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Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- July 2019—Issue 004
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
List of felids by PresN |
Letter-winged kite by Casliber |
The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
2) S&W: Over the years, you've taken photos of many different organisms from birds to insects to big cats; you have an extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
* An example of cumbersome code: getting the layout of my responses to your questions. So dated, and no online spellchecker. |
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Wikidata weekly summary #376
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
- Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
- Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
- Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
- OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
- New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
- External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
- External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (phab:T228888)
- Add request information to request timeout errors (phab:T228885)
- Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (phab:T222884)
- Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
- Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (phab:T226997)
- EntitySchema datatype (phab:T214884)
- Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (phab:T203696)
- Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (phab:T226216)
- Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (phab:T229482)
- Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (phab:T229604)
- Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
- Investigate on Graphoid issues (phab:T229236)
- Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (phab:T214884)
- Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (phab:T229574)
- Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
- Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (phab:T66315)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Weather or not to delete the WPC article
[edit]One butterfly may flap its wings to create a tornado, but one editor does not a WP:SNOWstorm make. Mitch Ames (talk) 06:41, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: July 2019
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Re: Bingo
[edit]What a weird article ... and a weird topic for an article ... but it is probably notable enough. Per Google Maps it's in Siesta Park, which is yet another of the localities around here that doesn't have an article ... I've tried to fix the estate article up a bit. Graham87 09:05, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
- How's that? Gotta run now ... Graham87 10:01, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
Re: Bendu case
[edit]Hi - my mistake, thought I had pressed publish on that page already - is done now! Ta for bringing up Jay4283 (talk) 10:36, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #377
[edit]- Press, articles, blog posts
- Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
- "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The open source geocoder w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
- External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
- External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a caching problem on termbox (phab:T228978)
- Investigate options for termbox load testing (phab:T229790)
- Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (phab:T224189)
- Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
- Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (phab:T66315)
- Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (phab:T222606)
- Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
- Add editing widget/input on Bridge (phab:T226998)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Wandering threads
[edit]Consistent indentation here would make the wandering less exhausting, and the discussion easier to follow... Please pay some heed to WP:THREAD. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:33, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #378
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin
- Events
- Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.
- Tool of the week
- In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
- NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
- ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
- You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
- QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
- New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
- Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
- Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
- External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
- External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID
- Query examples:
- Schema examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
- Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
- Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
- Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
- Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
- Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
- More work on the the production Termbox service
- tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
- adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
MfD nomination of Portal:Death
[edit]Portal:Death, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Death and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Death during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 02:13, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
- (Notification: nomination of Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series at articles for deletion. (TW))
Nomination of Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Willbb234Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 15:36, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #379
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
- Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
- Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)
- Tool of the week
- In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
- Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of The band structure in microwave frequency for quasi-1-D coaxial photonic crystals (Q66665412) by User:Stevenliuyi
- New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
- Random finds from WikiProject Random
- Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
- Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
- The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
- External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
- External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID
- Query examples:
- https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
- Future figure skating competitions
- Currently happening figure skating competitions
- French ships whose name start with an A (source)
- Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
- Schema examples:
- human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
- Lunar crater
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
- Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
- Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
- Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
- Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
- Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
PetScan for spiders not tagged for Australian biota
[edit]If you want to find spiders not yet tagged for Australia, try this search. It may take some time to run, so be patient. Plantdrew (talk) 17:42, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
August 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- August 2019—Issue 005
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
Letter-winged kite by Casliber |
Kosmoceratops by FunkMonk |
Guest column by Thomas Shafee (Evolution and evolvability), Editor in Chief of WikiJournal of Science
Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric (this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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Wikidata weekly summary #380
[edit]- Press, articles, blog posts
- Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
- Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
- A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
- GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
- Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
- Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish
- Tool of the week
- In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
- Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
- Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
- New tool: a Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data by MichaelSchoenitzer
- There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
- soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
- Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
- Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
- The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: access restriction status, in defining formula
- External identifiers: RPGGeek ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, AccuRadio artist ID, eSTUDÁNKY ID, LongSwimsDB ID, WTA trail ID, Scribd Item ID, Dove.org work ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, SCTrails trail ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Mediawiki Wiki, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, scope and content, Number of nodes, Performance, use restriction status, Significant number, FCC Product Code, Hardware Version Identification Number, amount cataloged, number of decimal digits, Gregorian calendar, food energy, pronunciation
