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [7]Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [8]
Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example,
|actions=edit,history
will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [9]Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the
withgadget
URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks likewithJS
orwithCSS
. [10]At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [11]
- The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [12] [13]
- Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [14]
- The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).
Events
- Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.
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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #503
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 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 present 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.
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
- LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
- #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
- Past:
- Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
- Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
- Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
- Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
- Videos
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
- GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
- External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
- External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520)
- Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
- Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
- Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable
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!
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 WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
- You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [15]
- When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).
Events
- Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.
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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #504
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- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
- Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube, Facebook, January 29 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
- Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
- On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
- #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
- Past:
- Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack featured on Hacker News
- Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
- Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates
- Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history (in Spanish)
- 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
- Papers
- Videos
- [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Lexemes forms:
- How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
- External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
- External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID
- Query examples:
- Map of tramways in France
- Map of categories for honorary citizens (source)
- Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date (source)
- Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location (source)
- Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) (source)
- Birthplace of Rabbis (source)
- Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80 (source)
- Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article (source)
- Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
- Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (phab:T297393)
- Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
- Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
- The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
- You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [16]
Events
- You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
- You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.
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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, January 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #505
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Talk to the Search Platform Team about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! February 2nd, 2022. Etherpad.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube, Facebook, February 5 at 19:00 UTC
- Wikimedia Research February Office Hours Wednesday, 2022-02-02 at 00:00-1:00 UTC (16:00 PT 02-01 /19:00 ET 02-01 / 1:00 CET 02-02).
- Data Reuse Days will take place on March 14-24, highlighing applications and tools using Wikidata's data. You can already propose a session.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #27, Numbers (1/n)
- Past:
- Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron
- Wikibase Live Session (2022.01.27)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Press
- "Massive open index of scholarly papers launches" - called OpenAlex, it draws its data from sources including Wikidata
- Blogs
- OpenSanctions is integrating persons of interest from Wikidata
- Celebrating the 2,000 featured articles milestone in Wikipedia in French: Using the Wikipedia Categorymembers API through a SPARQL query to get all articles featured in category "Article de qualité" and compute statistics.
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Using Linked Open Data to Connect Smithsonian Information
- The origin of the gender gap
- Videos
- Press
- Tool of the week
- Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WDQS scaling update for Jan 2022 available here. We will be trying to do monthly updates starting this month.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast logo URL, hotel rating, dpi for original size, director of publication, official jobs URL
- External identifiers: TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, Muz-TV ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, Tretyakov Gallery work ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania encyclopedia ID, Amazon podcast ID, Habr company ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, German Lobbyregister ID, Film.ru actor ID, Film.ru film ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID, StarHit ID, North Data ID, CYT/CCS, LKI ID, Unified book number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: has member, register in Germany, dailytelefrag.ru ID, time in the pouch, semantic gender, Game World Navigator ID
- External identifiers: Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, CHY Number, OpenSanctions ID, identifiant Les Archives du spectacle (organisme), Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, histrf.ru person ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, Chgk person ID, Latvijas ūdenstilpju klasifikatora kods, RCN (Irish Registered Charity Number), RBC company ID, OpenStates ID, NetEase Music Artist ID, QQ Music Singer ID, Euro NCAP ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2
- Query examples:
- US states with the most punk bands (source)
- List of Ghanaian scientists by citation count (source)
- Actresses who have played Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, with type of production (source)
- MPs with identified mythical ancestors
- Items with "language of work or name = Toki Pona" as qualifier
- Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline (source)
- Water boards in the Netherlands (source)
- Birthplaces of US Presidents, Russian emperors, Roman emperors (source)
- Age of the actress when she played "Elizabeth Bennet" (source)
- People with dates of birth and death on January 1st (day precision dates) (source)
- More than 500 lexemes in Breton now have at least one sense (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (phab:T297393)
- Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
- Continuing work on fixing a bug where Wikidata changes do not get sent to Wikipedia and co for the first sitelink adding leading to missing information in the page_props table (phab:T233520)
- Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (phab:T296202)
- Mismatch Finder: Debugging some issues with the first files we got with mismatches that we can load into the Mismatch Finder
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
If a gadget should support the new
?withgadget
URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specifysupportsUrlLoad
in the gadget definition (documentation). [17]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).
Future changes
- A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
- The user group
oversight
will be renamedsuppress
. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.
- The user group
Events
- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.
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Bots Newsletter, January 2022
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
- The user group
oversight
will be renamedsuppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
Wikidata weekly summary #506
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: MystBot
- Other: Discussion about replacing values with a new format or scheme for "SBN author ID" (P396), an identifier for National Library Service (SBN) of Italy
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
- Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
- Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, Computer
- Past:
- LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube
- Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government - Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
- Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data, by Envlh
- Profiling a Wikibase item creation on test.wikidata.org by Addshore
- Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - YouTube
- Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in Wikipedia) - YouTube
- Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - 1, 2 & 3 (YouTube)
- Wikidata Tutorial (in German): create a user account on Wikidata, add an institution's website to Wikidata
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata edit map by Denny puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- January 1st as date
- Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing, time in the pouch, semantic gender
- External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Artland fair ID, Artland gallery ID, Douban book series ID, Douban book works ID, Les Archives du spectacle organization ID, Urban Electric Transit city ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, Ezeri.lv lake ID, Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Bugs! music video ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, New York Flora Atlas ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: HSK ID, sports in region, Computational complexity, YouTube video
- External identifiers: Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2, podchaser episode ID, IFPI UPC/EAN, Weltfussball-Spiel-ID, GoodGame.ru ID, USgamer ID, Riot Pixels game ID, HaBima Archive play id, HaBima Archive person id, NLI topic id, 100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id, Old-Games.RU ID, iXBT Games ID, Students of Turin University ID, Tagoo video game ID, AusGamers ID, GameGuru ID, LMHL author ID, VGTimes ID, ULI id, GameMAG ID, SBN new authority IDs, Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, Gesher Theater Archive person id, Gesher Theater Archive play id, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID, A9VG game ID, Qichaha firm ID, Chinese School Identifier, GoHa.ru ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, CiteSeerX ID of a person, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2
- Deleted properties:
- "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
- "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
- "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
- "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
- Query examples:
- Events by number of video games announced (source)
- Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef (source)
- Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times they are used (source)
- Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages (source)
- Team and positions played by National Women's Football League players (source)
- Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges) (source)
- Location of statues of women in Italy (source)
- Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages (source)
- Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR (source)
- Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types (source)
- Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Archaeology
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
- Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.
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!
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
- English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
- Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [18]
Problems
- A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for
vector
should be updated to also check forvector-2022
. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #507
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 2
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
- New request for comments: Population data model
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
- Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata February 17, 5:00 PM
- LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube, Facebook, February 19 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
- Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers, coordinates & address
- PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
- OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - YouTube
- Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
- Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022
- Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
- Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
- Wikidata ESR is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
- External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
- External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
- Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)
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!
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
- Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [19]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
In the AbuseFilter extension, the
rmspecials()
function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses ofrmspecials()
withrmwhitespace()
wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [20]
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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)