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Tech News: 2024-41

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

Weekly highlight

Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [1]

Updates for editors

Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [2]
View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [3]
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [4]
Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
Five new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:) [5]
- a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [6]
- a Wiktionary in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [7]
- a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [8]
- a Wikinews in Shan (n:shn:) [9]

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This Month in GLAM: September 2024

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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue IX, September 2024
Headlines
Albania report: Wikimedian in Residence at Elbasan’s Ethnographic Museum in Albania Argentina report: GLAM and communities Australia report: Artbank's edit-a-thon for gender equity in Australian visual arts Belgium report: Project 'Belgian distilleries as Linked Open Data' completed Brazil report: Photowalks for Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 at five corners of Brazil France report: 4th edition of the Label Culture Libre India report: Digitization at the Museum of Santal Culture, Federation Hall Society Library and Cultural Heritage and Literature in Meghalaya New Zealand report: Report on the Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical 2024, Conference report for SPNHC-TDWG 2024 and the upcoming New Zealand species edit-a-thon Poland report: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland Spain report: Wiki Takes Rural Archaeology Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: Wiki content in interfaith education USA report: Banned books and more Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group September monthly highlights Special story: Global GLAM calls from November: short survey, and register! Calendar: October's GLAM events
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-42

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The winner this Translation of the week is

en:Little Danes experiment
(fa:آزمایش دانمارکی‌های کوچک)

Please be bold and help translate this article!

The little Danes experiment was a 1951 Danish operation where 22 Greenlandic Inuit children were sent to Danish foster families in an attempt to re-educate them as "little Danes". While the children were all supposed to be orphans, most were not. Six children were adopted while in Denmark, and sixteen returned to Greenland, only to be placed in Danish-speaking orphanages and never live with their families again. Half of the children experienced mental health disturbances, and half of them died in young adulthood. The government of Denmark officially apologised in 2020, after several years of demands from Greenlandic officials.

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Wikidata weekly summary #649

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #648

Events

Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: [10]
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:
  - create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc.
  - add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- Small data, slow data − a SNAIL approach to Wikidata: discusses the value of small, carefully curated datasets in the era of big data. It emphasizes the importance of taking a methodical, "snail-paced" approach to data collection and analysis, which can lead to more meaningful and accurate insights. The blogpost also highlights how this approach can complement the broader trends of big data, ensuring that detailed, high-quality data is not overlooked.
Papers
- "WoolNet: Finding and Visualising Paths in Knowledge Graphs" given two or more entities requested by a user, the system finds and visualises paths that connect these entities, forming a topical subgraph of Wikidata (Torres Gutiérrez and Hogan)
Videos
- Introductory workshop to Wikidata within the framework of the Latin America Contest in Wikidata 2024 (in Italian)
- GeoPython 2024: Bridging Worlds: Python-Powered Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap: This talk explores Python-powered tools that integrate Wikidata with OpenStreetMap, allowing users to link entries between the two platforms to enhance geospatial data accuracy while navigating legal and ethical challenges of cross-platform data sharing.
- LD4 2024 Conference: Wikidata and Open Data: Enhancing the Hausa Community's Digital Presence
- Dynamic Mapping using Collaborative Knowledge Graphs: Real-Time SKOS Mapping from Wikidata: This presentation introduces a workflow using SPARQL queries to dynamically map live Wikidata data to SKOS concepts, featuring a Python tool that converts CSV outputs into RDF triples for integration into linked data environments and knowledge graphs, emphasizing real-time data retrieval and interoperability.
- How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbanli)
- Clean-up of problematic Dagbani lexemes: Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Documentation/Languages/dag#Maintenance_tasks (in Dagbanli)
- How to link Wikidata Items to Wikipedia Articles
- Best Practices to editing Dagbani Lexemes on Wikidata
Podcasts
- Could making Wikidata 'human' readable lead to better AI?: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Portfolio Lead Product Manager at Wikidata Deutschland, discussed a new project aimed at making Wikidata more 'human' readable for Large Language Models (LLMs), which could improve AI reliability by giving these models access to high-quality, human-curated data from Wikidata.
Notebooks
- Citizenship concentration in Nobel laureates
- Continental and country diversity in Wikipedia articles