- External identifiers: YouTube Music channel ID 2, Pandora artist ID 2, The Independent topic ID 2, NÖ Proposal ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Newspapers.com ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, WGA writer ID, WGA project ID, FCC Grantee Code, Spectrum Management System Company Number, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Prime Pages ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Peakbagger climber ID, Naver Music artist ID, Naver Music album ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, Slovo i Dilo person ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, FNL player ID, Peakbagger key col ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID
- Query examples:
- Public art in London by female artists
- People used as examples in Wikidata properties (source)
- Closest capitals of non bordering countries (<200 km) (source)
- Hillforts mapped with their heritage designation/protection status
- YouTubers without a YouTube channel
- Racing automobile drivers who died in a car crash (source)
- Schema examples:
- Newest database reports: papers about Wikipedia
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
- Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
- Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
- Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
- Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
- Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
- Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
- Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
- Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
- Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
- Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
- Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
- Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
- Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
- Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
- Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Category:Fishing companies has been nominated for discussion
[edit]Category:Fishing companies, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 18:46, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #381
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
- Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton
- Tool of the week
- moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
- The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
- Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
- Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
- New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: mobile formatter URL, degree of difficulty, color produced, computer performance, use restriction status, FCC Product Code, Itch.io ID, Gregorian calendar start date
- External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Toons Mag ID, Newspapers.com ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, Prime Pages ID, FCC Grantee Code, FNL player ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Naver Music album ID, Naver Music artist ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Pandora artist ID, Peakbagger climber ID, Peakbagger key col ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, Slovo i Dilo person ID, Spectrum Management System Company Number, The Independent topic ID, WGA project ID, WGA writer ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, CPUID, L-number, Arnet Miner publication ID, NLP ID (record)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IP Code, dénivelé cumulé positif, Supports qualifier, climbing route, madhhab, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID
- External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID, Al-Jazeera Topic ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, SNK ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, VAT identification number, TOP500 System ID, ACUF unique ID (UFI), Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier, Downdetector ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Behind the voice Actors short ID, Rate Your Music label ID, Labelcode, Maine Trail Finder ID, Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, WeChat ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
- New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
- Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
- Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
- Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
- Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
- Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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 GLAM: August 2019
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
[edit]Hello JarrahTree,
- Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
- Coordinator
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
- This month's refresher course
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
- Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
- Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
- Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
- Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
- Not English
- A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
- Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.
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New article Wawasan Nusantara
[edit]Hi JarrahTree! I just happened to see the new article Wawasan Nusantara. Does WP really need this article? Poor sources, doubtful notabilty. Even most Indonesians would scratch their head seeing this. Bring it to AfD? – Austronesier (talk) 09:27, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Stub maker 2000
[edit]Rather than filling up Justlettersandnumbers' talk page, I left the following for you there:
- Hi. (Apologies in advance - I don't know how to do diffs). I'm basing the assertion on edit histories like Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux, where the history shows a series of edits between 18 and 24 Nov 2018 by D A R C 12345 which includes one on 23 Nov by the IP address, surely by the same editor. Also, the combination of subjects - Australian local government, mediaeval French church subjects and ancient titular sees - is very distinctive. Also, the editing errors in the historical articles across the three identities are identical - to name just one, linking dates and centuries. I haven't yet got an explicit overlap between Stub maker and the IP address but is one needed? Is that enough for your purposes? All best, Ingratis (talk) 13:35, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
I've now found another article - Teutsind - where the IP address and Stub maker 2000 appear together (series of edits on 2 September), which would be quite a coincidence if they were not the same editor when compared to Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux as above, but I leave it to you to take forward more formally if you wish - I don't involve myself in this sort of thing. Ingratis (talk) 23:06, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #382
[edit]- Events
- Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
- Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
- Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
- Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
- Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen et al.
- Tool of the week
- Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
- External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
- External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID
- Query examples:
- Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created
- Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database
- same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
- Twins with different places of birth (source)
- Places in Scottish local government areas (source)
- Libraries in Austria (source)
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
- Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
- Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Category:Fishing companies in Australia has been nominated for discussion
[edit]Category:Fishing companies in Australia, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:31, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Cumberland (1827 ship)
[edit]Hi JarrahTree, My apologies. I got so involved in further correcting the article after I saw your corrections I forgot to thank you. My key original error was to put W in the coords, not E, moving the locus into the Pacific Ocean, rather than just off WA. Once I got that sorted out everything else was clear. Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 12:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #383
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
- Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
- Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
- Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)
- Tool of the week
- Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
- Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
- Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
- WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
- Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September (grafana)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
- External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
- External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
- Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
- More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
- More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
- Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (phab:T232728)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019
- Wikimania
- We're building something great, but..
