User talk:Rich Farmbrough
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Contents
- 1 Invitation to participate in study
- 2 AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!
- 3 Nomination for deletion of Template:Year stages in England and Wales
- 4 Proposed deletion of Crosfield Electronics
- 5 Wikidata weekly summary #329
- 6 Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pieter_Abbeel
- 7 Nomination of Crosfield Electronics for deletion
- 8 Wikidata weekly summary #330
- 9 Category:Awareness weeks has been nominated for discussion
- 10 Omkar Rai
- 11 Wikidata weekly summary #331
- 12 October 2018 at Women in Red
- 13 The Signpost: 1 October 2018
- 14 Wikidata weekly summary #332
- 15 Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!
- 16 Nomination of Amanda Parris for deletion
- 17 Administrators' newsletter – October 2018
- 18 Slight mistake!
- 19 Wikidata weekly summary #333
- 20 Get ready for November with Women in Red!
- 21 Wikidata weekly summary #334
- 22 Merger discussion for DMZ_(computing)
- 23 Wikidata weekly summary #335
- 24 Precious anniversary
- 25 The Signpost: 28 October 2018
- 26 Wikidata weekly summary #336
- 27 Nomination for deletion of Template:Fossil taxa by year/core
- 28 Nomination for deletion of Template:Fossil taxa by year/outer core
- 29 List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants: Template help requested
- 30 Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
- 31 West Africa Ebola virus epidemic
- 32 Wikidata weekly summary #337
- 33 Wikidata weekly summary #338
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- ... that the UK's Violet Friend anti-ballistic missile system was designed to use Bloodhound anti-aircraft missiles (example pictured) and radars to lower its cost?
- ... that Molly Morgan became the mistress of a captain so she could escape her colony in Australia by ship?
- ... that Slovak fascists and anti-fascists joined forces to intimidate returning Holocaust survivors, culminating in the Topoľčany pogrom?
- ... that Gern Nagler successfully petitioned NFL Commissioner Bert Bell to create the league's first player pension during his only season with the Pittsburgh Steelers?
- ... that Antonio Vivaldi composed three settings of Dixit Dominus, each an extended setting of the vespers psalm for five soloists, choir, and orchestra, and one even for double choir?
- ... that St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral became the first Catholic pro-cathedral in the United States in 1789?
- ... that the tombstone of Vietnamese anti-colonialist Phạm Thận Duật was buried face-down for nearly a century to conceal it from the French authorities?
- ... that former professional Overwatch player Brandon "Seagull" Larned was recruited to NRG Esports by Shaquille O'Neal?
Invitation to participate in study[edit]
Hello,
I am E. Whittaker, an intern at Wikimedia with the Scoring Team to create a labeled dataset, and potentially a tool, to help editors deal with incivility when they encounter it on talk pages. A full write-up of the study can be found here: m:Research:Civil_Behavior_Interviews. We are currently recruiting editors to be interviewed about their experiences with incivility on talk pages. Would you be interested in being interviewed? I am contacting you because of your involvement in Wikipedia’s Women in Red project. The interviews should take ~1 hour, and will be conducted over BlueJeans (which does allow interviews to be recorded). If, so, please email me at ewhit@umich.edu in order to schedule an interview.
Thank you Ewitch51 (talk) 20:26, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October![edit]
Nomination for deletion of Template:Year stages in England and Wales[edit]
Template:Year stages in England and Wales has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 19:57, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Crosfield Electronics[edit]
The article Crosfield Electronics has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:46, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #329[edit]
- Events
- Wikidata-related presentations at Workshop on Open Citations, 3-5 September, Bologna: Remixing the graph/ Scholia as of September 2018/ A guided tour through citation networks around public health emergencies
- The Wikidata Birthday will take place in more than 20 places around the world. What about yours?
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation, Wikimedia Blog
- Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis (Part 1, Part 2)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: There is now a page with a collection of Wikidata properties that may be needed for Wikimedia Commons. Please improve this page and provide feedback!
