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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.
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In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
- An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
Technical news
- IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
Arbitration
- The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
Battle of Blenheim scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 13 August, 2021. Please check that the article needs no amendments. A coordinator will draft a blurb - based on your draft if the TFA came via TFA requests, or from an existing blurb on the FAC talk page if one has been posted. Feel free to comment on this. We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:28, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #475
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)
- Open request for adminship:
- Events
- Past:
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
- Upcoming:
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Past:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: voted on by, Qualis rank, author given names, author last name, delta of
- External identifiers: Gutenberg Biographics ID, Idaho Species ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, Classical Archives composer ID, Crosscut author ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, E-Flora BC species ID, LexM ID, BES-Net user ID, VK artist ID, Legie 100 legionary ID, Buzer.de law identification, Games@Mail.ru ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, FOIH themes ID, African Film Database ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: code name, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, Impact factor, dependency grammar relations, biological target, URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state
- External identifiers: fotoCH photographer ID, Raakvlak inventory number, cultural broadcasting archive station ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, MANTO ID, e-Rad researcher ID, WMO code
- Query examples:
- List of pairs of senses on the same lexeme that have the same gloss in at least one language (Source)
- Which British Monarch saw most US Presidents; which US President saw most British Monarchs? (graph view) (dimensions view) (Source)
- All paintings (Q3305213) that depict (P180) a painting (Source)
- Count of qualifiers used in performer (P175) statements (Source)
- Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (Source)
- Latin American female mathematicians who are not on spanish Wikipedia but have an article in another language (Source)
- US Governors and their religion, if listed (Source)
- Living soccer players whose birthday is on January 1st (Source)
- Museums nearby Cēsis (Q107582) (Source)
- Distribution of public toilets per administrative units in Wales (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
- Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
- Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
- Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
- A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
- A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Planets
"Old, Master Shallow!" I grow steadily more dotty, and am grateful for your rescuing me from "acoustic" when I meant "electric". A pleasure to see you on that page! Tim riley talk 22:16, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Tim riley: Thankyou - it was a real pleasure to read it! I had come across something about the choir at the end of Neptune, realised I couldn't remember it at all, went to read more, and was delighted to discover that you had come in a couple of weeks earlier and written up something on all the movements. A lovely piece of work as always - well done. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:53, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #476
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Closed request for adminship:
- Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)
- Events
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [1], July 13th.
- Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
- A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
- Papers
- A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
- Videos
- Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
- Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
- Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
- Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
- Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
- The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: Wikidata:Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to Wikidata:Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
- OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
- Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
- Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
- For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
- External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
- External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID
- Query examples:
- Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
- Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
- Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
- Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
- Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
- We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
- We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
- Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
- Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
- Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
- Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #478
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
- Upcoming:
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72, July 25
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
- The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
- Past:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata English & Italian by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project.
- Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill
- Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R
- Introducing the MathFoldr Project
- Videos
- Notebooks
- Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice)
- Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice).
- A first look at featured articles in Wikipedia in French using Wikidata (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS)
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS
- For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel, Laurentius and Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
- Sitelinks to the recently created Tachelhit Wikipedia and Dagbani Wikipedia are being added.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, number of request signatories, translation of
- External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, Città e Cattedrali ID, MANTO ID, WMO code, IFPNI author ID, Landshuth ID, Pladias ID, Central records of collections ID, Podchaser creator ID, Steam Greenlight game ID, CEICE school code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, URL for freedom of information requests, Legal History, bridge number, Notable role, inventory number, Weverse user ID, ITU radio emission designation
- External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID, eBru ID, Daum Cafe ID, Douyin Video ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, SDBM IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID, The New Yorker ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, Marmiton ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, PubFacts author ID
- Query examples:
- List of all stages of all tour de France (source)
- Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (source)
- Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (Source)
- Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (Source)
- Unemployment rate in Sweden by year (1970-2020) (Source)
- Serious plane crashes with only one survivor (Source)
- Mayors' genders of U.S. cities above 100k population (Source)
- Global usage of pronouns (in English Language) (Source)
- Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility
- Newest database reports: language names in Italian (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now.
- Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105)
- Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919)
- Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items (phab:T280910)
- SPARQL was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 25 July 2021
- News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories
- Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong
- In the media: Larry is at it again
- Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates
- Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki
- News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department
- Humour: A little verse
Wikidata weekly summary #479
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Next Wikidata and Wikibase office hour on July 28th at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group
- The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
- 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries
- Issues and Challenges in optimum utilization of Linked Data in Indian libraries
- Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project
- Tutorial: Wikidata: Intro to the Basics
- Tutorial: Writing Data to Wikidata Using Spreadsheets
- Wikibase: Free, Flexible and Collaborative Linked Data
- Rune inscriptions in Wikidata / Wikibase; Sampo Model and Portal Series on the Semantic Web
- Wikidata In Classroom • Creating Linked Data from Books and Magazines
- LD4 meeting: Wikidata Affinity Group
- Introduction to Wikidata (in Indonesian) part 1, part 2, part 3
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [2], July 27th.
- COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
- Openstreetmap x Wikidata meetup 2021.08.09 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Typed Citations in the Journal of Cheminformatics
- What happens in Wikibase when you make a new Item?
- Discovering new comics with Wikidata’s powerful tools
- Two metadata directions. Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization
- Still mapping! "Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
- Making the Camino de Santiago visible on Wikidata
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on lexeme pages.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions is hiring software engineers and an engineering manager.
- Job opening: Digital Channels Outreach Manager ("mentions contributing to Wikidata and Wikimedia platforms")
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Wikimedia Incubator URL, symbol represents, bridge number
- External identifiers: Adventure Corner video game ID, FRB person ID, Apple TV episode ID, Apple TV show ID, FRB event ID, Wikidata language code, Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Plant life-form, cabinet, title of a church
- External identifiers: VI.BE Platform ID, Smartify artwork ID, Women Also Know History ID, IrishTheatre.ie Company ID, BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added a
tagsparameter to thewbmergeitemsAPI so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778) - Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
- Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org
- Added a
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Feedback request: History Good Article nomination
Your feedback is requested at Talk:Jans der Enikel on a "History" Good Article nomination. Thank you for helping out!
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.
Technical news
- Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)
Arbitration
- Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.
Feedback request: Natural sciences Good Article nomination
Your feedback is requested at Talk:Dorfopterus on a "Natural sciences" Good Article nomination. Thank you for helping out!
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Wikidata weekly summary #480
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- July 2021 Wikidata+Wikibase office hours logs
- July 2021 Wikibase Live sessions logs
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- What is Wikidata (in German) - YouTube
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- User:Mahir256/syndepgraph.js is used to make interesting SVG-based syntactic dependency graphs generated with {{Syndepgraph}} to appear.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Portuguese version of the Wikidata Query Service tutorial tool is now available.
- Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
- The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
- New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: symbol represents, bridge number, syntactic dependency head relationship, syntactic dependency head position
- External identifiers: Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, IRIS SNS author ID, U.S. Ski & Snowboard athlete ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: cabinet, title of a church, Apple App Store classification, amount of medals, GRAC/GRB content descriptor, GRAC/GRB rating category, Igromania developer/publisher ID, commentator, FLOSS development policy URL
- External identifiers: BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, police zone ID, Tax identification number, Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, The Women’s Print History Project person ID, USA Climbing member ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Vokrug sveta Encyclopedia ID, Nationalencyklopedin ID, MPAA certificate number, Magyar írók élete és munkái ID
- Query examples:
- List of film directors who have worked with Jean-François Stevenin the most (source) Jean-François Stevenin is a French actor, dead the 27th of July
- French municipalities containing the word "ville" (Source)
- Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (Source)
- Museums within 70 km of Dresden (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. Focusing on wrapping up the store part of the tool and moving on to the UI for reviewing mismatches.
- Made it so that Special:EntityData doesn't throw an exception when called with an invalid flavor parameter (phabricator:T286275)
- Limit languages of entity stubs in RDF output (Breaking change)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #477
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [3], Aug 10th.
- LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
- Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- Tool of the week
- Template:Generic queries for musicians new wikidata template to explore the work of a musician.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:So9q/duplicate item.js is a userscript that can duplicate the current item, minus sitelinks and descriptions (not allowed by Wikidata).
- Collection of Wikidata:Weekly summary query examples (2015-2021) by MKar
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: edition/version, open source software policy URL
- External identifiers: Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID, Women Also Know History ID, Marmiton ID, Knesset member ID, The New Yorker contributor ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, BNM bibliographic record ID, Treccani's Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, e-Rad researcher number, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: FLOSS development policy URL, Umění pro město ID, broadcast of, dissertation program, DDB-Person-Nummer
- External identifiers: GSSO ID, COD ID, ARTEINFORMADO Person ID, CDAEM Person ID, ASE person ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, IRIS Pisa IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Shironet ID, Paleobotany ID, arheologi.ro ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID
- Query examples:
- Map of Welsh lakes and reservoirs (Source)
- Gender statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org
- Statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org by their value of instance of property
- Place of birth of Swedish 1912 Summer Olympics participants (Source)
- Interactive map with all Olympic Games medalists by place of birth (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
- Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
- Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help deploy Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
- Help write the next summary!
This Month in GLAM: July 2021
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This Month in GLAM: July 2021
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