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Hi, can you find the Russian for this and some old info in Russian? Also there's a river I've asked Ymblanter about! Hope you're well.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:13, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
- I doubt I'll have anything to that level of obscurity for a non-Russian location. Anyway, I'm on the road right now, but I'll check when I get back home. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 9, 2016; 17:09 (UTC)
- It's quite a large village, not like it's a tiny selo!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:26, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
- I understand, but it's in Turkmenistan :) I only have a couple books dealing with Turkmenistan—and neither one mentions Miana. Not finding anything useful online either—Google books has some odd bits here and there (in Russian), but all those books are in snippet view and not usable for adding anything to the article...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 11, 2016; 14:42 (UTC)
- It's quite a large village, not like it's a tiny selo!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:26, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #230
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
- Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
- Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
- A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
- The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
- People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
- Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
- Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
- 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants : Librarybase, Lua module and WikiFactMine
- Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with WDQS? and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from?
- chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller
- PetScan tool past half a million queries since April (source)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KANTL member ID, Angel List ID, storyboard artist, content deliverer, Actorenregister ID, Zeri image ID, compulsory education (maximum age), compulsory education (minimum age), Fotografen.nl ID, PORT organization URL, Flickr user ID, LocFDD ID, MySpace ID, radix, base, has anatomical branch, anatomical branch of, points awarded, intangible cultural heritage status, LiveJournal ID, Queensland place ID, Cave E-Cadastre ID, Property proposal discussion, optimum viable temperature, maximum viable temperature, minimum viable temperature
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates (by MagnusManske)
- Newest database reports: List of embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented
- Development
- The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
- More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
- More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
- Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
- Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)
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Перевод или транслит
Здравствуйте. Помнится было где-то написано что в случаях названий песней и альбомов (современных), не используется дословный перевод с русского, а транслитерация. Я про эту правку. Наверное нужно транслит названии, а в скобках добавить оригинал и перевод. --XXN, 08:14, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- Вы совершенно правы. Если только музыкальное произведение официально не выходит на англоговорящем рынке (в коем случае используется название, под которым оно на этом рынке вышло), употребляется транслитерация (к которой при желании можно добавить дословный перевод, но только вдобавок, а не вместо). Соответствующее правило находится тут: WP:TRANSLITERATE ([n]ames not originally in a Latin alphabet, such as... Russian names, must be transliterated).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 12, 2016; 13:01 (UTC) 13:01, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- Спасибо. --XXN, 14:42, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Kartaly
Just because I'm interested in the example you gave of a combined "city-county" administrative division, I went to look at the pages for Kartaly town and Kartalinsky District. While the district page seems to show that both the town and district are one administrative division (The Town of Kartaly and Kartalinsky District), the page for the town, itself, seems to show (both on the associated map and in the writing) or at least imply that Kartaly town is administratively independent of Kartalinsky District. Is this a mistake on the town's page, or am I not reading it correctly? It doesn't specifically state that Kartaly town is of "district significance" but it does almost seem to imply that the town is some kind of additional level of administration (" it is incorporated within Kartalinsky District as the Town of Kartaly").
So, my question is whether they are two seperate administrative divisions, and if not, how would you suggest making the town's page more definitive/clear? In my mind, if it's only one administrative divisions, I'd do like the district page did and give the full name of the administrative town to avoid this confusion. --Criticalthinker (talk) 07:58, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
- Nevermind. I figured it out. The Virginia example I gave for "independent cities" are actually more akin cities of oblast significance since they are on the same level as counties (districts). In most of the rest of the United States most urban settlements regardless of size would be equivalent cities of district significance since they are almost always subordinate to the counties in which they reside. And, again, it is rare for any city outside of Virginia to be its own administrative division. Urban settlements almost always only have a municipal status if even that. As to the example above of Kartalinsky District and Kartaly town, it does not appear to be analogous to a combined "city-county" which is a combined and single administrative division. It appears that Kartaly town is actually a subordinate lower-level administrative division (a town of district significance) of the The Town of Kartaly and Kartalinsky District. An American "city-county" can not have administrative divisions of its own. In a "city-county" the admistrative division is essentially a city raised to the administrative level of a county.
- I guess to put it more simply, it seems that the biggest difference between local administration in the United States and Russia is that in Russia, you guys have multiple lower-level administrative divisions below the district level. In the United States, there is is rarely anything under the district (county) level. Some states have administrative "townships" which would match up with something like a "town of district significance" in Russia, but this administrative division doesn't exist in most states. So, basically, settlements in the United States are usually only defined at the municipal layer of government, whereas in Russia, settlements usually have both their own associated administrative division and municipal local government; I guess this means the federal government has a lot more control over settlements than in the United States. The United States Constitution doesn't mention municipal government and it's totally left up to the states to decide if they want it or not (i.e. Hawaii, for instance, doesn't have municipal divisions, only administrative counties as their local governments). The federal governments recognizes municipal governments, but have no legal oversight or control of them as it appears the Russian government does over Russian municipalities (mostly through corresponding administrative divisions), indirectly. --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:01, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #231
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Connected Data London meetup with Navino Evans
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett & Liam Wyatt speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) at Muzeum Cyfrowe in Warsaw, 19 October.
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
- Past: CCBWIKI
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- World Spider Catalog has been added to Mix'n'match
- Mix’n’match can now limit auto-matches to instances of a specific item and its subclasses
- Sitelinks for the new Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia (olowiki) can be added
- There is now a "userbox" for Wikidatans wishing to mark Wikidata's fourth birthday on their user pages
- myMuseum was created at the hack4heritage hackathon and won a prize
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
- Query examples:
- first Nobel Prize winner who was born after Alfred Nobel’s death (source)
- streets in Paris named after doctors (source)
- international land tripoints (source)
- national flags depicting stars or constellations (source)
- national flags with inscriptions (source)
- people who died the furthest away from where they were born (source)
- closest pairs of capitals (of UN member states, <500km) (source)
- people who received military decorations from two different countries (source)
- volcanoes and earthquakes (source)
- height/width ratios of paintings (source)
- birthplaces of Members of the European Parliament (source)
- birthplaces of US Senators (source)
- New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
- Development
- Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
- Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
- Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
- Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
- Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (phabricator:T148042)
- Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (phabricator:T147917)
- Worked on a small birthday present
- Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (phabricator:T147114)
- More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (phabricator:T142940)
- Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (phabricator:T147631) Thanks Matěj!
- Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (phabricator:T146707)
- Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
- Fixed a bug with spaces in language codes in queries (phabricator:T147729)
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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
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Wikidata weekly summary #232
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Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.
Birthday events
Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!
- San Francisco (USA), October 26th
- Torino (Italy), October 26th
- Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
- Paris (France), October 29th
- Utrecht (NL), October 29th
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Online
A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
- Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub). Thanks, 0x686578!
- Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880).
- Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
- Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.
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Wikidata weekly summary #233
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- Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events
The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:
- a word from the development team by Lydia
- a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
- The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
- A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
- A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
- Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
{{#statements:…}}
, a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers- Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
- 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
- 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
- A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!
The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
- Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
- Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
- OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
- Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
- Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
- Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography
- Development
- We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (phabricator:T147062)
- Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (phabricator:T147917)
- Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (phabricator:T139356)
- Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the
meta=siteinfo
API (phabricator:T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil! - Progress on the
list=wbsubscribers
API module to query entity usage information (phabricator:T145880) - Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (phabricator:T142940)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0
- Released ValueView 0.18.0
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Your edit on Crimean Federal District
Hi,
I have reverted your edit on aforementioned article because Russia uses date, month, year not month, date, year. The Ninja5 Empire (Talk) 03:46, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, Jack! I appreciate what you were trying to do, but you are not interpreting the guidelines correctly. What date format Russia or Ukraine uses has absolutely no bearing on what date format should be used in the articles in this English Wikipedia (if it did, we'd be forced to use the yyyymmdd format in the articles about Japan and the Hebrew calendar in the articles about Israel). The applicable guideline here is WP:DATERET, which mandates using national formats only in articles with strong national ties to a topic, with the aforementioned ties only being relevant when the nation in question is an Anglophone country. In short, mdy format is to be used in the US-specific articles, dmy format is to be used in the Commonwealth-specific articles, and everything else is fair game, with the choice made by the first major contributor being the default. Since the article in question was created in March 2014 with an mdy date, that's the format that's to be used there from now on (unless the UK decides to annex Crimea at some point :)). I've restored the original version. Please don't hesitate to contact me again if you need further clarifications. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 1, 2016; 13:09 (UTC)
- I do see other articles with said format however. The Ninja5 Empire (Talk) 01:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
- And that is fine. There is no requirement for the articles specific to one country to share the same date format; the only requirement is that the same date format is consistently adhered to within any one given article. If you read WP:MOSDATE in its entirety (it spans several subsections), it should clear up a lot of similar questions you might have. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 2, 2016; 02:12 (UTC)
- I do see other articles with said format however. The Ninja5 Empire (Talk) 01:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 06:04, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #234
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Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
- d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
- A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
- Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
- A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
- A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
- Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
{{#statements:…}}
, a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)- Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
- Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
- new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
- graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
- d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
- Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
- 400,000,000th edit was made.
- The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
- Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
- Query examples:
- Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
- Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
- Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
- Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
- 204 items that cite themselves (source)
- Statements with two references where one source cites the other (source)
- Development
- Stable interface policy update
- More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (phabricator:T149580)
- Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (phabricator:T148139)
- Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (phabricator:T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
- Improved map layer colors in the query service (phabricator:T148022)
- Improved size of map markers in the query service (phabricator:T148496)
- Upcoming: quantity changes
- Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987) Test system is coming in the next days.
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Wikidata weekly summary #235
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.
- Discussions
- Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
- Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
- Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
- Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
- Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
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- Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
- Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
- Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
- Analysed queries used with Listeria
- More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
- More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
- Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
- Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
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Wikidata weekly summary #236
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata
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- Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
- Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
- The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
- Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!