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- A Wikibrarian's story
- Bytes in brief
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:58, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 15
[edit]A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Boats designed by Bruce Farr
[edit]A tag has been placed on Category:Boats designed by Bruce Farr requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 02:55, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #384
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Catherine Laurence
- Events
- Past: Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM during Dublin Core 2019
- Upcoming: WikiCon, meeting of the German speaking Community from 4th to 6th of October 2019 in Wuppertal (Germany)
- Upcoming: #5 Wikidata tea party/第5回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 18 Oct 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Scottish witches in the press and on TV
- Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
- Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
- GeneDB and Wikidata, by Magnus Manske
- Tool of the week
- This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
- Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd (announcement, ticket)
- You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: regnal ordinal, peer review URL
- External identifiers: GCF Reference, Wi-Fi Certification ID, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata film ID, sixpackfilmdata person ID, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power farm ID, IGNrando' ID, Fossiilid.info ID, Kivid.info ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: bus, mwnf, Maximum number of playable characters, FIDAL team ID, candidate name string, IP range start, code (image), name in hiero markup, disputed by, name (image), style of karate
- External identifiers: NTS Radio artist ID, Gazetteer for Scotland ID, Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, DC Books author ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, UEFA team ID, UEFA coach ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, FAIMER school ID, China Martyrs ID, JournalBase ID, PCEngine Catalog Project ID, PubPeer article ID, memoriademadrid publication ID, doujinshi.org author ID, Beatport label ID, Knesset Law Id, caves.4at.info ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Amazon Music album ID 2, Qobuz album ID, Plus Music album ID, eska.pl release ID, iHeartRadio album ID, Three Decks people ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, Empik e-book or album ID, identificador GENavarra, Oricon News artist ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Fortuna liga player ID
- Deleted properties: P5130 (island of location)
- Query examples:
- Civil parishes of Scotland, revealed through their listed buildings (source)
- Scottish civil parishes by county and present-day council area (source)
- Federated SPARQL query from the Swedish National Archive TORA project to Wikidata
- Librairies in Africa (source)
- Most recently dissolved enterprises that were over 200 years old (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Red pandas
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
- Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
- Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
- research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
- More preparation work for improving references
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
September 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- September 2019—Issue 006
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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Wikidata weekly summary #385
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Structured path for property definition changes, Import of item into wikidata private instance
- Closed requests for comments: Notability wording
- Events
- Wikidata (für Archive) beim Herbsttreffen des AK Archive der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (in German)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign 08 October. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Generating "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Questions Sets Automatically from Wikidata, Markus Wohlan, et al.
- Wikidata: A large-scale collaborative ontological medical database, Houcemeddine Turki et al.
- Wikidata & Wikibase for National Libraries: the inaugural meeting by Wendy Byrne and Liam Wyatt
- Una lezione di biblioteconomia, o Del nome corto dell’autore, Giovanni Bergamin (Q61727262)
- Tool of the week
- soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The WikiProject India will send a quarterly newsletter, more info and subscribe here
- Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards: MisterSynergy (nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and Tobias1984 (nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
- You can nominate projects for the WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
- During the summer, WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
- wikidata-sdk became wikibase-sdk (changelogs)
- wikidata-edit became wikibase-edit (changelogs)
- wikidata-cli became wikibase-cli (changelogs)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: content descriptor, educational stage, MWNF ID, worn by, tussenvoegsel, item disputed by
- External identifiers: Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, Gazetteer for Scotland place ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, NTS Radio artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID, See Tickets artist ID, DC Books author ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, UEFA coach ID, UEFA team ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, ISSN-L, FIDAL team ID, China Martyrs ID, FAIMER school ID, JournalBase ID, National Library of Chile ID, PCEngine Catalog Project identifier, Beatport label ID, memoriademadrid publication ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: serving temperature, Ordained by, Main deity, image with frame, urn formatter, folio(s), minimum temperature record, venue of the grand final, Steam bundle ID
- External identifiers: Basis Wien, MIC, DynamoMania.com player ID, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, LibraryThing author ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, Pubs Galore ID, Publons publisher ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, FreeBSD port, HCPCS Identifier, Ents24 artist ID, Eventim artist ID, Coast to Coast Tickets artist ID, ScoreBig artist ID, SeatGeek artist ID, MovieTickets person ID, Ticket Liquidator artist ID, TicketCity artist ID, Tickets.com artist ID, TickPick artist ID, Viagogo artist ID, Vivid Seats artist ID, StubHub artist ID, NAD topographic databas, Rotterdam City Archives name ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID, Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, FantLab author ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID
- Deleted properties:
- Query examples:
- Map of medical facilities in Murshidabad district, India, color-coded by type (source)
- Map of flight connections between airports in India (source)
- GLAMs institutions located north of Umeå (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Climate Change
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continue work on removing and optimizing resource loader modules
- Wikidata Bridge: obey wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish (phab:T228260)
- Canceling the modal (phab:T231282)
- Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
- Investigation to ensure editing with the same credentials (phab:T231887)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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 GLAM: September 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #386
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 17th
- Upcoming: Talk about connections between Wikidata, Wikipedia and OSM, Bordeaux, France, October 17th
- Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Paris, France, October 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata goes Library, Talks and Workshops, Vienna, Austria, October 18th
- Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 and side events: Wikibase workshop, iNaturalist workshop, October 24th to 27th, Berlin
- Press, articles, blog posts
- My message to video game databases: We(kidata) come in peace, by Jean-Frédéric (the subject is broader than just video games)
- Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3359317 (also blog post).
- Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 + arXiv:1909.11980
- Tool of the week
- ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.
