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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.
Recent changes
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [1][2]
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. [3][4]
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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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #445
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- 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)
- 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
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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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.netis 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:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [5]
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)
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KLST (talk) | Add sources |
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WJAR (talk) | Cleanup |
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KXNW (talk) | Expand |
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KREX-TV (talk) | Expand |
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KQRX (talk) | Expand |
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WSAV-TV (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
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Skype for Business Server (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
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KDLH (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
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WVSG (AM) (talk) | Merge |
| 29 |
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WWZZ (talk) | Merge |
| 194 |
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NHK World-Japan (talk) | Merge |
| 491 |
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Magnetic tape data storage (talk) | Wikify |
| 31 |
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Television standards conversion (talk) | Wikify |
| 174 |
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Criticism of Windows Vista (talk) | Wikify |
| 2 |
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Adrien Quiret de Margency (talk) | Orphan |
| 2 |
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Björksele (talk) | Orphan |
| 2 |
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Avingak Creek (talk) | Orphan |
| 223 |
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Microsoft Stream (talk) | Stub |
| 84 |
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Fullscreen (aspect ratio) (talk) | Stub |
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KWST (talk) | Stub |
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Semantic Scholar (talk) | Stub |
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KMUS (talk) | Stub |
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WMEJ (talk) | Stub |
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Why my link was removed?
Hi Emma, Thank you for letting me know that my link was inappropriate for the readers. But according to me the link was correctly placed and was mentioning the correct information. Waiting for your response.
Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.73.33 (talk) 07:00, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
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. [6]
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. [7] - 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. [8]
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20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2020
- Arbitration report: 2020 election results
- Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
- Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
- Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
- Essay: Subjective importance
- Gallery: Angels in the architecture
- Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas