GeneralNotability
IPBE permanent status
editHello. You granted me IPBE status last year in August for a period of one year and my rights are about to expire so I wanted to make you aware that I have emailed the checkuser team to appeal/apply for permanent status in case you had any input about my asking for it again this time on a permamnent basis this time. Thank you for granting me the right for this past year. It has been very helpful for me. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 15:42, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Huggums537: you should probably be aware that the checkusers mailing list does not accept emails from non-members, so your message may not have gone through. In future you can email the functionaries' mailing list, which checkusers are also members of, at functionaries-en lists.wikimedia.org. I saw your request here and I've extended IPBE for you for one more year from the previous expiry. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:08, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Ivanvector, I don't believe the functionaries list accepts outside email either. The correct address for IPBE requests is [email protected] (see WP:IPECPROXY). – bradv 16:15, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- I was just about to say that I got the email address by following the instructions given in the How to request section at WP:IPECPROXY which @Bradv had beat me to already. If it isn't accepting emails instructions need to be updated or someone needs to check it to make sure emails are getting through... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 16:28, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm, the private list is checkuser-l, not checkuser-en-wp. Maybe I've got it all mixed up. Whatever it is, I didn't see your email. I'll ask around and someone will update those instructions if need be. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- The request did go through to the correct channel, and I just closed the ticket. – bradv 17:10, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Bradv and @Ivanvector, I am also applying to get permanent GIPBE at: Steward requests/Global permissions and I am concerned that a mere one year extension here will affect that decision there since they waited to see if IPBE was established here before they would establish GIPBE there. Will you please reopen the ticket here and reconsider giving me the permanent IPBE I was requesting since there was a misunderstanding here where Ivanvector essentially granted a good faith extension without even seeing the actual request? Thank you very much. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 17:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- My understanding of the local policy is that we are only allowed to grant the permission for terms of at most one year, and then you should re-apply if you still need it. I see nothing wrong with granting it to you for a longer term or indefinitely, other than that I don't think I'm allowed. Anyway, global IPBE does not let you edit through local IP blocks, so you'll also need the local permission even if you're granted the global one. And checkuser-en-wp is the right address: that's the intake queue for the checkuser volunteer response team, which I'm not on for some reason.
- I'm going to see what we can do for you here, but it might take a little while to figure out. You're good to go for now, at least. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:30, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Ivanvector, thank you for the immediate good faith extension here without having seen the "complete and official" request first, but only this cursory one here. Also, thanks for the strong vote of confidence for an indef status on my IPBE rights. It will be ok if it takes some time to figure out because I just realized they must have changed the rules over on Meta since I first established the rights. It appears they now require a minimum two week period before granting any requests, presumably for reasons related to deliberation/consensus. On a side note, I stumbled upon some interesting information that might be helpful to the case. When I was browsing the userpage of my former mentor @SMcCandlish, I found that @Jon Kolbert had given him GIPBE with no expiry so that got me to thinking to check this list for other examples of users that are not nor ever have been admins with no expiry set on IPBE and I didn't even get past the "A"'s when I found that @Materialscientist granted Ammarpad IPBE with no expiry since late 2017. Just to make sure this was not a one-off or some weird quirk, I went ahead and found one more example where @KrakatoaKatie also granted Antiqueight IPBE with no expiry since late 2017 as well. I hope I don't have to go through the whole list in alphabetical order all the way to the "Z"'s to find every single example here... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 09:17, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
- Huggums537, in 2017 IPBE and other user rights were on/off; you had it permanently or you didn't have it at all. Expiration dates for user rights didn't come until just a couple of years ago. If you want to go find all examples of IPBE without expiration, be my guest, but it won't endear you to the CUs and it won't help your case for a longer term. Please do not ping me again to this thread. Katietalk 04:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- My apologies to all the users pinged in this thread. I just realized I provided the examples above to prove a point without actually making any point. The point I was trying to make is that there appears to be evidence of a wide latitude for discretion of the setting of expiry as in the example just a couple years ago where @Deepfriedokra granted APK the customary one year right, then no expiry after that. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 07:59, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- There is also another very similar example to that one right here where the customary one year IPBE was granted and then no expiry after that. I'm not really all that worried about endearing myself to CU's. I just want what makes sense to me and however I can show proof it appears to be customary and fair. Thank you. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 08:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Huggums537, in 2017 IPBE and other user rights were on/off; you had it permanently or you didn't have it at all. Expiration dates for user rights didn't come until just a couple of years ago. If you want to go find all examples of IPBE without expiration, be my guest, but it won't endear you to the CUs and it won't help your case for a longer term. Please do not ping me again to this thread. Katietalk 04:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Ivanvector, thank you for the immediate good faith extension here without having seen the "complete and official" request first, but only this cursory one here. Also, thanks for the strong vote of confidence for an indef status on my IPBE rights. It will be ok if it takes some time to figure out because I just realized they must have changed the rules over on Meta since I first established the rights. It appears they now require a minimum two week period before granting any requests, presumably for reasons related to deliberation/consensus. On a side note, I stumbled upon some interesting information that might be helpful to the case. When I was browsing the userpage of my former mentor @SMcCandlish, I found that @Jon Kolbert had given him GIPBE with no expiry so that got me to thinking to check this list for other examples of users that are not nor ever have been admins with no expiry set on IPBE and I didn't even get past the "A"'s when I found that @Materialscientist granted Ammarpad IPBE with no expiry since late 2017. Just to make sure this was not a one-off or some weird quirk, I went ahead and found one more example where @KrakatoaKatie also granted Antiqueight IPBE with no expiry since late 2017 as well. I hope I don't have to go through the whole list in alphabetical order all the way to the "Z"'s to find every single example here... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 09:17, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Bradv and @Ivanvector, I am also applying to get permanent GIPBE at: Steward requests/Global permissions and I am concerned that a mere one year extension here will affect that decision there since they waited to see if IPBE was established here before they would establish GIPBE there. Will you please reopen the ticket here and reconsider giving me the permanent IPBE I was requesting since there was a misunderstanding here where Ivanvector essentially granted a good faith extension without even seeing the actual request? Thank you very much. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 17:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- The request did go through to the correct channel, and I just closed the ticket. – bradv 17:10, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm, the private list is checkuser-l, not checkuser-en-wp. Maybe I've got it all mixed up. Whatever it is, I didn't see your email. I'll ask around and someone will update those instructions if need be. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- I was just about to say that I got the email address by following the instructions given in the How to request section at WP:IPECPROXY which @Bradv had beat me to already. If it isn't accepting emails instructions need to be updated or someone needs to check it to make sure emails are getting through... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 16:28, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Ivanvector, I don't believe the functionaries list accepts outside email either. The correct address for IPBE requests is [email protected] (see WP:IPECPROXY). – bradv 16:15, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Comment: I don't usually give away a whole bunch of personal information, but if it will help the process to come to a decision more efficiently, I can share the fact that my primary profession is in the transportation industry and travelling for work IS what I mainly do for a living. The real estate investing, online selling, and other stuff are just side hustles. I think reasonable people can see I am a busy person on the road not living in my parents' basement so having no expiry set would relieve me from pointless periodic time wasting. (No offense to anyone living in the folks' basement. I'm all for saving money!) Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 11:59, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Huggums537: I have a lot of experience of granting IPBE. Yes, we have a lot of discretion. Currently the longest I grant is I think about 3 years (maybe some a bit longer), which is generally for people who have had one or more year-long grants before, and have a network/block problem (i.e. a need) lasting that long. Our granting practices have changed over time, and vary by admin for other reasons, but there is a definite trend towards not granting risky rights indefinitely. This is because users do not last forever, and when they become inactive their accounts become a rich target for compromise attempts. Plus they confound attempts to maintain rights for others who may or may not need them. I think you'll find that checkusers are on average happy to grant IPBE in many cases, for as long as they are needed. They are not needed indefinitely, which in many cases is equivalent to forever, and so it's not really reasonable to insist on indefinite. Just ask for a longer period each time and you will soon have enough IPBE to not worry about it again. Come visit me in a year and I'll make sure the next grant is longer, if you still need it. Most meta stewards understand our rights-granting policies and it shouldn't affect what they grant you. -- zzuuzz (talk) 08:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- WOW. 3 years seems kinda strict compared to others who have set no expiry. I appreciate the offer, but I might wait for a better one to come along from a more freethinking admin since Katie already warned me my crazy idea of going through the whole list to find all the examples wouldn't help me so it seems my best option is to humbly wait patiently for someone to be kindly generous or freethinking since I have not made any effort to endear myself to anyone. I guess that is the rub. Maybe if I wasn't so cold and calculating, then you guys would trust me more and I could endear you to just give me what I want because you like me and trust me so much...😂 Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 09:47, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Trust and like don't really come into it, though I will say that it's easy to squander good opportunities. Ivan granted IPBE apparently even without reading your full request, and I'm in the same position. No, the question is one of need. You need IPBE? You have it. You need it forever? Unlikely. -- zzuuzz (talk) 10:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Well, I will keep your opportunity in mind. It is appreciated. I just see things differently than most do I guess. IPBE has probably been around here longer than I have so it doesn't make any common sense to me that it suddenly became a security risk in just the past couple years. I think you probably described the situation very accurately when you said the idea of this has led to a recent practice where
...there is a definite trend towards not granting risky rights indefinitely.
