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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2019)

Mixian rice noodles being cooked on a gas stove at a noodle restaurant in Kunming, Yunnan, China Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Gas stove Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pondicherry • School meal Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 February 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #352

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: NewDataB
  • New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)

• Events
  • February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
  • February 21st to 24th: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
  • February 23rd: editathon about Parliament of Ghana in Accra - Registration
  • March 28th: GLAM & Wikidata day in Switzerland (registration running until March 18th)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Let’s Tango: Computational Musicology Using Wikidata, MusicBrainz and the Wolfram Language, by Toni Schindler

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Got some time? Add QIDs to the tools on Edit items, Query data, Enhance user interface, Visualize data, Lexicographical data, For programmers and List of properties. If some tools don't have their own Items, feel free to create them.
  • Hardware issues at Toolforge and CloudVPS affect lots of tools and coincide with changes in the statement stats dynamics
  • WikibaseCirrusSearch will become a Mediawiki extension
  • You can still help Shani Evenstein with her research: Wikidata as a Learning Platform

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ScaleNet ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Identifiant itch.io, approach angle, departure angle, ride height, type of front suspensions, type of rear suspensions, Football Money League rank, is model of, constraint clarification, has phenotype, observed in, replacement property, evidenční číslo domu, Stack Exchange site
    • External identifiers: WhoSampled artist, äriregister, ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Queerly Represent Me identifier, V.League player ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Google Play Movies & TV id, Fondation Maeght ID, identifiant d'un jeu de données sur data.gouv.fr, BHL part ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Yandex.Music genre ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bubble chart of Indian universities with the most people ever employed by them (source)
    • Graph of shared borders between certain West Bengal community development blocks (source)
    • Tree map of ambassadors to India (source)
    • Fictional swords (source)
    • Taxa named after women scientists (source)
    • Timeline of red pandas (source)

• Development
  • Improve the tools dropdown on query.wikidata.org, which now links Tools categories and the Toolforge (phabricator:T214577)
  • Implement the diff view for Schemas (phabricator:T214396, phabricator:T215514)
  • Implement undo for Schemas (phabricator:T214914)
  • Prevent redirecting an entity to itself (phabricator:T214775)
  • Make pressing enter when editing a lemma save the lemma (phabricator:T206140)
  • Strip whitespace around sense glosses (phabricator:T212019)
  • Create LilyPond datatype (phabricator:T215284)
  • More work to get the new version of the termbox readable on mobile

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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Tech News: 2019-08

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

• When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [2]

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23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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Talk to us about talking

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
   2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
   3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 15:08, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2019)

A cheeseburger at a restaurant Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Cheeseburger Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gas stove • Pondicherry Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 February 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #353

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019 (feel free to add more sub-sections)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm with Open Knowledge Foundation. Video of the presentation of the projects (in German)
  • Running until March 2nd: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and the Diversity of Knowledge workshop in Graz, Austria, on March 3rd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata, by Tom Simonite on Wired
  • Align BNF's video games and Wikidata with Dataiku DSS (in French) by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you're using Wikidata's data dumps, you may want to give feedback on a potential change about when those dumps are generated (ticket)
  • Some games and tools developed during the Wikidata hackathon in Ulm:
    • Card game generator
    • Multiplayer game Guess the (German) Politician
    • Telegram bot @WikidataMisfitBot, sending pictures with one wrong label
    • WikiProjekt offeneregister.de
  • If you're developing new tools or hear about new tools, please add them to Wikidata:Tools so other people can find them :)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: expression of, provisional house number in the Czech Republic, has role in modeling, observed in, has phenotype, type of front suspension, type of rear suspension
    • External identifiers: AICTE Permanent ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number, ScaleNet ID, WhoSampled artist ID, Business Registry code (Estonia), ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Crew united person ID, Fondation Maeght artist ID, data.gouv.fr dataset ID, V.League men's player ID, V.League women's player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Total assists in career, Total points in career, Career plus-minus rating, Penalty minutes in career, Total power play goals in career, Total power play assists in career, Total shots in career, MeSH Descriptor, Former street name
    • External identifiers: NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, PCAD firm ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, SICRIS researcher ID, Physics History Network ID, Sachsen-Anhalt Schutzgebiete-ID, Amis du Louvre ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'un lutteur, Brillant Wiki ID, Official Charts artist ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'une équipe universitaire, Dimensions.guide ID, SensaCine movie ID, SensaCine series ID, Bilibili channel ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women having a good or featured article on Russian Wikipedia but no article on French Wikipedia (source)
    • Timeline of Renaissance humanists (source)
    • Map of cities from the Hanseatic League (source)
    • Image gallery of musicians who have a software title named after them (source)
    • Frequency of first letter in Breton words in Wikidata (source)
    • Items about buildings with coordinates and at least one sitelink, but no image (source)