- Structured Data on Commons: Take a look at the new mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages, and leave your comments.
- Manuscript explorer powered by Wikidata
- Wikimedia Sverige receives funding for Finding GLAMs and Libraries Data project
- Wikimedia Deutschland has several open positions around the Wikidata development team including a program manager position
- Stanford has a job opening for a Wikidata-focused Wikimedian in Residence
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Cooperative Patent Classification code, Thomson Reuters Business Classification, narrative role, stage crew member, has program committee member, OSI Model layer location, cryptocurrency, elongation at break
- External identifiers: Arnet Miner author ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, CPAN project, cpcrulez ID, DBUnico MIBACT ID, Cranach Digital Archive artwork ID, DSV person ID, EU Research Participant ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, The Gymternet gymnast ID, WorldofVolley player ID, Skijumping.pl jumper ID, Cineuropa film ID, NooSFere series ID, Dobry słownik ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Twitch channel ID, AustLII ID, Academia.edu topic ID, VOR/DME identifier for airport beacons, SNOMED CT identifier, Alternativa Teatral person ID, Alternativa Teatral work ID, Alternativa Teatral place ID, MusicBrainz release ID, IANA service name, OlympicChannel athlete ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: title in TeX, Admission rate, is retracted by, intelligence quotient, subject stated as, predicate stated as, Vocabolario Treccani ID, Bank properties, forms, has contraction, Study fees
- External identifiers: GameID, ww2.org ID, Country or city ID on Hilton, ArhivX LOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, LHW ID, Relais et Châteaux ID, World Travel Awards ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, Preferred Hotels and Resorts ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick manga ID, AnimeClick novel ID, Code aéroport interne de l'espace russophone, iTunes podcast ID, AnimeClick person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Retractions
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
- Merge Lexemes via the API (phab:T198104)
- Show lemmas and representations in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
- Make Form ID link targets less redundant (phab:)
- Polishing html for Lexemes (phab:T196226, phab:T199081)
- Merging Senses (phab:T201605)
- Checking glosses (phab:T202427, phab:T198203)
- Accepting lowercase Sense IDs as values in statements (phab:T203334)
- Use hyphenation for long sense gloss (phab:T203241)
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!
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pieter_Abbeel[edit]
I assume "suck" is a typo for "such". Bearian (talk) 00:05, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:47, 11 September 2018 (UTC).
Nomination of Crosfield Electronics for deletion[edit]
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Crosfield Electronics 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/Crosfield Electronics 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. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:53, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #330[edit]
- Events
- Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
- New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing
- Press, articles, blog posts
- An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
- Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
- A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
- A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
- More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
- And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
- Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet
- An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
- Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
- The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
- Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
- External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
- External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
- Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
- Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
- Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)
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:Awareness weeks has been nominated for discussion[edit]
Category:Awareness weeks, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides 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) 08:34, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Omkar Rai[edit]
Hi Rich Farmbrough,
I am a new Wikipedia editor and have made a contribution recently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Omkar_Rai). I think this contribution is notable enough as this is widely covered and fit for Wikipedia Article.
Please have a look and suggest me if you see any improvement to help me make my contribution worthy for wikipedia.
Looking forward to learn and contribute.