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- Documents with most signatories (source)
- Filming locations of James Bond films (source)
- United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
- Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
- Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia
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- Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
- Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
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- Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
- Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
- Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
- Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
- Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
- ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
- Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
- Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello, Ezhiki. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan
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Wikidata weekly summary #237
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- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
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- Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016
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- Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
- Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers
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- Newest properties: Auckland Art Gallery artist ID, Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux ID, Géopatronyme ID, Prabook ID, GECD film ID, GECD person ID, Enciclopedia Treccani, stereoisomer of, Tennishof ID, operating income, PictoRight ID code, Nobel Prize People Nomination ID, negative prognostic predictor, positive prognostic predictor, negative diagnostic predictor, positive diagnostic predictor, negative therapeutic predictor, positive therapeutic predictor, National Recreation Trails Database ID
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- Newest tool: Display the link to Wikiversity in the title of Wikipedia using Wikidata
- Newest database report: Unique films: film items with a link to a single Wikipedia
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- Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023
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Wikidata weekly summary #238
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- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany with OKLabs, Jens and WikidataFacts. You can read a blog post by Riedelwerk (in German) More documentation to come soon
- How Wikidata could be used for biomedical knowledge (Benjamin Good)
- The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!
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- Sitelinks for the new Finnish Wikivoyage can be added
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- Newest properties: French Sculpture Census work ID, Japan Sumo Association ID, film poster, GeneDB ID, File Format Wiki page ID, FAO 2007 genetic resource ID, Model Manual ID, Merck Index reaction ID, Bloomberg private company ID, Belgian Enterprise number, GECD Firmen-ID, endianness, sibling
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- French deputies who died during their mandate (source)
- Streets in the Netherlands named after people
- People burried in the cemetery of La Croix Rousse (Lyon, France) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Politicians in France
- Newest database reports: list of films with multiple-language versions (Italian labels)
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- Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
- RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
- Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
- Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
- Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
- We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
- Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
- Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)
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Please comment on Talk:Royal free city
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Wikidata weekly summary #239
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It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.
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- Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
- Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?
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- Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata
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- Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.
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- Upcoming creative works: films, TV series, video games… (source)
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- Newest database reports: Spanish-language films without an article in Spanish Wikipedia
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- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
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Barnstar
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The Russia Barnstar of National Merit | |
In Soviet Russia, Barnstar gives me to you FriyMan (talk) 07:36, 11 December 2016 (UTC) |
- Thanks man.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 12, 2016; 16:18 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #240
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- Discussions
- Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
- Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563
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- Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
- Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand
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- Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
- WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
- SQID now supports PrimarySources
- Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
- Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
- New parser function has been enabled
- Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline
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- Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with
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- Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (phab:T150788)
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wb-status
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Gulch is probably OR, a Canadian word. What is your opinion?Xx236 (talk) 11:15, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think OR concerns apply here. This kind of terms are never easy to translate, and there doesn't seem to be a common English name for this entity. "Gulch" seems to be an OK choice as far as translations go (and I don't think it's strictly Canadian; cf. Buckskin Gulch), although personally I would have used "valley" here, or some such term. The proper part of the name needs to be changed to "Khvoshchevataya" per WP:RUS, but for "балка" any reasonable translation would work, including "gulch". Thoughts?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 21, 2016; 16:34 (UTC)
- In another article of the same author I translated it earlier today as "ravine" (I happen to know how they look like, since I visited the area once), but I am not 100% sure this is the most appropriate word.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:43, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- If I had known for sure what they look like, I would have used "ravine", too :) I was only suggesting to use "valley" as it's an accurate enough generic term, but it might not always be the best choice, of course. "Gulch", to me at least, seems like another acceptable generic term.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 21, 2016; 16:47 (UTC)
- In another article of the same author I translated it earlier today as "ravine" (I happen to know how they look like, since I visited the area once), but I am not 100% sure this is the most appropriate word.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:43, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
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Happy Holidays! |
Hey old friend! I'm glad to see you're still around. I'm still doing some work on WPRU. I noticed we've got a bunch of high quality articles on Russian nature reserves. Now, with Trump coming into office, hopefully we'll see an end to the sanctions and to the standoffish approach the US Gov has had toward Russia for the past 8 years. No more Hillary Clinton or Samantha Power. That's a step forward in itself. I'd like to see a close partnership between the US and Russia. Anyways, I wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 100 years since the Revolution! One of my life goals is to pay a long visit to Russia; to see Petersburg, Moscow, and especially Stalingrad, where I can look up in awe at Родина-мать зовёт!, one of the wonders of the modern world IMHO. Take care. lNeverCry 02:38, 24 December 2016 (UTC) |
- Hey, man, glad to see you around as well! Hope the holiday season is treating you well; с наступающим! :) Nature reserves, for those you can thank User:Every-leaf-that-trembles, who's been doing an absolutely amazing job in that area.
- Also, I didn't realize you are a Trump fan :) Me, I'm all for normalizing the US-Russia relationships, but I'd rather it being a result of someone decent taking over the helm in Russia instead of a result of President Pussygrabber and President 142% making out in public. Somehow having a president who speaks truth only by accident makes the next four years look rather bleak... but that's me, an old libtard :)
- Anyway, I do hope your plans to visit Russia come to fruition. The country is a marvelous place to visit, regardless of what kind of mediocrity is ru[i|n]ning it. And if you can find time to fit a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway in between of all other things you want to do, I promise you won't regret it (my not-so-hidden agenda, of course, if for you to be able to experience Siberia and my native Far East, which are absolutely unlike the rest of the country). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 27, 2016; 15:54 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #241
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- Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
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- Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
- Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
- Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition (source)
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Wikidata weekly summary #242
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- Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb
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- Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
- Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata
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- Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
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- Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
- Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)
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Request for Comments on use of certain files not copyrighted in the US
Hello,
There is an ongoing discussion about the use of files on Wikipedia that are not protected by copyright in the US because there is no copyright relations between the US and the country of publication. You commented in a 2012 discussion on the same topic that resulted in no consensus. You are invited to share your views in the ongoing discussion. AHeneen (talk) 21:16, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer on CommonsCat handling
Thanks, I didn't realize that Wikidata was the place to put commons categories. I'm very impressed with the infrastructure you've built on the Russian Districts (with ymblanter and others); if I'm doing anything that breaks your programming or format, please let me know. I've been trying to fill in missing citations and reference links as I see on the list of WikiProject Russia Articles for Cleanup. Mostly this is to get a better feeling for the variety of districts as I write more extented geography/history/economy sections. Thanks again. Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 22:37, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
- You have no idea how glad I am that you are finding the infrastructure useful :) That was the whole idea—to have a skeleton in place so folks who want to contribute can start growing meat on it right away, instead of first having to figure out how to best lay everything out and the intricacies of formatting (and inevitably doing it inconsistently across different articles) and then running out of steam when it comes to adding actual content. You, Yaroslav, Fenix down, and others are the real stars of this show. I wish I could start contributing more content myself, but real-life circumstances keep interfering, so I'm happy that at least my gnoming and morlocking around are of some benefit to y'all :)
- And don't worry too much about breaking anything. I have a semi-random beat schedule to check back on everything on my watchlist, so if anything isn't quite right, I'll catch it eventually. I also normally leave a comment in the edit summary if anything needs to be pointed out, so as long as you have the articles you worked on on your watchlist, they should pop up for you. And of course, if there's anything you want me to look at specifically, just let me know. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 6, 2017; 16:33 (UTC)
- I'm happy to help. Is there a particular talk page that is used for communicating "to do" items among the editors working on Russian districts? Also, is there a checklist of standards for a "start" quality assessment? I would think elevating a district article above "stub" is a matter of adding sections on geography, history, governmental sub-units, and economy to the basic layout. For example, it appears to me that Kholmogorsky District should be at least a "start", but is marked as "stub". (PS, I had to look up "morlock"; not sure which of the disambiguations to follow). Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 22:01, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
- All articles on the districts I worked on are (at least) start-class, though some of them can be still classified as stubs. I just updated the talk page of Kholmogorsky District, thanks for pointing it out.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:08, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
- @Ymblanter: As an exercise, I upgraded the assessment for Talk:Konoshsky District, with comments on my use of the criteria. If you get a chance, could you check to see if I did this correctly; I've never done an assessment before. I can do assessments on Russian district articles as I'm on them frequently. I see for example, that several of the Arkhangelsk articles are still marked Stub, and should be Start or C. Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 16:34, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
- We don't really have well-defined assessment criteria in place. Most, if not all, assessments have been done by the seat of pants, so if you feel any one of them should be upgraded (or downgraded), feel free to do it. The whole assessment system is only used to get a rough estimate of the amount of work we have, so an occasional mismatch isn't going to break anything. And yes, adding a section or two to a stub is normally all it takes to elevate it to Start status.
- As for communicating to-do items, the best place would be WT:RUSSIA. Don't expect crowds of contributors pitching in after you ask anything, though :) Oftentimes me and Yaroslav are the only ones around, but it's still better to use the project page than our talk pages since you never know when someone else decides to comment. You can also utilize taskforce talk pages (such as WT:WikiProject Russia/Human geography of Russia task force), but those are seen by even fewer people than the main project's.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 11, 2017; 16:51 (UTC)
- @Ymblanter: As an exercise, I upgraded the assessment for Talk:Konoshsky District, with comments on my use of the criteria. If you get a chance, could you check to see if I did this correctly; I've never done an assessment before. I can do assessments on Russian district articles as I'm on them frequently. I see for example, that several of the Arkhangelsk articles are still marked Stub, and should be Start or C. Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 16:34, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
- All articles on the districts I worked on are (at least) start-class, though some of them can be still classified as stubs. I just updated the talk page of Kholmogorsky District, thanks for pointing it out.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:08, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
- I'm happy to help. Is there a particular talk page that is used for communicating "to do" items among the editors working on Russian districts? Also, is there a checklist of standards for a "start" quality assessment? I would think elevating a district article above "stub" is a matter of adding sections on geography, history, governmental sub-units, and economy to the basic layout. For example, it appears to me that Kholmogorsky District should be at least a "start", but is marked as "stub". (PS, I had to look up "morlock"; not sure which of the disambiguations to follow). Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 22:01, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
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Поддерживает ли система категорий деление на гражданство и этническую принадлежность?
