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- Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "
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- Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [1]
- There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [2]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).
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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
This Month in Education: November 2021
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-47
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  The Casa Grande del Pueblo (English: Great House of the People), is the Bolivian presidential residence that replaced the Palacio Quemado in 2018. Inaugurated on 9 August 2018 during the presidency of Evo Morales as the official residence of the President of Bolivia, the interim government of Jeanine Áñez reverted to occupying the Palacio Quemado from 2019 to 2020. Following the inauguration of Luis Arce on 8 November 2020, it has again become the residence of the president. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikidata weekly summary #495
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
- Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
- LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
- ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
- Past
- Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
- Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
- Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
- ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase team.
- Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
- This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
- A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
- The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
- [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: train melody
- External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
- External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs
- Query examples:
- Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
- Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
- Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
- UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
- Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
- Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
- Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
- Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
- Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
- The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
- Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)
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
- 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!
This Month in Education: November 2021
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
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.
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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Rediscovery of an unknown flag
On this photo I found the third flag looks unknown for me. This flag has a yellow band with three red bands and a dragon in the middle. Can you figure out what is that? --Great Brightstar (talk) 15:19, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Great Brightstar:, excuse the late reaction, but I have been aware of this photographs for a number of months now and have tried investigating it myself but haven't been able to find its colour scheme or its purpose. As the watermark tells it's from the now-defunct TTXVA website, a couple of months ago I asked the owner for VTRS (formerly "OTRS") permission but he told me that he didn't author this image and that it was submitted to the website by one of its readers. All the information I got is that it's one of the personal standards of the former Bảo Đại Emperor and that this photograph is one in a series of imperial standards from the State of Vietnam period. I will try to find the archived link for you. --Donald Trung (talk) 14:24, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Above is another imperial standard that isn't on the Wikimedia Commons yet, I will look for the archive of the page for you. Please create an SVG of the above if possible. Never mind, it is a military flag. --Donald Trung (talk) 14:35, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Xưa nay người Việt Nam giữ quan niệm rất ấu trĩ về lá cờ, đa số thường cho rằng, lá cờ là độc quyền của nhà cai trị và có tính cách linh thiêng. Tuy nhiên, đã tới lúc lối tư duy nực cười này phải bị gỡ bỏ, muốn quốc gia bền vững trước cơn lốc toàn cầu hóa thì tất cả công dân phải chấp nhận sự khác biệt. Hơn nữa, lịch sử quốc kỳ của chúng ta không dài lâu, cho nên, đừng nên bị những quan niệm ý thức hệ che mờ. http://ttxva.org/quoc-ky-viet-nam/ http://ttxva.org/quoc-ky-viet-nam-2/
The photograph has the description "Quốc gia Việt Nam : Quốc kỳ, cờ hoàng đế, cờ Ngự lâm quân. " (State of Vietnam: National Flag, Emperor's flag, Musketeer's flag. ).
@Great Brightstar:, No archive of the webpage seems to exist, I have not been able to find it, I will try to find a copy of it that wasn't archived by the Wayback machine.
So as far as I can find it's the flag of the Musketeers (Ngự lâm quân), but I can't find any information about the Musketeers of the State of Vietnam, so I will investigate further. --Donald Trung (talk) 15:10, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
- Greenknight dv told me this was the flag of Bao Dai's guards, so the problem at the moment is what the exact color shades used on this flag. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 03:36, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 November 2021
- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-48
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  William Morrison (23 August 1855 – 29 August 1927) was a Scottish chemist. His background in chemistry piqued his interest in improving storage batteries. He concentrated on how to produce the most available energy for a unit of weight for efficiency in the working of an individual battery cell. Eventually, he developed storage batteries far more powerful than what had then been available. To demonstrate his batteries, Morrison installed 24 of them on a common horse-drawn carriage and attached an electric motor to the rear axle to be powered by them. Through various innovations, he developed the controls for the power used and the vehicle's steering so that the driver had complete control. Morrison invented the first practical self-powered four-wheeled electric carriage in the United States. His electric vehicle was the first to be driven in Chicago and in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. This electric horseless buggy of the late 19th century helped pave the way for the hybrid electric automobile of the 21st century. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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The Signpost: 29 November 2021
- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Serendipity: "Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot
- News from Diff: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles
- Traffic report: Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if Eternals should fail
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
Wikidata weekly summary #496
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming
- Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
- Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
- LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
- Past
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
- (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
- Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
- Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
- Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
- External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
- External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID
- Query examples:
- Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
- Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
- Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
- List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
- Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
- List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
- Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
- List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
- Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
- Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
- Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
- List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
- Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
- Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
- Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
- More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
- Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)
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
- 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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how munch doyou know about Lao coins? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.153.230.207 (talk) 21:03, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Depends on the period, I mostly know about French period Lao coins and those created immediately afterwards. --Donald Trung (talk) 22:09, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
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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
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)