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ikidata weekly summary #443

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Workshop 2020 presentations YouTube playlist
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 24 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: rC3, the remote version of the Chaos Communication Congress, on December 27-30. Like in previous years, the WikipakaWG will host sessions and workshops related to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. The call for participation is open until November 30th.
  • Upcoming: Ghana Histo Cita-thon. Friday 27th November 2020. 9am to 2pm UTC.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #40, November 29

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata, the collaborative database for machines and humans. Blogpost by Àlex Hinojo (in Catalan)
  • 24 hours of open data - The meetup for the eighth Wikidata birthday, Blogpost by Lea Lacroix (in German)
  • The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata. Blogpost by Jan Ainali (in Swedish)
  • WikiPathways: connecting communities: research article outlining, among other things, how Wikidata is used and integrated
  • Using SPARQL to combine Wikidata and OSM triples
  • ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
  • TU Dresden lecture on Knowledge Graphs (replay)
    • Wikidata introduction - YouTube
    • Content model of Wikidata - YouTube
    • How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The proposals phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until November 30th. You can submit wishes in various categories, like Wikidata.
  • SMWCon 2020 virtual conference is from 24 to 26 November 2020. Do not forget to register at Hopin!
  • The note-taking app Kanopi got first pieces of Wikidata integration.
  • The Listeria Evolution: Listeria has got an update
  • Wikimedia Deutschland has two open positions around the Wikidata development team; Full Stack Developer and Partner Relationship Manager

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: epithet, attraction to, hairstyle, poverty incidence
    • External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IMMuB album ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset ID, IAFD film distributor ID, Yandex Zen ID, NCAA school code, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Monuments de mémoire ID, Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism ID, Xfinity Stream ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, edition humboldt digital ID, GitLab username, AAA attraction ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, Museum Day ID, PAN member, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, MetaSat ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, SPOnG game ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, LibraryThing venue ID, Union des artistes ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, PromoDj ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: vénéré à, Number of blood donors, People reached, number of awards, has positive marker, ID pattern, lunar coordinates, adjacent to, date posted, ITRANS, National Library at Kolkata romanization, complementary property, MTRCB rating, DBLP conference ID, fait l'objet d'une vénération à
    • External identifiers: DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Hyperion Records person ID, Arken, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, AAA campground ID, AstroGen ID, Reliwiki page ID, Sonneveld-index, SIL ID, AniDB Episode ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, Lumni ID, Archives at Yale Names ID
  • Query examples:
    • Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points (Source)
    • Map of Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 participant's institutions (federated query) (Source)
    • Women who play chess and have a Wikipedia article in Spanish (They are 132 while men have 899 entries) (Source)
    • Timeline of Dietary Advocates (Source)
    • Philosophers born between 0 and 500 grouped by the decade where they lived (Source)
    • Video games from ?country (template) (Source)

• Development
  • Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
  • Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275)
  • Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502)
  • Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023)
  • Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936)
  • Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (phab:T264538)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:21, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #444

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: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December. Agenda
  • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
  • Online edition of the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award ceremony, on Friday, December 11th at 17:00 UTC.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #41, December 6

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Linking OpenStreetMap with knowledge graphs — Link discovery for schema-agnostic volunteered geographic information (the KGs referred to are Wikidata & DBPedia)
  • "Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis": an analysis linking news articles to information on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • Wikidata Bib v0, prototype for personalized analytics of scientific readings using Wikidata.
  • Video: Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph by Roderic Page
  • Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
    • ORCID for Wikidata: A workflow for matching author and publication items in Wikidata
    • id.loc.gov and Wikidata, one year later

• Tool of the week
  • osm2kg is a tool to facilitate matching Wikidata entries to OSM nodes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing.
  • The University of Nevada has an open position around Wikidata; Digital Collections Wikimedian-in-Residence
  • Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24^th, and will end on December 7^th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
  • Wiki Movimento Brasil will support WikidataCon 2021
  • Wikidata descriptions changes will be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist on Wikimedia wikis