Приветствую! Я к вам несколько раз обращался, спасибо за помощь в предыдущие разы, последний из которых был, получается, в 2013.)) Есть новая проблема, которая на самом деле совсем не новая и широко известная.)) Не могли бы вы помочь с категориями People of Russia (как раз я когда-то создал и назвал так же, как было на Викискладе, а там категория создана ещё в 2005 году) и Russian people? Я не так часто редактирую в последнее время, но сейчас наткнулся на правки участницы-администратора, которые завершают объединение двух разных, но пересекающихся понятий, в одну категорию. Она указывает, что система категорий в англовики не поддерживает такое разделение. Я плохо знаком с англовики, но разве так может быть? Вижу, что вполне нормально существует вот такая категория этнических курдов с разными гражданствами. Возможно, она не поняла о чём речь, а я вряд ли в таком случае смогу объяснить. По крайней мере на Викискладе и, например, немецкой Википедии технических проблем нет, и существуют две разных категории (commons:Category:People of Russia/commons:Category:Russians и de:Kategorie:Person (Russland)/de:Kategorie:Russe). Есть также статьи de:Russländisch/de:Russen. Что можно сделать? Могут ли в англовики существовать эти две категории или как по-другому назвать категории, чтобы разделить понятия? Наверняка уже были похожие темы и прецеденты, кроме курдов, британцев и т.д. Если возможно, поправьте, пожалуйста, описания категорий, чтобы было точно понятно о чём они, а то, мягко говоря, уж очень страдает точность, если загнать в одну категорию всех этнических русских и граждан России всех этнических групп. --TarzanASG (talk) 02:51, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
- Я подобных прецедентов не припоминаю, но, если не ошибаюсь, в en_wiki для отдельных людей существуют только категории по нац. принадлежности, но не по стране проживания. Т.е. русские включаются в категорию Category:Russian people, татары — в категорию Category:Tatar people, удмурты — в Category:Udmurt people и т.д. и т.п. Все эти категории затем включаются (или по крайней мере должны включаться) в Category:Ethnic groups in Russia, и уже через эту категорию становится как бы понятно, кто такие "people in Russia". В de_wiki, по-видимому, подход другой. Насчёт курдов, это всё-таки нетипичная ситуация, поскольку своей страны у курдов нет.
- Но я с вами согласен, что уравнивать термины "Russian people" и "people of Russia" не вполне корректно, поэтому перенаправил "People of Russia" на "Ethnic groups in Russia". Если будут возражения, дискуссию можно продолжить.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 25, 2017; 17:48 (UTC)
- Спасибо за перенаправление перенаправления, но это не единственная проблема. Сейчас вижу такую ситуацию. Две категории с многими этническими группами такие как Russian people by ethnic or national origin и Ethnic groups in Russia входят в категорию Russian people, которая входит в Slavic people by nationality. Проблема в том, что в этом конкретном виде эта цепочка, кажется, неверна. Надо бы как-то переформатировать и другие категории, а также чтобы было правильное соответствие Викискладу и Викиданным. Просто удалить Russian people из категории Slavic people by nationality тоже нельзя, т.к. надо добавить туда что-то взамен, написанное на английском языке. Я не знаю как именно это сделать, как именно назвать, чтобы это было очевидно другим участникам английской Википедии и не было возражений как сейчас с категорией People of Russia. Не могли бы вы уделить внимание этому вопросу, создать/отредактировать такие категории? На эти категории всё-таки "нанизываются" все остальные. Если на Викискладе более-менее понятные категории (commons:Category:People of Russia, commons:Category:Russians by country, commons:Category:Tatar people by country и так далее), то, наверное, это можно сделать и в англовики. Сейчас из-за Викиданных все неточности всё равно вылезут, встретятся вместе и превратятся в ошибки в других проектах. Что касается своей страны, то, кажется, она не должна мешать "разложить всё по полочкам". Несмотря на то, что у народа хань своя страна есть, в английском разделе, как я сейчас понял, в одну кучу всё не смешивается. Есть категория об этнической группе Han Chinese, а есть о населении Китая Chinese people, а также есть отдельное название Хуацяо для разных граждан Китая, живущих за границей. Хотя если говорить о положении де-юре, то всё может быть ещё сложнее с определением есть ли своя страна. По конституции государство принадлежит гражданской нации под названием "многонациональный народ России". Там же говорится и о том, что "каждый вправе определять и указывать свою национальную принадлежность, и никто не может быть принужден к определению и указанию своей национальной принадлежности". Есть даже официальные результаты переписи населения, согласно которой в РФ проживают, платят налоги и голосуют на выборах граждане, которые указывают свою этническую принадлежность как джедаи, гномы, лешие, орки, гоблины, хоббиты, полудницы, эльфы, толкинисты, марсиане и т.д. Но это совершенно отдельный важный вопрос, о нём не сейчас.)) --TarzanASG (talk) 21:25, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies
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По моему нуждается в переименование. XXN, 20:11, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
- Yup; thanks. Done.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 25, 2017; 17:19 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #245
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- A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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- Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
- The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
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- JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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Wikidata weekly summary #246
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- You can now download query results as SVG images
- When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
- We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
- Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
- Setting up test system for lexemes
- Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
- Doing more groundwork for lexemes
- Working on better integration with Elastic
- More work on Federation
- Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
- Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
- Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
- Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
- Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)
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- The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
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Wikidata weekly summary #247
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
- Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
- A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
- Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
- Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)
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- The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
- Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
- Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
- ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
- It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta
- Did you know?
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- Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
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- Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
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Wikidata weekly summary #248
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
- Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
- If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
- Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
- Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
- Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID
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- Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
- More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
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Weinberg and Wrangel, but "Libknekht"
Hi,
Why is Mieczysław Weinberg (not Vaynberg), Ferdinand von Wrangel and Wrangel Island (not Vrangel), but Imeni Karla Libknekhta (not Liebknechta)? --Christmas Island (talk) 20:57, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
- Because Wrangel Island is an established name in the English literature, and we just use it; on the other side, Imeni Karla Libknekhta does not have an established English name, and we just romanize it according to WP:RUS.--Ymblanter (talk) 01:17, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
- However, the settlement is named after Karl Liebknecht, not "Karl Libknekht". --2001:999:22:B187:8557:5049:84F2:D893 (talk) 19:08, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- It is irrelevant.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:13, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- It is not irrelevant, the Wrangel Island in Russia is named after Ferdinand von Wrangel, not "Vrangel". --2001:999:22:B187:8557:5049:84F2:D893 (talk) 19:32, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- This is also irrelevant. There are no Wikipedia policies which say anything close to this.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:37, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- Yaroslav, thanks for pitching in, but please be aware that he is just trolling. He's been asking me this same question (sometimes about this settlement, sometimes about others) repeatedly for, oh, at least eight years, keeps fishing other people's pages at random to get them to agree with him, and never introduces any new arguments even as those arguments have no merit behind them from either Wikipedia guidelines point of view or general transliteration practices. There's nothing you or me can tell him that hasn't been explained before.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 2, 2017; 14:18 (UTC)
- Also known as WPK on fi-wiki and on Wikimedia Commons (blocked indefinetely on Commons). No sources/arguments given, just new accounts to repeat things all over again (also lots of IP addresses beginning with 85.76. or 2001:999:. Recommending just to ignore. (I have seen lots of stuff made by this certain user of fi-wiki and Commons but also here on English Wikipedia.)--80.223.190.250 (talk) 15:05, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
- Yaroslav, thanks for pitching in, but please be aware that he is just trolling. He's been asking me this same question (sometimes about this settlement, sometimes about others) repeatedly for, oh, at least eight years, keeps fishing other people's pages at random to get them to agree with him, and never introduces any new arguments even as those arguments have no merit behind them from either Wikipedia guidelines point of view or general transliteration practices. There's nothing you or me can tell him that hasn't been explained before.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 2, 2017; 14:18 (UTC)
- This is also irrelevant. There are no Wikipedia policies which say anything close to this.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:37, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- It is not irrelevant, the Wrangel Island in Russia is named after Ferdinand von Wrangel, not "Vrangel". --2001:999:22:B187:8557:5049:84F2:D893 (talk) 19:32, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- It is irrelevant.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:13, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- However, the settlement is named after Karl Liebknecht, not "Karl Libknekht". --2001:999:22:B187:8557:5049:84F2:D893 (talk) 19:08, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #249
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Proposal to include command line arguments to Command line tool
- We need your input on SPARQL federation
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Describing Wikidata items with OpenStreetMap tags
- Deadline for applying to Wikicite 2017 is February 27th
- Quora blog post about their collaboration with Wikidata. They are now displaying links to Wikidata items in their topic management pages - about 88K of them, so far.
- Community Digest: Using data to visualize Wikipedia knowledge gaps; news in brief
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a Community for Wikidata editors on Facebook
- You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add
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to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use&load=
which will only prepare the task for running. - Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app for Hebrew, Russian and Catalan
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).
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- A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
- AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
- Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
- The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.
- A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
- Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
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Wikidata weekly summary #250
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- International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
- Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
- Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
- Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
- Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
- The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint
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- Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
- Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
- Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
- Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion
- Development
- Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
- SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
- Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).
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Revert
Hello.
As you might have noticed, I reverted your revert. My edit, that you reverted, was fixing inconsistent dates. Obviously one has to be chosen.