KankP (talk) 06:54, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #331[edit]
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ayack
- New request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
- Closed request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies
- Events
- Past: 19-21 September 2018, New York City: Wikibase workshop at Rhizome
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, on Tuesday September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel wikimedia-office
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Supporting Community Events: spotlight on ‘Social Media Exchange’ (SMEX) in Lebanon, by MySociety
- Using OpenStack to run a custom Wikibase, by Andra Waagmeester
- Creating linked open data for Victorian shipping registers on the National Library of Wales blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The OpenStreetMap wiki enabled Wikibase, to describe OSM tags and keys. Here's what an entry for moveable bridge looks like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
- TABernacle, a tool to edit Wikidata on a table view, was rewritten by Magnus Manske
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Index Herbariorum code, model item, perfume note, place of devotion, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, video designer, projection designer, mode of derivation, work hardening strain, tuition fee, foreign transaction fee, trading fee, account charge / subscription fee, borrowing rate, interest rate, JMA Magnitude, official number of town quarter
- External identifiers: Adelphi author ID, AnimeClick drama ID, Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, CharacTour character ID, Enciclovida ID, IGN film ID, LakeNet ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, MobyGames platform ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, Norwegian war refugees register ID, re3data repository ID, ResearchGate publication ID, SJPXVII ID, SPXVI ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Muziekweb Performer ID, Tourisme & Handicap ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, Microsoft Store app ID, Arkivportalen agent ID, Archiveportal archive ID, Preferred Hotels & Resorts hotel ID, Bpk-ID, UOL Eleições ID, Uralonet ID, Álgu ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Spotify show ID, derived from sense, creates, Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) ID, acquisition date, Løøv classification, Non-free artwork image URL, Kompositionsfuge, abbrév., subject lexeme
- External identifiers: HKCAN ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff-Nummer, Wikibase Registry ID, GTB database IDs, Depósito Legal ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2008, IGN series ID, old-computers.com ID, Kunstenpunt productions, tweet ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, SUCA code, VicFlora ID
- Query examples:
- New bot requests: Import and maintain nominal GDP for countries from the World Bank Data API, Create indiscriminately new items, Missing P31, Importing lexemes from en.Wiktionary in specific languages
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
- Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
- Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
- Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
- Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
- Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)
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 2018 at Women in Red[edit]
| Please join us... We have four new topics for Women in Red's worldwide online editathons in October!
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(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 14:46, 28 September 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging |
The Signpost: 1 October 2018[edit]
- From the editor: Is this the new normal?
- News and notes: European copyright law moves forward
- In the media: Knowledge under fire
- Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2
- Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom
- Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile
- Gallery: A pat on the back
- Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?
- Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle
- Essay: Expressing thanks
Wikidata weekly summary #332[edit]
- Discussions
- Events
- Past: IRC office hour, September 25th
- Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference, September 28th
- Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop (30 September) and session about data modeling (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete
- There were three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
- Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Property Path use in Wikidata Queries, by Gregory Todd Williams
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The templates Reasonator and Scholia are available, for linking from en.Wikisource pages to representations of Wikidata items.
- Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons, see also thread.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ENI number, inflection class, has inflection class, root, creates lexeme type
- External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID, Comic Vine ID, DxOMark ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, HKCAN ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, Shazam track ID, Spotify show ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff Number, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, ANZSRC FoR ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to citizens of, Plot continued in, monument in the near, Sail emblem, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, reference template for this work, Wikipedia suggested article name, Personal title, stated in reference as, reference vocabulary, OSM zoom level
- External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien, ComiXology Creators, War Memorials Online ID, NT Flora ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Sekolah Kita ID, Museu Nacional ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID
- Query examples:
- People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347)
- Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481)
- Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828)
- More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732)
- More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints (phab:T202712)
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!
Welcome to the Months of African Cinema![edit]
Nomination of Amanda Parris for deletion[edit]
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Amanda Parris 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/Amanda Parris 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. Bearcat (talk) 05:39, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2018[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).
Justlettersandnumbers • L235
Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter
Interface administrator changes
Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333
Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno
- Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
- There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.
- Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
- The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
- Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
- The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
- The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
- Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
- Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.
Slight mistake![edit]
I’ve just noticed that when you expanded Private Members' Bills in the Parliament of the United Kingdom 2 years ago, it looks like you duplicated the bills passed in 1989-90 (in reverse order), while the ones passed in 1988-89 were omitted. Don’t suppose you’ve still got the info, have you? Regards, — Arwel Parry (talk) 23:07, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- The source is here,in either pdf or spreadsheet format. There is an error which combines 87-88 and 88-89 in both formats to 87-88, which presumably threw me at the time. I have split these on a best efforts basis. "Common Land (Rectification of Registers)" does not have a "Type" entry for some reason, so I have placed it for now in the later year.