Tool of the week

Elemwala (এলেমওয়ালা) (https://elemwala.toolforge.org): is a proof-of-concept interface that allows you to input abstract content and get natural language text in a given output language. There may well be errors with particular inputs, and the text may not be quite as natural as you might expect, but that's where your improvements to your language's lexemes, other Wikidata items, and the tool's source code come in!
mlscores: Tool for calculating multilinguality score of Wikidata items (including properties). E.g. for Wikidata (Q2013), the scores are - en: 99.66%, fr: 89.49%, es: 84.07%, pt: 68.47%. For instance of (P31), the scores are - en: 99.86%, fr: 87.12%, es: 80.83%, pt: 61.37%.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Launch of WikiProject Deprecate P642: The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642). Currently, of (P642) is labeled as "being deprecated", meaning its use is still allowed, but discouraged. From a peak of around 900,000 uses, the property now has around 700,000 uses (see status here). Our goal is to reduce that as much as possible in a systematic way, while ensuring that appropriate properties exist to replace all valid uses of of (P642). The latter is key to officially deprecating the property. Before removing the property, we want to get as close to zero uses as possible.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
  - characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
  - has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  - publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
  - leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  - magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
- External identifiers: Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID
New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
  - chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  - mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  - health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  - damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  - male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  - female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  - Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  - WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  - JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  - beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
  - has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  - Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
  - most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  - FAO fungal entity ID (identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy)
  - TEES ID (Dictionary of Turkish literature works)
  - bais (Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.)
  - TDK lexeme ID (Dictionary created by the [[Q1569712|Turkish Language Association]])
  - Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID (Online Turkish encyclopedia created by [[Q6062914]] and [[Q19610584]])
  - Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  - Stated in unreliable source (used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made)
- External identifiers: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Hlídač státu subject ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, Dwelly entry ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque, LWW journal ID, BAHRA ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, AniSearch person ID, identifiant Babelio d'un sujet, Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen, ITTF PTT ID, Push Square series ID, VG247 series ID, dtf.ru person ID, Identifiant Libération d’un sujet, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, obastan.com dictionary IDs, Israel Railways Corporation Ltd station number, Spirit of Metal band ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Legaseriea.it player ID, Identifiant Actu.fr d’un sujet, Identifiant TF1 info d’un sujet, Identifiant RTL d’un sujet, Identifiant France Info d’un sujet, graphclasses.org ID, identifiant L’Équipe d'une équipe de basketball, identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur, eHLFL ID, Journalistikon.de-ID, NRW-Archivportal-ID, Taiwan Railways station number, DVIDS unit ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
Newest WikiProjects:
- PatternsKilkenny - Patterns were devotional days on the day of the patron saint of a parish or area or at least an annually occurring day when the people of the locality held their personal devotions in a certain pattern (hence the name), i.e. "doing the rounds" around trees or other landmarks at the sacred site. This project tries to collate the records and memories of these patterns for County Kilkenny.
- Deprecate P642 - The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642).
- AIDS Walks - This project aims to collaborate with Wiki editors across the globe to highlight AIDS Walks anywhere in the world.
- Temples in Roman Britain - The aim of the Wikiproject Temples in Roman Britain is to record and catalog sacred spaces in the Roman province Britannia between 43 to 409 CE. By sacred spaces, we include (for the moment) only built structures such as temples, sanctuaries and shrines.
- LinkedReindeersAlta - Wikidata Entry: WikiProject LinkedReindeersAlta (Q130442625) supported by the Research Squirrel Engineers Network (Q73901970). Commons Category:Category:Rock Art of Alta
- Nihongo - The goal of this project is to capture the Japanese Language Japanese (Q5287) in its entirety on Wikidata. We aim to give advice and establish standards for representing Japanese words as lexemes.
WikiProject Highlights: Cycling/2025 teams
Newest database reports: User:Ivan A. Krestinin/Vandalized Commons links
Showcase Items: Queen of Katwe (Q20921603) - 2016 film directed by Mira Nair
Showcase Lexemes: kuiri (L311934) - "cook" in Esperanto

Development

EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to find an EntitySchema by its label or aliases when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement (phab:T375641)
Design system: We are continuing the work on migrating the Query Builder from Wikit to Codex
REST API: We finished the work on language fallback support in the REST API (phab:T371605)

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.