I'm of the belief that this is more grounded in the "trend" part of the description where a type of herd mentality led to others following the trend thinking it was some sort of brilliant idea when in fact it may have all been started just because one person wanted some way to put a restriction on some asshole. If it truly were such a great security risk, then we would have to ask ourselves about that question of need and why anyone outside of admins much less the 5 examples I gave would ever need it "forever". We would also have to ask ourselves why all of the people who currently have it "forever" and are not admins are not being restricted with time limited rights. Has there really been any serious discussion about this "risk" or is it truly just a recent trend in the community as you described? Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 13:28, 13 July 2024 (UTC)- I think that it's time to drop this, before someone starts wondering why you would care so much about avoiding scrutiny a year from now. – bradv 17:35, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oh. I've heard this music before and the overture to this melody tells me my eardrums will be blown out of proportion before the end of the crescendo so it was real nice chatting with you fine folks... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 20:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- I think that it's time to drop this, before someone starts wondering why you would care so much about avoiding scrutiny a year from now. – bradv 17:35, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Well, I will keep your opportunity in mind. It is appreciated. I just see things differently than most do I guess. IPBE has probably been around here longer than I have so it doesn't make any common sense to me that it suddenly became a security risk in just the past couple years. I think you probably described the situation very accurately when you said the idea of this has led to a recent practice where
- Trust and like don't really come into it, though I will say that it's easy to squander good opportunities. Ivan granted IPBE apparently even without reading your full request, and I'm in the same position. No, the question is one of need. You need IPBE? You have it. You need it forever? Unlikely. -- zzuuzz (talk) 10:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- WOW. 3 years seems kinda strict compared to others who have set no expiry. I appreciate the offer, but I might wait for a better one to come along from a more freethinking admin since Katie already warned me my crazy idea of going through the whole list to find all the examples wouldn't help me so it seems my best option is to humbly wait patiently for someone to be kindly generous or freethinking since I have not made any effort to endear myself to anyone. I guess that is the rub. Maybe if I wasn't so cold and calculating, then you guys would trust me more and I could endear you to just give me what I want because you like me and trust me so much...😂 Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 09:47, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: Ajraddatz, was kind enough to grant the GIPBE on Meta and there was even a hint about the possibility getting GIPBE on a permanent basis next time so that is some good news. However, there seems to have been an issue with the archive bot interrupting discussions over there and I opened a discussion about it at: Meta:Talk:Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Problems_with_bot_or_stewards?_Community_decides... if anybody is interested in reading/discussing it. Also, Ajraddatz if you would like an opportunity to answer my reply that got deleted in the archive here this would probably be just as appropriate a place as any since the commentary was about this very discussion I think. Thanks. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 23:51, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Your tone just seems very combative here, especially since you are arguing with a bunch of highly trusted volunteers who have been doing a lot of this for a long time. It's generally recommended to come into these requests with some humility and grace. (G)IPBE is a right with a very low bar for entry, but I for example would be hesitant to grant it to a user with a history of behaviour issues on-wiki. Repeated interactions like this one might give rise to that impression about you. I say this without any malice towards you, and was happy to grant your request assuming good faith. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 01:01, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Ok. I clearly see the point you are trying to make and that's completely fair, but with all due respect and all of the humility or grace that I can possibly muster, I would like to suggest that using very vague and highly subjective terminology such as "tone" to determine the intent of behavior in text based messaging is extremely unreliable at worst and at best it causes enough confusion in the discussion for me to ask myself if I'm just that incredibly dense or do these over broad generalizations have so little substance that they just squish through your fingers when you try to grasp them? The two obvious solutions that stick out to me are first that you could just ask me about my tone instead of trying to guess at it and I would be very happy to relieve everyone here by letting them know I've had no harmful intent of being combative or argumentative so that way you have it straight from the primary horse's mouth that no matter what the "tone" looks like this is the meaning behind it. The other solution is to explain the points better, and if there are any secondary source experts who think they know me better than I know myself, then be my guest to get them to analyze the source material and help explain it to me what an asshole I've been because I still don't get it. Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 08:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Your tone just seems very combative here, especially since you are arguing with a bunch of highly trusted volunteers who have been doing a lot of this for a long time. It's generally recommended to come into these requests with some humility and grace. (G)IPBE is a right with a very low bar for entry, but I for example would be hesitant to grant it to a user with a history of behaviour issues on-wiki. Repeated interactions like this one might give rise to that impression about you. I say this without any malice towards you, and was happy to grant your request assuming good faith. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 01:01, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 July 2024
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Wikidata weekly summary #637
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- DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
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- Representación de datos abiertos con Wikidata Query Service (Q126917814). This paper details the Wikidata Query Service, for the creation of data visualizations. All visualization options available in the WQS are explored, accompanied by example queries that introduce the implementation of these visualizations. By Ángel Obregón-Sierra and Silvia Cecilia Anselmi.
- Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models - with CUBE, a benchmark built out of Wikidata, to evaluate cultural awareness and cultural diversity of text-to-image models (Kannen et al, 2024)
- Videos: OpenRefine import into Wikidata of data from the BnF catalog: books by Marguerite Van de Wiele (in French)
Tool of the week
- Paulina, a new tool for exploring public domain works.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.
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- Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
- Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [1]
- Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [2]
- Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
- Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [3]
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Wikidata weekly summary #638
editThis is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-29. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
- UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.
- Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- "Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata" By Martin Poulter for the Cultural Content Substack
- WikiEdu: What I learned taking an introductory Wikidata Course - Anne-Christine Hoff, associate professor of English at Jarvis Christian University, describes her experiences and learnings from taking an intro to Wikidata course, provided by the WikiEdu.org, a project of the Wiki Education Foundation.
- Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - This study investigates the behaviours, communication patterns and interactions of the core small Wikidata community that are responsible for 80% of its content, in order to future contribution and participation. By E. Koutsiana et al.
- A Wikidata-Based Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources - This paper presents KIF, a Wikidata-based framework for virtually integrating heterogeneous knowledge sources and discuss how it was used to solve a real integration problem in the domain of chemistry (involving Wikidata, PubChem, and IBM CIRCA). By G. Lima et al.
- Press release: Arricchimento dei dati di authority di SBN attraverso il confronto e lo scambio con Wikidata (in Italian): ICCU, the institute coordinating the biggest Italian OPAC (the OPAC SBN, involving more than 7 thousands libraries), has just finished enriching about 16200 nearly empty authority records with data taken from the respective Wikidata items (Wikidata items link to SBN authority records through P396); this announcement describes in detail the enrichment work, which started in June 2023; for more information (and bibliography) about the collaboration between ICCU and Wikidata, see d:Wikidata:Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche/SBN (in Italian)
- Videos
- Intro to Wikidata - This intro to Wikidata was provided for participants of the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024, held in Brasília. Presented by Artur Corrêa Souza and Éder Porto, organised by Wiki Movimento Brasil.
- Mining and Modeling Text using Wikibase - the University of Trier is building a knowledge graph on French Enlightenment novels 1751 - 1800 with the use of Wikibase.
Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This user script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
- Common values, yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- KDE Itinerary, KDE's travel assistant app, gets more Wikidata integration.
- The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback to evaluate "default values for all languages" (mul) in the Termbox. Please share your thoughts on this 5-10 minute anonymous survey: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-default-values-feedback
- The Wikidata (integrations) for Wikimedia projects team have released a progress report on their ongoing research project, investigating the "State of Wikidata usage on other wikis". Available on the Research page, alternatively on Commons.
- 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).
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
- ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
- EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
- writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
- last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
- Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- Newest External identifiers: Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Political Dictionary entry, United Nations Digital Library ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, FDC ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums, GamingOnLinux Database ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Military Equipment in Policing - Project to connect police equipment defined as military equipment to capabilities, uses, manufacturers, descriptions, etc.
- Quran - to collaborate on Quran-related topics and organise Quran Wikidatans; help others and get help whenever needed to improve Quran-related items (and properties); create Quran-specific tools' libraries, queries, and resources;
- Sufism - collaborate on Sufism-related topics
- Newest database reports: Hindustani nouns without gender in a language
- Showcase Items: Fugger (Q37018433) - family name
- Showcase Lexemes: ikkje-vald (L3483) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "non-violence"
Development
- IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
- EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
- Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
- REST API:
- We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
- We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2024-31
editLatest 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 using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
- Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
- There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (
voy:cs:
) [4]
Learn more
- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
- There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
- Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25
editHey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
edit- inline-diff-inline-patrol by Ponor is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog...