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: facial hair, identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, Water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index
    • External identifiers: Absolute Games person ID, FIS grass skier ID, FISG athlete ID, Kinorium movie ID, CONOR.AL ID, CONOR.BG ID, CONOR.KS ID, CONOR.SR ID, Musica Brasilis ID, Salzburgwiki ID, IEV number, British Phonographic Industry ID, CRGPG ID, Drizly product ID, Canada Business Number, FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ELSPA rating, cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Filmstriben film-ID, Mailing List, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data
    • External identifiers: vets.cz ID, Parler ID, HAL Journal id, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Gab ID, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, SKD ID, DIA ID, ZOBODAT, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, theses.cz ID, curid
  • Query examples:
    • Politicians with an account at GitHub, CPAN, or Wikimedia (Source)
    • Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (Source)
    • Number of programming languages and their paradigms (Source)
    • Museums within 2 miles of MoMA (federated query) (Source)
    • Largest cities of the world ordered by population (Source)
    • Italian politicians who served as a minister in more than one cabinet since 1990 (Source)
    • People born after 1800 whose “name in native language” is in Latin (Source)
    • UK statues and whether they are of nobles and/or women (Source)
    • Location of German cities with a population count greater than 50.000 (Source)
    • Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (Source)
  • Schema examples: museum

• Development
  • Development on the Query Builder is continuing. You can follow along at https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org
  • Fixed an issue where language fallback indicators were still shown when falling back from a variant of the language (phab:T267502)
  • Fixed an issue on Lexeme pages where language and lexical category fields turn red on unfocus even though no changes were made (phab:T266936)
  • Working on improving what happens to sitelinks when an article is moved to a unsupported namespace (phab:T261275))
  • Investigating a significant increase in skipped Item IDs (phab:T268625)
  • Addressing the feedback for the draft of the REST API spec

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

• The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [1][2]
• The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [3]

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

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• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

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Tech News: 2020-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [4][5]

Changes later this week

• Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [6][7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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Wikidata weekly summary #445

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

• Discussions
  • Comment on a proposal for proposed deletion system

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia, presented in English by Mike Peel (Wiki Movimento Brasil). The event is supported by a WikiCite e-scholarship. December 8th 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT), via YouTube.
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 8 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia 2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony, December 11th at 17:00 GMT (details)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #42, December 13

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade. The Washington Post writes about enslaved.org, a Wikibase instance run at Michigan State University, that collects and creates Linked Open Data about the transatlantic slave trade. (Source)
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata by and with Alicia Fagerving from Wikipedia Day 2020
  • Video: How to use Wikidata Mix'n'match tool - YouTube
  • Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
    • Linking K10plus library union catalog with Wikidata
    • Building Wikidata One Branch of Knowledge at a Time

• Tool of the week
  • User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have a central repository for wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index, road name formatter, ELSPA rating, kunya, religion or world view
    • External identifiers: FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID, BG EIK, All the Tropes identifier, Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID, Reliwiki page ID, Arken ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, Archives at Yale names ID, HAL journal id, Parler username, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery artwork ID, CINE21 film ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, Sonneveld-index, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), NSSDCA ID, ZOBODAT person ID, ZOBODAT taxon ID, DIA ID, SKD ID, Max Movie film ID, Gab username, Movist film ID, KOBIS ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, SMB-digital ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, CQVIP article ID, DBLP conference ID, Filmstriben film-ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Mailing List, curid, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data, archaeological site of, does not have cause, conductor for, reason for normal rank, value is one of, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, lineage marker, has surface, DBLP journal id
    • External identifiers: U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, theses.cz ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, CollEx-Persée ID, The Galileo Project ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum ID, Max-Movie-Personen-ID, CINE21 person ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Basic Formal Ontology ID, Fichier des décès ID
  • Query examples:
    • Russian cuisine
    • Belgian artists that rise to the public domain in 2021 (Source)
    • Asian food made from noodles (Source)
    • Bubble diagram by wiki page numbers in each language on objects kept at the Bardo National Museum (note: Commons is counted as English) (Source)
    • Amusement parks around the world (Source)
  • Schema examples: Video game