- Other noteworthy stuff
- We now have d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
- Your feedback is welcome about Computer-aided tagging designs for Structured data for Commons
- The next office hour will take place on November 5th on Telegram (see full announcement)
- Did you know? =
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: fineness, identified in image by, name in hiero markup, graph radius, style of karate, name (image), code (image), folio(s)
- External identifiers: PubPeer article ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, geograph.org.uk image ID, Q-Codes ID, Great Encyclopedia of Navarre ID, Three Decks people ID, Knesset Law ID, DynamoMania.com player ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, LibraryThing author ID, SMHI drainage basin ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Publons publisher ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Identifier, Pubs Galore ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: pathway annotation, number of games, contains functional group, contains chemical element, relative count, electron configuration, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature, Wikimedia revision-id, pdf page, capital social, Source of file, gained territory from
- External identifiers: Soccerway referee ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com ID, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, FantLab work ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab awar ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, Renaud Camus person ID, WorldFootball.net competition ID, academia.edu publication ID, Rijksmuseum Library ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Soccerbase team ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinématoscope, CanadaSoccer.com person ID
- Query examples:
- Map of Scottish settlements linked to the average coordinates of Historic Scotland items within civil parishes - demonstrating the use of map lines to highlight possible data quality issues (source)
- Bundesliga football results - exemplar of a report predicated mainly on statement qualifiers (source)
- On which side of the road do cars drive? - demonstrating the use of geoshapes to fill a map (source)
- Map of the embassies to Belgium (source)
- Graph showing direct descendants of Prithwiraj Kapoor (source)
- Nobel laureates by award type and gender (source)
- Newest database reports: Mersenne numbers
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (phab:T156095)
- A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (phab:T194023)
- Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (phab:T224834)
- Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
- Investigate of the purging strategy (phab:T227758)
- Restyling of mobile termbox (phab:T223452)
- Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (phab:T232595)
- More work on reducing the resource loader modules
- More work on tainted references
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
No bother at all...
[edit]...I did some more of the necessary. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar (talk) 08:04, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #387
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 on October 25-26. If you're not attending, you can follow most of the sessions remotely with live stream.
- Upcoming: Wikidata's seventh birthday, on October 29th. You can organize an event in your area and add it to the list!
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign cont. with OpenRefine demo, 22 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon in Study day on Linked Data, City of Brussels, Friday November 22th, 2019.
- Past: Several sessions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 (11–13 October):
- Wikidata content oriented projects, talk by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks (video)
- Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform, talk by Nebojša Ratković (video)
- Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools, workshop by Asaf Bartov (not recorded)
- Your first Wikidata Lua infobox, workshop by Tobias Schönberg (not recorded)
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Querying Wikidata RDF with SQL using RDF2X
- Ozymandias in Canberra - how the Atlas of Living Australia could be enhanced using Wikidata
- Knowledge Graph Consolidation by Unifying Synonymous Relationships - Jan-Christoph Kalo, et al.
- PhD thesis: Candela Romero, Gustavo (2019). Publicación y enriquecimiento semántico de datos abiertos en bibliotecas digitales (in Spanish).
- Wikidata Wordmap
- Tool of the week
- The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
- Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
- Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
- You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: image backside, frontside image, gender educated, image with frame, line(s), minimum temperature record, glacier status, number of processor threads, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature
- External identifiers: Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Rotterdam City Archives actor ID, FreeBSD port, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, Steam bundle ID, FantLab author ID, NAD place ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com referee ID, FantLab award ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab work ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, WorldFootball.net competition ID, Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID, Basis Wien person ID, Basis Wien institution ID, Basis Wien event ID, Basis Wien object ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Czech Fortuna liga player ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Soccerbase team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinematoscope film ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: MOHW HospID, graph diameter, ICP filing, aspect, key col, key col of
- External identifiers: FlashScore.com match ID, GHR Conditions ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munchs correspondance person ID, Neliti Journal ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph Serviceperson ID, iNaturalist place ID, dp.ru persons ID, IISG ID, ifixit ID, Wolfram Language entity type, CinemaRx person ID, Kinématoscope - Literary work, Kinématoscope - Film director, Kinématoscope - Writer, Stathletics-ID, BDFutbol team ID
- Query examples:
- Map of châteaux in the French world heritage site "the Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" (source)
- Graph of the personal relationships between Tekken characters and their fighting styles (source)
- Timeline of the chief ministers of Haryana and Maharashtra (source)
- Language representation of descriptions in Wikidata for objects connected to Ksamsök (source)
- Cricketers who have ever played on an Indian Super League team (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (phab:T234094)
- Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (phab:T229241)
- research delayed kicking in of Bridge (phab:T233305)
- enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (phab:T230342)
- More work on reducing the resource loader modules
- More work on tainted references
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Toodyay Post Office - is it still a post office or not?
