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Wikidata weekly summary #324

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Allow to show incoming links on the graph explorer dialog on WDQS (phab:T197778)
    • Fulltext search for Lexemes and Forms (only in Lexeme namespace) has been merged (phab:T196188)
    • We are now collecting click data when completion search on Wikidata is used (phab:T196186) which would serve us to improve search relevancy
    • Fix a lot of issues with our test system (phab:T200693)
    • Disallow merging of items that link to each other in references and qualifiers (phab:T119614)
    • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T200884)
    • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
    • Improve the validation and error message when a label, description or alias is too long (phab:T145932, phab:T200780)
    • Expose constraint violations to WDQS (phab:T192567)
    • Add the possibility to download result of a query from the embed mode (phab:T176797)
    • Get persistent editing of Senses done (phab:T196270) (you can try it now on the beta system)
    • Work on edit summary of Senses (phab:T196290)
    • Work on diffs of Senses (phab:T196289)

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.

This Month in GLAM: July 2018



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Hi Mike!

Pls help me respectively link enwiki articles Malokilikili, Falea (island), Ewose, Laika (island), Lelepa Island, Tongoa, Maskelyne Islands, Kakula Island, Rowa Islands ---- with those in cebwiki Malokilikili, Faléa, Éwosé, Laïka, Lelepa Island, Tongoa Island, Îles Maskelynes, Kakula Island, Rowa Islands.

These all are islands of Vanuatu. Cebwiki is quite exhaustive but poorly linked with other wikis.

Thanx! Lamro (talk) 13:16, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Should all be done now. Purge each page to check that the language link is correct. The problem was that on Wikidata each of the items was duplicated with minor spelling variants, I've merged each pair of them on Wikidata. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 17:14, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #325

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

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.


Hi

Please help me link Metoma in dewiki with Metoma in enwiki. I am not able to do so somehow.

Thanks!

Lamro (talk) 14:28, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

@Lamro: Done, there were two Wikidata entries for them that needed merging together. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:01, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Infobox bridge

Your change to this template caused many articles (about 900 at last count) to show up in Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags for reasons that are opaque to me but seem to have to do with Wikidata coordinates' being suddenly displayed in articles that already contained {{coord}} templates. I've therefore reverted the edit. (And I'm getting more and more irritated by folk that seem to be more concerned with promoting Wikidata than with the integrity of en.wp content.) Deor (talk) 22:32, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

@Deor: I made the change so that the coordinates from the article are available in the API. The problem is {{coord}} is being used outside of the infobox, so we're ending up with two coordinates in one article, hence the error. So reverting is a good interim step (and thanks for doing so), but we ultimately need to fix the problem by moving the coordinates into the infobox. I might look into writing a bot that will do that at some point. In general, Wikidata is a useful tool that can bring a lot of benefits here, and should improve the integrity of enwp in the long run, not make it worse. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:41, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
Really needs some better documentation about things that matter, is nosave or save mentioned ?
How do we use things when we don't know they exist or what they do or why ? Dave Rave (talk) 23:41, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Weaver's cottage

Hi, Mike Peel, I noticed you (your bot?) where looking for an image on "1 Bacup Road", I was wondering if this file is suitable. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 06:11, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Lotje: That would be suitable, perhaps you could add it to 1, Bacup Road (Q26328727)? I guess you've seen User:Mike Peel/NHLE no image with commonscat? It's an (automatically updated) list of historic UK buildings that don't have an image defined in their Wikidata entry but do have a linked Commons category, so they are highly likely to have suitable pictures available. The image will then show in the infobox in the Commons category, as well as helping the UK WLM team focus attention more on getting photos of buildings that we don't yet have a photo of. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:06, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 Done Lotje (talk) 04:36, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #326

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-20.

  • Development
    • Show Senses in WhatLinksHere (phab:T200980)
    • Build ability to remove Senses (phab:T196283)
    • Reference a Sense in a statement (phab:T196263)
    • Improve the language code check for Lexemes (phab:T198202)
    • Prepare item/property link formatter that uses cache instead of wb_terms DB table (phab:T201831)
    • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198104)
    • Showing the Lemma or Representation when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
    • Add new monolingual language codes: uga (Ugaritic), rar (Rarotongan), gmy (Mycenean Greek), mnw (Mon), mid (Modern Mandaic), haz (Hazaragi)
    • Fix a bug on the Query Service interface (phab:T201951)
    • Add number of results in embed map view of the Query Service (phab:T201908)

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.


Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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What's a Neglected Disease?, ScienceSource video

To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

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Heads up

Just that, re your remark at RfA, have a quick look here, particularly the bottom...if you see what I mean? I guess you missed it, sorry. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia /cheap sh*t room 11:10, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129: Ah, thanks for the pointer, I hadn't spotted that. I haven't been watching the pages, I was just checking back on the RfA today after seeing the watchlist notice again. Hopefully my ping doesn't take them back to commenting on the RfA then. TBH, I skipped over most of their comments and just focused on the answering the parts that seemed worth clarifying, both for them and for others. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:28, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Point

Stop disrupting Wikipedia to make your point. Your infobox edits at Julie Leclerc have not improved the article at any time, and should stop. Deliberately repeatedly inserting an infobox with less information just because it is the type of infobox you prefer is not acceptable. You have had similar problems with the Unesco infobox, I hoped that you would have learned something from that episode but apparently not. Fram (talk) 11:28, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

@Fram: I would say exactly the same to you and Nikkimaria. Consider that the infobox in this case was using info from Wikidata from the start (the editor that started the article used the wikidata version of the infobox), and this bout of editing only started because you both don't like Wikidata and decided to change to a manual infobox (which didn't add significantly more information than the Wikidata one did). Mike Peel (talk) 11:57, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
It did add more information. You reverted it back, thereby making it worse. I'm not surprised that you consider your action (making it worse) the same as ours (making it better), but I doubt that most people would agree. Fram (talk) 17:41, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
There's a very big difference between IDONTLIKEIT and recognizing the limitations/issues with regards to integration of Wikidata with enwiki, such as differences in sourcing standards and editing philosophies. Dismissing those issues won't make them go away, and will only contribute to what seems to be a growing divide in the project (at least based on recent RfCs). Let's start from an assumption that everyone has reasons for their changes other than just liking or not liking something, so we can discuss rationally whether in a particular case integration is or isn't a net positive. IMO the template that kicked this off - introducing unsourced info in a BLP - was not; thank you for adding appropriate sources for that information. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:08, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #327

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts statements on Commons is up for community feedback.
    • It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
    • More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
    • The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
    • These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
    • Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year).
    • Lexicographical data: you can now try Senses on beta
    • 25% of the labeling campaign to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata has been done. Please help by reviewing a few edits!
  • Development
    • More work on merging Lexemes
    • More work on data types and edit summary for Senses
    • Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
    • Improve constraint property item suggestions for property constraint values (phab:T199672)
    • Remove ratelimit from Wikidata for some groups again (phab:T198396)

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.


The Signpost: 30 August 2018

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This Month in Education: August 2018

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Volume 4 | Issue 8 | August 2018

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The reconnection of Wikimedia Projects in Brazil

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

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removed Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz
renamed Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

added Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
  • Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
  • Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.
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