User talk:Xain36

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@John Maynard Friedman: Thanks Xain36 (talk) 06:23, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 2019

Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Mulberry Violence— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 09:40, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Shellwood: Do you mean this: [1]? Xain36 (talk) 09:42, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Shellwood: I think there is a misunderstanding between this massage. I was reverting vandalism. Xain36 (talk) 09:48, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Zawiślak

Hi Xain36, I have reverted your edit to Zawiślak because it was created (and is tagged as) a surname page. I don't think that there are enough articles with names similar to Zawiślak to warrant a disambiguation page, and pages shouldn't be tagged with both {{surname}} and {{disambiguation}}. Leschnei (talk) 13:54, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Leschnei: Thanks for appraising me. Xain36 (talk) 14:13, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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1993 Aurora shooting

FYI, you moved 1993 Aurora shooting before one week of discussion. Usually, one week should elapse before closing a discussion without WP:SNOW. --Jax 0677 (talk) 15:34, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jax 0677: I thought 7 days are over (24 Feb-17 Feb = 7 Days). Is there any way to find out the exact time? Regards, Xain36 (talk) 15:56, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reply - See "Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 22:04, 17 February 2019 (UTC)" signature that started the conversation at 1004 PM. --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:58, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jax 0677: Oh! I got it. Currently I am using my native's time zone, that's why I couldn't notice. Xain36 (talk) 00:11, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's still very much being discussed. The other Aurora RM discussion was just relisted; so should this one. Please revert your close and relist. Thanks. --В²C ☎ 19:11, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Born2cycle: Sorry, but I couldn't get the point about "other RM". Did you mean these "Talk: Aurora, Illinois shooting" and "Talk: 2012 Aurora shooting"? Also the "1993 Aurora" discussion's result is totally clear crystal case as 5 Support and 3 Oppose. Xain36 (talk) 00:34, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Um, 5 to 3 is not “crystal clear” especially when you closed it early and when the discussion was still recent. I’m just requesting a relist so others can weigh in. Why the reluctance? —В²C ☎ 05:51, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Born2cycle: Sorry, I can't reopen the discussion because I already moved the article. I'm afraid because I am a new user and I don't know what is the fact of "reopen". Also, this discussion little discouraged me from editing. :( Xain36 (talk) 06:11, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As a new user you should not be closing RM discussions. Anyway, the move can be reverted. If you can’t move it, file a technical request after you revert your close explaining you’ve re-opened the RM per request and need the corresponding move reverted. —В²C ☎ 06:52, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reply - @Xain36:, you may want to justify your closure beyond what you wrote for the closure, per WP:VOTE, else @Born2cycle: could file an appeal at WP:MR. --Jax 0677 (talk) 01:01, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dekimasu: As a new editor, I need your help. Xain36 (talk) 06:19, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Xain36, please don't be discouraged. In this case I would suggest reverting by going into the history of the talk page and re-saving the last edit before your closure. Then you can relist the discussion using {{subst:relisting}}. The move back to 1993 Aurora shooting does not appear to be blocked so you should be able to undo it, but let me know if you need help. It is true that not all move discussions need to be reopened upon request, but I generally agree with В²C that the outcome is still unclear in this case, since the outcomes of move discussions are based upon the strength of the arguments, not by the number of editors supporting or opposing a move alone. Dekimasuよ! 06:59, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done ;-) Dekimasu. Regards, Xain36 (talk) 08:27, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you --В²C ☎ 18:00, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Info this da person from jojo siwa btw

It is true that her brother is a volgger if you haven’t seen his channel and the episode where he says to jojo that he is a vlogger. Ilikehorses123457 (talk) 22:04, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ilikehorses123457:Why are you telling me again? I already claimed on the talk page that the edit was a false positive and I have fixed that. I strongly recommend you to provide a verifiable/reliable source for your edits. Regards, Xain36 {talk} 04:35, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Zara

Hello Xain36,

This image was shot in NYC protesting company's treatment of workers. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.202.25.98 (talk) 16:35, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for apprising to me. I have a little issue about your edit, where you provided a photo - "Shame on you Zara!", that's why I reverted your edits. Glad to see you reverted my edit [2]. If need any help then send me a message. Regards, Xain36 {talk} 16:43, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! This image was in SoHo, Manhattan wikicommons category. And is new pic as it was shot in early Feb. Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.202.25.98 (talk) 16:50, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Xain36 {talk} 16:54, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #354

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Esteban16
- Closed request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update

Events
- Upcoming: WikiConNL in Utrecht (Netherlands), on March 8-9th (in Dutch and English)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).

Press, articles, blog posts
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- Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
- Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:20, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Result of move request for Sinhalese language

Hi Xain36! Could you please explain why for Sinhala language "The result of the move request was: Not Moved per consensus"?

Wikipedia:Deletion_guidelines_for_administrators#Rough_consensus says "Consensus is not determined by counting heads, but by looking at strength of argument, and underlying policy (if any). Arguments that contradict policy, are based on opinion rather than fact, or are logically fallacious, are frequently discounted."

I provided many mostly strong or medium pieces of evidence in favour of the move, one user provided evidence against that was "based on opinion rather than fact, or ... logically fallacious", one user provided anecdotal evidence in favour, another user provided anecdotal evidence against, and one user provided medium evidence in favour of the move. Here is my rough breakdown on the strength of the evidence presented:

Strong For	Medium For	Weak For	Anecdotal For	Inconclusive	Anecdotal Against	Weak Against	Medium Against	Strong Against
	Consensus reached three times before
Google Trends
		Google Ngrams
	Seven instances of consensus, attempted moves, and discussions
The New York Times
BBC
				Encylopaedia Britannica
Media Wiki (Wikipedia)
	Google Books
					not yet in reliable published sources
					WP:CRYSTAL
			the correct term is Sinhala
					Sinhalese is still the clear common name in English-language sources
				The 'ese' ending is usually used for something that has relation to some proper noun
			There is no such thing for Sinhala, the language name stands in itself
"Sinhala" is also the internationally accepted standard name, for e.g. by Unicode Consortium
		Majority of the references to "Sinhalese" must come from old texts
5	3	2	2	2	3	0	0	0

If "Strong" is 4, "Medium" is 3, "Weak" is 2, "Anecdotal" is 1, "Inconclusive" is 0, "For" is positive, and "Against" is negative, the total is 20 + 9 + 4 + 2 + 0 - 3 - 0 - 0 - 0 = 32 on a scale from -68 to 68, or re-scaled from 0 to 100: 73.5. On just this evidence, it is almost 3:1 in favour of the move. Maybe these weights should be more like [10, 6, 3, 1, 0, -1, -3, -6, -10], but that doesn't change the final figures by enough to make a significant difference. If more evidence is needed, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, Unicode, etc. only call the language "Sinhala". The International Standards Organisation (ISO) says "Sinhala" is the primary name, "Sinhalese" is the secondary name. The language organisations Glottolog (a main article reference), Linguasphere (another main article reference), WALS, Ethnologue, and Omniglot all call it "Sinhala", sometimes recognising "Sinhalese" as an alternate name. Of course, you could disagree with the strengths of some of the evidence, but I don't think it's possible to reasonably reclassify enough evidence to support "Sinhalese" over "Sinhala", or even decide that it's inconclusive overall.