• Development
  • Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
  • Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
  • Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
  • Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
  • Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
  • Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
  • Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
  • Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
  • Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:58, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-09

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 version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [3]

Changes later this week

• When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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21:17, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

• From the editors: Help wanted (still)

• News and notes: Front-page issues for the community

• In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election

• Discussion report: Talking about talk pages

• Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Binge-watching

• Technology report: Tool labs casters-up

• Gallery: Signed with pride

• Recent research: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers

• Essay: Optimist's guide to Wikipedia

• From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love

• Humour: Pesky Pronouns

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2019)

Wanted posters in Japan, 2004 Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Wanted poster Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Cheeseburger • Gas stove Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 March 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #354

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Esteban16
  • Closed request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiConNL in Utrecht (Netherlands), on March 8-9th (in Dutch and English)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Matching BnF and Wikidata video games using Dataiku DSS (in English) by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata: [5].
  • You can now try Shape Expressions on a test system
  • Creative Commons has a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
  • Tpt's Wikidata history query service stores and allows querying metadata about Wikidata's edit history
  • A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released, check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project over here.
  • Scholarship application phase for Wikimania 2019 is now open until March 15th. The call for track leaders is also open.
  • OpenRefine 3.2 beta was released, with a collection of new features and bug fixes, many of which improve the Wikidata integration.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: multi-channel network, Stack Exchange site, total shots in career, total points in career, total assists in career, penalty minutes in career, career plus-minus rating, preferred pronoun
    • External identifiers: BHL part ID, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music genre ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID, Physics History Network ID, Twitter user ID, identifier of games on Queerly Represent Me, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, SICRIS researcher ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Location specifics, Mountain chain, temperature record, stroke order, Höchstes Break, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Endowment, Guggenheim fellows ID, Downloads page, is a synonym of taxon name
    • External identifiers: Académie de Rouen member ID, Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya ID, Musenor ID, ProQuest document ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, identifikátor v Adresáři knihoven a informačních institucí v ČR, Cour des comptes report ID, Directorio Legislativo ID, Deportation Database transport-ID, Art Fund ID, Scripts.com script, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, DFD-ID, Mutual Art artist ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Project Drawdown solution ID, Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor record label ID, ACA ID
  • Query examples:
    • Average distance between a French museum and its hosted artists' place of birth (source)
    • Persons with a surname that matches the past participle form of a Danish verb (source)
    • Town halls of communes bordering Paris (source)
    • Literary awards with 0–2 recipients (source)
    • Female Howard medical grads before 1900 (source)
    • items including the property "preferred pronoun" (source)
    • Map of tram service in Ulm (source)

• Development
  • Added monolingual language code tlb (Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week)
  • Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
  • Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
  • Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
  • Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
  • Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
  • Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
  • Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
  • Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
  • Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
  • Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
  • Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
  • Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
  • Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
  • Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
  • Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
  • Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:19, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
• The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [6][7]

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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2019)