I also changed some other things. If you disagree on some changes in an edit, please do not revert all of it, revert only what you disagree with and keep the rest.
Thanks.
Regards
HandsomeFella (talk) 14:13, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
- I was just leaving you a message about the same on your talk page :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 9, 2017; 14:18 (UTC)
- It was actually you who was the sinner ;-), changing the date format from the original format almost 10 years ago, but I guess that the statute of limitations for that has expired.
- Cheers, and have a nice day.
- HandsomeFella (talk) 14:29, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
- I know; that's what I meant when I said that I misread the direction of your change :) Every year I vow to never start editing before I have my morning coffee, because this is the kind of shit that keeps happening to me when I do, and yet here I am in the same trap again!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 9, 2017; 14:32 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #251
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
- Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
- Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
- Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
- Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
- Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
- Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
- Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
- Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
- WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier
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- List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
- Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens (source)
- Awards received by more women than men (source)
- Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
- The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
- Natural arches around the globe (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
- Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator
- Development
- Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (phab:T134643).
- Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
- Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
- Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
- Finishing federation prototype.
- We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
- Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
- Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
- Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
- Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
- Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
- Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)
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Weekly Summary #252
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
- Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
- A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
- Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
- Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
- Quora: Identifying Topics about People
- How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
- SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
- Mix’n’match interface update
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
- Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
- More work on Federation (phab:T157442, phab:T158169)
- Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
- Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
- More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
- Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
- Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
- Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
- Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
- Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)
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Please comment on Talk:Fabergé egg
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Wikidata weekly summary #253
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office connect
- A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
- (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
- Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
- 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
- Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
- The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
- Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
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- Newest database reports: film scripts
- Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)
- Development
- Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
- Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
- Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
- Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
- Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)
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Hi Ezhiki, I hope you are fine. We now got this article, and it is likely we will be getting more of this kind. Do we have a structural solution? Redirects for municipal districts are under control, I have created more than a half of those, and I am still creating them on a regular basis.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:31, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Yaroslav! Always a pleasure to hear from you. Thanks for doing the redirects; I hate that part! :)
- I'm doing fine, but it's been incredibly difficult to keep my usual contributions level ever since I changed jobs last year. I'll get there eventually, though.
- Rural settlements, as you can imagine, are on my to-do list (like a million other things), but I don't believe we are at a point yet where creating mass stubs about them is a smart move. I wouldn't worry about occasional one-off articles like this one, but if anybody starts mass-producing underdeveloped stubs, they should probably be brought in on board and explained what the "grand vision" is :) If nothing else, explain that cleaning up crap is a lot harder than developing a well-thought workflow and sticking to it to the end.
- Additionally, since we are focusing on the administrative divisions as the primary article topics (into which information about municipal divisions normally gets upmerged), there shouldn't be any articles about municipal rural settlements unless a) such municipal rural settlements span multiple selsoviets or account for only a portion of a selsoviet; b) rural settlements are considered to be both administrative and municipal divisions within the federal subject, or c) there are no low-level administrative divisions in the federal subject. For most of Arkhangelsk Oblast, the territories of the selsoviets and the rural settlement coincide, so I would move this article to Dolgoshchelsky Selsoviet, address the municipal aspect within it (same way we address municipal district aspects in the articles about administrative districts), and redirect Dolgoshchelskoye Rural Settlement to it.
- If you encounter any more like these and are not sure where they should be moved to (or if they should be moved at all), just drop me a note. I can always find time to answer something like that. But I'd very much prefer to first establish the network of disambiguation pages/set indices/redirects for the selsoviets and rural settlements, along the line of what's already been done for the districts. I have all the information for a job like that; all I need is time. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 28, 2017; 18:33 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. No, I do not thing we will see proliferation of these articles right now, but they certainly will be eventually created.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:51, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
Who is Max Laserson??
Hey, long time no talk! I found the discrepancy between Maksis Lazersons and the corresponding Russian page troubling. From the English page, you'd never know he was ever in Australia; from the Russian one you'd never know he was ever in America. It's not impossible they're both correct, that he was in Australia till 1948 and then came to the US, taught college, and died, but it seems very odd. I have a book of his, and from the brief bio it's clear the part about the US is true, but maybe the Australia passage in the Russian page is a fantasy? (There's no reference.) Also, why is the English page called "Maksis Lazersons" when he called himself Max Laserson in English? (The book has "Max M. Laserson" on the cover.) Anyway, I thought I'd dump it in your lap and take the opportunity to say that as fed up as I get with Wikipedia, I always think fondly of you and hope you're doing well. Languagehat (talk) 20:09, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Great to hear from you, too! Especially when you are bearing gifts :)
- I've never heard of this person before today, but a quick search (the results of which you may or may not have already seen) reveals a short article in the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (which makes no mention of Australia), a research paper (ditto), and this excerpt of questionable provenance, containing Laserson's correspondence, where he explicitly states that he was in the US in 1939.
- The user who added the Australia passage has not, unfortunately, been editing Wikipedia since 2016, but I see he explicitly replaced the US part with Australia part, and I see that part matching this excerpt, but since it's only a snippet view, it's not very helpful. After a bit of detective work, I can confirm that page 456 of that volume is, in fact, where the chapter about Laserson ends, but this really doesn't help answering your question. However, the snippet of page 451 (where the chapter begins) says that "Moris Lazerson" was born in Mitau (old name of Jelgava), but in 1879, so it's likely it's a different person altogether and things have mixed up quite a bit everywhere. Sorry for not being of more help, but this is not a subject I'd have anything about in my library! Hopefully these findings will whet your appetite for fixing things, at least here in the English wiki :)
- As for the article's title, you are absolutely right—it should be moved. That part is taken care of now. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 29, 2017; 21:20 (UTC)
- Many thanks for your dogged research! I've lost most of my taste for editing, apart from the occasional uncontroversial addition of a pronunciation or grammatical cleanup, thanks to too many run-ins with rule-obsessed and/or personally invested editors, so I'll just let the whole thing rest in peace until a more ambitious Wikipedian comes along. Languagehat (talk) 18:10, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
- Well, that's a pity, but I understand. Anyway, I've restored the pre-Australia passage on the ru_wiki side, so the articles are now at least somewhat in sync.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 30, 2017; 18:25 (UTC)
- Many thanks for your dogged research! I've lost most of my taste for editing, apart from the occasional uncontroversial addition of a pronunciation or grammatical cleanup, thanks to too many run-ins with rule-obsessed and/or personally invested editors, so I'll just let the whole thing rest in peace until a more ambitious Wikipedian comes along. Languagehat (talk) 18:10, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).
TheDJ
Xnuala • CJ • Oldelpaso • Berean Hunter • Jimbo Wales • Andrew c • Karanacs • Modemac • Scott
- Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
- The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
- An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
- After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.
- After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
- Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.
Wikidata weekly summary #254
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office connect
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
- Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
- Biocuration 2017
- Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
- Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
- Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
- Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
- New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
- Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
- Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
- new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
- Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID
- Query examples:
- External Tools News
- wikidata-cli
- new command: wd summary
- improved support for custom Wikibase instances
- wikidata-edit:
- new function: remove claim
- improved support for custom Wikibase instances
- wikidata-sdk:
- new function: simplify.entity
- major documentation restructuration
- wikidata-filter:
- new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
- Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data
- wikidata-cli
- Development
- A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
- Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
- Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
- Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
- More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
- Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!
A barnstar for you!
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
This barnstar, awarded in the stead of the Turknish national barnstar, is awarded to Ezhiki for his immense contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of Turkey. Gott mit Uns! Vami_IV✠ 04:35, 7 April 2017 (UTC) |
- You must have confused me with someone else. If I ever contributed to Turkey subjects, it could not have been of any notable volume, quality, or depth.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 7, 2017; 13:21 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section
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Wikidata weekly summary #255
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Zolo
- New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page
- Events/Press/Blogs
- The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
- Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
- Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
- Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
- There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
- New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
- Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
- New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
- You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
- Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
- Help us translating this short message in your language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
- Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
- Newest database reports: list of duos
- Development
- Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (phab:T162244)
- Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
- Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses
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- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!