[edit]I was just updating {{Australian Post Offices}} which divides the post office articles in each state into current post offices and former post offices. The WA ones were all listed as current but two are definitely former POs and, while the Toodyay Post Office article doesn't say either way, photos show no Australia Post signage and there is a modern building in Toodyay that claims to be the post office so I put it into the "former" list. But I just thought you might know for certain what the status is. Thanks Kerry (talk) 05:09, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
- former post office, now a local arts & craft place, the current PO is on piesse street Gnangarra 11:24, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Gnangarra: Thanks, I'll add that it's "former" to the article. Kerry (talk) 01:55, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
- thanks folks for clarifying that JarrahTree 02:19, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Gnangarra: Thanks, I'll add that it's "former" to the article. Kerry (talk) 01:55, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre
[edit]Hi Jarrah Tree, I just finished fixing up some aspects of the above article (i.e. infobox and categories). I then looked at the Talk Page and discovered that it had been nominated for deletion in 2016, the discussion agreed to deletion and the order to execute the article had not been carried out! Can you arrange for its disposal? Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 09:46, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
Re: your hahaha
[edit]You mean that, right? I just couldn't help myself ... I went along there on the train today. Now I can finally say I've done it ... Graham87 10:34, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
New Wikimedian in Residence table
[edit]A new wikimedian in residence table should soon be implemented based on data from outreach:Wikimedian_in_residence (draft table). If there are any WiRs you know that are missing, please add them. In the meantime, see the map! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 08:48, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday
[edit]- Happy birthday, Wikidata!
- Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
- You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list
- Events
- Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, Vienna Public Libraries (Q1020347) (18 October):
- Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
- Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
- Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
- Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261)
- Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
- Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
- Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
- WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
- New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
- Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
- A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
- Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.
- Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, Vienna Public Libraries (Q1020347) (18 October):
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
- Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)
- Tool of the week
- MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open request for oversight permission: -revi
- OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
- The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
- You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
- External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
- External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID
- Query examples:
- Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented (source)
- Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French (source)
- Map of bus stops in Biscay (source)
- Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
- Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
- Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
- Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
- More work on reducing the resource loader modules
- More work on tainted references
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
October 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- October 2019—Issue 007
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)[edit]What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)[edit]What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a symbol to the top of the article. About 1 in 200 articles on Wikipedia is a GA. How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)[edit]What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a to the top of the article. About 1 in 1,000 articles on Wikipedia is a FA. How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)[edit]What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life (5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
[edit]Hello JarrahTree,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
- Getting the queue to 0
There are now 813 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.
- Coordinator
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
- This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
- Tools
- It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
- It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
- Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
- Second set of eyes
- Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
- Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
- Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
- Community Wish list
There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
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Thanks
[edit]Thanks mate. Wikipedia still just has too many dickheads for it to be a regular timesink - there really is a point at which if I'm going to deal with the hassle of that I need to get paid for my time - but I've been enjoying fiddling around the edges once in a while when in the mood. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:47, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the welcome Jarrah. Those dickheads never get old... last visit I attracted one serious cuckoo who went all out. Kinda important fellow he was (his view) but a real windbag actually who annoyed quite a few up the tree due to his failure to read :D Anyway I had some free time today so I waltzed back for a bit. I'll leave some of the trash for others to clean before I head back to real life later tonight :D -- Longhair\talk 09:09, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #389
[edit]- Events
- Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
- Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1) on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
- The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
- The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
- Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
- Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
- Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)
- Tool of the week
- SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
- Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
- {{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
- New feature on Mix'n'match: job management
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
- External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
- External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID
- Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
- Query examples:
- Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
- Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
- 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
- Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
- New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
- Newest database reports:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
- Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
- Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
- Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
- Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
- Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
- Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
- Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
- Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
- A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
- Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
- More work on tainted references
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
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- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Family businesses
[edit]Hi JarrahTree, you're listed as the creator of Category:Family businesses back in 2017, which had been deleted previously in a 2011 CfD. The new category still has the problems that led to the initial deletion, but since there's clearly an interest in the topic, I've opened a discussion at WP:Business as to how to proceed.-- choster (talk) 23:10, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
New Rater
[edit]There's a new version of Rater you may want to try, see WT:RATER#New version of Rater! Beta tester wanted! - Evad37 [talk] 08:43, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #390
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject
- Events
- Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
- Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November
- Tool of the week
- Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
- The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
- @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, statement is regarded as spoiler for, room number, scope and content
- External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society ID, Sega Retro ID, classicamiga ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, Gaming-History company ID, SK cinema authority ID, SK cinema film ID, CA PROP 65 ID, ePSD identifier, Czech cadastral area ID, dp.ru company ID, Fortuna liga player ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, AaRC person ID, MIC market code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: general law, population rank, area rank, population density rank, references, territorial entity ranking context, mentions named entity, plot features event, Jyutping (2)
- External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID, IPC ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, UVL game ID, WikiTreeCategories, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, OGDB game title ID, common exchange code, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, CISCE school code, CBSE Affiliation No., JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID
- Query examples:
- Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records
- Minimum temperature records on Earth
- Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011 (source)
- List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of publication (source)
- Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA (source)
- Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020 (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Wolfram Language, most frequent first names in Poland, Paintings and images of signatures of painters
- Newest properties:
- Development
- In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
- Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261)
- Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (phabricator:T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
- Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248)
- Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
- Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013)
- For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152)
- Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (phabricator:T233397)
- Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
- Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
- Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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 GLAM: October 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #391
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda
- Tool of the week
- The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
- OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
- Autojump from a field to another will be removed
- Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Commons category for the interior of the item
- External identifiers: Birds of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Moths of India ID, NBAIR pest ID, Odonata of India ID, Planète Aventure ID, Reptiles of India ID, ZSI author ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, askArt person ID, Flowers of India ID, National Health Portal hospital ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete alphabetical ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, UVL game ID, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, OGDB game title ID, CISCE school code, JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IAST transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, IFCO rating, stellar age, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 schedule, nominalisated form, date of assent, effective date, valid for, supervisor, Xmodmap keysym, Properties for Indian ragas
- External identifiers: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, OGDB company ID, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, AboutTheArtists artist ID, Czech city district ID, Prague administrative district ID, NinDB game ID, DUC ID, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, Cinepub person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Cinept film ID, CinePT person ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Lutris platform ID, Beaux-arts ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, India PlayStation Store ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Czech municipality ID, Lutris genre ID
- Query examples:
- Adaptations of The War of the Worlds (source)
- Graves at the Stockholm church Riddarholmskyrkan who use book Riddarholmskyrkan - inventories and graves (Q61765464) as a source, source
- Map of sisterly relationships with cities in India (source)
- Map of the languages without any Wikidata Lexemes yet (source)
- Newest database reports: translations for port/starboard and windward/leeward
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
- Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
- Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
- Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
- Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
- Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)
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
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- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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- Contribute to a Showcase item.
