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Wikidata weekly summary #351

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
    • Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
    • Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
    • Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
    • Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
    • Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
    • Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
    • Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
    • Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
    • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
    • Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)

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2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start 1928 St Ives by-election (talk) Add sources
733 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (talk) Add sources
120 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA Northern Ireland Football League (talk) Add sources
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Blunsdon railway station (talk) Add sources
19 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (talk) Add sources
22 Quality: High, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: GA 1870 United States House of Representatives elections (talk) Add sources
153 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Tar (tobacco residue) (talk) Cleanup
140 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Gravity well (talk) Cleanup
436 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Culture of England (talk) Cleanup
19 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Hereford (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
4 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: GA Kingston upon Hull West (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
36 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA James Halliwell-Phillipps (talk) Expand
46 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Herbal smokeless tobacco (talk) Unencyclopaedic
121 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Yes Scotland (talk) Unencyclopaedic
604 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Electric smoking system (talk) Unencyclopaedic
574 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (talk) Merge
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen (talk) Merge
261 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Cournot competition (talk) Merge
490 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (talk) Wikify
536 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Erich Raeder (talk) Wikify
972 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Usury (talk) Wikify
3 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Tobacco in Alabama (talk) Orphan
16 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Underage smoking in Australia (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Nicogel (talk) Orphan
68 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Albert Frère (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Richard Southby (talk) Stub
1 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub John Hungerford (by 1516 – 1582) (talk) Stub
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start William Sloper (c.1658–1743) (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Hugh Adair (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub William Battie-Wrightson (talk) Stub

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33 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Blaydon-on-Tyne (talk) Add sources
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Young Scots for Independence (talk) Add sources
25 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Rowlands Gill (talk) Add sources
43 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start White March (talk) Add sources
12 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Winlaton (talk) Add sources
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub John Sicklemore (talk) Add sources
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Jim McGovern (British politician) (talk) Cleanup
11 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA 2015 United Kingdom general election debates (talk) Cleanup
20 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub British Polling Council (talk) Cleanup
493 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA New Mexico chile (talk) Expand
14 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: GA Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
201 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom (talk) Expand
17 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Bramham, West Yorkshire (talk) Unencyclopaedic
19 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Umbellulone (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,577 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Things Fall Apart (talk) Unencyclopaedic
140 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Houttuynia cordata (talk) Merge
819 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Harissa (talk) Merge
2,343 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA Sound (talk) Merge
22 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere (talk) Wikify
47 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Campesterol (talk) Wikify
627 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B First Boer War (talk) Wikify
9 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Curcumin synthase (talk) Orphan
14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Anti-monumentalism (talk) Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Stub AstroTown (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start 1940 Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election (talk) Stub
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Stella Park (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start David Adams (Labour politician) (talk) Stub
197 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start SNAC (talk) Stub
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Robert Urswyk (talk) Stub
41 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start David Linden (politician) (talk) Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #352

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

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1,272 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA J. M. W. Turner (talk) Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor (talk) Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Thomas Graves, 2nd Baron Graves (talk) Add sources
488 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Joseph Chamberlain (talk) Add sources
202 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C John Venn (talk) Add sources
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Malcolm St Clair (politician) (talk) Add sources
30 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (talk) Cleanup
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Nicholas Brembre (talk) Cleanup
10 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (talk) Cleanup
63 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Terrebonne, Quebec (talk) Expand
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start North West Surrey (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start South East Durham (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
826 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Minor League Baseball (talk) Unencyclopaedic
6 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian) (talk) Unencyclopaedic
17 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Abergele rail disaster (talk) Unencyclopaedic
3 Quality: High, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: GA Gerhard Daum Music Edition (talk) Merge
9 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Every Good Game (talk) Merge
5 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: B The Immortals (Stewart and Riddell novel) (talk) Merge
20 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (talk) Wikify
3 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Baxter Langley (talk) Wikify
90 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Child's War (talk) Wikify
4 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Alex Otey (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start ADHD Grown Up (talk) Orphan
16 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Advertising ID (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Nicholas Grattan-Doyle (talk) Stub
34 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Marion Fellows (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Thomas Magnay (talk) Stub
16 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ronnie Cowan (politician) (talk) Stub
22 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Gavin Newlands (talk) Stub
20 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Patricia Gibson (talk) Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #353

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
    • Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
    • Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
    • Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
    • Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
    • Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
    • Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
    • Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
    • Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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What is a systematic review?

Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.

PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review

Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?

File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg
2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group

Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

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