• Development
  • Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
  • Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (phab:T269102)
  • Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (phab:T191831)
  • Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (phab:T263258)
  • Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (phab:T268625)
  • Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs: Docker Image Repository, Tarball Repository

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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:31, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XI, November 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Launch of Wikipedia in African Libraries Project Pilot Cohort Brazil report: Accessibility through audio descriptions, GLAM tutorials, WikidataCon 2021 and more updates on Brazilian GLAMs Canada report: Taking a tour of CAPACOA workshops and some recent example sets from commons Germany report: German symphony orchestra releases audio samples under free license India report: Re-licensing of content on water & rivers in India Indonesia report: #WikiSejarah WPWP Campaign Netherlands report: Wikipedia and Education, Funding granted for two projects in 2021, KB completes collection highlights project Serbia report: GLAM in Serbia makes important steps in the digitization of cultural heritage Spain report: Edit-a-thons on women scientists and painters Sweden report: Music, UNESCO and Wikidata UK report: Hundreds of Khalili images USA report: Black Lunch Table & Museum Computer Network Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #446

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
  • Past: m:WikiConference North America/2020
  • Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
  • Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
  • Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
  • Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
  • Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
  • Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
  • Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • datao.net is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
  • Complex constraint check for recency of value
  • The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
  • Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
    • External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
    • External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID
  • Query examples:
    • All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
    • (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
    • Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
    • Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
    • Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
    • Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
    • Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
    • Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
    • Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
  • Schema examples:
    • Schema for stumbling stones
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Agriculture

• Development
  • We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:42, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

December 16: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

December 16, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month will include a discussion of the sixth annual Community Wishlist Survey, an opportunity for editors and other community members to submit proposals for fixes and features you'd like the Wikimedia Foundation's tech team to address. As always, it's the agenda anyone can edit, so please feel free to add any projects you'd like to share. Wednesday December 16 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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--Wikimedia New York City Team 01:55, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #447

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

• Events
  • Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
    • Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
    • Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
    • Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall knowledge base of the Internet
    • Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
  • Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Complex constraint about labels' language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
    • External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
    • External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID
  • Deleted properties: street address (P969)
  • Query examples:
    • Tex-Mex singers (Source)
    • Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales) (Source)
    • Vito Russo Test in Wikidata
    • Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes (Source)
    • Patronage of rapid-transit transportation (Source)
    • People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they played
  • Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
  • Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names

• Development
  • Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
  • Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (phab:T267023)
  • Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (phab:T266638)
  • Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (phab:T267502)
  • Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (phab:T250550)

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
  • Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
  • 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:50, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

• The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [9]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
• Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [10]
• Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [11]

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20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020

• News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent

• In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds

• Arbitration report: 2020 election results

• Opinion: How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear

• Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.

• Traffic report: 2020 wraps up

• News from the WMF: What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next

• Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions

• Essay: Subjective importance

• Op-Ed: An unforgettable year we might wish to forget

• Gallery: Angels in the architecture

• Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:25, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #448

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for CheckUser: 997kB
  • There's a discussion about what the best label for required qualifier constraint happens to be.

• Events
  • Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:TP administrative area is a new template designed for all items which are instance of administrative territorial entity. It defines useful queries for those items. For example, {{QT|Q173695}} links to this page. Feedback and contributions are welcome.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: small logo or icon, lunar coordinates
    • External identifiers: CINE21 person ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, Cinémathèque québécoise person ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, SAPA ID, Manus Online author ID, Lichess username, CITWF person ID, DBLP publication ID, DataTrek ID, KANTO ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: abstract, thesis committee chair, character type, Calificación de videojuegos, Regente, Nação (candomblé), Liderança, Bharati Braille, number of walks, number of hits, doubles hit, triples hit, Through point
    • External identifiers: TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, World Rowing ID, MNBAQ ID, Libsyn show ID, PodBean show ID, BG School ID, JAD ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, BHCL UUID, Podtail show ID, Provenio UUID, AbandonSocios ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, International Encyclopedia of the First World War ID, SFLI ID, Game UI Database ID, DiVo person ID, e-GEDSH ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, Calaméo ID, Lumières Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey Player ID, IFF player ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, AV Production person ID, Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon ID, Studium Parisiense ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, A*dS Encyclopedia, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, The Podcast App show ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID, Play:Right video game ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, TheCocktailDB ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands
  • Query examples:
    • Check Corona vaccine progress using Wikidata SPARQL to get metadata about the countries see notebook - SPARQL query

• Development

Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment :)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

A New Year With Women in Red!

