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Wikidata weekly summary #639

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-05. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
    • UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
    • ZLBot - Task: request SPARQLs for RAG.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects. Agenda.
  • Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Forage - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js: importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
  • Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
  • Wikidata now has a shiny new landing page for developers: Wikidata:For developers

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
  • mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled release.

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

Tech News: 2024-32

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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.

Feature news

  •   Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [1][2]
  • Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
  • The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

  • Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
  •   The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

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Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.

Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Isabelle Belato
 

  Interface administrator changes

  Izno
 

  CheckUser changes

  Barkeep49

  Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

  Arbitration

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Question from Deep singh kumawat on Wikipedia:About (04:38, 4 August 2024)

Latest comment: 3 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

How can we complain if some unknown management abuses their rights and blocks us from contributing to Wikipedia? After getting blocked we can neither edit any article nor can use any email service because their email details are not given and also intentionally did not reply to any email. --दीपसिंह 04:38, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Deep singh kumawat, you can place {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} on your talk page. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:13, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks....Qwerfjkl दीपसिंह 02:40, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

MassXFD bug

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Hi Qwerfjkl! I believe MassXFD has a bug. When I go to other scripts' special pages (for instance, User:Ahecht/Scripts/massmove.js uses Special:Massmove), MassXFD prevents the other script's dialog from showing. (Well, it shows up for a moment, but then disappears. Sort of like a FOUC in reverse.) Would you be able to take a look at this? Best, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 03:20, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

HouseBlaster, I think I've fixed this. The regex for loading just checked for Special:Mass followed by anything (but it wouldn't load anything because it doesn't know what to load, so it just wipes the page). — Qwerfjkltalk 09:03, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Working now. Thank you :) HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 12:20, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #640

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-12. Please help Translate.

Events

  • Wikimania 2024 took place in Katowice, Poland. You can watch replays of the sessions on YouTube. Additionally, recordings of individual sessions are linked to each item on the Eventyay schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • New Q5 - is a form that quickly sets up a Wikidata Item for an individual by generating a QuickStatement with the basic parameters such as name and age.
  • User:Nikki/SDCInfo.js - is a Userscript that shows some Wikimedia Commons statements on pronunciation audio statements on Lexeme forms.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Not much happened this past week because the team was attending Wikimania.

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

Tech News: 2024-33

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Feature news

Project updates

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

massXFD

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The mass RfD tool just left two notices on the target article talk page using the same heading and no signature. The log on the mass RfD page showed one notification on article talk, then threw an edit conflict error, then showed a second notification on article talk. voorts (talk/contributions) 16:25, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Voorts, okay, I think I know why that happened - it's because it just adds a target talk page for each redirect and doesn't check for duplicates. (This obviously caused an edit conflict because it tried to edit the same page twice, but it retried after failing.) It should be easy to fix, but I'm currently on holiday. I'll get to this within a week, hopefully. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:18, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Enjoy your holiday. voorts (talk/contributions) 20:36, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Voorts, I've had a go at fixing this now, but I haven't tested it, so let me know if anything stops working. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:04, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2024

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Question from Jimbob54 (22:50, 16 August 2024)

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just a hi Jim is great --Jimbob54 (talk) 22:51, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

what

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are you the bot account or bot owner? I'm confused. Ieditwikiepdia (talk) 19:59, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

This is the human account. User:Qwerfjkl (bot) is the bot account — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:02, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Talk at WT:SD

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I have opened a discussion on the talk page for short descriptions to form a consensus on some aspects of short description formatting. Your input would be greatly appreciated. -1ctinus📝🗨 22:01, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Redirect listed at Redirects for discussion

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  A redirect or redirects you have created has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 August 18 § WP:SD until a consensus is reached. HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 22:25, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Mick Lauer

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  Hello, Qwerfjkl. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Mick Lauer, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 03:06, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Another random email query

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Any thoughts as to why Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved isn't triggering the bot email notice? Not the end of the world but I realised it's been getting skipped. Primefac (talk) 00:03, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Primefac, sorry, I can't see any errors related to that. I could understand if random pages were occasionally skipped, that would just be an issue with timing, but not one page being consistently skipped. Next time, can you check if the page shows up on the raw watchlist feed? — Qwerfjkltalk 08:21, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Hmm, BN got skipped again (didn't catch it early enough) but one the other watched pages got skipped as well (and it's a frequent not-getting-emailed candidate)
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Just looking at AnomieBOT's contribs, the /Approved edit was made before the main BRFA edit, so it's not a race condition issue like I was initially thinking. There are a few talk-page-of-subpages that didn't show up either (and the archiving of WP:AN also seems to be getting skipped) but those might be one-offs. Of the pages I know it's not emailing me about, BN, AN, and the /Approved page are consistently on that list.
Don't get me wrong, I am pleased as punch that this tool exists and has what appears to be a 90+% success rate. I can live with not having every edit in my emails, but BN and AN are two of the boards I really want to keep in my sights, which is why I'm constantly bugging you about it :-p Primefac (talk) 12:58, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Primefac, I'm on holiday right now, but I'll have a look in a few days. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:30, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Cheers, no rush. Primefac (talk) 15:34, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Primefac, okay, looking at this now. /Approved doesn't seem to show up on your watchlist feed, which is strange. This might not be my fault after all.
Looking at the logs AN shows up, as does BN, so I dont know why you wouldn't be getting emails for either of those. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:58, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Weird. There was one point a year or so back where I wasn't getting any emails about WP:A/R/M being changed (bot or otherwise), and we guessed it might be due to the size of my watchlist itself (which is >5000 pages). Maybe it's time to prune things down again. Primefac (talk) 18:44, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Don't know if you're still away, but the bot seems to be down; haven't gotten any messages in a few days. Primefac (talk) 10:08, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Primefac, should be fixed now. There was a little typo in the code. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:16, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! Primefac (talk) 10:22, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #641

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-19.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship:
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - Task: Infer   of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels.

Events

  • (Save The Date)
    • Wikidata Days Bologna - November 8 - 9, 2024. Dario Nobili Library (CNR). A conference dedicated to the Italian-speaking Wikidata community, with a focus on libraries and research.
  • Ongoing
    • Like Soccer? Did you know the Uganda Wiki Soccerthon 2024 is still running and aims to create over 300 Wikidata items on Ugandan clubs, players, coaches, leagues, associations and leagues related to Ugandan soccer.
  • In case you missed it...
    • Catch up on all the Wikimania 2024 sessions with these YouTube replays. Or check the Eventyay schedule for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Anvesha is a drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is the Wikidata Walkabout.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata: For Developers - We have a shiny new portal for developers wanting to build applications using Wikidata's data. Visit it for inspiration with showcase examples, resources, information and support.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • QuickStatements Community Consultation, until August 31st
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling.
  • Wikipedia and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
  • Wikidata Query Service graph split: The WMF Search Platform team is setting up the servers for the split graphs. We hope to have them ready for use soon. We also prepared the constraints checks for this.

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

Tech News: 2024-34

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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.

Feature news

  • Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
  • Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [5]
  •   Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [6][7]

Bugs status

  •   Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
  • Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

  • The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
  • The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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