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- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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[edit]Books & Bytes – Issue 36
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Issue 36, September – October 2019
- #1Lib1Ref January 2020
- #1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings
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Heritage sites
[edit]It's fine to have strong views, but you've got to be able to articulate why if you want other people to heed them. Our coverage of heritage sites in Queensland and New South Wales is objectively vastly better in breadth, depth and quality than on those in states where there hasn't been a CC-BY project, with South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania being particularly bad. WA is a bit of an exception due to the extensive local projects in some areas, which surpass the CC-BY efforts in at least breadth, but the breadth is very much concentrated in those areas, with even metropolitan National Trust museums still lacking articles. Even in places where the breadth of articles is okay, the user-created articles are heavily lacking in depth compared to the articles we've been able to get through CC-BY material. This is why an argument that is just "I don't like CC-BY material" is not something people are going to care very much about, or why calls for an evaluation are going to fall on deaf ears: the CC-BY material just holds up extremely well by any comparison.
Now, if there are things that can be fixed beyond "I don't like CC-BY content", they're things we can talk out and possibly walk through - but that requires that people explain what those issues actually are. The Drover's Wife (talk) 07:02, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- Why would they be assessed separately to the process for any other article? You're absolutely correct that no one is interested in assessment, and that's always been substantially the case across the entire Australian WikiProject, largely because it's never served a clear purpose to many people beyond appearing in a metric that nobody much pays attention to: the assessment itself will be ticked off once with no real process and then maybe looked at it again in a decade. It's an issue that's got absolutely nothing to do with heritage places or CC-BY content, and the point and purpose of that assessment process needs a thorough evaluation much more than the addition of good content to the project does. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:43, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #392
[edit]- Events
- Join the global m:WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 1 December
- Past: ProWD, a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at the K-CAP 2019 conference on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex. The slides are available by clicking this link. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
- Past: WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
- Past: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon
- Past: Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain, by Ladsgroup
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Die Datenlaube launched diedatenlaube.github.io - a collection of blog posts, links and scripts around "wikidatafying" the big German Wikisource project Die Gartenlaube (in German).
- Tool of the week
- Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
- Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
- Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
- New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Wikimedia page-version URL, IFCO rating, IAST transliteration, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule, age estimated by a dating method, effective date, date of assent, ascending scale, descending scale, primary note, secondary note, CITES Appendix, supervisor, Hunterian transliteration
- External identifiers: CBSE Affiliation No., OGDB company ID, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, Swedish Royal Theater Archive, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, Czech city district ID, DUC ID, Prague administrative district ID, AboutTheArtists artist ID, fyyd podcast ID, NinDB game ID, Cinepub person ID, eFloraSA ID, eBay username, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, CinePT film ID, CinePT person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Ratingraph MALE person ID, Czech municipality ID, WikiTreeCategories, P7608, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Taiwan Cinema company ID, Taiwan Cinema Film ID, Taiwan Cinema person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: amends, syndicate, corporate domicile, Latvian transcription, implies, stargate-wiki.de article ID
- External identifiers: SciProfiles ID, Scilit journal ID, YVNG ID, TheGamesDB game ID, VLR ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, NVE Powerplant ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, Artsdata ID, WPI ID, TheGamesDB developer ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, Scienza a due voci ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, OverDrive publisher ID, RomanianActors person ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, Cochrane concept ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive series ID, Hoopla series ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, super-famicom.jp ID, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, Riksdagen person guid, Places of Worship in Scotland ID, Museum of Family History ID, MovieGe person ID, GameFAQs credit ID, IMovies person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Scilit publication ID, FMV World ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Human Rights
- Newest database reports: poems by Emily Dickinson
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
- Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
- More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
- Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
- Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
- Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
- Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Hi JarrahTree - just wanted to thank you for your very kind message! You've explained things really clearly and i will definitely take up your offer of reviewing content before it is published so as not to cause any issues. Thanks for making me feel part of the community. Msquidnunc (talk) 14:14, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Transport ministries in Australia
[edit]A tag has been placed on Category:Transport ministries in Australia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:48, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #393
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest by A. Britton
- Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon, 22.11.2019, Linking the Past, Royal Library of Belgium, City of Brussels.
- Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons by Isla Haddow-Flood
- Video of live queries building by WikidataFacts
- Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish with Jan Ainali, Magnus Sälgö and UncleCJ
- Tool of the week
- Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
- Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: covered period
- External identifiers: Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Lutris genre ID, Lutris platform ID, VLR ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, TheGamesDB game ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, YVNG ID, WPI ID, NVE Powerplant ID, Artsdata.ca ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive publisher ID, MTV Germany artist ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, RomanianMaleActors person ID, IISG ID, Cochrane concept ID, OverDrive series ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, WeChat ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Prog Archives artist ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, quantity symbol, research status, Playstation Data Center ID, recombination author, superfamicom.org ID, commissioned for
- External identifiers: Code de l'autorité de l'aviation civile grecque, Flanders Architecture Institute ID, NEC Retro ID, Semion author ID, WorldCat Identities, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Vie publique person ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Wikimapia, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, WyoHistory.org ID, Kansaspedia ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Quora topic ID (Spanish) 2, RomanianActresses person ID, Europeana Entity, Aberdeenshire HER ID, AncientFaces person ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, Français libres ID, Musée de la Résistance ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: descendants of Charlemagne
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
- Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
- Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
- Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
- Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
- Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
- Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
November 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- November 2019—Issue 008
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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News at a Glance |
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Class is in Session in the Tree of Life |
In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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Wikidata weekly summary #394
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish, 15 December
- Upcoming: Sydney Wikidata Workshop, 16 December
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions, research report done by the user experience team at Wikimedia Deutschland
- Measuring Social Bias in Knowledge Graph Embeddings
- Letra zopak, Scrabble eta euskarazko letrarik ohikoena, about the most common characters in Basque language, and how this should affect automatic letter-soups and Scrabble point-system.
- Two new blog posts about GLAM pilot projects for Structured Data on Commons:
- Tool of the week
- overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: file page
- External identifiers: Hoopla series ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, MovieGe person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, POWiS ID, super-famicom.jp ID, GameFAQs credit ID, Scilit journal ID, Scienza a due voci ID, FMV World ID, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority airport code, NEC Retro ID, Prog Archives artist ID, Semion author ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Vie publique person ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, Wikimapia ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, Kansaspedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, WyoHistory.org ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Complex Portal accession, Cache, is supervisor of, Gazette of India notification, molecular model, SSNE person ID, sex, year of recombination (taxonomy), Text features
- External identifiers: Slovak National Library id, National Library of Lithuania id, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, e-WV ID, SNESmusic.org company ID, Våre falne person ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, tDAR creator ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, identifiant Auteurs - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Domaines - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Découverte - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Dénominations - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Beni Ecclesiastici in web ID, portable music history ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, identifiant Genèse - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Inscriptions - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Lieux - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Périodes - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Epoques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, Prague territorial district ID, SPIE profile ID, console music history ID, Wikispore, DLE RAE ID, DEJ RAE ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, VBProfiles person ID, garaph.info game ID, PubAg ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, NTIS accession number, garaph.info group ID, Fossilworks ID for journal article, Littré ID, DES ID, DAF ID, Bob ID, TLFi ID, NES Cart Database ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
- Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (phab:T239411)
- DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (phab:T222497)
- Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
- Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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 GLAM: November 2019
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Rename
[edit]Rename a catetory.
From Category:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the White Elephant
To Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the White Elephant,
please, thank you.--G.B.T. (Boonparit Thuanthai) (cn:Dr.Man) (talk) 12:53, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
question...
[edit]Hi JarrahTree, as discussed a few weeks ago, I'm trying to have the company that I work for's page edited as it's very out of date. No one responded to my Talk page request so I've followed your advice and done a userspace draft. As I wanted to make edits rather than rewrite the whole article I'm not sure that's the way to go. Is there a better way for me to do this? Also, separate topic, I would like to start editing some non-conflict of interest pages, ideally starting with some simple language tidy-up type activities, any advice on where to start? thanks and happy Monday! Msquidnunc (talk) 15:02, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Weekly Summary #395
[edit]- Press, articles, blog posts
- More WikidataCon 2019 reports:
- Tool of the week
- Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Following a discussion on generalizing P2572 to all hashtags and the rejections of Instagram hashtag, Flickr tag, and Gfycat tag properties propositions, the formerly 'Twitter hashtag' property is now a platform-agnostic hashtag (P2572) property. A tool was created to be used as formatter url and link to those different platforms regrouping content by hashtags: toolforge:hashtags-hub.