Women in Red | January 2021, Volume 7, Issue 1, Numbers 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188 Online events: New: Climate and environment | Public domain Contest (Jan-Feb-Mar): Africa contest Year-long initiative: Women's rights Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2020 Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:10, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #449

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
  • Should we rename place of burial (P119) to place of mortal remains?

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 5 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #26 - YouTube, Facebook, 9 January
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #44, January 10
  • Past: Wikidata sessions at rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) (replay)
    • Introduction to Wikidata
    • Wikidata for datajournalists
  • Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
    • Wikidata one year in Taiwan, what is our results and what is our future plan
    • Challenges of GLAM Taiwan

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Applying linked data model for the Bogotá Digital Library (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Wikimedia Armenia - YouTube
  • Video: How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero - YouTube
  • Video: How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine - YouTube
  • Video: How to import library materials to Wikidata using MarcEdit and OpenRefine - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: Linking a new Wikipedia article to a Wikidata item - YouTube
  • Video: Schema and Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Using Twinkle on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata (in Urdu) - YouTube
  • Blog post: 52 Wikidata weeks 2020
  • Blog post: Scottish nautical wrecks in wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: graph girth, category for the view of the item, ALA-LC romanization, liturgical rank
    • External identifiers: PIAC ID, CPV Supplementary, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, ISDS ID, Mapy.cz ID, World Rowing ID (UUID format), 1914-1918-Online ID, JAD ID, Game UI Database ID, Lumières.Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey player ID, IFF player ID, Magyar életrajzi lexikon ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, Literary Encyclopedia ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Stitcher show ID, Castbox show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, PodBean show ID, Podtail show ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, The Podcast App show ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries manuscript ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries work ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries person ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries place ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: YouTube custom URL, Author last names, Author first names, Naval flag, supplements, closed WMF project sitelink, has part (string value), member, number of data sets
    • External identifiers: IFPI Danmark work ID, National Museum in Warsaw ID, Olympedia Affiliations ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Erudit article ID, Olympedia Event ID, dati.beniculturali.it ID, Barnivore product ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, Port Letter, FFF player ID (new scheme), Hungarian Film Archive ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), EuroBabeIndex ID, MFAT person ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Alpine Linux package, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, NLS place type ID, BookDepository publisher ID, National Historic People id, NFL.com ID (new scheme)
  • Query examples:
    • Works identified (via dedicated property P3893) as entering the public domain on 1/1/2021, ordered by number of articles on Wikimedia sites (Source)
    • Painters in the collections of Paris Musées which enter the public domain on January 1 (Source)
    • Map of forts related to Dutch trading companies VOC and WIC found in the Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Source)
    • Map of forts in the Cologne fortress ring (Source)
    • First-level administrative divisions in Germany
    • Population of cities in Germany corresponds to the total number of vaccinations in Germany (Source)
    • Most popular theorems according to their number of articles on Wikipedia (Source)
    • Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (Source)
    • Deaths in 2020 - date of birth, date of death, cause of death and country of nationality (Source)
    • Summary of a UK parliamentary career seat-party-start pairs(Source)
    • Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight (Source)
    • Indonesian legislation related to indigenous people (Source)
    • Which artist could be "D.K. 1964"? (source)
    • Line graph of colleges and universities in India by year of establishment (Source)
    • Graph of Indian films that are remakes of other Indian films (Source)
    • Graph of academic descendants of C. R. Rao and K. Ananda Rau (Source)
    • Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (Source)
    • Maps of different places in West Bengal according to suffix (Source)
    • Tree map of Rabindranath's poems according to the month of writing (Source)
    • Count of locations of exhibitions on Wikidata (Source)
    • Wikidata lexeme forms by language (Source)
  • Newest database reports: 2021, Greek given names

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, no deployment has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes

Hammersoft

Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac

Oversight changes

Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek

Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

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Tech News: 2021-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [12]
• You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [13]
• Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
  • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [14]
  • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [15]
  • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
• There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [16]
• Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [17]
• Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [18]
• CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [19]
• There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #450

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful)
  • New request for comments: How should we develop and deploy documentation for items?

