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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-16

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Lucy Salani was an Italian activist and is considered the only Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps.

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Wikidata weekly summary #568

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Tech News: 2023-16

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  • At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [4][5]
  • For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [6]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-17

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María Fernanda Castro Maya is a Mexican self-advocate disability rights activist.

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Wikidata weekly summary #569

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      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
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      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
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Tech News: 2023-17

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  • For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [9][10][11]

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  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [12]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-18

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Sonia Shainwald Orbuch (born Sarah Shainwald, May 24, 1925 – September 30, 2018) was an American Holocaust educator. During the Second World War she was a Jewish resistance fighter in eastern Poland.

Orbuch hid in the forests of Poland with her family during the Second World War. She joined a group of Soviet partisans, being renamed Sonia in case she was captured, and helped fight against the Germans. After the war, she returned home, where she met her future husband. After having a daughter in a refugee camp in Germany, the family eventually emigrated to the United States.

She spent the rest of life in public engagement, speaking about her experiences and in 2009, published her autobiography, Here, There Are No Sarahs: A Woman's Courageous Fight Against the Nazis and Her Bittersweet Fulfillment of the American Dream.

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Tech News: 2023-18

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Wikidata weekly summary #570

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@Donald Trung. Hi there, (and sorry in advance if this request is inappropriate!). I am really impressed by your contributions to articles and photos related to Vietnamese/Indochinese currency during colonial period. I am a postgraduate student doing a short research on the monetary system of French Indochina. I would appreciate it if you could point me to some primary/secondary sources (or just any resources in general) where I can learn more about the piastre and its history, especially in the context of French colonial rule. Thank you! NguyenLeDongHai (talk) 03:49, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

NguyenLeDongHai, Well, the best places you can find sources are the National Library of France and the National Library of Việt Nam. Both of these libraries allow you to search through old newspapers and official government bulletins. I personally mostly researched the coinage of the Nguyễn Dynasty during the Khải Định and Bảo Đại periods, but you could probably also find information on the colonial currencies there, maybe you could find the archives of the Bank of Indo-China as well.
Government bulletins are good for things like emission numbers and official government policies, the best sources for the currencies of the Nguyễn Dynasty would be the Bulletin of the Southern Dynasty in the National Language, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find that one online. As for the actual effect of currency issues during this period I'd recommend local newspapers.
Also, feel free to share your paper and your findings when you're done with it, I'm planning on writing a The Lord of the Rings-sized number of articles (not an exaggeration) on the Nguyễn Dynasty and French Indo-China and love to read more sources to integrate into these planned works. -- — Donald Trung (talk) 06:48, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Some advice, In 1933 the government of the United States had begun purchasing substantial amounts of silver, and the following year in June 1934 it passed the Silver Purchase Act, which stipulated that the United States Treasury should purchase silver from all over the world until the global price was higher than $1.29 per ounce, or until the total monetary value of the American silver stock would reach ⅓ of the monetary value of its gold stock. The original intent of the United States Silver Purchase Act was to be a commodity support programme for American silver producers, but it proved that it would have many unintended consequences for the global price of silver and silver-based currencies like those in China and French Indo-China. This legislation by the United States federal government would cause the global price of silver to rise by 75% in 1933 alone and two years later this price would triple. As almost all coins that circulated in French Indo-China were silver this greatly affected the French Indo-Chinese Piastre. --Donald Trung (talk) 07:00, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Regarding the above, that's a connection I made as we see a gradual disappearance of silver coinages in French Indo-China around this period, but as no economic historian of French Indo-China has ever made that connection I haven't included it anywhere because it would constitute original research. What is clear is that around this period the Government-General of French Indo-China started debasing the Piastre and that consequently the market value of a string of cash coins increased from 7 strings per Piastre to around 2~3 strings, despite the official exchange rate being 6 strings. The only reason heavily debased copper-alloy currencies would become more valuable would either be because of a local shortage of copper (could be due to the Japanese and German governments stockpiling copper for their war production) or due to a devaluation of the Piastre. Both scenarios are likely. The global metal market was in complete disarray during the great depression and most of its economic effects were deflationary rather than inflationary, so we also see a large issuance of paper money during the late 1930's and early 1940's. I don't have the official issuance numbers, but many banknote and coin catalogues tend to have them, you can download many books online from pirate websites, especially such catalogues. --Donald Trung (talk) 07:53, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
@Donald Trung, I can't thank you enough for the info above. Really appreciate your help! I will keep you posted once I'm done with the research. Cheers! NguyenLeDongHai (talk) 00:36, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
NguyenLeDongHai, Always happy to help. -- — Donald Trung (talk) 06:30, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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