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Tech News: 2022-29
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
- The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [1]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
Future changes
- The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing [email protected] before 12 August.
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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Re:Capital of French Indo-China between 1939 and 1945
From what I know, Hanoi was still the official capital of French Indochina during this period. There were, however, indeed an idea and then a plan of making Dalat the federal capital of Indochina under Governors-general Jules Brévié and Jean Decoux, as being shown in Jennings' book Imperial Heights. You can access it at Chapter 13 through the Wikipedia Library. Greenknight dv (talk) 19:11, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
- Greenknight dv, "Additionally, if you are currently blocked or banned from a Wikimedia project, applications to resources may be rejected or restricted. If you obtain a Wikipedia Library account, but a block or ban is subsequently instituted against you on one of the projects, you may lose access to your Wikipedia Library account.". Unfortunately I won't be able to apply for this privilege. -- Donald Trung (talk) 19:25, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
- Greenknight dv, But thank you for the information, could you then update the false claim at the "Da Lat" article? As it false claimed that it was the capital city between 1939 and 1945. -- Donald Trung (talk) 19:28, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-30
The winner this Translation of the week is
Please be bold and help translate this article! The Sack of Shamakhi took place on 18 August 1721, when rebellious Sunni Lezgins, within the declining Safavid Empire, attacked the capital of Shirvan province, Shamakhi (in present-day Azerbaijan Republic). The initially successful counter-campaign was abandoned by the central government at a critical moment and with the threat then left unchecked, Shamakhi was taken by 15,000 Lezgin tribesmen, its Shia population massacred, and the city ransacked. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:46, 25 July 2022 (UTC) |
Wikidata weekly summary #530
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- PangolinBot 1. Task/s: Automatically adds author information to Wikidata scholarly articles (items where instance of (P31) = scholarly article (Q13442814)) that have missing author information. Currently works for articles with the following references: PubMed ID (P698), PMCID (P932), Dimensions Publication ID (P6179), ADS bibcode (P819). Part of Outreachy Round 24.
- BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
- ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
- ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
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- Events
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- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) 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.
- [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
- Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - YouTube
- Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
- Fellowship: Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's
harvest_template.py
script. - Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
- OpenRefine 3.6.0 was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the release page for a changelog and download links.
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- General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for
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- Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)
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- Humans with "native language" "German"
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- Development
- Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (phab:T313116)
- Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (phab:T313467)
- REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
- We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (phab:T307869)
- We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (phab:T312223)
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Tech News: 2022-30
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 www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [2]
Problems
- Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [3]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
- The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [4]
- Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [5]
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).
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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2022
- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
User and IPs making edits to Peacock Princess article
Hi. I raised this issue regarding IPs overlapping a certain SPA at User talk:Ohnoitsjamie#User and IPs making edits to Peacock Princess article. To recap, a few IPs edited the Peacock Princess article back in March. All of them are from a range Ohnoitsjamie then blocked as being used by a Vietnam-related LTA. A new editor, Levanven60, has since been making edits to the article, as well as a few others, with a Vietnam focus. I'm wondering if the user's editing patterns match the LTA, which Ohnoitsjamie said you're more familiar with. Could you help look into this? Thanks. --Paul_012 (talk) 03:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Paul 012:, I would say that it's possible but I wouldn't jump to accuse them. FPT Hanoi is the largest (government-owned) internet provider in Vietnam, when I was editing from Vietnam I was on the same range and if a person lives around the Red River Delta they're likely to be editing from that range. This is also why rangeblocks of that range have to be taken with surgical precision. That aside going over their edits I don't immediately see that many correlations but noted some of Unserefahne's idiosyncrasies, namely starting a (nearly) blank user page and creating the redirect "An Nam" as user "Unserefahne" is obsessed with (the name) Annam and tries to insert this name wherever they can.
- However, this editor seems way too competent to be "Unserefahne". But going over more edits I notice how they add categories even though they're not the main subject (for example here, here, and here). The way they categorise categories is similar, namely "Category name|FIRST LETTER". That is where some people organise categories as "Roads by country|United States" he would do "Roads by country|U".
- But so far I wouldn't call this a clear case and I am inclined to be against blocking this user as they're not really disruptive as "Unserefahne" usually is. But from what I can tell I would suspect them of beign a sockpuppet of user "Unserefahne" within reasonable doubt. That is that they are very likely to simply be a new user, mostly as the field of interest is slightly different and I haven't ever seen user "Unserefahne" edit Myanmar-related articles. --Donald Trung (talk) 03:27, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. I guess we'll see if they continue with the problematic edits, and the usual route of dealing with such behaviour can be pursued if so. --Paul_012 (talk) 09:55, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2022
- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-31
The winner this Translation of the week is
Please be bold and help translate this article! Lau Pa Sat, also known as Telok Ayer Market, is a historic building located within the Downtown Core in the Central Area of Singapore. It was first built in 1824 as a fish market on the waterfront serving the people of early colonial Singapore and rebuilt in 1838. It was then relocated and rebuilt at the present location in 1894. It is currently a food court with stalls selling a variety of local cuisine. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:47, 1 August 2022 (UTC) |
Wikidata weekly summary #531
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names|Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
- EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.
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- Events
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- Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
- Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
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- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, Software
- Past:
- Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)
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- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
- Tour de France Femmes : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online
- Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data
- Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST
- Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship (source)
- This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown
- Map of notable people based on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD which is based on Wikidata. Made by Topi Tjukanov
- Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
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- The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - YouTube
- Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - YouTube
- WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.
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- Template:Generic queries for authors has now generic queries about narrative locations (P840) of works written by an author.
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- General datatypes: contains the statistical territorial entity, recordist, spoken by
- External identifiers: Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met Constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Gitee username, Anghami artist ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Base Budé person ID, Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID
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- External identifiers: IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID, Galleria Recta author ID, Business Online ID, Real Time IDs, The Devil's Porridge Museum Worker Database, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Scinapse Author ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ID, National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID
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- [Significant change] New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module
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- We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
- Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
- Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (phab:T313896)
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.
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- 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.
- Remove the billionaire (Q1062083) value for property . See the list and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
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Tech News: 2022-31
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
- Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting
Phantom
tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
- The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Future meetings
- This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.
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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
This Month in Education: July 2022
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