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
  • Past: SMWCon videos are published incl. quite a few Wikidata related ones
  • Past: Wiki Workshop 2021 is accepting submissions. The deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1.
  • Past: Czech editaton Výzva 63 000 (Q102733400) finished (30.11.2020-31.12.2020). Purpose was connect NKCR AUT ID (P691) to Wikidata by hand in Mix'n'match (Q28054658). Detailed info.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogpost: The nobody who could overtake Wikipedia (in German)
  • Blogpost: Documenting Software Applications on Wikidata, by John Samuel
  • Article: Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership: The case of Belgian prime minsters in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Paper: Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust - an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research making the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development.
  • Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video

• Tool of the week
  • QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
  • You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
  • Wikidata Walkabout browsing tool has had some important recent improvements in language support, interface, etc. See a list of all comedy films directed by a vegetarian (in Spanish)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Bharati Braille, Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica's video game rating, solution to, archaeological site of
    • External identifiers: AV Production person ID, Mediafilm ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID, Libsyn show ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, SFLI ID, e-GEDSH ID, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Barnivore product ID, AVN movie ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, BG School ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, BHCL UUID, Calaméo ID, Studium Parisiense ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, DiVo person ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), Alpine Linux package, A*dS Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: minutes played, two-pointers made, two-pointers attempted, three-pointers attempted, three-pointers made, free throws made, free throws attempted, field goals made, personal fouls, Short DOI, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, number of vaccinations, category for software under a license, assessment outcome, quality for this class, Template combines topics, CCCM Museum (Macau Museum) object ID, CCCM Museum Object ID, Medium, FL number, Notable ascent
    • External identifiers: CantoDict identifiers, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, POSIX locale identifier, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, BABEL author ID, Songlexikon ID, FANZA AV actress ID, VAi Building ID, Biographies.net person ID, Literature.com book ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, TikTok music ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Conservapedia Article, NZ Museums ID, Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, WreckSite ID
  • Query examples:
    • Mathematicians born in prime number years featuring Albert Einstein, Pierre de Fermat, Georg Ohm, Carl Gauss, Évariste Galois, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, James Maxwell et al.
    • Timeline of coups d'état of the 21st century (including attempted ones) (Source)
    • Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata (Source)
    • Children of which were born with by a person, and their step child
    • Map of the shortest railway path (in terms of number of stations) between Dibrugarh and the Scottish Highlands (Source)
    • Map of place of birth of Olympique de Marseille football players (Source)
    • Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (Source)
    • Map of beaches in Mexico (Source)
    • Graph of shared borders between Indian districts (Source)
    • Descendants of Upendrakishore Roy (Source)
    • Timeline of Indian High Commissioners to Britain (Source)
    • A tree map of items for artworks depicting Mughal emperors (Source)
    • Example of documented usage of different Bengali words (Source)
    • 'Llan' place names in the UK (Source)
    • Organizations with DZI donation seal approval according to donation amount (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Russian given names

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
  • Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
  • Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
  • Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)

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This Month in GLAM: December 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XII, December 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wrap up of the Wikipedia in African Libraries project pilot cohort Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters New Zealand report: Māori Women Weavers Edit-a-thon Serbia report: GLAMorous end of 2020 Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments submissions livestreamed; Nordiska museet uploads; Sjung med oss, Mamma! UK report: Wales, Women in Leeds, and the Hajj USA report: WikiConference North America and Salons WMF GLAM report: The GLAM & Culture office hours Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: December 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XII, December 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wrap up of the Wikipedia in African Libraries project pilot cohort Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters New Zealand report: Māori Women Weavers Edit-a-thon Serbia report: GLAMorous end of 2020 Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments submissions livestreamed; Nordiska museet uploads; Sjung med oss, Mamma! UK report: Wales, Women in Leeds, and the Hajj USA report: WikiConference North America and Salons WMF GLAM report: The GLAM & Culture office hours Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Friday Jan 15: ONLINE Wikipedia Day NYC

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Wikidata weekly summary #451

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Alphama (RfP scheduled to end after 24 January 2021 15:12 (UTC))
  • Other: Wikidata will be one of the communities involved in the Phase 2 of the Universal Code of Conduct consultation. Have your say at the consultation talk page or get in contact with the UCoC facilitator, User:Sannita (WMF).