It seems pretty clear to me that the consensus was For, not Against. If my reasoning is wrong, I'd like to have it explained to me. Danielklein (talk) 04:39, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Danielklein:, Well, per consensus: Sinhalese is still the clear WP:COMMONNAME in English-language sources. Also, please see this: 2 and 2. As you pointed Google Trends, shows the ratio of "Sinhala": "Sinhalese" in searches was 4:1 in 2004, increasing to greater than 80:1 since October 2015. No country had fewer searches for "Sinhala" than "Sinhalese", with ratios varying from 8:1 (Canada and the US) to 99:1 or greater (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Oman, Italy, Japan). But please see this example: Bengali has known natively/endonym as Bangla. In Google trends, Bangla is most searched on Google. But it doesn't mean we need to change the name of the Article. Bangla and Sinhala are known for native languages and Bengali and Sinhalese is known or written as English-language. Simple. Xain36 {talk} 06:35, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bangla is an interesting case! According to the Unicode Consortium, "Bangla" is the name used in the US, but "Bengali" is the name used in Australia. As an Australian, I didn't even realise there was another name until I saw this on Unicode's website! The trend for "Bengali/Bangla" is quite different, since it shows a consistent 2:1 preference for Bangla:Bengali, i.e. both terms are growing at the same rate. I will continue to call the language "Bengali" because that is the preferred term in my country, despite "Bangla" being preferred world-wide, and also being the name in its own language. If "Bangla" becomes more widely used in Australia, I will change to using that name.

I already addressed the two Google Books links you provided. They include all books including ones published in the 19th century and early 20th century, and those same books republished recently with a new date. Therefore, "Sinhalese" is over-represented in the data, unless you limit it to recent years. "sinhalese language" (23 books),"sinhala language" (27 books).

Out of the 23 "Sinhalese language" books, 3 were published before 1940: two in 1938 and one in 1891. One recent book had no preview to verify the ratio of "Sinhalese language" to "Sinhala language". Seven books surprisingly actually used "Sinhala language" more times than "Sinhalese language". Some books contrast "Sinhalese language" with "Sinhala language", some contrast "Sinhalese language" with "Sinhala" (without the word "language"), decreasing the data set, i.e. "The name of the Sinhalese language is Sinhala." It is necessary to count the occurrences along with their meanings, which is hard to do. However, it is important to be aware of the biases in the data. Some occurrences of "Sinhalese language" only appear in titles in bibliographies, because the older books exclusively use "Sinhalese", never "Sinhala". Long story short, you can't just do two basic searches on Google, compare the number of hits and make a decision. You need to look carefully at the data first, discounting old data and duplicated data. The initial data I've seen so far seems to indicate that authors are more likely to add "language" to "Sinhalese" than "Sinhala", further skewing the data. Just on the surface, of the 19 "Sinhalese" books published after 1986 the ratio of "Sinhalese language":"Sinhala language" is only 12:7, with a further two preferring "Sinhala" to "Sinhalese". A search in the text of these two books shows that "Sinhala" is being used as the name of the language. The final ratio is therefore 10:9, almost even. Of those 4 use "Sinhalese language" 2 to 5 times as much as "Sinhala language", 11 use both terms about the same amount, and 4 use "Sinhala language" 2 to 14 times more than "Sinhalese language".

I rate the statement "Sinhalese is still the clear common name in English-language sources" as anecdotal, because I provided verifiable contrary evidence, and no evidence was provided to back that statement. The evidence that news organisations seem to only use "Sinhala" seems to have been ignored in the final decision. News organisations don't call Ivory Coast "Côte d'Ivoire" despite that country saying that the French name is the only name allowed in any other language. So, since the BBC and the New York Times, etc. call the language "Sinhala", they must have a good, English language reason for doing so. Danielklein (talk) 10:16, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Danielklein:, As a Bangladeshi citizen, we used "Bengali", when we wrote something or spoke in English. For your clarification, "Bangla" is an incorrect spell, you can use Spell Checker, and check which is a correct spell in US and UK. Regards, Xain36 {talk} 12:04, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment, however, I fear this discussion has got off-topic because what Bengali is called in English has nothing to do with what Sinhala/Sinhalese is called in English. Both names are correct, but I can see no strong evidence that Sinhalese is still the preferred term, and lots of strong evidence that Sinhala is now the preferred term. E.g. over a dozen of the largest: technology companies and news organisations that provide services in Sinhala, and language organisations all using Sinhala exclusively, or in the case of some language organisations making it clear that "Sinhalese" is an alternative or secondary name. Why would so many top institutions fly against convention and choose the lesser used name as the only name or main name? I see no reason why they would. If "Sinhala" is good enough for them, including Media Wiki (the software that runs Wikipedia!), then I see no reason why the articles should not go with the established convention and use "Sinhala" as well.

Please let me know if you are reconsidering your close decision, or if your decision is final. I don't want to keep writing you messages if they're doing no good. Danielklein (talk) 00:12, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please review WP:RMNAC

Hi Xain36. Multiple people are complaining about some of your RM closes. As an editor with limited experience I advise you to stick to closing RM discussions where consensus of the participants is nearly unanimous. —В²C ☎ 15:35, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Born2cycle:, Oh! I am not aware of this. Where is the source of my reports? Xain36 {talk} 17:14, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See User_talk:Born2cycle#New_editor_making_poor_choices and Wikipedia:Move_review#Sinhalese_language. Agan, I advise you to participate in RMs rather than close them. You need to develop a better understanding of the system. If you don’t pay heed to my advice, I’m concerned the community will take formal action. In fact, the MRV and this friendly advice I’m providing now may serve as evidence against you if you don’t stop. —В²C ☎ 18:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Born2cycle:, Ok, I got it. Xain36 {talk} 18:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #355

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Dimon2711
- Closed request for adminship: Esteban16, welcome onboard!

Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki (Invasive plants) April 16th, Meise, Belgium
- Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? Biodivesity Next (Leiden, the Netherlands), October 19th-25th 2019

Press, articles, blog posts
- Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale by Andrew Lih
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- Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives by Elena Villaespesa and Trilce Navarrete

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
- A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy project seeks to add structure to the Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
- Suggestions based on constraints can be enabled for all users

Did you know?

Development
- Work page to get the Schema Text by subpage syntax (phab:T214383)
- Set up a page to set label, description and aliases for Schema (phab:T215392, phab:T217313)
- Remove edit tab from Schema pages (phab:T215394)
- Disable possibility to enter duplicate aliases for the same Schema (phab:T217634, phab:T217749)
- Add ULS, Babel and CLDR support on wikidata-shex.wmflabs.org (phab:T216146)
- Add the option to restore Schemas! (phab:T214915)
- Undo edit on Schemas through API (phab:T217250)
- Multilingual support on Special:NewSchema (phab:T216154)
- Work on Termbox SSR integration (phab:T214679)
- Provide meta tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
- Make Quickstatements work out of the box in wikibase docker image (phab:T205606)
- Disabling RDF for Media Info (phab:T213483)
- Add tooltips for statements linking to a lexeme form (phab:T205279)
- Allowing multiple wikibase DBs access (phab:T214557)
- Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API (phab:T217243)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:55, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #356

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

Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires

Press, articles, blog posts
- What Wikidata offers Oxford’s GLAM Digital Strategy

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new data type is available : musical notation
- A research report is now available for the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping. The research investigates which (updated) metadata cultural institutions would like to retrieve back from (Structured) Wikimedia Commons, and what the main barriers are. Research summary / presentation slides / full report
- If you're using Wikidata dumps, please note that the update schedule may change from fixed weekday to fixed day of the month. More info in this ticket
- Slides of the Wikidata presentation during UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week by Shani Evenstein now available on Commons.
- A project to link branded businesses in Open Street Maps to Wikidata

Did you know?
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  - General datatypes: average speed, Digital Author Identifier, date of the latest value change, chữ Nôm, capacity factor, study or design for, motif (music), chess position
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Development
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You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #357

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
- An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in

Events
- Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
- Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

Press, articles, blog posts
- SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
- "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
- A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poukter, Wikimedia UK blog
- On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
- The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
- Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on .
- Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
- New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
- Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
  - External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
  - External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID
- Query examples:
  - Maximum temperatures on Earth (°F/°C) (source)
  - People with social media accounts that are identical but differently capitalised (source)

Development
- Update property suggester data (phab:T216270)
- Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (phab:T217331)
- Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (phab:T215386)
- Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (phab:T217338, phab:T218300)
- Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (phab:T218459, phab:T218769)
- Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (phab:T218889)
- Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (phab:T214679)
- Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (phab:T217244)
- Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (phab:T210615)
- Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (phab:T218111)
- Fix an issue for score extension (phab:T218535)
- Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (phab:T213483)
- Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (phab:T175230)
- Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)

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

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

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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here.