Conroversial notability of several persons.Xx236 (talk) 06:17, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- But it's a disambiguation page, not an article. As long as those entries meet WP:DABRL, there is no problem with including them.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 12, 2017; 19:03 (UTC)
- Victor Merzhanov doesn't reference informations about students. It's probably a translation from Russian, not referenced. Xx236 (talk) 06:06, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
- For WP:DABRL purposes, mentions do not need to be referenced, only included. On the other hand, if the veracity/notability of the included information is in question or doubt, then it can be removed from the article, as is the case with any other unsourced material. In that case the disambiguation page entry should be removed as well.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 13, 2017; 12:59 (UTC)
- Victor Merzhanov doesn't reference informations about students. It's probably a translation from Russian, not referenced. Xx236 (talk) 06:06, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
FoP
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Привет, друг!!! Ты можешь по ссылке посмотреть чего там намудрили с толкованием нашего ГК упертые пользователи склада? Ну чесс слово не понимаю их рвения. В обсуждении попытался растолковать, но, боюсь меня не поймут )). --M. J. Lee Khan talk 11:22, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
- Привет! Сколько лет, сколько зим :)
- К сожалению, моё знание российского права ограничено административно-территориальным и муниципальным устройством страны, поэтому с интепретацией ГК я помочь не могу. Хотя хочу отметить, что довольно странно выглядит сама процедура номинации изображений в одной большой куче, вместо того чтобы как следует рассмотреть каждое по-отдельности, но я вижу по этому поводу уже кто-то прокомментировал.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 17, 2017; 11:23 (UTC)
- Да, там уже подключились спецы )). Пришлось поизучать предмет. Есть нюансы. К части можно применить правило "минимис", а часть перегрузить в рувики. Это формально. А по факту - излишняя паранойя. Как сам? ;) --M. J. Lee Khan talk 08:52, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
- Я лет десять назад или около того сфотографировал статую Эйфеля у подножия Эйфелевой башни. Страшненькая такая фотография была, и статуя сама была лесами полузатянута, но на неимением в то время ничего лучшего, загрузил что было. Через некоторое время фотографию удалили. Так я узнал, что такое FoP и с тех пор к проекту Commons значительно охладел :)
- Сам ничего вроде бы. Вот работу поменял в прошлом году и времени на Википедию существенно поубавилось, но ничего, прорвёмся. А у тебя как дела? Со здоровьем нормально? А то как ни появишься, то только потому, что болеешь :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 18, 2017; 13:16 (UTC)
- Да пока всё также. Без значительных изменений в ту или иную сторону. И то хорошо ). Собираюсь на очередное обследование на днях. Да по бытовухе полоса пока затяжная (хлопот разных величин). Тоже прорываемся помаленьку. Тут изредка появляюсь. Но чаще так, без аутентификации. Быренько подправить косяк какой. А на что-то поглубже нет времени да и честно особого желания. Это же такой процесс - затянет и не выбраться. Пока погружаться не получается. Очень рад тебя слышать )) yo!!!--M. J. Lee Khan talk 17:49, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
- "Затянет и не выбраться", ну да, что же мне, одному в болоте сидеть? :) Ну а вообще рад, что всё хорошо. Появляйся что ли почаще, пусть хоть и набегами!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 18, 2017; 19:16 (UTC)
- Да пока всё также. Без значительных изменений в ту или иную сторону. И то хорошо ). Собираюсь на очередное обследование на днях. Да по бытовухе полоса пока затяжная (хлопот разных величин). Тоже прорываемся помаленьку. Тут изредка появляюсь. Но чаще так, без аутентификации. Быренько подправить косяк какой. А на что-то поглубже нет времени да и честно особого желания. Это же такой процесс - затянет и не выбраться. Пока погружаться не получается. Очень рад тебя слышать )) yo!!!--M. J. Lee Khan talk 17:49, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
- Да, там уже подключились спецы )). Пришлось поизучать предмет. Есть нюансы. К части можно применить правило "минимис", а часть перегрузить в рувики. Это формально. А по факту - излишняя паранойя. Как сам? ;) --M. J. Lee Khan talk 08:52, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #256
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- Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
- "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
- Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
- The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
- Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
- More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
- All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
- You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
- To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
- Newest database reports: list of anthology films
Development
- More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052)
- Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531)
- Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826)
- Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530)
- Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473)
- Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
- Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617)
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- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #257
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
- Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
- Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
- Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
- New template: d:Template:Film festivals
- Development
- Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (phab:T138295)
- Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (phab:T163144)
- Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (phab:T110604)
- Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (phab:T159710)
- Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (phab:T160530)
- Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (phab:T162342)
- Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (phab:T160048)
- Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
- Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (phab:T157466)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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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Precious
"Where patience ends endurance begins."
Thank you for quality articles on Russian topics such as Kola Peninsula and History of the administrative division of Russia, for service since 2004, for "Where patience ends endurance begins.", - self-appointed keeper of consistency, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you, Gerda, I appreciate the sentiment.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 2, 2017; 14:04 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #258
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
- Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
- Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
- Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
- Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
- New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
- new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
- Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
- Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
- Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
- Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format
- Development
- Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
- Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
- The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
- Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (phabricator:T107595)
- Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
- Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).
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Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim
Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight
- An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
- Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.
- You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
- There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
- Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)
- Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.
Wikidata weekly summary #259
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Updating References for External Data
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
- Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
- Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
- You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
- We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
- Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
- Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses
- Development
- Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
- Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
- Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
- Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!
Please comment on Help talk:Citation Style 1
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Help talk:Citation Style 1. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #260
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- Discussions
- Development input: Client editing prototype
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
- Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
- Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
- You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
- WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
- TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
- OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
- The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
- Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
- Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
- The constraint table has been updated
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- More work on Special:NewLexeme page (Phab:T164582)
- Correctly compare time values on constraints (Phab:T164279)
- Check wording of messages/constraint check results (Phab:T164354)
- Creating grammatical features for Forms (Phab:T160525)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Help adding missing statements to properties
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #261
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
- Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
- Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
- Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
- Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
- Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
- Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
- We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
- An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID
- Query examples:
- Plants with associated emoji (source)
- Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
- HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
- Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
- Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
- Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation
- Development
- Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
- Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
- Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (phab:T164354, help update translations)
- Working on a tree view for the Query Service (phab:T152676)
- Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
- Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
- Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (phab:T162557)
- Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (phab:T163551)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (films)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (films). Legobot (talk) 04:28, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Invitation to comment at Template:Link language RfC
You have commented on this topic before, so I wanted to invite you to participate in Template talk:Link language#Request for comment on formatting.
—A L T E R C A R I ✍ 20:08, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #262
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- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
- New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
- Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
- Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Eurowings app uses Wikidata
- Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
- Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
- Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
- Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography
- Development
- Attending WikiCite
- Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
- Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
- Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – June 2017
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).
Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn
ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned
- An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
- Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
- An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.
- Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.
- Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.
Wikidata weekly summary #263
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- Discussions
- Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
- Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
- Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
- Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
- MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
- Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
- Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
- Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
- Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"
- Development
- Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
- Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
- Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
- Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
- Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
- Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
- Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
- Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
- Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
- More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
- More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
- More work on statements (phab:T165480)
- More work on constraints (phab:T167107)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Hi, can you or Ymblanter fix the names of the women in English? It's for a world women contest I'm running.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:25, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
- But we don't speak Azerbaijani :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 12, 2017; 18:12 (UTC)
- Ah, I thought you had a command of the Cyrillic languages!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
- Well, Cyrillic is just a script, man :) I can kinda sorta serve as a resource of last resort for Slavic languages (Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian...), but I asking me to help with Azerbaijani, Mongolian, or Tatar is like asking you to help with Vietnamese—just because it's more or less in the same script as your native language doesn't necessarily mean you can do much with it! (I did go through half of the Russian list, though). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 16, 2017; 12:54 (UTC)
- Ah, I thought you had a command of the Cyrillic languages!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Glossaries
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Wikidata weekly summary #264
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- Discussions
- Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
- Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
- The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
- MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
- You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
- Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
- Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
- OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
- Newest database reports: new people gallery
- Development
- Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (phab:T158842)
- More work on Forms (phab:T163723)
- Fixing rank icon (phab:T85388)
- Add monolingual code fkv (phab:T167259)
- Add monolingual code lag (phab:T161983)
- More work on property constraints (phab:T167126)
- Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (phab:T162533)
- Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (phab:T46874)
- Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (phab:T74815)
- New datatype for referencing Lexemes (phab:T165578)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Possibly outside your core area, but would be very much appreciated if you could translate something from the Russian article to put together a short stub. Right now when we link this town of 4,000 people, it goes to a dog breed (Borzoi)!! Cheers and thanks Buckshot06 (talk) 22:45, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
- Nope, this is pretty much inside my core area :) I've created a stub at Borzoy; enjoy!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 15, 2017; 14:26 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #265
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- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
- Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
wikimedia-office
- Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
- Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Wikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.
- WikidataCon
- Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
- Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
- Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
- You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
- Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
- beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID
- Query examples:
- Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
- Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
- The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
- Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
- Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
- Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata
- Query examples:
- Development
- Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
- Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
- Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
- More experimenting with the new front-end framework
- Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on
This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:
Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.
The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:
- 15 June 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.
The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".
The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:
- 31 December 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion in infoboxes.
The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".
Note: I am informing everyone who commented on the above RfCs, whether they supported or opposed the final consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #266
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
wikimedia-office
- Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
- Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
- ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
- I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
- Resource discovery and Wikidata
- Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
- Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
- ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library
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- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
- Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
- New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
- OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
- Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
- New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
- Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: VizQuery
- Development
- Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
- Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
- More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
- Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
- Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
- Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
- Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
- Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Sputnik, Vladikavkaz
Do you need to add this locality to Sputnik (rural locality)? Or is it not rural, in which case would you consider adding a note to Sputnik (disambiguation)? Cheers and thanks for all the hard work, Buckshot06 (talk) 21:52, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
- Might you consider a set index for Krasnaya Rechka? Buckshot06 (talk) 22:45, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
- That Sputnik is not a standalone inhabited locality; it's one of those weird cases where a place is a part of a larger place yet is still called a "settlement". Usually those are either former settlements gobbled up by a bigger one (so, basically, a microdistrict, but still referred to as "settlement") or some sort of military/scientific installation with an attached residential area. The bottom line: if it's not listed in the federal subject's registry of the administrative-territorial divisions (which this Sputnik is not), it's not a separate place. That said, it doesn't mean it can't have an article of its own, but it would have to be a notable enough place on its own merits. Also, a disambig entry cannot be added until the place is at least redlinked from somewhere else (see WP:DABRL).
- Krasnaya Rechka, on the other hand, is now a set index, as requested. Enjoy!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 6, 2017; 14:20 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #267
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- Discussions
- New request for comment: When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
- Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
- Upcoming: Wikidata and SPARQL workshop and Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during the Africa Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
- A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
- Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Join the Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
- Sitelinks for the new Kabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can be added
- We reached Q31000000
- a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
- New Mix’n’match catalog: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from the Connected Open Heritage in Wikidata
- We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
- The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
- Platypus has started to learn Spanish
- WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
- WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
- MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: parliamentary group, metrically compatible typeface, BVMC place id, MuseScore ID, RePEc institute ID, Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID, Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID, checksum, Irish Grid Reference, Biodiversity Repository ID, Global Terrorism Database ID
- Query examples:
- Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
- First names of current French members of Parliament (source)
- Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (source)
- Family tree of Harry Potter characters (source)
- Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (source)
- Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (source)
- Pictures of Pharaos (source)
- Map of departemental archives in France (source)
- Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.
- Development
- Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
- Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).
- The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.
- Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding
?fuzzy=1
to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term. - A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.
- Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding
- A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
- A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
- Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.
Wikidata weekly summary #268
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
- Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata (tweets about Wikidata during the conference)
- Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
- A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team
- WikidataCon
- Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
- Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have some real Meta data!