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook, 23 January
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #46, January 24

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogpost: Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q, by Mike Peel and Andy Mabbett.
  • Video: Wikidata editing #27: #Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Dealing with more than one date value in Wikidata (using preferential rank) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lagewi/navigation.js userscript enables adding links to list subclasses and instances to Wikidata items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New dashboard for lexicographical data statistics: Wikidata Datamodel Lexemes
  • The Wikidata Analytics dashboards are now available at a new URL: https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/ (announcement)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: date canceled, subdivision of this unit
    • External identifiers: dati.beniculturali.it agent ID, dati.beniculturali.it site ID, dati.beniculturali.it cultural heritage ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, National Historic People ID, Olympedia event ID, TheCocktailDB drink ID, TheCocktailDB ingredient ID, Fichier des personnes décédées ID, POSIX locale identifier, National Museum in Warsaw ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: shadows, Sacrament conferred by, logo image within scope, BAMID film rating, ABC News Topic, number of rooms to rent
    • External identifiers: Portal da Literatura author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Parabola package, JAANUS ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, BiblioLMC ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, StrategyWiki page, Encyclopedia of Brno Object ID, Holocaust.cz ID, Australian Fungi ID, DeCS ID, Australian Lichen ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, The Language Council of Norway Term ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, SISSCO ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
    • The people of the government of Bangladesh on 13 January 2005 (Source)
    • Buildings in the Basque Country dedicated to San Roque (Source)
    • List of words for "beard" in Eighth Schedule languages (Source)
    • Map of train services starting at Howrah station (Source)
    • Map of big sculptures of New Zealand (Source)
    • Map of mosques in Bangladesh according to architectural style (Source)
    • UK deaths per month since 2005 split by sex/gender (Source)
    • Timeline of Indian cricket tours abroad (Source)
    • Timeline of inception of Mexican universities (Source)
    • Mangifera species and mango cultivars (Source)
    • Locations where The Antartic Circumpolar Voyage expedition passed (Source)
    • English Language forms missing an audio pronunciation -- you can contribute via LinguaLibre
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Greek War of Independence, development of content relative to the Greek War of Independence (Q182062) (this year is the 200th anniversary, from its beginning in 1821)

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
  • Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
  • Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
  • Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
  • Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention

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• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

• The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [20]
• MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 42

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020

• New EBSCO collections now available
• 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
• Library Card input requested
• Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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Wikidata weekly summary #452

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
  • Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
  • Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: Adding New Literature Sources to the Wikidata Integrator, by Charles Tapley Hoyt
  • Blog: Using Wikidata for teaching computer programming using real-world cases (in Basque)
  • Bog: Wikidata: data for everyone (in Dutch)
  • Methodology paper: A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses
  • Video: Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Wikidata for research (webinar in French) - YouTube
  • Video: Let's make sparks with SPARQL tools(in French), by Nicolas Vigneron -YouTube
  • Video: Wrap up presentation of the SWAT4HCLS hackathon project
    • Creating subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
    • Linking the complex portal with other FAIR sources through - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis to go live on 2021-02-08. If you are a Cloud VPS user or Toolforge developer, check your tools after that date to make sure they are properly running.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: character type, derived from organism type, applicable “stated in” value, number of aid beneficiaries
    • External identifiers: BABEL author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, Parabola package, FL number, Hungarian Film Archive ID, IFPI Danmark work ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, NZ Museums ID, StrategyWiki page, Australian Fungi ID, Discord invite ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, JAANUS ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: onscreen participant, catégorie d'établissement sanitaire et social, code Activité principale exercée, catégorie d'entreprise, Imagehash perceptual hash
    • External identifiers: SISSCO ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID, Malpedia ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Sachsen-Anhalt, Swiss Games Showcase ID, Baudenkmal-ID Niedersachsen, PeriodO ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, Pantone color ID, Family Video Game Database ID, AAR ID, github topic, TeatralRo ID, Landshuth ID, Patrinum ID, ChemRxiv ID, TlF ID, PO ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, CinefanRo person ID, CinefanRo film ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer IDs, BookBub Author ID, HERIS-ID
  • Query examples:
    • Czech religious buildings used also as a fire station
    • Common ingredients to prepare a sandwich (Source)
    • Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)
    • Mexican presidents who have an image of their signature on Wikidata (Source)
    • Timeline of Mexican writers who were born between 1800 and 1900 (Source)
    • TV-Series in Spain by Decade (Source)
    • Diplomats who are also art collectors (Source)

