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The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in round 2 were:
Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
Enterprisey's reply-link has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.
Twinkle released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. (See full list of changes)
Open tasks
The mediawiki.notify resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.
Twinkle's Morebits library added a new Morebits.date class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using getUTCMonthName or getUTCMonthNameAbbrev with Date objects, those have been deprecated and should be updated.
Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing: YouTube
Art+Feminism Office Hours: Introduction to Editing Wikidata: YouTube
Webinar on why and how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata? (in French): YouTube
Tool of the week
ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [1]
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [2]
Changes later this week
You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19, which aims to answer questions the public may have about Wikipedia's coverage of the pandemic. The event includes four speakers, all of whom are active contributors to the topic area on Wikipedia, but bring different perspectives, backgrounds, and interests. The event is free and open to the public, broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook, and questions taken from viewers on these platforms. Abstracts and speaker bios are available on the event page.
... for remembering my first edit day. It was different me, and a different Wikipedia. All of us has come a long way. The friends I made are long gone from the project. It's been a long journey. And, every moment of that journey is worth cherishing. Thanks again. Aditya(talk • contribs) 01:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Thank you
I never stopped to check when I first began editing, other than that I started in 13 years ago. It's been an adventure! Now, I try to support the Wikimedia foundation every year with a $365 donation (and $366 in leap year) in honor of a dollar's worth of fun I've had every day. Mandsford 15:04, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
You have attained world-record reviewing speed on the above article: less than two minutes after publication! Thank you for all your efforts here.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:29, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing the pages I post but I don't see why you now add the tag
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Working on Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool by Lucas Werkmeister: Part 1, Part 2
Wikidata: Figure skating workflow, starting from scratch (installing and configuring everything on a new computer) by Harmonia Amanda: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding wikidata=* tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
Brazil report: GLAMce at Museu Paulista: making things machine-readable
Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2020 in Czech Republic; International event; support for Wikimedia community; edit-a-thon run with the US embassy and the Swedish Embassy
France report: Association des Archivistes Francais; Palladia, a museum collection portal based on Wikimedia resources
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [4]
Problems
Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [5]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [6][7]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).
Future changes
JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [8]
For the article Sufiyan Malik you have put up autobiography tag. But the creater of the page has written in his talk that the article happen to have the same name as his username and that it is not an autobiography.Kashpeople (talk) 04:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
ActCAD
Thank you very much for your contribution. I will be grateful if you tell me what to improve or do. Please take part in the discussion, editing this article. Together, we can make diamond from stone. I moved the article from Polish Wikipedia. Most often, however, the English wiki is my inspiration. Yours faithfully.ZengaONE (talk) 13:46, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube
Tool of the week
WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.
Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.
We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person!
7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [9][10]
Problems
There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [11]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [12][13]
Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [15]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [16]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.
Thank you for your hard working with so many articles for deletion. I'm hoping you can help me with something. I keep my eye on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Geography and enjoy digging up sources to support the notability of the US ghost-towns so often listed there. Is there a similar central list for geographic articles the have been proposed for deletion? Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 16:43, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Captain Raju. I saw that you created the article Guido Grimod. Honestly, I am a bit confused, since the article – besides being almost incomprehensible because of the numerous grammatical and syntactic errors – is filled up with totally misleading references. Ref 1 provided for the date of birth in the infobox does NOT report the date of birth; Ref 2 (place of birth) has nothing to do with the place of birth; etc. etc. None of the references is related to the given information. When you write that "he is married and has children" then the reference absolutely does not mention any marriage or children (Ref 9); so, where did you get this information? When you write that "he was mayor of Aosta from 2000 to 2010" (Ref 6), the given source is actually quite different. Why? This is weird, since I see you are a very active and experienced user, so I guess you perfectly know the rules of Wiki. Then why? Putting misleading sources can be considered an oath or a kind of vandalism because it undermines the credibility of the encyclopedia and the good faith among the users who collaborate with it.--Alienautic (talk) 13:17, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
I fixed your article about Guido Grimod, but I see you did the same thing with this article. May you provide an explanation for your behaviour, please?--Alienautic (talk) 15:12, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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