- The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
- Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
- Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
- Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
- New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
- One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to
- Query examples:
- Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
- 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
- Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
- Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
- Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
- Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university (source)
- Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)
- Development
- Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (gerrit:362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
- Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (phab:T169558)
- Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (phab:T165575)
- Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (phab:T169716)
- Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (phab:T169647, Project chat)
- Implemented “Format” constraint (phab:T102752, help page)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Talk:Kombucha
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Kombucha. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #269
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
- Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
- Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
- Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
- Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab
- WikidataCon
- The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
- You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We now have a page describing our use of RDF
- We now have Q33000000
- The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
- Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
- New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
- Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID
- Query examples:
- Graph of operating systems (source)
- Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
- People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
- Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org (source)
- Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (source)
- metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons (source)
- UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)
- Query examples:
- Development
- Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
- Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (phab:T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
- Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (phab:T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
- Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (phab:T170391)
- Improving the Query Service UI (phab:T170279)
- Improving wbsearchentities (phab:T103875)
- Removing links from printable version (phab:T87108)
- Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (phab:T166473)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #270
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
- Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
- Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su
- WikidataCon
- You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
- Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
- Scores in ORES will be more accurate
- A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
- Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
- On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
- There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
- Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID
- Query examples:
- lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)
- Development
- The
wbEntity
JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at thewikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded
hook as a possible replacement. - Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: phab:T171263.
- Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: phab:T114903.
- Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
- Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: phab:T164254.
- Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: phab:T168582
- The
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #271
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
- Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
- Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
- Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community
- WikidataCon
- Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
- You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
- Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
- Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
- We now have Q34000000
- Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID
- Query examples:
- Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (source)
- Total number of sister city statements per country (source)
- Pictures of tube stations in London (source)
- Works created with the software Maya (source)
- Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (source)
- ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (source)
- Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (source)
- New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property
- Development
- Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
- Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
- Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254)
- Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950)
- Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
- Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – August 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).
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Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 (first RfA to reach WP:300)
Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem
- Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
- A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
- An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.
- LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
- The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.
Мировой заговор против Азербайджана
Коллега, вы не могли бы посмотреть статью Cognac diplomacy? Там коллеги из Азербайджана пытаются протолкнуть версию, мол, Армения и Джордж Сорос подрядили ведущие международные правозащитные организации, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, и т.д., чтобы очернить демократичный Азербайджан. Пользуясь, видимо, незнанием английскими редакторами русского языка, в статью вводятся русские источники, никакого отношения к лоббистской деятельности не имеющие. Например шутливая фраза из статьи о коньяке "Армянский коньяк – это национальное достояние, я бы даже назвал его национальной дипломатией. Не секрет, что все мы хоть раз в жизни да и решали какой-нибудь вопрос бутылкой армянского коньяка" приводится как доказательство того, что существует такой "коньячный" заговор против Азербайджана. Или делают целую секцию на основе голословного заявления какого-то депутата, мол Армения подкупила Венецианскую комиссию, потому что та дала положительное заключение по законодательству по референдумам в Армении. Поскольку делают это редакторы из Азербайджана, они прекрасно понимают контекст и свои действия. Вы не могли бы, как понимающий русский язык, посмотреть статью (две версии [2], [3], обсуждение удаления - [4])? Я написал еще нескольким русскоязычным редакторам, в т.ч. Ярославу Блантеру, но их вроде нет в Википедии. Divot (talk) 15:23, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
2017 Chukotka Population Estimates
Hi Ezhiki, can you tell me whether something is missing from the bottom of this table? I'm not seeing anything listed for Iultinsky, Providensky or Chaunsky Districts. Is this an issue with what has been uploaded, or has there been a reorganization of the municipal districts so that localities previously in these districts are now contained within Egvekinot, Provideniya and Pevek Urban Okrugs? Fenix down (talk) 10:45, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, this is due to the changes to the municipal structure (which I still haven't had time to implement here on Wikipedia, arghh). Iultinsky (Municipal) District is now Egvekinot Urban Okrug, Providensky (Municipal) District is now Providensky Urban Okrug (note that it's Providensky, and not Provideniya as the population stats table says), and Chaunsky (Municipal) District is now Pevek Urban Okrug.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 2, 2017; 17:43 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #272
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
- Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
- Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID
- Query examples:
- Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
- Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format
- Development
- Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
- Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
- Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
- Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (phab:T169060)
- Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Emperor railway station, Pushkin town
I wrote this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_railway_station,_Pushkin_town
It has received this notice
This article needs attention from an expert in Russia. The specific problem is: The article needs a proper title, can not identified because of non-English sources. WikiProject Russia may be able to help recruit an expert. (July 2017)
I speak Russian, I currently live within a kilometer of this building, the content is basically the same as the French and Russian pages, the sources are taken from the Russian pages, the title is the same used for the category "Emperor railway station, Pushkin town"; and I provided many of the photos.
So is this notice needed?
To make matters worse the article now boasts a title which is simply a mixture of its Russian name and English "Imperatorsky pavilyon" is not English and is the latin version of its cyrillic name in Russian. It is therefore completely incorrect. Do you really think a transliterated version of the Russian name in English is appropriate and correct? I suggest "Emperor's Pavilion / Railway Station" Harveyqs
- Hi there! To answer your question, Russian toponyms (which is what railway station names are) in the English Wikipedia are never translated, only transliterated, unless one can demonstrate that the commonly recognized name policy applies. For the vast majority of places, it does not, and this one in particular is certainly rather obscure to qualify. That said, there is nothing wrong with including a literal translation in the lede. The name of the category is actually irrelevant, since it is on the Commons, which probably has different standards than those on the English Wikipedia. By the looks of it, it should probably be renamed on the Commons as well, but since I'm not involved with the Commons, I can't really help you there.
- As for the hatnote ("the article needs attention from an expert in Russia"), you might want to contact the person who added it (User:usernamekiran) to clarify what their expectations are.
- If you have any other questions for me, please don't hesitate to ask. If it is easier for you to do so in Russian, I don't mind, as long as the discussion is confined to my talk page. Cheers!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 10, 2017; 15:31 (UTC)
- @Harveyqs: Hi. The only reason for the hatnote is the title of the article. As long as the title is correct, I dont have any problem. :)
- Also, I think this discussion should be moved to the article's talkpage for future reference. —usernamekiran(talk) 19:17, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply! I will indeed copy the discussion to the talk page once all Harveyqs' questions have been answered to their satisfaction.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 10, 2017; 19:48 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Seltso (disambiguation)#Definition of "seltso"
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Seltso (disambiguation)#Definition of "seltso". Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 06:40, 12 August 2017 (UTC)Template:Z48
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thanks for your effort.I would love to see more contribution to Russian related articles. and I think It would be good to enrich current Russia related articles Ro.faridi (talk) 20:07, 13 August 2017 (UTC) |
- Thanks. Got anything stronger there though? :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 14, 2017; 13:09 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #273
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- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
- Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
- Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
- Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
- Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog
- Wikimania
- You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
- Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
- Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
- List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
- Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
- Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
- Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
- New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
- Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
- Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
- Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
- Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
- Wikidata reached d:Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
- Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates
- Development
Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Abbreviations
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Wikidata weekly summary #274
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
- Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
- What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
- The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
- More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID
- Query examples:
- Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
- Shortest streets in Moscow
- A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
- Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac (source)
- Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
- 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns (source)
- All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments
- Development
- Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
- Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
- Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
- Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
- Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Borisovsky Uyezd
I used the disambiguator Minsk Governorate because of ru:Борисовский_уезд_(Курская_губерния). Kges1901 (talk) 19:24, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
- I understand, but since that article does not exist, disambiguation guidelines recommend against preemptively disambiguating another page. I have, of course, no objections against adding the disambiguator back and moving the pageas soon as there is a stub (or a dab with a red, but WP:DABRL-compliant link to another entry). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 21, 2017; 19:27 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #275
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: علاء
- New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
- Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
- Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
- A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
- The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
- Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
- Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.
- WikidataCon
- The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
- Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
- The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
- We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa
- Development
- Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
- Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
- Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
- Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
- Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
- Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
- Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Talk:Family Guy
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User talk:123.136.106.97, User talk:123.136.106.206, User talk:123.136.112.133, User talk:183.171.179.107
Can you delete all user talk pages? 115.164.177.123 (talk) 15:56, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
- I have a technical ability to do so, but I see no apparent reason why these particular four should be deleted. Care to elaborate?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 31, 2017; 18:48 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).
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Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee
- ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
- Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.
- You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
- Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
- In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.
- Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.
Wikidata weekly summary #276
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
- Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
- ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
- Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
- The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
- When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New admin: congrats to علاء
- Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
- With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
- The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical
- Query examples:
- Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
- Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex
- Development
- Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
- Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
- Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
- Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
- Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
- Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
- Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
- The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
- Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #277
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
- Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
- Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
- Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India
- WikidataCon
- The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
- The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
- The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Q39000000 was created
- Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
- The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
- Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)
- Development
- The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
- Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
- Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
- Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (phabricator:T121274)
- Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (phabricator:T173696)
- Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (phabricator:T175525)
- Released version 2.1.0 of the Serialization JavaScript component (phabricator:T174011)
- Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component (phabricator:T168681)
- Released version 0.9.0 of the DataValues JavaScript component (phabricator:T172916)
- Released version 0.8.6 of the DataValues Time component (phabricator:T151088)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
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Invitation to Admin confidence survey
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Wikidata weekly summary #278
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
- Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
- Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
- Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
- Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
- The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
- Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
- A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
- Q40000000 was created
- Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
- Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID
- Query examples:
- Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
- Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias (source)
- Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
- Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
- Software developers by number of software titles (source)
- Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints
- Development
- Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
- Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
- Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (phabricator:T121274)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #279
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
- Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
- Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
- 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
- Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
- Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)
- Development
- Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
- Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
- Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
- Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327)
- Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).
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Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem
Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box
- Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
- Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.
- You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.
- Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
- A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
Wikidata weekly summary #280
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
- One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
- Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
- Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
- Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
- There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
- New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
- A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
- Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
- Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
- Statement 300.000.000 was created
- 20 million edits were done in September 2017
- Did you know?