When in the cloud, do as the APIs do

Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook.

File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg

Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform

The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API.

APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web.

Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.

Links

Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata
Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API
Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API
mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki
wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information
xkcd cartoon, API Guide

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 4

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth issue of the new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Joeytje50's JWB

PAC2: Chouette • Just A Click Away

DannyS712: FPC voter • Easy-link

Zackmann08's unwatch deleted • Begoon's addUploadsLink

Pythoncoder's voteSymbols (now in release 3.0.3) • Evad37's rater (now in release 1.2.0)

Abelmoschus Esculentus retired from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

Ajax Rollback • Ajax Rollback with summary • Contributions Search • Tags Manager
Teahouse Talkback • Mass Category Modifying Helper • EFFP Response Helper
Skip to bottom • Source Assess Table Generator • Userspace • RandomAfC
Mass Message Sender • Discussion Closer

FR30799386 was blocked from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

communicator • copyvio-check • Undo • Quick-undo • Readonly • Redirectify • Section-strike

Pending requests

A request for helping with help requests
Hyphenating ISBNs
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

The Wikimedia Foundation has requested help with the testing of and feedback on a new tool for "Automated article section recommendations" for stub articles. See the village pump notice for more.
mw.loader.getScript has been added to mw.loader, closing a feature request from 2010. It allows users to load a script via URL (like mw.loader.load()) and specify a callback function (like mw.loader.using()). See mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#mw.loader.getScript for more.

Enjoy your April Fool's, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

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

From the editors: Getting serious about humor
News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
In the media: Women's history month
Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
Featured content: Out of this world
Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM
Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations
Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles
News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive
Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37
Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?
In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch
Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings

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Wikidata weekly summary #358

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata meetup during the Wikimedia Summit, March 29th in Berlin (collaborative notes)
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for archives in Saint-Etienne, France, on April 3rd and 5th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin in Wikibär on April 14th
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WikidataCon 2019 application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open until April 29th
- Structured Data on Commons: You can now test creating depicts statements
- While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor, it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
- OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
- Discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about the improvements in SPARQL language

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: capacity factor, position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
  - External identifiers: Libreflix ID, Kicker.de player ID, Library of Parliament of Canada person ID, RoMEO publisher ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, XING company ID, L'Express person ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, Gamepedia article ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Salvador Dali Museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, FaroeSoccer player ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, Artcurial lot ID, SNISB ID, Tainacan MHN ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, Cini Foundation ID, LinkedIn personal profile ID, ACA author ID, CDEC ID, AWARE ID, JRC Names id, Zomato ID, TV Spielfilm series ID, Fandango theater ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, JMdictDB ID, Zagat ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: First attestation, match interval, réédité par, calligrapher, Ordained by, code produit, Wikidata property example for media
  - External identifiers: Baden-Württemberg Schutzgebiete-ID, K10plus editions, Utpictura18 ID, Le Vif tag ID, Common Sense Media review ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, Democracy Club Election ID, MARGS ID, Kobo author ID, WoRMS source ID, Kobo narrator ID, NGMDb Prod ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, AntWiki, MESH Concept ID, MESH Term ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Work on a dashboard for external identifiers (phab:T204440)
- Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API modules (phab:T217243)
- Add tests for embed.html (phab:T212649)
- Improve features for wikibase vandalism detection model (phab:T194737)
- Improve Property Info cache performance (phab:T218115, phab:T218197)
- Adding nofollow to external identifiers links (phab:T175230)
- Hide query helper by default in Query Service (phab:T217886)
- More work on wb_terms normalization (Phab board)
- Enable trimming whitespace around Label/Description/Aliases and Schema text (phab:T215761)
- Prevent moving Schemas between namespaces (and generally) (phab:T219313)
- Limit the length of Schema labels, descriptions, aliases, and schema text in the frontend (phab:T218867)
- Add tracking for clicks on the “check entities against this Schema” link (phab:T218899)
- Disallow importing of Schemas from another wiki or XML files to avoid ID conflicts (phab:T218181)
- Make sure RTL text is being handled correctly in the Schema labels, descriptions and aliases table (phab:T219136)
- Add a publish button on mobile termbox: (phab:T218573)
- Building the wbeditentity request to be fired on save request: (phab:T218577)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #359

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

Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Stanglavine (welcome onboard!)
- New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories
- Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019

Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 14th in Wikibär
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
- Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July 4-5. Call for submissions is now open

Press, articles, blog posts
- Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention content receives, by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
- [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled, causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API
- The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
- The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
- The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
- New tool: Related Properties, exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog post by Envlh)
- Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings, video games

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: stroke order, CHVRS Classification, Classification RCQ, musical quotation or excerpt
  - External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Sumo Reference ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Periscope pscp.tv, BHCL ID, Baden-Württemberg protected area ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Springboks Rugby Player ID, Utpictura18 artwork ID, Le Vif tag ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, MARGS ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, FIS telemark skier ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Arcade system, Audio system, IANA time zone identifier, has sequenced genome, WMF short URL, translated to (language translation)
  - External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID, OpenEdition ID, MassBank Accession ID, identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl, identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu, CIN ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, DCMI metadata term, CroRec ID, Radio Courtoisie program ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, LNB Coach id, Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID, Trainline ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: first names of Italians

Development
- More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440)
- Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844)
- Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (phab:T218893)
- Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298)
- Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181) and page moves (phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980)
- Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300, phab:T219173)
- Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (phab:T219979)
- Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (phab:T219318)
- Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
- Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (phab:T204439)
- More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (phab:T216987)
- Let term value fields grow with their content (phab:T220185)
- More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:49, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #360

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Non-free content

Events
- Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil

Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata at work on tcworld.info
- Searching News Articles Using an Event Knowledge Graph Leveraged by Wikidata (pdf) (search engine demonstration)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
- New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
- Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
- The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
- Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
  - External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
  - External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Added Sámi monolingual language codes sia (Akkala), sjk (Kemi) and sjt (Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (phab:T217521)
- Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (phab:T220609)
- Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (phab:T220122)
- Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (phab:T212869)
- Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (phab:T217741)
- Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (phab:T220587)
- Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (phab:T207363)
- Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
- More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (phab:T216987)
- More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:59, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #361

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

Events
- Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
- Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic

Press, articles, blog posts
- Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
- Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
- OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
- Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
- Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
- The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
- Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
- Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
- You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
  - External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
  - External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID
- Query examples:
  - All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
  - Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
  - Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
  - Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
  - Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)

Development
- Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
- Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
- Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
- Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
- Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
- Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
- Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:11, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #362

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: BRPever

Events
- Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
  - Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
  - Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
- Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019

Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
- The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
- Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
- New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
  - External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
  - External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
- Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
- Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
- Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
- Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
- Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo) (phab:)
- Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
- Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
- More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

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

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

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 5

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2019). Hello everyone and welcome to the 5th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

The Evil IP address' Heading Editor

Newslinger's Notifier • Suffusion of Yellow's View Source

BrandonXLF: To Top Button • Restorer • Easy Summary • Subpage Mover

Evad37: Xunlink (v2.0.0, handles portals) • XFDcloser (v3.13.0, upgrades at TfD and removal of backlinks, minor tweaks and fixes)

Twinkle (commit 26305a2, major updates to csd, xfd, and tag menus, additional improvements to other smaller features)

DannyS712 is now maintaining Visual editing, a fork of Flooded with them hundreds' VisualEditist script

Pending requests

Twinkle for mobile
Working with "psuedo-headings"
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Until next month, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:22, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

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Completely clouded?

Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point.

Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around.

Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs.

What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.

Links

Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata.
SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)".
SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata.
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central.

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019

News and notes: An Action Packed April

In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

Technology report: A new special page, and other news

Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

From the archives: Portals revisited

Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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Wikidata weekly summary #363

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

Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!

Events
- Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

Press, articles, blog posts
- Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
- Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
- Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
- Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
- Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
- An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
- New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
  - External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
  - External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater
- Query examples:

Development
- Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
- Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182, phab:T222133, phab:T222129)
- Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
- Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
- Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
- Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
- Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
- Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #364

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

Events
- Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
- Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
- Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
- Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October

Press, articles, blog posts
- How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
- New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
  - External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
  - External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata

Development
- Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
- Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
- Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
- Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
- More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on phab:T221764)
- More work on mobile termbox
- Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
- Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

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

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

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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Text mining display of noun phrases from the US Presidential Election 2012

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Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view

Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while.

It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining).

Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?"

The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata.

The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.

ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the original upload file on Commons

Links for participation

http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue.

Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos.

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Wikidata weekly summary #365

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2

Events
- Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
- Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
- Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo

Press, articles, blog posts
- Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
- Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
- Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
- Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
- Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
- QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
- Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
  - Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
  - BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
  - Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
  - Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
  - Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
  - GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
  - Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
  - Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
  - Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
  - Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
  - Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
  - AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
  - ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
  - Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
  - All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
  - Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
  - External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
  - External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
- Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
- Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
- More work on mobile termbox
- Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #366

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
- Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.

Press, articles, blog posts
- Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
- Published in WWW 2019
  - Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
  - QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
  - Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
  - Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
- Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
- Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
  - External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
- Query examples:

Development
- Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
- Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
- Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
- Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
- More work to get termbox ready for deployment
- Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

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

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

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

From the editors: Picture that

News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections

In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball

Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia

Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead

Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!

Technology report: Lots of Bots

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?

Essay: Paid editing

From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 6

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (May 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 6th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

userRightsManager

Opencooper's domainRedirect • Danski454's hotcat-summary • Guywan's 12HourFormat • DannyS712's Subcategories

Twinkle (commit 53b6bf4)

Pending requests

Help with helping
List annotator
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your summer, --DannyS712 (talk) 23:44, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #367

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
- Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
- Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
- Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada

Press, articles, blog posts

- Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
- Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
- At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
- Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
- Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
  - External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
  - External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain

Development
- Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
- Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
- Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
- More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
- Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
- Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
- WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
- Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
- More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
- Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
- Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #368

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

Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
- Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open

Press, articles, blog posts
- Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
- Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched

Did you know?

Development
- When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
- More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
- Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
- Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221831)
- Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221833)
- Add EntitySchema in the license footer (phab:T224536)
- Several improvements to shex simple tools (phab:T221604, phab:T221606)
- Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (phab:T223372)
- Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (phab:T224593)
- Improved tests and fixed failing tests

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:58, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #369

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles

Events
- Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd

Press, articles, blog posts
- EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
- Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
- Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
- Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
- On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
- New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace

Did you know?

Development
- Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (phab:T216835)
- Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (phab:T224545)
- Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621)
- Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235)
- Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
- More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997)
- Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #370

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

Discussions
- Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items

Events
- Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
- Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
- Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019

Press, articles, blog posts
- Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
- Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
- WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
- Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
- Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
- Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
- Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
- Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
- Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
- Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
- From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
- Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
- Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
- Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
- The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
- CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema

Did you know?

Development
- Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
- Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
- Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
- Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
- Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
- Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
- Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
- Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
- Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:21, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 7

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (June 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 7th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Evad37's MoveToDraft

MJL's textDisallow • Opencooper's talkCount • Guywan's List Entry Annotator

SD0001: DYK-helper • find-archived-section • draft-sort-burst • UnassessedArticleLinks • StubSorter

DannyS712: Subcategories • Examine edits • ExpandHistory • Global watchlist

DannyS712's DiscussionCloser

Open tasks

FR30799386's mobileUndo (maintained on enwiki by DannyS712) is currently a proposed gadget. Join the discussion at the village pump
Interstellarity has requested help with forking Joshua Scott's pending changes script to add a feature

Miscellaneous

After an MfD, DannyS712's MMS was deleted. It was originally created by Abelmoschus Esculentus. If you import either of these scripts, you may want to uninstall them, as they no longer exist.

Having published 6 issues of this newsletter, I decided it was time to move it out from my user space. It is now located at Wikipedia:Scripts++. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The June 2019 Signpost is out!

Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

In the media: The disinformation age

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

Technology report: Actors and Bots

Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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Wikidata weekly summary #371

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

Events
- Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
- Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
- State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop

Press, articles, blog posts
- Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
- Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
- Published in ArXiv:
  - DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
  - ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
- Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link

Did you know?

Development
- More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
- Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (phab:T225935)
- Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (phab:T224832)
- Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (phab:T218282)
- Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (phab:T225603) according to the migration plan (phab:T221765)
- Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (phab:T205045)
- Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223305)
- Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (phab:T225500)
- Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (phab:T222193)
- Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (phab:T226672)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:35, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #372

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
- Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

Press, articles, blog posts
- A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
- The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
- Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
- Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
- You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
- Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
- Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
- New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

Did you know?

Development
- Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
- Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
- Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
- Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
- Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
- Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
- Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
- Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #373

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

Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
- Upcoming: Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting on July 16th
- Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
- Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.

Press, articles, blog posts
- An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
- How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
- Videos of the presentations given during the Wikidata + OSM workshop in London

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
- Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
- Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.

Did you know?

Development
- Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (phab:T226939)
- Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (phab:T227207)
- Track number of links to schema pages (phab:T218903)
- Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (phab:T227201)
- Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (phab:T224594)
- Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (phab:T226152)
- Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (phab:T220696)
- Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (phab:T225073)
- Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
- Opening a modal with edit this link information (phab:T226996)
- Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
- Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (phab:T222886)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:37, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #374

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: 1997kB

Events
- Past: IRC office hour, July 16th (log)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Tainan Meetup in Taiwan, July 31st (Facebook event)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
- You can nominate tools for the Coolest Tool Award until July 29th
- Wikimania's draft program has been published
- User:Bodhisattwa joined CIS-A2K as Wikidata Advisor
- wbEntity config value to be dropped on July 24th - if you use it, please consider replacing it

Did you know?

Development
- Fix a bug that was preventing to add multiple glosses (phab:T228080)
- Show number of senses and forms on page information for WikibaseLexeme entities (phab:T224844)
- Show number of statements and external identifiers on page information for Wikibase entities (phab:T224842))
- Track number of external identifiers on Wikidata over time (phab:T224129)
- Fix a few queries on Grafana (phab:T227788)
- Update the query host for Grafana (phab:T218710)
- Add support for "MediaInfo" as value for "allowed entity types"-constraint (phab:T224362)
- Data bridge: open a modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
- Show the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
- Extract data bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:53, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #375

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

Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: 1997kB, welcome on board!
- Closed request for comments: Adopt a username policy

Events
- Past: lecture on Wikidata and Mix'n'Match at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, 24 June
- Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call discussing communication in Wikidata/Wikimedia communities, 30 July. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts
- Technical usability of Wikidata’s linked data - Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability, by Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
- Scripts that use the Query Service need to be identified by user-agent header
- Structured Data on Commons - testing statements other than Depicts is ongoing this week before release into production on Commons.
- OpenRefine 3.2 was released
- The config value mw.config.get('wbEntity') has been dropped in order to improve the page load time

Did you know?

