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Wikidata weekly summary #405
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Kostas20142
- Events
- March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
- July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
- Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
- Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
- About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
- OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
- External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
- External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID
- Query examples:
- Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
- British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
- Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
- People with profiles on the Washington Post website
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
- Bridge: more style adjustments
- Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
- Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)
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!
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
- Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [1]
Changes later this week
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [2]
- When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [3]
- On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [5]
- There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPagewas used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [6]
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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
This Month in Education: February 2020
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Request for Clarification
Sir, This is TheGoodIndian here. I see that my account on Wikispecies has been blocked infinitely, citing vandalism, on 1 March. The vernacular names for a few birds that I had added were reverted immediately. I am both surprised and confused as to what action of mine constituted vandalism. I can assure you that all I have done on this platform has been in good faith. I request you to kindly explain to me what led to this block. Regards, TheGoodIndian (talk) 14:05, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
- Your most recent edit there added a vernacular name for a bird which translates as "India is at risk". Others were apparently equally unrelated to the names of birds. You are free to place an unblock request on your talk page there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:28, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for such a quick response. My recent edits adding vernacular names of a few Indian birds, were based on a report titled 'State of India's Birds 2020'. While the original report is in English, a one page summary in Bengali was also released (as were summaries in other Indian languages), which served as my primary source. Here is the link for the original report: https://www.stateofindiasbirds.in/ And here is the Bengali summary: https://www.stateofindiasbirds.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SOIB-one-pager_BANGLA_WEB.pdf Anyone with a proper grasp of Bengali will be able to tell you that none of the names there can possibly translate to "India is at risk". This has been a very unfortunate misunderstanding. And I request you, sir, to help me clear this, since I don't know how to place an 'unblock request'. Regards, TheGoodIndian (talk) 17:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
- @TheGoodIndian: I looked at your edit to wikispecies:Alauda gulgula and put the name you added ঝুঁটিভরত into Google translate. The translation from Google is "India is at risk". In light of that, perhaps you want to revise your assertion that "Anyone with a proper grasp of Bengali will be able to tell you that none of the names there can possibly translate to "India is at risk". While ঝুঁটিভরত might be better translated as something like "risky", are you absolutely sure that your source doesn't have a typo?
- @Andy: I don't see a similar problem with the other edits, and perhaps we ought not to assume that the local names of birds have to translate into something sensible in English? --RexxS (talk) 19:23, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
- @RexxS: I will stand by my assertion. As a native Bengali-speaker, I can tell you that the word ঝুঁটি (jhoo-ti) translates to a tuft of hair on the head, or a crest, the kind that you can see over the head of a rooster or in samurai hairstyles. The second part is ভরত (bhorot), which may have been mistaken for ভারত (bharot), the name for 'India' in many Indian languages including Bengali. Nevertheless, I checked Google Translate myself and found that it is, indeed, translating ঝুঁটি as "risk". I assume that it is mistaking ঝুঁটি for the word ঝুঁকি (jhoo-ki), which is the actual Bengali for risk. I know that no Wiki project is a platform for political comments, and I have never and will never write anything so ridiculous as "India is at risk" on such a site. As for the source, since that report has been produced by renowned institutions, including the WWF and the Wildlife Institute of India, it is extremely unlikely that it will have a typo. I rest my case and request both you and Mr Mabbett to kindly remove the block on my Wikispecies account. Regards, TheGoodIndian (talk) 13:40, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- As I noted above; You are free to place an unblock request on your talk page there.. I also draw your attention to the note left on that talk page. I am now closing this discussion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:58, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- @RexxS: I will stand by my assertion. As a native Bengali-speaker, I can tell you that the word ঝুঁটি (jhoo-ti) translates to a tuft of hair on the head, or a crest, the kind that you can see over the head of a rooster or in samurai hairstyles. The second part is ভরত (bhorot), which may have been mistaken for ভারত (bharot), the name for 'India' in many Indian languages including Bengali. Nevertheless, I checked Google Translate myself and found that it is, indeed, translating ঝুঁটি as "risk". I assume that it is mistaking ঝুঁটি for the word ঝুঁকি (jhoo-ki), which is the actual Bengali for risk. I know that no Wiki project is a platform for political comments, and I have never and will never write anything so ridiculous as "India is at risk" on such a site. As for the source, since that report has been produced by renowned institutions, including the WWF and the Wildlife Institute of India, it is extremely unlikely that it will have a typo. I rest my case and request both you and Mr Mabbett to kindly remove the block on my Wikispecies account. Regards, TheGoodIndian (talk) 13:40, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for such a quick response. My recent edits adding vernacular names of a few Indian birds, were based on a report titled 'State of India's Birds 2020'. While the original report is in English, a one page summary in Bengali was also released (as were summaries in other Indian languages), which served as my primary source. Here is the link for the original report: https://www.stateofindiasbirds.in/ And here is the Bengali summary: https://www.stateofindiasbirds.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SOIB-one-pager_BANGLA_WEB.pdf Anyone with a proper grasp of Bengali will be able to tell you that none of the names there can possibly translate to "India is at risk". This has been a very unfortunate misunderstanding. And I request you, sir, to help me clear this, since I don't know how to place an 'unblock request'. Regards, TheGoodIndian (talk) 17:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
Arbitration case opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 23, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.
