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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.
  • 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
  • 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 :)

WikiProject Numismatics newsletter - January 2020

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Article of the Month
1959 sovereign obverse

The sovereign is a gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling. Struck from 1817 until the present time, it was originally a circulating coin accepted in Britain and elsewhere in the world; it is now a bullion coin and is sometimes mounted in jewellery. In most recent years, it has borne the well-known design of Saint George and the Dragon on the reverse; the initials (B P) of the designer, Benedetto Pistrucci, are visible to the right of the date.

The coin was named after the English gold sovereign, last minted about 1603, and originated as part of the Great Recoinage of 1816. Many in Parliament believed a one-pound coin should be issued rather than the 21-shilling (1.05 pounds) guinea struck until that time. The Master of the Mint, William Wellesley Pole, had Pistrucci design the new coin, and his depiction was also used for other gold coins. Originally, the coin was unpopular as the public preferred the convenience of banknotes, but paper currency of value £1 was soon limited by law. With that competition gone, the sovereign not only became a popular circulating coin, but was used in international trade and in foreign lands, trusted as a coin containing a known quantity of gold.

The British government promoted the use of the sovereign as an aid to international trade, and the Royal Mint took steps to see that lightweight gold coins were withdrawn from circulation. From the 1850s until 1932, the sovereign was also struck at colonial mints, initially in Australia, and later in Canada, South Africa and India—they have been struck again in India since 2013 (in addition to the production in Britain by the Royal Mint) for the local market. The sovereigns issued in Australia initially carried a unique local design, but by 1887, all new sovereigns bore Pistrucci's George and Dragon design. Strikings there were so large that by 1900, about 40 per cent of the sovereigns in Britain had been minted in Australia.

With the start of the First World War in 1914, the sovereign vanished from circulation in Britain, replaced by paper money, and it did not return after the war, though issues at colonial mints continued until 1932. The coin was still used in the Middle East, and demand rose in the 1950s, which the Royal Mint eventually responded to by striking new sovereigns in 1957. It has been struck since then both as a bullion coin and, beginning in 1979, for collectors. Though the sovereign is no longer in circulation, it is still legal tender in the United Kingdom. (Full article...)

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Today's Featured Article December 22

Obverse of the coin

The Maryland Tercentenary half dollar was a commemorative fifty-cent piece issued by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1934. It depicts Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on the obverse (pictured) and the coat of arms of Maryland on the reverse. The Maryland Tercentenary Commission sought a coin in honor of the 300th anniversary of the arrival of English settlers in Maryland. The state's senators introduced legislation, and it passed both houses of Congress with no opposition. A design had already been prepared by Professor Hans Schuler; it passed review by the Commission of Fine Arts, though there was controversy over whether Lord Baltimore, a Cavalier and Catholic, would have worn a collar typical of Puritans. The Commission sold about 15,000 of the full issue of 25,000 for $1 each, and thereafter discounted the price for large sales to dealers and speculators. The coins have increased in value over time, and are now valued in the low hundreds of dollars. (Full article...)

Picture of the Day December 11

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A WikiDollar for you

1000-point WikiDollar
For contributing 202 images in the 2019 US Banknote Contest, worth a total of 1,010 points. - ZLEA T\C 19:12, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Golden Wiki

Golden Wiki
For taking first place in the 2019 US Banknote Contest. - ZLEA T\C 19:25, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
@ZLEA:, Thanks for organising this year's contest, though too bad that I had too little time for it to actually upload the rest of the Texian banknotes. Anyhow, I have some ideas for the next contest to boost user participation, but I will post that to Wikimedia Commons another time. Thanks for all your hard (volunteer) work. --Donald Trung (talk) 19:30, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #397

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

Tech News: 2020-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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21:20, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #398

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


Tech News: 2020-03

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

  • You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [2]
  • Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [3]

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [4]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

  • Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [5]
  • You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [6]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Vault protector coin, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Vault (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 08:51, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #399

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • 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 [7]
    • The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!
  • 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.

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