Development
- Re-evaluate supporting dcatap namespace (feel free to give feedback)
- Data bridge: open modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
- Show the current Wikidata value in the modal (phab:T226997)
- Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
- supporting baserevid request param in lexeme api endpoints (phab:T217245)
- Fix new store code in order to continue the terms migration (phab:T226008)
- Fix an issue with broken WikibaseQualityConstraints tests (phab:T228855)
- Fix issue that used to cause many fatals on production (phab:T227450)
- Drop wbEntity config in entity pages (phab:T85499)
- Fix an Internal error in Recent Changes for Lexeme (phab:T228996)
- Create better summaries for our wbeditentity endpoint (phab:T220696)
- Respect user's preference for thumbnail sizes on Wikidata (phab:T224189)
- Allow linking to Schemas in statements (phab:T214884)
- Fix a bug with Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
- Update accounting for WDQS lag in wikidata maxlag param (phab:T221774)
- More work on allowing accesing one wikibase instance from another (phab:T214557)
- Deploy the mobile termbox on test.wikidata.org and fix various bugs
- Show progress/activity on termbox mobile if a save request is still being processed (phab:T222890)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:18, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 July 2019

News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India

In the media: Politics starts getting rough

Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban

Arbitration report: A month of reintegration

Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?

News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way

Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect

Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract

Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things

In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 8

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (July 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Jackmcbarn's editProtectedHelper

Galobtter's WatchlistLinksNewTab • SD0001's Watchlist title updater • Yair rand's UserBlind

Anne drew Andrew and Drew's ScritSorter • Masumrezarock100's mobilemorelinks

Enterprisey: edit section on hover • Search shortcuts • superjump

ZLEA: EditRequestLinks.js • MMSLink.js

DannyS712's Global watchlist • SD0001's StubSorter

After a discussion, User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Sagittarius+.js has been redirected to

User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js, and Wugapodes is maintaining it.

Pending requests

A script to fill in {{Template:Infobox journal}}
A tool to simplify merging articles
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Hope everyone is having a good winter (or summer, for those in the northern hemisphere). Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #376

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

Events
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
- Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions

Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
- Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
- Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
- OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
- New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
  - External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
  - External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (phab:T228888)
- Add request information to request timeout errors (phab:T228885)
- Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (phab:T222884)
- Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
- Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (phab:T226997)
- EntitySchema datatype (phab:T214884)
- Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (phab:T203696)
- Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (phab:T226216)
- Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (phab:T229482)
- Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (phab:T229604)
- Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
- Investigate on Graphoid issues (phab:T229236)
- Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (phab:T214884)
- Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (phab:T229574)
- Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
- Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (phab:T66315)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #377

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

Press, articles, blog posts
- Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
- "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The open source geocoder w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
  - External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
  - External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Fix a caching problem on termbox (phab:T228978)
- Investigate options for termbox load testing (phab:T229790)
- Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (phab:T224189)
- Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
- Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (phab:T66315)
- Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (phab:T222606)
- Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
- Add editing widget/input on Bridge (phab:T226998)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #378

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin

Events
- Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.

Tool of the week
- In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
- NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
- ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
- You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
- QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
- New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
  - Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
  - Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
  - External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
  - External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID
- Query examples:
- Schema examples:
  - Danish numerals
  - Danish hyphenation

Development
- Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
- Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
- Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
- Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
- Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
- Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
- More work on the the production Termbox service
- tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
- adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #379

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

Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts
- What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
- Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
- Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)

Tool of the week
- In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
- Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of The band structure in microwave frequency for quasi-1-D coaxial photonic crystals (Q66665412) by User:Stevenliuyi
- New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
- Random finds from WikiProject Random
- Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
- Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
- The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
  - External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
  - External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID
- Query examples:
  - https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
  - Future figure skating competitions
  - Currently happening figure skating competitions
  - French ships whose name start with an A (source)
  - Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
- Schema examples:
  - human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
  - Lunar crater

Development
- Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
- Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
- Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
- Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
- Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
- Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)

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

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

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The Signpost: 30 August 2019

News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff

In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism

Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users

Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes

Op-Ed: We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored

Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia

Community view: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong

News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year

Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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Wikidata weekly summary #380

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

Press, articles, blog posts
- Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
- Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
- A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
- GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
- Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
- Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish

Tool of the week
- In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
- Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
- Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
- New tool: a Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data by MichaelSchoenitzer
- There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
- soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
- Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
  - Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
  - The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
  - Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata

Did you know?

Development
- Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
- Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
- Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
- Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
- Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
- Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
- Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
- Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
- Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
- Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
- Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
- Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
- Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
- Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
- Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
- Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #381

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

Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts
- Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
- Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton

Tool of the week
- moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
- The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
- Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
- Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
- New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata

Did you know?

Development
- Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
- New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
- Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
- Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
- Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
- Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
- Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #382

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
- Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
- Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
- Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
- Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen et al.

Tool of the week
- Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
  - External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
  - External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID
- Query examples:
- Schema examples:
  - space probe
  - Tsunami
- Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark

Development
- Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
- Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
- Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:25, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #383

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

Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
- Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
- Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)

Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
- Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)

Tool of the week
- Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
- Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
- Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
- WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
- Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September (grafana)

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
  - External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
  - External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346

Development
- Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
- Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
- More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
- More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
- Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (phab:T232728)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!!!!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 10:54, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

From the editors: Where do we go from here?

Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup

In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?

Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads

News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green

Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report

Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting

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Wikidata weekly summary #384

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Catherine Laurence

Events
- Past: Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM during Dublin Core 2019
- Upcoming: WikiCon, meeting of the German speaking Community from 4th to 6th of October 2019 in Wuppertal (Germany)
- Upcoming: #5 Wikidata tea party/第5回ウィキデータ茶話会, 18 Oct 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.

Press, articles, blog posts
- Scottish witches in the press and on TV
- Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
- Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
- GeneDB and Wikidata, by Magnus Manske

Tool of the week
- This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
- Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd (announcement, ticket)
- You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: regnal ordinal, peer review URL
  - External identifiers: GCF Reference, Wi-Fi Certification ID, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata film ID, sixpackfilmdata person ID, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power farm ID, IGNrando' ID, Fossiilid.info ID, Kivid.info ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: bus, mwnf, Maximum number of playable characters, FIDAL team ID, candidate name string, IP range start, code (image), name in hiero markup, disputed by, name (image), style of karate
  - External identifiers: NTS Radio artist ID, Gazetteer for Scotland ID, Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, DC Books author ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, UEFA team ID, UEFA coach ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, FAIMER school ID, China Martyrs ID, JournalBase ID, PCEngine Catalog Project ID, PubPeer article ID, memoriademadrid publication ID, doujinshi.org author ID, Beatport label ID, Knesset Law Id, caves.4at.info ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Amazon Music album ID 2, Qobuz album ID, Plus Music album ID, eska.pl release ID, iHeartRadio album ID, Three Decks people ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, Empik e-book or album ID, identificador GENavarra, Oricon News artist ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Fortuna liga player ID
- Deleted properties: P5130 (island of location)
- Query examples:
  - Civil parishes of Scotland, revealed through their listed buildings (source)
  - Scottish civil parishes by county and present-day council area (source)
  - Federated SPARQL query from the Swedish National Archive TORA project to Wikidata
  - Librairies in Africa (source)
  - Most recently dissolved enterprises that were over 200 years old (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Red pandas

Development
- More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
- Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
- Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
- research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
- More preparation work for improving references

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Xain, you should take a CVUA training. 2402:3A80:A6D:75D5:0:5B:A041:B601 (talk) 14:56, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (August and September, 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's links-in-logs

Tokenzero's infoboxJournal • SD0001's RFUD-helper • Danski454's code edit window size

BrandonXLF: FloatHead • ShowRevisionID • EditorFirst

Þjarkur: NeverUseMobileVersion • CleanDiffURLs

Galobtter's admin highlighter • ZLEA's Dashboard • Cobaltcigs's DisableDragDrop

SD0001's archived section finder

Miscellaneous

MJL's Archer was used to break a Wikipedia record. See the edit in question & the updated records page for more.

Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pending requests

A script to simplify merging
A script to tweak rollback links
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

October 2019

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. [4] MrOllie (talk) 14:09, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MrOllie, Oh Sorry I didn't know about that. I am very sorry. Xain36 {talk} 14:14, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #385

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Structured path for property definition changes, Import of item into wikidata private instance
- Closed requests for comments: Notability wording

Events
- Wikidata (für Archive) beim Herbsttreffen des AK Archive der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (in German)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign 08 October. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts
- Generating "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Questions Sets Automatically from Wikidata, Markus Wohlan, et al.
- Wikidata: A large-scale collaborative ontological medical database, Houcemeddine Turki et al.
- Wikidata & Wikibase for National Libraries: the inaugural meeting by Wendy Byrne and Liam Wyatt
- Una lezione di biblioteconomia, o Del nome corto dell’autore, Giovanni Bergamin (Q61727262)

Tool of the week
- soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The WikiProject India will send a quarterly newsletter, more info and subscribe here
- Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards: MisterSynergy (nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and Tobias1984 (nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
- You can nominate projects for the WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
- During the summer, WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
  - wikidata-sdk became wikibase-sdk (changelogs)
  - wikidata-edit became wikibase-edit (changelogs)
  - wikidata-cli became wikibase-cli (changelogs)

Did you know?

Development
- Continue work on removing and optimizing resource loader modules
- Wikidata Bridge: obey wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish (phab:T228260)
- Canceling the modal (phab:T231282)
- Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
- Investigation to ensure editing with the same credentials (phab:T231887)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #386

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

Events
- Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 17th
- Upcoming: Talk about connections between Wikidata, Wikipedia and OSM, Bordeaux, France, October 17th
- Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Paris, France, October 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata goes Library, Talks and Workshops, Vienna, Austria, October 18th
- Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 and side events: Wikibase workshop, iNaturalist workshop, October 24th to 27th, Berlin

Press, articles, blog posts
- My message to video game databases: We(kidata) come in peace, by Jean-Frédéric (the subject is broader than just video games)
- Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3359317 (also blog post).
- Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 + arXiv:1909.11980

Tool of the week
- ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.

Other noteworthy stuff
- We now have d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
- Your feedback is welcome about Computer-aided tagging designs for Structured data for Commons
- The next office hour will take place on November 5th on Telegram (see full announcement)

Did you know? =
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: fineness, identified in image by, name in hiero markup, graph radius, style of karate, name (image), code (image), folio(s)
  - External identifiers: PubPeer article ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, geograph.org.uk image ID, Q-Codes ID, Great Encyclopedia of Navarre ID, Three Decks people ID, Knesset Law ID, DynamoMania.com player ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, LibraryThing author ID, SMHI drainage basin ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Publons publisher ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Identifier, Pubs Galore ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: pathway annotation, number of games, contains functional group, contains chemical element, relative count, electron configuration, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature, Wikimedia revision-id, pdf page, capital social, Source of file, gained territory from
  - External identifiers: Soccerway referee ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com ID, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, FantLab work ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab awar ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, Renaud Camus person ID, WorldFootball.net competition ID, academia.edu publication ID, Rijksmuseum Library ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Soccerbase team ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinématoscope, CanadaSoccer.com person ID
- Query examples:
  - Map of Scottish settlements linked to the average coordinates of Historic Scotland items within civil parishes - demonstrating the use of map lines to highlight possible data quality issues (source)
  - Bundesliga football results - exemplar of a report predicated mainly on statement qualifiers (source)
  - On which side of the road do cars drive? - demonstrating the use of geoshapes to fill a map (source)
  - Map of the embassies to Belgium (source)
  - Graph showing direct descendants of Prithwiraj Kapoor (source)
  - Nobel laureates by award type and gender (source)
- Newest database reports: Mersenne numbers

Development
- Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (phab:T156095)
- A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (phab:T194023)
- Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (phab:T224834)
- Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
- Investigate of the purging strategy (phab:T227758)
- Restyling of mobile termbox (phab:T223452)
- Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (phab:T232595)
- More work on reducing the resource loader modules
- More work on tainted references

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:25, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #387

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

Events
- Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 on October 25-26. If you're not attending, you can follow most of the sessions remotely with live stream.
- Upcoming: Wikidata's seventh birthday, on October 29th. You can organize an event in your area and add it to the list!
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign cont. with OpenRefine demo, 22 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon in Study day on Linked Data, City of Brussels, Friday November 22th, 2019.
- Past: Several sessions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 (11–13 October):
  - Wikidata content oriented projects, talk by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks (video)
  - Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform, talk by Nebojša Ratković (video)
  - Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools, workshop by Asaf Bartov (not recorded)
  - Your first Wikidata Lua infobox, workshop by Tobias Schönberg (not recorded)

Press, articles, blog posts
- Querying Wikidata RDF with SQL using RDF2X
- Ozymandias in Canberra - how the Atlas of Living Australia could be enhanced using Wikidata
- Knowledge Graph Consolidation by Unifying Synonymous Relationships - Jan-Christoph Kalo, et al.
- PhD thesis: Candela Romero, Gustavo (2019). Publicación y enriquecimiento semántico de datos abiertos en bibliotecas digitales (in Spanish).
- Wikidata Wordmap

Tool of the week
- The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
- Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
- Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
- You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file

Did you know?

Development
- Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (phab:T234094)
- Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (phab:T229241)
- research delayed kicking in of Bridge (phab:T233305)
- enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (phab:T230342)
- More work on reducing the resource loader modules
- More work on tainted references

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday

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

Happy birthday, Wikidata!
- Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
- You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list

Events
- Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, Vienna Public Libraries (Q1020347) (18 October):
  - Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
  - Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
  - Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
  - Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261)
- Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
  - Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
  - Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
  - WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
  - New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
  - Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
  - A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
- Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.

Press, articles, blog posts
- Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
- Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)

Tool of the week
- MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open request for oversight permission: -revi
- OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
- The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
- You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.

Did you know?

Development
- Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
- Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
- Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
- Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
- More work on reducing the resource loader modules
- More work on tainted references

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:54, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 October 2019

In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit

Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse

In focus: The BBC looks at Chinese government editing

Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars

Community view: Observations from the mainland

Arbitration report: October actions

Traffic report: Wrestling with a couple of teenagers, a Nobelist, and a lot of jokers

Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast

Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia

Essay: Wikipedia is in the real world

News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:12, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #389

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
- Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1) on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts
- ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
- The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
- The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
- Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
- Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
- Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)

Tool of the week
- SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
- Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
- {{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
- New feature on Mix'n'match: job management

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
  - External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
  - External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID
- Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
- Query examples:
- New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
- Newest database reports:
  - Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
  - Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) constraint check

Development
- Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
- Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
- Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
- Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
- Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
- Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
- Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
- Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
- Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
- A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
- Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
- More work on tainted references

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:35, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ahecht's page swap

MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap

SD0001: hide-reverted-edits • T-Watch • W-Ping • easy-merge

Enterprisey: diff-permalink • search-links • section-redir-note • fancy-diffs • EditWarChecker

Pending requests

Inline editor for cleanup tags

Script to remove empty parameters

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #390

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject

Events
- Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
- Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November

Tool of the week
- Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
- The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
- @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM

Did you know?

Development
- In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
- Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261)
- Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (phabricator:T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
- Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248)
- Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
- Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013)
- For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152)
- Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (phabricator:T233397)
- Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
- Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
- Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:54, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #391

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

Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts
- Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia

Tool of the week
- The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
- OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
- Autojump from a field to another will be removed
- Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.

Did you know?