All content, links, and diffs from the original ARC and the latest ARC are being read into the evidence for this case.
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For the Arbitration Committee, CThomas3 (talk) 05:59, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #406
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
- New request for comments: Restrictions on making items
- Events
- WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
- Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
- The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson
- Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
- Tool of the week
- wikibase-cli (Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a batch mode, and EditGroups support (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for feedback!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
- EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at
- External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
- Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
- Fixing various production errors
- Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
- Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (phab:T196165)
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!
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 new search word called
articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [7][8][9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
- The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [10]
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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: February 2020
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The Bugle: Issue CLXVII, March 2020
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Hello from Ali
Hello Andy, thanks for your help today. --Ali OccPsychology (talk) 14:51, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #407
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject
- Events
- Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
- Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
- Postponed:
- Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
- WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
- Cancelled:
- Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
- Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
- Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
- Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
- Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts
- Tool of the week
- TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New help page: Suggesters and selectors
- All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
- Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
- QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
- News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
- External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
- External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
- Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (phab:T165648)
- Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (phab:T247478)
- Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (phab:T245865)
- Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (phab:T243779)
- Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (phab:T246873)
- Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (phab:T246349)
- showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (phab:T235208)
- research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
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 new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use
action=changecontentmodelto specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [11]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
Future changes
- If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [12][13]
- You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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PMV
Hello, Pigsonthewing. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.
Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.
Useful links:
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- Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.
If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 17:02, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
- Taking a flier that you won't misuse this, please use with care regarding extra features. — xaosflux Talk 17:02, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Xaosflux: I'm honoured; and that will be very useful. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:12, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello
I didn’t get an answer to this, so I thought I would ask direct. You said in your edit summary here, "Plenty of results on Google"; would you care to elaborate?
The search I did for the term showed a load of hits (over 2 million!), but most of them (that weren’t in German, or were mirrors of the page here) were for the Imperial Treasury in Vienna only; while the specific searches ('Rosenborg palace + Schatzkammer', 'St Marks Basilica + Schatzkammer', etc, turned up nothing useful (8, and 5 hits resp.). There's nothing to substantiate the claim being made. Do you have any different results? If so, can you add them to the article? Regards, Moonraker12 (talk) 23:56, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
I understand your comments when it comes to the RFC—I really do. However, I'm unsure how else this issue can be put to rest other than having an RFC on the matter. While ANI is an option when it comes to Debresser's apparent refusal to accept consensus, which is disruptive, resolving the content dispute through an RFC, hopefully once and for all, is probably still useful. Best, MrClog (talk) 23:40, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
- It is a complete waste of everyone's time. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:47, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you
Dear Pigsonthewing, thank you for taking the time of assisting me in visualising my Wikipedia:Infobox consolidation considerations. PPEMES (talk) 14:42, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
April 2020 at Women in Red
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Wikidata weekly summary #408
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
- Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
- Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
- Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
- External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
- External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Federated properties: set up a test system (phab:T247734)
- ore work on search for remote properties (phab:T246349)
- Bridge: more work on messages about the license (phab:T238728)
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!
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Problems
- Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
- There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [14][15]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.
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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Technical Barnstar |
| For efforts in supporting minor folks out there when trying to improve things to the best of their ability. PPEMES (talk) 18:11, 23 March 2020 (UTC) |
Hi Andy, your views are clear, but you should formally !vote on this. Johnbod (talk) 04:42, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Deaths from Coronavirus disease 2019
A tag has been placed on Category:Deaths from Coronavirus disease 2019 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:56, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hello, Pigsonthewing,
- There is already a pre-existing Category:Deaths from the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic category. Liz Read! Talk! 15:58, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks
Thanks for the tip at COIN; I may have given the company time to scrub unsightly information this time, but in the future I will be certain to archive similar material. Best. SamHolt6 (talk) 14:29, 30 March 2020 (UTC)