- Development
- Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
- Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742, phabricator:T173744)
- Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
- Added a new
mw.wikibase.getAllStatements
Lua function in addition to the existinggetBestStatements
, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124) - Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
- Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component
- 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!
Merger procedure
Hello, I have started a merger procedure between fr:Kraï and fr:Kraïs de Russie and, since you participated to one of the articles, I wanted you to know about it if you want to give your opinion. Here is the merger section : fr:Wikipédia:Pages à fusionner#Kraï et Kraïs de Russie. Best regards. SenseiAC (talk) 09:45, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
It is great that there is someone able to create such articles from scratch, but the bottom of the article, as well as the infobox, probably require your (not urgent) attention. Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:55, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm watching these and placing them on my to-do list as they pop up. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 6, 2017; 13:57 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #281
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
- Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
- Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
- New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
- Newest database reports: television series by camera setup
- Development
- Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
- A
mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang
Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262) - The
mw.wikibase.sitelink
Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903) - Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
- Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
- Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
- Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
- Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
- 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!
Please comment on Talk:Red
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Red. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Association Football Matches
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
- A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
- Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
- Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
- Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
- Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
- Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
- wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
- wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
- HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
- You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Women
- Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
- Development
- Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
- Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
- Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T176863)
- Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (phabricator:T177485)
- Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
- The secondary
wb_entity_per_page
table got removed now (phabricator:T140890) - The secondary
wb_terms
table does have aterm_full_entity_id
column now (phabricator:T167114) - Released version 4.0.0 of the Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177476)
- Released version 3.0.0 of the Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177613)
- Released version 0.10.0 of the DataValues JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177232)
- 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!
A barnstar for you!
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The Original Barnstar |
Dear Ezhiki
thanks for your effort in Wikipedia. I love your articles and edits.the reason that I'm contacting with is to request a publish an article in wikipedia for svetloe lake in Russia.it's a beautiful lake with great nature.it's called Swan Lake because of lots of swan migrating.there is also lots of sources and articles in internet be referd.I don't have lots of time and I will busy for long time. best regards Ruhollah Faridi Ro.faridi (talk) 07:05, 20 October 2017 (UTC) |
- Thanks; appreciated! As for the lake, do you already have something written (and want me to look at it), or are you requesting an article to be created from scratch?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2017; 13:22 (UTC)
Restoration of Chishmy set index
I was serious when I said I strongly support the continued existence of set indices for Russian places. I would like to restore the former Chishmy page to from userspace, moving User:AjaxSmack/Chishmy (disambiguation) to List of places named Chishmy but would appreciate your comments and sugggestions first. — AjaxSmack 13:54, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
- Wow, I have just re-created Chishmy (inhabited locality) (note that WikiProject Russia does not use the "list of places..." naming convention for these set indices), not having realized that you saved the previous page in your userspace. I think the version you saved needs to override what I've just created, to preserve history and all. It just gets my goat how people who don't know the first thing about the subject keep insisting on turning these sets into dabs, only to see them immediately gutted for non-compliance and then speedied—exactly what I keep point out would (and should!) happen in this kind of situations! At any rate, thanks for keeping with the developments. Do you have any ideas you'd like to see implemented on these pages?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2017; 13:59 (UTC)
- I've moved the copy you saved over the version I've just created. Unfortunately, I bungled up the first move, so I needed to edit the redirect left in your userspace. If you don't want it there, please let me know and I'll kill it altogether.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2017; 14:04 (UTC)
- Thanks for the move. Do what you'd like with the redirect. I think these pages could even be models for other regions but I would expect some resistance. I am still opposed to them occupying primary topic space if not warranted as I am to the lengthy disambiguators but I am happy to lend support to any efforts to keep these set indices in existence. — AjaxSmack 01:15, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
- If by "other regions" you mean other countries, then the decision to use or not use the set indices is normally made by the WikiProject most applicable to the topic. You can't really force using them on others from the outside if there is no support within the WikiProject, or no resources available to maintain the setup. In absence of consensus to use set indices in a certain areas disambiguation pages remain the only alternative (that's why you'll see lots of set indices for Russia but only disambiguation pages for, say, Ukraine). But once there is a consensus to use the set indices, then the WikiProject has quite a bit of leeway in actual implementation—that includes naming conventions, formatting, and inclusion criteria. As long as those conventions are not grossly out of line with general guidelines, there is no problem. If you browse around Category:Set indices, you'll see a wild variety of setups. As long as they are consistent within each topic, that's perfectly fine.
- Out of curiosity, you say that you are against using overly lengthy disambiguators, but for Russian localities the disambiguators are already never longer than necessary—I'm not really sure how you propose to improve on that? Returning to Chishmy, if you set the primary topic concerns aside, the two places in Chishminsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan are only different on the selsoviet level, or in locality types (so one or the other would have to be included to be able to tell the two places apart), and it's not a good idea to remove either the district disambiguator part or the federal subject disambiguator part, because that breaks the hierarchy and thus goes against WP:PRECISE (as well as WP:NCGN). And while you were able to argue in favor of one Chishmy being primary this time, had it been a list composed exclusively of tiny villages, making that argument would have become much more difficult if not impossible, so the disambiguators would have to stay pretty long. Of course, as I tried to point out before, this really is a problem for smaller, highly obscure places, so I still can't quite grasp how it is a problem if a handful of them have some fairly long titles, especially considering that's the only way to remain policy-compliant and still be able to tell them apart easily? And when one topic is clearly primary (no, not Chishmy :) but something like Ivanovo), then of course it makes sense to have it set up as such.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 24, 2017; 14:07 (UTC)
- Thanks for the move. Do what you'd like with the redirect. I think these pages could even be models for other regions but I would expect some resistance. I am still opposed to them occupying primary topic space if not warranted as I am to the lengthy disambiguators but I am happy to lend support to any efforts to keep these set indices in existence. — AjaxSmack 01:15, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #283
Wikidata weekly summary #282
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
- Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
- Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
- Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
- COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
- Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
- Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
- Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
- Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
- Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
- New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
- Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
- Query examples:
- Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
- Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
- Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
- Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
- Initial characters of names of free software (source)
- Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
- First World Heritage site per country (source)
- Newest database reports: list of kinship types
- Development
- Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
- Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
- More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
- Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
- Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
- Released the Wikibase DataModel component in version 7.2.0 (phabricator:T177486)
- 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!
Please comment on Talk:White
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:White. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #284
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Defining account creators
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
- Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
- Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
- Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
- Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one
- Wikidata's birthday
- The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
- Birthday presents
- Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
- inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
- You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
- Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
- Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
- graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
- Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
- Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
- You can now create items from the command-line
- Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the Wikimedia Cuteness Association (Q29169245).
- Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
- Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
- Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
- Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
- mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
- Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
- Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
- Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
- SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
- From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
- Stories and reflections
- Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
- Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
- Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
- Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
- Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
- Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
- Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
- Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
- Message from the development team
- Birthday presents
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
- Query examples:
- Organic acids with images (source)
- People who are their father's father (source)
- 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
- Cities with most first performances of works (source)
- Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
- Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
- First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)
- Development
- Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
- Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
- Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
- Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
- You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).
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Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
- A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.
- Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
- Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.
- The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
Перенос статьи в ОП англ. Википедии
Добрый день. Перенесите, пожалуйста, статью в ОП английской Википедии. Ранее я размещала статью на украинском языке. Ее проверили, одобрили и перенесли в ОП украинской Википедии: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWOX Теперь я перевела статью на английский язык и хотела ее разместить. Проверьте, пожалуйста, и одобрите размещение статьи. Ссылка на англ. версию статьи: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B3 Буду очень вам благодарна и признательна!OWOX (talk) 13:45, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
- Хорошо, сделаю. Спасибо за вклад! Хотел только отметить, что поскольку я не являюсь участником проекта Articles for creation, статья вероятно будет перепроверена другими. Если у вас есть англоязычный источник, который можно было бы добавить, это может помочь с вопросами в будущем. Теоретически нет ничего страшного в том, что все источники не на английском, но на практике, к сожалению, это зачастую минус. Ссылку на Google's Service Partner page я видел, но это источник в поддержку лишь одного факта; хорошо было бы иметь что-нибудь такого же качества как другие ваши источники на русском/украинском. Если их нет, ну значит нет, просто мороки впоследствии может быть больше.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 2, 2017; 14:08 (UTC)
- Я сейчас зашла и смотрю, что она перенесена в ОП Википедии. Уииии! :) Это вы сделали? Значит всё ок?OWOX (talk) 16:34, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
- Да, я перенёс. Насчёт англоязычных источников подумайте, однако. Спасибо ещё раз!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 2, 2017; 16:39 (UTC)
- Я сейчас зашла и смотрю, что она перенесена в ОП Википедии. Уииии! :) Это вы сделали? Значит всё ок?OWOX (talk) 16:34, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Боже, вы просто чудо прекрасное :) Спасибо вам огромное! Я учла ваши рекомендации и уже вношу в статью англоязычные ресурсы. Еще раз большущее вам спасибо!OWOX (talk) 16:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Vandalism on Template:Terms for types of country subdivisions
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Russia&diff=808573741&oldid=807800339 85.181.98.181 (talk) 18:19, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Sochi redux
So, I'd randomly came back over our Sochi discussion from over three years ago, now (wow). I learned so much from that discussion. But I did spot a little something still unanswered. Now, admittedly, I haven't looked through every Russian major city page, but it would seem to me that almost all of them aside from Sochi have the population and area listing in their infobox using their city (of oblast/republic significance) or municipal formation definitions. You explained to me the Russian concept of a "city proper," but I don't believe any other city is listed this way, so it's not consistent with how wiki does Russian city pages. And, liked I'd said all those years ago, even the Russian wiki page appears to list the City of Sochi's land area in the infobox.