Development
- Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
- Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
- Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
- Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
- Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
- Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:37, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

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Wikidata weekly summary #392

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

Events
- Join the global m:WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 1 December
- Past: ProWD, a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at the K-CAP 2019 conference on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex. The slides are available by clicking this link. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
- Past: WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
- Past: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon
- Past: Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain, by Ladsgroup

Press, articles, blog posts
- Die Datenlaube launched diedatenlaube.github.io - a collection of blog posts, links and scripts around "wikidatafying" the big German Wikisource project Die Gartenlaube (in German).

Tool of the week
Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
- Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
- Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
- New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data

Did you know?

Development
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
- Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
- More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
- Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
- Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
- Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
- Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:18, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's reply-link

Evad37's Thanky • SuperHamster's CiteUnseen • Mattflaschen's Compare link.js

Enterprisey: diff-context • fancy-diffs • offset-history-link

BrandonXLF: NoRedirect • WatchDoc • HotDefaultSort • TodoList

Twinkle has received multiple updates

Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks

For those who haven't noticed, per phabricator:T234576, using editToken instead of csrfToken no longer works

Miscellaneous

Following a discussion, XFDcloser is now available as a gadget
Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js
Twinkle's morebits is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here for more)
Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

Pending requests

A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 November 2019

From the editor: Put on your birthday best

News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?

In the media: You say you want a revolution

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases

Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things

Gallery: Winter and holidays

Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews

Essay: Adminitis

From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited

In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy

Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?

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Wikidata weekly summary #393

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

Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts
- Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest by A. Britton
- Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon, 22.11.2019, Linking the Past, Royal Library of Belgium, City of Brussels.
- Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons by Isla Haddow-Flood
- Video of live queries building by WikidataFacts
- Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish with Jan Ainali, Magnus Sälgö and UncleCJ

Tool of the week
- Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
- Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format

Did you know?

Development
- Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
- Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
- Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
- Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
- Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
- Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
- Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:27, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #394

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

Events
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish, 15 December
- Upcoming: Sydney Wikidata Workshop, 16 December

Press, articles, blog posts
- Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions, research report done by the user experience team at Wikimedia Deutschland
- Measuring Social Bias in Knowledge Graph Embeddings
- Letra zopak, Scrabble eta euskarazko letrarik ohikoena, about the most common characters in Basque language, and how this should affect automatic letter-soups and Scrabble point-system.
- Two new blog posts about GLAM pilot projects for Structured Data on Commons:
  - How we helped a small art museum to increase the impact of its collections, with Wikimedia projects and structured data by Sandra Fauconnier
  - How can Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata, and Wikisource walk hand in hand? A pilot project with Punjabi Qisse by Satdeep Gill

Tool of the week
- overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)

Did you know?

Development
- Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
- Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (phab:T239411)
- DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (phab:T222497)
- Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
- Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:58, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Weekly Summary #395

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

Press, articles, blog posts
- More WikidataCon 2019 reports:
  - WikidataCon 2019 report on the Latvian Wikipedia
  - Wikidata+OSM at State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019

Tool of the week
- Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Following a discussion on generalizing P2572 to all hashtags and the rejections of Instagram hashtag, Flickr tag, and Gfycat tag properties propositions, the formerly 'Twitter hashtag' property is now a platform-agnostic hashtag (P2572) property. A tool was created to be used as formatter url and link to those different platforms regrouping content by hashtags: toolforge:hashtags-hub.
- New tool: WDumper, generating customized Wikidata RDF dumps. More information
- Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events
- MediaWiki Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: superfamicom.org ID, nominalized form, PlayStation DataCenter ID, implies
  - External identifiers: Aberdeenshire HER ID, e-WV ID, Français libres ID, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, Musée de la Résistance ID, National Library of Lithuania ID, Slovak National Library ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Spanish Quora topic ID, Europeana Entity, SNESmusic.org company ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Joconde author ID, Joconde domain ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, tDAR creator ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, Vaare falne ID, Complex Portal accession ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Differential diagnosis, part of terminology, voice gender, verifiability of property, study type, NIPS Proceedings author ID, field of training, litter size, Copyright status of author, academic appointment, written at, legislative committee, Member of military unit, access status of contents, EAN-13, filename in archive
  - External identifiers: Computer Emuzone ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PlanetMath, Natural Product Atlas ID, EEPS ID, screenscraper platform ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, ScreenScraper game ID, Nonfiction ID, ScreenScraper company ID, National September 11 Memorial ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID, PS photographer ID, deviantArt, Frick Art Reference Library Artist File Names ID, LiverTox ID, ScreenScraper group ID, ZX81 Collection ID, Netherlands Photo Museum photographer ID, Movie Walker person ID, ZX81 Collection publisher ID, IDFA film ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Human Rights (created to support m:WikiForHumanRights)

Development
- Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
- Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
- Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (phab:T240329)
- More work on the new term store
- Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (phab:T235745)
- New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
- Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (phab:T240316)
- Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (phab:T227083)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:24, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 December 2019

From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again

News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages

Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?

In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?

Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki

Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December

Technology report: User scripts and more

Gallery: Holiday wishes

Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary

From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap

WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report

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Wikidata weekly summary #396

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last 2 weeks.

Discussions:
- New request for comments: Handle genealogical information, Sort identifiers

Press, articles, blog posts
- Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations, by Sandra Fauconnier
- Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales, by Jason Evans
- Context-aware Entity Linking with Attentive Neural Networks on Wikidata Knowledge Graph, Isaiah Onando Mulang et al. (on Arxiv)
- Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard
- Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship
- How to select your Christmas movie using SPARQL and Wikidata

Tool of the week
- The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
- MichaelSchoenitzer is looking for co-maintainers for the tool MachtSinn and the Lexeme Python library
- We now have Q80000000
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer to work on Wikidata and Wikibase as well as a technical writer

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
  - External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
  - External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
- Query examples:
  - Map showing objects named after a person represented in Europeana
  - Locations where paintings were made (source)
  - Swedish citizens who died in 1949 and whose works will enter the public domain on 1 January 2020 with profession and image, ordered by number of Wikimedia articles (source)
  - Oldest subways (source)
  - Popes who were children of other popes (source)
  - Colorful flags (source)

Development
- Worked on better error dialogues for the Wikidata Bridge
- Investigated and fixed labels for some Properties not being shown (phabricator:T237984)
- Continued working on the new database tables that replace wb_terms
- Expanded documentation for 3rd party Wikibase installs
- Continued working on making sure components in different areas of Wikibase can easily be shared to make development easier (phabricator:T240329)
- Enjoying the holidays. Hope so are you :)

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:17, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #397

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

Events
- New: you can Wikidata-related events in the calendar of Wikimedia Space
- Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, 18:00 (UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble, France, January 16th

Tool of the week
- Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.

Did you know?