- The act is "The Common Land (Rectification of Registers) Act 1989 (c. 18)" which seems to support this.
- All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:47, 5 October 2018 (UTC).
Wikidata weekly summary #333[edit]
- Events
- 5-7 October, St.Gallen (Switzerland): WikiCon 2018 of the German-speaking Wikimedia community, with keynote Wikidata as a Semantic Web game changer
- 5-7 October, Grenoble (France): WikiConvention francophone 2018, with keynote:
- 16 October, online: Using Wikibase as a platform for library linked data management and discovery
- 29 October, São Paulo: Wikidata Lab XI: Structuring wikiprojects
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: «Das spannendste Projekt, das ich je gesehen habe» (German) in the Swiss newspaper Tagblatt
- SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (slides, speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
- Wikidata Map October 2018 by Addshore
- Our man in Havana (or, Q56761118) by Andrew Gray
Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]
- wikidata-cli new features:
- wd data --format ttl: dump entities in rdf/ttl
- wd convert: convert batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa
- Structured Data on Commons: a search prototype is available for testing. There is a page on Commons with information about testing and leaving feedback.
- Profiling Wikidata — a Class-Facet-Attribute Completeness Profiling System for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: limiting oxygen index, plot continued in, Vicat softening point, Unicode range
- External identifiers: Lyrically artist ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, Ġabra lexeme ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, IGN series ID, tweet ID, Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), Flanders Arts Institute production ID, old-computers.com ID, Oudnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek GTB ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Protected objects Ostbelgien ID, North America PlayStation Store ID, VicFlora ID, SUCA code, CMI person ID, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, ComiXology creator ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID, NT Flora ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: animacy, distributary, human position in artwork, does not have quality, (de)evolution method, happened to, depicted part, adjective, hyponym, nation-state tradition, requires form, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, location of sense usage, Medierådet rating, broad synonym, measured to, Type properties, shrinkage, Public presentation, carbon footprint
- External identifiers: Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, MIAR ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Women's Japan Basketball League, SAGE journal ID, Elsevier journal ID, N° CPPAP, Deezer show ID, LUBW Schutzgebiets-Nr, Disney A to Z ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Armiarma ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix bugs on editing statements on new Forms using the API (phab:T194732)
- Check constraint violations on statements on Forms and Senses when saving a statement (phab:T195829)
- Fix an issue with Wikibase and deployments (phab:T206161)
- Improve the gloss language error message (phab:T205528)
- Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
- Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
- Work on making Sense statement group Ids unique (phab:T204936)
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!
Get ready for November with Women in Red![edit]
| Three new topics for WiR's online editathons in November, two of them supporting other initiatives
Continuing: | ||
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Latest headlines, news, and views on the Women in Red talkpage (Join the conversation!): (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) |
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Wikidata weekly summary #334[edit]
- Events
- 8-12 October, Monterey: International Semantic Web Conference 2018, with lots of praise for Wikidata
- 11-12 October, Montreal: FORCE 2018 Conference, with sessions on Wikidata and Wikibase and Wikidata and WikiCite
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Ontological Modelling in Wikidata, talk and slides by Markus Krötzsch
- Wikidata x ConedaKOR: A use case for digital art history (in German), on integrating Wikidata with an art history database
- From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements, by Charles Matthews on WMUK's blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
- A new OpenRefine tutorial was published, showing how to use third-party reconciliable data sources to import data in Wikidata.
- A prototype for Mix'n'Match Version 2 is available for testing; it uses Wikibase.