Improve a script
edit- Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
- Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
- To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
- We want...
- ...watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
- ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
- ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work
Requested scripts
edit- Automatically delink all duplicate links within the same section per MOS:LINKONCE.
- Collapsible parentheses in body text, which had a ridiculously long original request title and was accidentally moved to WP:US/L by me. Oops!
- An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
- Preview an edit under the mobile viewport on desktop, with perhaps MediaWiki:Gadget-mobile-sidebar.js used for inspiration.
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Jeeputer and Nardog have been the most active on the page in the past five months.
Updated scripts
edit- After the RIIJ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
- Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Newly maintained scripts
edit- Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
- BilledMammal/Move+ expands the powers of User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser to include common procedures done with the art of moving pages.
- On a holiday? Somewhere? Gotta learn ye ABCs? CanonNi/StatusSetter puts the fun into Enterprisey/StatusChanger with a quadruple more statuses. That starts with a C!
- In our continuing trend(s?), DaxServer/DiscussionCloser forks DannyS712/DiscussionCloser to make it work. Sadly, this is the end of our lexicographic combo.
- Andrybak:
- user-tabs-on-contribs is a fork of User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs for Vector 2022.
- Archiver is a fork of User:Enterprisey/archiver with automatic calculation of the destination archive subpage and with support for non-Vector skins.
- Quite coincidentally, Elli/OneClickArchiver has been forked from User:Equazcion/OneClickArchiver to work with the mw:Heading HTML changes.
- FlightTime/OneClickArchiver forks the same thing but also no longer nonsensically prepends {{clear}} to page archives.
New scripts
edit- Aaron Liu: MoveTop adds a different padlock topicon for each level of move-protection.
- Andrybak/Not around can help you mark talk pages of inactive users with {{not around}}.
- BrandonXLF/AddCopied automatically tags talk pages of pages you've copied between with {{copied}}.
- Bugghost/UserRoleIndicator adds text labels (which default to emoji) to user links that label the user's usergroups. Wow, that's a mouthful
- CanonNi/AlertAssistant adds a Twinkle-style dialog for alerting users about contentious topics.
- CFA/AttributeTranslation automatically tags articles translated from other places with appropriate attribution.
- In the defense of the 'pedia, the humble Jeeputer/defconIndicator adds the WP:WIKIDEFCON status to the toolbar.
- Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
- Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
- fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
- TheTechie/Help Me Tool is a quick and easy way of responding to {{help me}} requests.
- Per MOS:CONFORM, ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter converts all citation titles to... title case, unfortunately.
Wikidata weekly summary #639
editThis 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.
- 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
- Blogs: Olympics medalists, not by country, but by NUTS region, By Giorgio Comai
- Papers
- Discovering life's directed metabolic (sub)paths to interpret human biochemical markers using the DSMN tool
- SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions - The SPINACH dataset, derived from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum, offers a more complex and challenging KBQA dataset with 320 question-SPARQL pairs, designed to test the capabilities of KBQA systems in navigating large and incomplete knowledge base schemas.
- Videos
- Using Wikidata to navigate the web (Wikimania Katowice) - Tool demo: Entity Explosion
- Use Wikidata and Lexeme to understand Minnan - COSCUP 2024 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters)
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
- Newest General datatypes:
- writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
- last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
- Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- Newest External identifiers: Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FDC ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores player ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- Military Grid Reference System ID (geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth)
- has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
- growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
- lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
- APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Thinkwiki article, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums, GamingOnLinux Database ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, TIPLOC code, IDU play ID, FolkWiki ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: Sculptures by collection: an Integraality dashboard for WikiProject Sculpture
- Newest database reports: Dagbani Lexemes that wrongly include the grammatical gender property P5185
- Showcase Items: Chinua Achebe (Q155845) - Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
- Showcase Lexemes: Stuorra Dorskavuotna (L636928) - fjord in Hammerfest, Norway (Northern Sami proper noun)
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
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Bermuda
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2024-32
editLatest 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 forTemplate:Dir
andTemplate: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. [5][6] - 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
- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.
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Email from me
editHi, GN. Just noting that I've sent you an email. Thanks, Sdrqaz (talk) 01:03, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
edit- Copied from Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C because this page is listed on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Subscribe.
- You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to other languages.
Dear all,
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.
In cooperation with the U4C,
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
- 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.
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