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:30, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #398

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

Events
- Registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana (May 9-11) opened
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: getting started in Wikidata, labels, and aliases, 14 January. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts
- Report of Wiki Techstorm 2019 by Jsamwrites
- Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata by Ian Watt
- Overview of Wikidata gadgets and user scripts - slides from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Meetings
- Wikipedia Rolls Out Our Research on Providing Semantic Information for Mathematical Formulae - this feature uses Wikidata

Tool of the week
- Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can test a new feature highlighting mismatched references
- The next Weekly Summary (January 20) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: exonerated of, Commons category for ship name, heading, filename in archive
  - External identifiers: Russian PFL player ID, J-GLOBAL ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, Époques ID, openSUSE package, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, DLE RAE ID, NTIS accession number, PubAg ID, Games Database developer ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Beta Masaheft ID, ordered by, university of the third age, period of lactation, position, grape variety, merged into, distribution map of taxon
  - External identifiers: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa - stacja ID, Livelib.ru person ID, ScummVM wiki ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Arcade PCB database game ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, eu-football team ID, Museen in OÖ ID, Voetbal International player ID, Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID, C64.COM ID, Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID, FlashScore.com team ID, Soccerdonna team ID, c64games.de ID, Museums in Austria Code, Canmore thesaurus ID, The Cutting Room Floor ID, NPDRIM record ID, EFIS person ID, coinop.org game ID, EFIS film ID, EFIS filmmaker ID, EFIS film festival ID, WeChangEd ID, marterl.at ID
- Query examples:

Development
- More work on finishing the migration of wb_terms table
- Don’t check constraints on “Wikidata property example for media” statements (phab:T227865)
- Warn users that they're not nogged-in before performing restore or undo (phab:T234430, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
- Remove edit link from Special:NewPages if page is not directly editable (phab:T240561, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
- Introduce MwEraParser and improve i18n of dates BCE (phab:T140541, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
- Bridge: show error dialog if the user isn't allowed to edit Wikidata (phab:T235154)
- Bridge: ask the user if the change is a fix or an update (phab:T237333)
- Enabled tainted references on test.wikidata.org

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:44, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #399

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata OpenRefine Workshop in Prague (Q1085)
- Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team

Tool of the week
- The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
- Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [5]
- The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

Did you know?

Development
- More work on wb_terms table migration: information about property terms is no longer updated and removed from wb_terms table.
- Add "wikibase-statementsection-identifiers i18n message key to Wikibase (phab:T240356)
- Stop using $wgUser in Wikibase (phab:T241947)
- Document possible configuration options for Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client installations (phab:T165973)
- Document Wikibase Usage Aspects (phab:T236772)
- Document Wikibase tables (phab:T124603)
- Wikidata Bridge: add the RadioButton to the component library (phab:T239799)
- Showing error dialogs if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
- Tainted references: work on keeping the warning visible when users cancel an edit

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:21, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 January 2020

From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium

News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia

Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta

In the media: Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?

Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners

News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations

Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015

In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!

Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?

From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report

Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article

Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton

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Wikidata weekly summary #400

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

Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
- Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
- The page ID 400 is Ludwig van Beethoven; the Wikidata page version ID 400 was a version of printer.
- The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
- Wikimedia Commons has 627 images taken with the Canon PowerShot A400 - you can see one on baritone saxophone.
- Map of things at an altitude of 400 m.
- Map of places with a population of 400 ± 5 (yellow) graduating to 400 ± 0 (red).
- From this query, Wikidata knows of 21 theatres, 15 cinemas, 11 sports venues, 11 event venues, and 9 ships having a maximum capacity of 400.
- Image grid of taxa with a highest observed lifespan of at least 400 years.
- Image grid of items with a mass of 400 kilograms and image grid of items with a mass of 400 grams.
- List of 400m distance sports events.
- 400 Ducrosa is a main-belt asteroid named after J. Ducros.
- List of items with an external ID equal to 400.
- Last but not least, 400 dahlias for Léa, Lydia and the other contributors to this list!

Events
- Past: Wikidata office hour on Telegram, January 22nd. Notes of the meeting
- Upcoming: WikiTuesday / Wikidata Talks Meetup in Istambul, Turkey, January 28th
- Upcoming: online meeting dedicated to organizers of Wikidata's 8th birthday, January 29th

Tool of the week
- Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: attested as, category for files created with program, period of lactation, aperture
  - External identifiers: C64.COM ID, c64games.de ID, eu-football.info team ID, museum in Salzburg (AT) ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, Upper Austria Museum ID, WorldCat Identities ID, word in DEJ of RAE ID, HAL article ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: LiverTox Likelihood Score, dean, stated age in source, US Bureau of Prisons Register Number, located in the constituency, motherboard, WMF short URL, Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, supported metadata, expansion, historic first, number of pins, number of pin positions, catalogue raisonné, Dose, value group number, external georeferencer URL, axis, Voting system, image revision-id, region within image, georeferencing data, based on tabular data, Number of active electronic terminals, associated with, translated title, position in sequence, Attribution text, food energy, madhhab, Maximum number of playable characters, Main deity, electron configuration, capital social, gained territory from, key col of, religion or world view, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, menu items, food composition, IP address or range, featured in, lighting, general law, territorial entity ranking context, references, mentions named entity, hardiness
  - External identifiers: NASA active astronaut ID, VGMRips company ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, Roglo person ID, VGMRips system ID, Museu de Memes ID, Nobel API ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Canmore object-type ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, GameRevolution game ID, TrueAchievements game ID, PARADISEC Catalog, ELAR ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Whaling History ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Ciência ID, 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Ident.Nr., GoodRx, part number, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, MIC, UEFA referee ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, TrueAchievements series ID, Bollywood Hungama ID 2, Gamekult game ID
- Query examples:
  - The results of the Australian Triple J Hottest 100, 2019 music voting poll were published on 25 January 2019. See the results with associated music videos to watch.
  - Map of destinations from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
  - 50 philosophers for which DBpedia and Wikidata state different date of birth (source)

Development
- More work on wb_terms migration
- Units support for quantity datatype (phab:T239474)
- Fix the link to rawgraphs.io from WDQS (phab:T222257)
- More work on showing messages related to permissions on the Wikidata Bridge
- Tainted references: fix minor alignment issues (phab:T243269, phab:T242212)
- Add a "remove warning" button to confirm a correct reference (phab:T234789)
- Preparing the ground for a unified component library for the Wikidata UI

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:03, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #401

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mike Peel

Events
- Past: Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
- Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei

Press, articles, blog posts
- A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham

Tool of the week
- VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
- 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
- Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
- Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
- OpenRefine 3.3 was released

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
  - External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
  - External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
- Work on adding a button to hide the notification (phab:T234789)
- Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (phab:T234790)
- More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
- More work on wb_terms migration

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

XFDcloser (now a gadget) is this issue's featured script

Suffusion of Yellow's mark-reverted • Majavah's unslashifier

Guywan's BulletSort and HistoryHighlight

BrandonXLF's QuickEdit and CompareRevisions

Enterprisey's fancy-diff should now be able to handle everything the parser can throw at it.

Twinkle has a new update (more). It now supports partial blocks and includes the select2 library as a dependency.
Select2 is available at MediaWiki:Gadget-select2.min.js for other gadgets and scripts to use.

Miscellaneous

Until now, this newsletter has been written primarily by me (DannyS712).

If others would like to contribute, help is always appreciated;

this was intended to be a community newsletter.

Pending requests
A number of requests are listed at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Some ideas.
Some of the remaining ideas include scripts to:

expand a diff until it covers all contiguous edits made by that user
highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template
hyperlink "per X" to the last comment X made
show a pop-up section preview when you hover over its TOC link

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

February 2020

Hello Xain36. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Xain36. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Xain36|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Template:Z159 GSS ^💬 12:02, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@GSS: it appears to state it at the top of this page. MPS1992 (talk) 15:23, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #402

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc

Events
- Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
- Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
- WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
- Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th

Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
- Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.

Tool of the week
- Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
- Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
- "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
- Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
- Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
- There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
- Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
  - External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID
- Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
- Query examples:
  - Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
  - Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
  - Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
  - List of this year’s Academy Awards winners

Development
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
- Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
- Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
- Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (phab:T231731)
- Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
- Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
- Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (phab:T243158)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:25, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

February 2020

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Xain36, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Xain36|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Template:Z160 GSS ^💬 18:09, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GSS How to do that? Please guide me. Xain36 {talk} 15:10, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:DISCLOSEPAY and don't forget add link(s) to all active accounts at websites where you advertise paid Wikipedia-editing services. GSS ^💬 15:34, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GSS, Will you show me a perfect example like an article that has been properly disclosed. Xain36 {talk} 14:45, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]