- We have a new admin onboard, welcome Fuzheado!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: depicted part, sail emblem, reference vocabulary
- External identifiers: Museu Nacional ID, Sekolah Kita ID, War Memorials Online ID, ID of Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, Women's Japan Basketball League ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Elsevier journal ID, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, LUBW Protected Area No, SAGE journal ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: tribus, embodied energy, water footprint, storage capacity (ROM), Pixel resolution, Category for films in this language, annual number of weddings, biobased content weight percentage, topic's main Wikimedia WikiProject, recycled content weight percentage, taxa found, recycling code, attenuation coefficient, Kit manifacturer
- External identifiers: Getty Iconography Authority ID, Springer journal ID, Espace prépas author ID, Australian Plant name Index identifier, Indiancine.ma film ID, Indiancine.ma person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Help fixing the issues after data center switch (phab:T206743)
- Look at a regression in Lexeme code (not passing lemma language via URL) (phab:T205864)
- Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
- Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
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!
Merger discussion for DMZ_(computing)[edit]
An article that you have been involved in editing—DMZ_(computing)—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 19:46, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
- I posted an update to the discussion, a summary conclusion based on the research that you helped to contribute. I'd like to get your opinion or vote on the subject. Will you contribute again? Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 21:44, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #335[edit]
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Adopt a username policy
- Events
- A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
- An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
- Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of Winterthur's sister city Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
- Semantische Suchabfragen mit der Linked Open Data Cloud generieren (German), on SocietyByte
- La documentation d’expositions sur Wikidata (French) by Shonagon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A program to train new Wikidata trainers (in German) will be run in November 2018 in Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Registration is open until October 28th.
- A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein.
- Lexicographical data can now be queried with the Query Service
- Lexicographical Data now includes Senses
- A beta feature for entity suggestions based on constraints
- Planned RDF ontology prefix change for RDF exports and dumps
- You can still help ORES to be smarter in detecting vandalism. Take a few minutes to check some edits
- Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to Lucas)
- Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (example, documentation)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Medierådet rating, translation, synonym, antonym, troponym of, false friend, Wikidata property example for senses, classifier, Sandbox-Sense, derived from sense, annual number of weddings
- External identifiers: CPPAP ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Springer journal ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: compressive modulus of elasticity, Best result in tournament, satisfaction rate, league system, ratified by, place of disappearance, exact synonym, measured to, measured from, measured include, measured exclude, measured at, usage example, Coordinates in WKT, flexural strain at break
- External identifiers: Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, North America Microsoft Store ID, Facebook post ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File identification number, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- JSON-LD is now on beta
- Work on a issue impacting edit tags for admins (phab:T207313)
- Turn on Senses for Lexicographical data
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!
Precious anniversary[edit]
| Four years! |
|---|
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:55, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 October 2018[edit]
- From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely
- News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks
- In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias
- Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform
- Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring
- Technology report: Bots galore!
- Special report: NPP needs you
- Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six
- In focus: Alexa
- Gallery: Out of this world!
- Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion
- Humour: Talk page humour
- Opinion: Strickland incident
- From the archives: The Gardner Interview
Wikidata weekly summary #336[edit]
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667
- Closed request for comments: Close-out of statements formerly using P794
- Events
- Plenty of Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
- Past: Wikimedia Technical Conference, October 22-25
- Press, articles, blog posts
- WikibaseNYC conference explores the frontier of linked open data infrastructure &report on the Wikibase workshop that took place on September 19-21 in New Yor City
- Now Wikidata is 6, by Charles Matthews
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Proposal on on how to answer newcomers on help pages. Feel free to give feedback on the talk page.