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
  • Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
  • Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
  • Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
  • Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
  • Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
    • Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
    • Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
    • Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [21][22]

Changes later this week

• Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [23]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

February 2021 at Women in Red

Women in Red | February 2021, Volume 7, Issue 2, Numbers 184, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191 Online events: New: Black women | Classicists | Folklore Contest (Jan/Feb/Mar): Africa Year-long campaign: Women's rights Continuing: #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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The Signpost: 31 January 2021

• News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021

• Special report: Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection

• In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades

• Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation

• In the media: The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists

• Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically

• Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years

• News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world

• Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers

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Wikidata weekly summary #453

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

• Events
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
  • Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Set preferences and common.js (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
  • Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
  • A new tool, Ranker (documentation, announcement tweet and video), lets you edit the ranks of multiple statements at once.
  • The SPARQL endpoint for linguaLibre is now available (Source)
  • New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
  • Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Query Service(WDQS) Data Analyst Consultant. Apply today!
  • Clean-up tasks to experiment with bots or other tools

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: BAMID film rating
    • External identifiers: Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, 45cat 7" release ID, ABC News topic ID, Aracne author ID, Econlib person ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Songlexikon ID, Swiss Games Showcase ID, MNBAQ ID, Art in the Christian Tradition ID, Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, AAR ID, BiblioLMC ID, Cultural heritage ID in Lower Saxony, GitHub topic, Discord username
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: represented in sport by, photographer of, reissue, master's thesis, service status information URL, unusualness, Debian Package Tracker ID, Seismic classification
    • External identifiers: Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, EMS ID, FloGrappling ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Wolfram language WordData word ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, Finna ID, LexML ID, Swedish Literature Bank placeID, BVFE author ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources authority ID, playDB play ID, playDB artist ID, DicoPolHiS ID, Pandektis ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Baudenkmal), Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Bodendenkmal), Whiskybase distillery ID
  • Query examples:
    • Basque lexemes and their attestations in a 1745 Spanish-Basque dictionary, with links to dictionary entries in Wikisource
    • Lexemes describing a color (Source)
    • Danish-Hebrew Lexeme pairs (Source)
    • Lexemes in Swedish with usage example that demonstrates both a form and a sense and a reference (Source)
    • Episodes of the TV series "The Mentalist"
    • Nationality of authors publishing papers relevant to the Australian fauna (Source)
    • Number of musicians on Wikidata by country (Source)
    • Map of ISO 3166-2 codes (Source)
    • Map films that have been filmed in Mexico (Source)
    • Map of Githubtopics on Wikidata (Source)
    • Eye color distribution of the people on Wikidata (Source)
    • Timeline with the start date of the Summer Olympics (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Czech given names

• Development
  • Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
  • Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
  • Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
  • Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
  • Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
  • Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
  • Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
  • Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
  • Wikibase Release Strategy
    • Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
    • Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes

Hog Farm

Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes

Berean Hunter • Xeno

Oversight changes

Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Tech News: 2021-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [24]

Changes later this week

• You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [25]
• Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [26][27]
• Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [29][30]
• Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [31]

Changes later this week

• You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [32]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

• When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [33][34]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [35]
• Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [36]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)