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
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: 2024-42

Latest comment: 22 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Updates for editors

The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [11][12]
WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [13]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [14]
Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [15]
Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [16]

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榭/謝 unit of measurement?

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Hello @Donald Trung, as you are an expert on Vietnamese coins. I was wondering if you know of this unit of measurement and if you could provide any other sources on it.

When I was reading Ấu học hán tự tân thư 幼學漢字新書 (In the process of digitalizing it). At the end of the first book, page 20, It mentions units of measurements specifically 尺, 寸, 丈, 斤, 两, and 榭/謝. (榭 is found in a different version of the book). The text mentions that a 榭/謝 is comprised of a 100 (百) 斤. I tried searching online about this unit, but could not find anything. Hope that you can help me. Lachy70 (talk) 05:26, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Lachy70:,

I've never heard of Tạ (謝) as a unit of measurement. While I know a lot of modern books on Vietnamese cash coins and I've found contemporary official government reports and newspaper articles, these documents aren't mint documents and don't really contain any information about units of measurement.

Now, interestingly enough I had come across this document (a few weeks ago) from the year Thành Thái 10 discussing the Hàm Nghi Thông Bảo (咸宜通寳) series of cash coins that were briefly minted during the reign of the Hàm Nghi Emperor, but I wasn't able to find the whole text online.

I know a man who has read original mint documents and imperial decrees relating to the rules and regulations of currency during throughout Vietnamese history, François Thierry, 6 (six) years ago I contacted him through "fr.thierry@transasiart.com", but I'm not sure if he still uses this address.

By the way, are you able to read the seal script on the seal affixed to the above document? I can only read "XXX XXX Nguyễn Xuân Phiếu" (XX阮春縹), unfortunately almost nobody can read seal script anymore outside of Taiwan and I don't know any seal masters I can ask. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:47, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Interesting that the Resident-Superior of Tonkin was mentioned on the document you linked, now, maybe you've seen this, but are you aware of any documents in Classical Chinese written by the Residents-Superior of Tonkin or the Residents-Superior of Annam, or the Residents-General of Annam and Tonkin?

Because I know that the Governors-General of French Indo-China used this seal on Classical Chinese documents, but I've never seen any Classical Chinese documents by the Residents-Superior. Interestingly enough, the mayors of Hanoi did place their (French-style) seals on French and Romanised Vietnamese texts, but not on chữ Nôm texts ('"Exempli gratia). -- Donald Trung (talk) 08:54, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for trying anyway. Also I am not able to read seal script, sorry. I believe there are groups on Facebook where you may find people who can help you with that. Giao lưu Ấn Chương Triện Khắc - 印章篆刻 is one notable group. Good luck. Lachy70 (talk) 09:57, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, I'll check them out. Donald Trung (talk) 11:03, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 October 2024

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-43

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The winner this Translation of the week is

en:Kharayeb

Please be bold and help translate this article!

Kharayeb (Arabic: الخرايب) is a historic town in the Sidon District in the South Governorate, Lebanon. The town is 77 km (48 mi) south of Beirut, and stands at an average altitude of 190 m (620 ft) above sea level. The town boasts a rich historical legacy, with archaeological excavations revealing a complex settlement history spanning from Prehistory to the Ottoman period. Notably, Kharayeb's origins can be traced back to the Persian period (539–330 BC), when it played a pivotal role in the region's agricultural and economic landscape, culminating in the construction of its Phoenician temple around the 6th century BC.

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Wikidata weekly summary #650

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #649

Discussions

Open request for adminship: Addshore (RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2024 18:03 UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot:
- CarbonBot - (1) Add default mul labels to given and family names when the item has an existing default label with a mul language (2) Remove duplicated aliases matching the items mul label, when the item has a native label in with a mul language. As mul has not been fully adopted, a limited of aliases would be modified each day to ensure existing workflows are not disrupted. It is expected that these tasks will apply to roughly 800,000 given and family names.
- So9qBot 10 - Add first line (P1922) with the first line of the paper to all scientific papers which has a full text link or where the abstract is available.