- Fork-Awesome now ships with a Wikidata icon
- Presents from the community for the Wikidata 6th birthday:
- Banner for Wikidata birthday events by KannanVM
- Profiling Wikidata (announcement, documentation)
- Birthday User Template for userpage
- List of Wikidata & GLAM usecases, by Beat Eastermann
- QuickStatements v2 now supports lexicographical data
- DerDieDas, a game to practice German articles based on lexicographical data, by Auregann
- CSV to QuickStatements now fully compatible with QuickStatements v2
- Possibility to query Lexemes in the Query Service
- Senses for lexicographical data
- Beta feature: suggestions based on constraints
- Dedicated Dashboard, another tool to improve the data quality in Wikidata, by Envlh
- cookiecutter-toolforge, a template to easily create tools, by Lucas Werkmeister
- WDFS: Mount Wikidata as a filesystem, by MichaelSchoenitzer
- Wikidata Comparison Tool
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: carbon footprint, attenuation coefficient, compressive modulus of elasticity, recycling code, kit supplier, category for films in this language, stated in reference as, distributary, water footprint, applies to people, flexural strain at break, body pose or movement
- External identifiers: APNI ID, Literaturaren Zubitegia ID, Getty Iconography Authority ID, Indiancine.ma film ID, Deezer show ID, Indiancine.ma person ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, WikiArt ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File ID, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, California Office of Historic Preservation ID, Encyclopedia of Appalachia ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Tennessee Encyclopedia ID, CanalPlan AC place ID, SeaLifeBase ID, Species at Risk public registry ID, d'Art d'Art ! ID, Hymenoptera Online taxon ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ENADE IGC continuous, INEP IGC discrete, Digital representation of, Container title, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, date of opening, uses capitalization for, phase, Trainer von Sportmannschaft, research site
- External identifiers: New York Times short URL, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, Clé des langues ID, CMS ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ResearchGate author ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Missouri Botanical Garden ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, OSF Online ID, MNHN ID, Neotropical Birds ID, GRIN ID, Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, AFD ID, FEIS ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, BirdLife Australia ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, AFAS author ID, Prosopomaths ID, ARD Mediathek ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, Larousse ID, MoEML ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Polish Olympic Committee, GameFAQs platform ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, British Museum bioID, Discogs composition ID, Discogs track ID, NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, RIA Novosti reference, The Guardian article ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Africa, Wikidata:WikiProject Open Government Data
- Newest database reports: indirect translation of lexemes
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
- Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
- Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
- Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
- Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)
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!
Nomination for deletion of Template:Fossil taxa by year/core[edit]
Template:Fossil taxa by year/core has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 14:17, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Fossil taxa by year/outer core[edit]
Template:Fossil taxa by year/outer core has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 14:17, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants: Template help requested[edit]
Hello. I am coming to you as I notice you are the creator of the template {{City 100000 index}}, which is used on subpages of the article above. I recently created a template intended for use on this page as well as its subpages called {{City 100000}}, which is supposed to act as the lead paragraph for each of the pages as well as transclude a right-hand table of contents, however I have run into a problem, and it pertains to its current transclusion on the subpage listing cities by countries beginning with C. Would you happen to know what I might be doing wrong here, specifically with parameters? (Please ping me with your reply as I am not watching your Talk page.) Thanks in advance! jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk • contribs) 22:43, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2018[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).
- A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
- A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.
- Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
- A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
- The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.
- Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
- The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en
wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
West Africa Ebola virus epidemic[edit]
Hi this is to inform you that West African Ebola virus epidemic which you edited will be submitted for WikiJournal of Medicine...The objective of this message is to invite the contributors to collaboratively submit the article for review through Wiki.J.Med, and if possible, to help in further betterment of the article in accordance to the suggestions of the reviewers. Wikipedia articles are collaboratively authored. So, it is very important to make the authors aware of such a process that the article is currently undergoing[1] thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:47, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #337[edit]
- Events
- Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
- GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
- The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
- New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
- CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
- External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
- External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
- Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
- Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
- Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
- Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #338[edit]
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata
- Events
- Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
- Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
- WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
- A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
- A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
- Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
- Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
- Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
- Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)
- Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
- How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
- OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
- There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
- External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
- External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
- Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
- Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
- Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
- Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
- Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
- Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
- Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
- Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)
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!