- New tool: WDumper, generating customized Wikidata RDF dumps. More information
- Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events
- MediaWiki Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: superfamicom.org ID, nominalized form, PlayStation DataCenter ID, implies
- External identifiers: Aberdeenshire HER ID, e-WV ID, Français libres ID, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, Musée de la Résistance ID, National Library of Lithuania ID, Slovak National Library ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Spanish Quora topic ID, Europeana Entity, SNESmusic.org company ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Joconde author ID, Joconde domain ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, tDAR creator ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, Vaare falne ID, Complex Portal accession ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Differential diagnosis, part of terminology, voice gender, verifiability of property, study type, NIPS Proceedings author ID, field of training, litter size, Copyright status of author, academic appointment, written at, legislative committee, Member of military unit, access status of contents, EAN-13, filename in archive
- External identifiers: Computer Emuzone ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PlanetMath, Natural Product Atlas ID, EEPS ID, screenscraper platform ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, ScreenScraper game ID, Nonfiction ID, ScreenScraper company ID, National September 11 Memorial ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID, PS photographer ID, deviantArt, Frick Art Reference Library Artist File Names ID, LiverTox ID, ScreenScraper group ID, ZX81 Collection ID, Netherlands Photo Museum photographer ID, Movie Walker person ID, ZX81 Collection publisher ID, IDFA film ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Human Rights (created to support m:WikiForHumanRights)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
- Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
- Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (phab:T240329)
- More work on the new term store
- Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (phab:T235745)
- New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
- Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (phab:T240316)
- Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (phab:T227083)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
New Page Review newsletter December 2019
[edit]- Reviewer of the Year
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
- Redirect autopatrol
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
- Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
- This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
There's a non-paywalled article out that you could cannibalise to expand the Wikipedia article - https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/why-the-murders-of-mother-and-daughter-margaret-and-seana-tapp-remain-unsolved/news-story/e119219dfada953cc2c60560123ffc53 PAustin4thApril1980 (talk) 12:20, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
new year
[edit]2020 already...
message
[edit]Not sure what you mean? The Drover's Wife (talk) 05:41, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Merry Christmas
[edit]Best wishes for the festive season for you and your family. Hoping to be more active in the new year. Cheers. -- Longhair\talk 09:05, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
Canberra / ACT
[edit]- In each country I usually follow the established order, in this case the higher categories follow that type of categorization, Merry Christmas to you too---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sports_venues_in_Canberra ----> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sports_venues_in_the_Australian_Capital_Territory ----> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sports_venues_in_Australia_by_state_or_territory ----> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sports_venues_in_Australia
- Caracas is like any big Latin American city with safe sectors and insecure sectors, I live quietly here, the main problem we have now is the economy and the authoritarian government of Maduro, but Venezuela as Australia is a very diverse country in terms of climates and landscapes , Venezuela has incredible places (from the Andes to the Amazon rainforest, spectacular Caribbean beaches and huge deserts) but the economy is poorly managed and the government is very corrupt. We have a relief lately ... because the economy is being dollarized and there are greater economic freedoms on prices, it is a very complex issue. Sorry for my English--Warairarepano&Guaicaipuro (talk) 23:27, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy holidays!
[edit]Hi JT! All the warmest wishes for this seasonal occasion, whichever you celebrate - or don't, while I swelter at 27℃ (80.6℉), and peace and prosperity for 2020. Seriously hoping that you'll join me for a cool beer in Bangkok in August when it will be even hotter! Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:55, 24 December 2019 (UTC) |
PS: Don't get much chance since my expensive E-grand fell apart 2 years ago, but we'll find a pianner somewhere in BKK... Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:58, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy holidays
[edit]Season's Greetings
[edit]Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020! | |
Hello JarrahTree, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
Can you send me the link
[edit]Hey JarrahTree Just wondering can you please send me the template for wiki project birds thanks Tramfan1203 (talk) 14:05, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #396
[edit]- Discussions:
- New request for comments: Handle genealogical information, Sort identifiers
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations, by Sandra Fauconnier
- Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales, by Jason Evans
- Context-aware Entity Linking with Attentive Neural Networks on Wikidata Knowledge Graph, Isaiah Onando Mulang et al. (on Arxiv)
- Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard
- Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship
- How to select your Christmas movie using SPARQL and Wikidata
- 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
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
- MichaelSchoenitzer is looking for co-maintainers for the tool MachtSinn and the Lexeme Python library
- We now have Q80000000
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer to work on Wikidata and Wikibase as well as a technical writer
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
- External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
- External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
- Query examples:
- Map showing objects named after a person represented in Europeana
- Locations where paintings were made (source)
- Swedish citizens who died in 1949 and whose works will enter the public domain on 1 January 2020 with profession and image, ordered by number of Wikimedia articles (source)
- Oldest subways (source)
- Popes who were children of other popes (source)
- Colorful flags (source)
- Newest 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 :)
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Happy New Year
[edit]My best wishes echo to everyone I've had a good relationship with. I don't feel benevolent enough yet to extend the same towards those I dislike. I'm mean spirited, so I reserve the right to wish good health and blissful days to you and yours, JarrahTree... Iryna Harpy (talk) 09:40, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Re: hahah
[edit]Gah, I don't wanna know ... the real world is complicated enough as it is! Graham87 14:31, 2 January 2020 (UTC)