Am I wrong about this; have I further misunderstood how Russian city pages are done? Is Sochi listed differently than most cities? Regardless of the smaller administrative divisions (rural okrugs, city districts, and the like), the entire City of Sochi is under the municipal jurisdiction/control of the Sochi Urban Okrug. While the Russian concept of "city proper" may make an interesting fact to be added somewhere in the article such as the opening or the demographic or administrative subsections, it would seem to me that the infobox statistics should be kept consistent with how other Russian city pages are done, no? --Criticalthinker (talk) 21:21, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
- You are absolutely right that handling of area information in articles on Russian localities isn't particularly consistent. The only reason for that, however, is lack of a single source to reference area information. Where one can consistently use Census population figures to handle population data in a uniform manner, there is no one single area data repository of comparable quality. In recent years, public gks.ru data (where the reporting is predominantly by municipal units) started to become more readily available, but even then there are still some gaps, so we run with what we can find :) So, it all basically boils down to what sources had been available at the time area information was filled out. If you find something better/more current, by all means feel free to make adjustments! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 6, 2017; 14:05 (UTC)
- It's not about it being more recent, rather that information for the "City of Sochi" (both area and Census figure) is already in the opening paragraph. My only concern is that this is what needs to be in the infobox, whereas the "city of Sochi" figures need to be confined to the body of the article, and maybe with a bit more clarification that the "city of Sochi" is a measurement of the city districts minus/sans the area under jurisdiction of the administrative rural and settlement okrugs. Neither of these would require new sourcing or too many additional words. Anyway, just an idea I'm throwing out there. It's not a big deal, but it would seem more appropriate to simply includes numbers for either administrative divisions of municipal formations in the infobox. In that case, we're talking information for either the Sochi Urban Okrug or City of Sochi. Those numbers I'm sure are readily available since they are already in the opening paragraph of the article. --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:16, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
- I see what you mean, but here's how my reasoning went; hopefully it clarifies the approach. The "Sochi" article is first and foremost about the city ("city proper"). Any entities, administrative and municipal alike, which have a relation to the city would ideally be covered by their own articles, but since there is not much information on those entities, city districts excepted, and not exactly an influx of volunteers to change that, what little information is available is merged into the city article. That's why the article covers both the lower-level entities, and the Greater Sochi area in general. The infobox, however, remains a property of the article's main focus, so whenever the area of a "city proper" is available, that's the first choice to include (which, of course, does not preclude other area information from being included into the article's lede and body).
- There is certainly a lot of leeway with this approach, not to forget the fact that Sochi's setup is hardly typical for a city of its stature, but the general idea stays the same. That said, you are very welcome to experiment with other approaches and see if they work better. The source currently cited covers the areas of both Greater Sochi and the city proper, so readers for whom the distinction makes a difference should be able to pick the one that suits their needs regardless of who the article is structured.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 7, 2017; 14:48 (UTC)
- It's not about it being more recent, rather that information for the "City of Sochi" (both area and Census figure) is already in the opening paragraph. My only concern is that this is what needs to be in the infobox, whereas the "city of Sochi" figures need to be confined to the body of the article, and maybe with a bit more clarification that the "city of Sochi" is a measurement of the city districts minus/sans the area under jurisdiction of the administrative rural and settlement okrugs. Neither of these would require new sourcing or too many additional words. Anyway, just an idea I'm throwing out there. It's not a big deal, but it would seem more appropriate to simply includes numbers for either administrative divisions of municipal formations in the infobox. In that case, we're talking information for either the Sochi Urban Okrug or City of Sochi. Those numbers I'm sure are readily available since they are already in the opening paragraph of the article. --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:16, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #285
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Obaid Raza
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
- Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
- Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
- Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
- Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head
- Query examples:
- endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
- Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
- Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
- Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
- Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
- Organic acids with pictures (source)
- Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
- Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
- Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
- Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties
- Development
- query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
- proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
- Finished diff support for lexeme phab:T178757
- Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
- JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (phab:T177087)
- Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (phab:T178226)
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- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- 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.
- The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
- Help write the next summary!
Disambiguation terms
RE MCC stations: I think the Russian WP has better dab terms here, since there the stations get "... (MCC station)", which would match with the "type:" declaration (instanceOf), and a short description. If localisation info is used in the dab then instead of the common "X, location" one could have "X (in location)". And how about having a such a dab for every article about a physical instance or real world class [would exclude it for articles like "Geography of XYZ"]? Maybe then most of the dab pages could be generated by a quite easy algorithm. 85.180.175.228 (talk) 02:29, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah, I remember arguing for a more logical naming scheme for metro stations years ago; I think you can still find that old thread somewhere on the WP:SOVMETRO talk pages. Since others showed no enthusiasm about my proposal back then (to put it mildly), I abandoned that project altogether. These days, I'd only touch a metro-related article if it's in a way of something else I'm doing or is grossly out of line with how the rest of those articles are set up. If you want to reclaim and revive SOVMETRO, more power to you! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 9, 2017; 20:08 (UTC)
Also in Ukraine and Kasakhstan.Xx236 (talk) 11:31, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, but the page title is "Vyshka, Russia" :) Localities in other countries would go to the Vyshka disambiguation page (where Ukrainian one is already listed and Kazakhstan's is not because it would fail WP:DABRL). I've added a hatnote to the set index though. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 13, 2017; 17:15 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #286
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
- Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
- Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
- Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
- Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
- Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
- Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
- Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
- Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
- Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
- WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
- A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
- research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives
- Development
- Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
- Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
- Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
- Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
- Add
wikibase-snakview-indicators
area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted) - Accessing
mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' )
will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use thewikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded
hook instead (phabricator:T169771) - Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
- Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English)
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Barnstar of European Merit
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The Barnstar of European Merit | |
I, Vami_IV, award the Barnstar of European Merit to Ezhiki for their participation in the European 10,000 Challenge, no matter how minor. Thank you very much for your work in Russia. Keep squatting, my friend! –Vami_IV✠ 02:23, 20 November 2017 (UTC) | ||
this WikiAward was given to Ezhiki by Vami_IV✠ on 02:23, 20 November 2017 (UTC) |
- Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 20, 2017; 16:32 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #287
Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata
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- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: IRC office hour (log)
- Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
- Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
- Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
- Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
- Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
- WikidataCon 2017
- Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
- "Turning a historical book into a data set"
- "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
- New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
- Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
- OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
- Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
- A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: expeditions
- Development
- Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
- RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
- Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
- Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
- Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
- Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #288
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
- Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
- Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
- Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
- Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
- Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
- Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
- OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
- Query examples:
- People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
- Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
- Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
- Map of libraries in India (source)
- Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
- Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations
- Development
- Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
- Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
- Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).
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- Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.
- Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
- A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.
- Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.
- Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
- The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.
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Hello, Ezhiki. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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Wikidata weekly summary #289
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
- Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
- Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
- Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
- Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
- Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
- Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
- Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
- The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
- If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
- The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
- The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
- The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
- Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18
- Development
- Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
- There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
- Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
- Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
- More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
- Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Elektrostal - Map outdated since more than 5 years
Talk:Elektrostal#Map outdated since more than 5 years 85.181.240.108 (talk) 13:08, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #290
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
- Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
- Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
- My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
- Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
- WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
- QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
- wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
- New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
- Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID
- Query examples:
- Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
- Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
- 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
- Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
- Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
- Cast age at date of film publication (source)
- Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)
- Development
- Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (phabricator:T181371)
- Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (phabricator:T180454)
- Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (phabricator:T182322)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Legobot (talk) 04:33, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
Metro Russia
WP:RUSSIA consistently uses the type name in upper case:
- Moscow Oblast, Shatursky District, Central Administrative Okrug
- Varshavskoye Highway, Mira Avenue, Mokhovaya Street, Cosmonauts Alley, Chistoprudny Boulevard, Boulevard Ring, Nakhimovsky Prospekt, Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane, Lefortovo Tunnel, Moskvoretskaya Embankment, Moscow Ring Road, German Quarter, Vodootvodny Canal, Arbatskaya Square (Red Square too), Bagration Bridge, Northern Sea Route
- Tsar Cannon, Alexander Garden, Kremlin Arsenal, Chudov Monastery, State Kremlin Palace, Spasskaya Tower, Donskoye Cemetery, Bolshoi Theatre, Vnukovo International Airport, Nekrasov Library, Cosmos Hotel, Rumyantsev Museum
- Meshchera Lowlands, Crimean Peninsula, Kara Sea, Kara Strait
It's also found in sources, despite some claiming otherwise.
Still some want to change it: Talk:Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line#Requested move 11 December 2017, and after it is moved they will not change the articles and for years to come there will be inconsistency between texts and titles. 92.228.153.156 (talk) 03:07, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
Not helping with line naming, but causing trouble with station naming [5]. Predictable stable titles are appreciated. Disdisambiguation works in the other direction. 77.179.196.58 (talk) 03:20, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #291
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Mapping and improving the data import process
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for local OpenStreetMap community & others, Riga, Latvia, December 19th
- Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
- Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
- A purposeful #strategy for #Wikidata
- WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
- Review of the Global Legislative Openness Week by MySociety
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
- Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the
?project=
attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia - New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wiki Aves bird ID, DACS ID, SAN ID, reservoir, CPDOC ID, Musée d'Orsay artwork ID, Coflein ID, The Numbers person ID, Wikimedia import URL, Flathub ID, partition type identifier, partition table type, ESCO Occupation ID, Welsh assembly ID, BSD Portal athlete ID, identity of subject in context, location of first performance, representation of, RCR number, ESCO skill ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art ID, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame ID, Welsh Chapels ID, photosphere image, Estonian Football Association team ID, The Peerage person ID, FoodEx2 code, Sherpa Juliet ID, Indian Financial System Code
- Query examples:
- Number of disasters by date and day of the week (source)
- Map with buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
- Properties most used for “no value” statements/qualifiers/references (source)
- Scientific papers with an animal credited as co-author (source)
- Image grid of what different cryptocurrencies are named after (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Narration
- Newest database reports: Brigata del Decameron
- Development
- Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
- More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
- Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
- Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
- Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
- Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!