Zippers with common teeth variations: metal teeth (top), coil teeth and plastic teeth Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Zipper Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Wanted poster • Cheeseburger Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 March 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Wikidata weekly summary #355

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Dimon2711
  • Closed request for adminship: Esteban16, welcome onboard!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki (Invasive plants) April 16th, Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? Biodivesity Next (Leiden, the Netherlands), October 19th-25th 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale by Andrew Lih
  • Data Quality Management in Wikidata – Workshop write-up, by Cristina Sarasua, Claudia Müller-Birn, and Mariam Farda-Sarbas
  • Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives by Elena Villaespesa and Trilce Navarrete

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
  • A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy project seeks to add structure to the Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
  • Suggestions based on constraints can be enabled for all users

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: key performance indicator, inscription mentions, taxa especially protected in area, number of words, collective noun for animals, Cook Partisan Voting Index, league system, endowment, highest break, maximum temperature record, OSM zoom level, hyperonym
    • External identifiers: Dimensions.guide ID, National Wrestling Hall of Fame University Team ID, Official Charts artist ID, Saxony-Anhalt protected area ID, AiF dossier ID, Google Play Movies & TV id, Brilliant Wiki ID, Musenor artwork ID, Indonesian Cultural Heritage Registration System ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, ProQuest document ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Libraries & Information Centers in the Czech Republic ID, Académie de Rouen member ID, Art Fund artwork ID, Cour des comptes report ID, MutualArt artist ID, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, Deportation Database transport ID, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Scripts.com script, Directorio Legislativo ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: located in the constituency, feed-in tariff, General Material Designation, CDEC ID, Family progenitor, solar irradiance
    • External identifiers: film-documentaire.fr author ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, SNISB ID, Rheinland-Pfalz Schutzgebiete-ID, Zagat, Zomato, Libreflix ID, JMdictDB ID, Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands ID, EmacsWiki ID, FFS athlete ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Plant Illustrations artist ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, FaroeSoccer player ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Calendar of Saints' feast days and other calendar queries
    • A bunch of new GLAM-related queries including image gallery of the most notable libraries and map of museums colour-coded by type.
    • the number of songs in Wikidata named after days of the week by day
    • Map of preserved Concorde aircrafts
    • Timeline of video games having at least 42 Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
    • Timeline of Microscopists (source)
    • Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata (source)
    • People with songs named after them (source)
    • Animals most frequently depicted in artworks (source)
    • Field of work of the Austrian scientists with an Orcid ID (source)
  • Women from Africa sorted by number of sitelinks (source)

• Development
  • Work page to get the Schema Text by subpage syntax (phab:T214383)
  • Set up a page to set label, description and aliases for Schema (phab:T215392, phab:T217313)
  • Remove edit tab from Schema pages (phab:T215394)
  • Disable possibility to enter duplicate aliases for the same Schema (phab:T217634, phab:T217749)
  • Add ULS, Babel and CLDR support on wikidata-shex.wmflabs.org (phab:T216146)
  • Add the option to restore Schemas! (phab:T214915)
  • Undo edit on Schemas through API (phab:T217250)
  • Multilingual support on Special:NewSchema (phab:T216154)
  • Work on Termbox SSR integration (phab:T214679)
  • Provide meta tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
  • Make Quickstatements work out of the box in wikibase docker image (phab:T205606)
  • Disabling RDF for Media Info (phab:T213483)
  • Add tooltips for statements linking to a lexeme form (phab:T205279)
  • Allowing multiple wikibase DBs access (phab:T214557)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API (phab:T217243)

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.
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Tech News: 2019-11

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

• Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
• There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

• Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
• Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [8]
• Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [9][10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2019)

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Wikidata weekly summary #356

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • What Wikidata offers Oxford’s GLAM Digital Strategy

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new data type is available : musical notation
  • A research report is now available for the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping. The research investigates which (updated) metadata cultural institutions would like to retrieve back from (Structured) Wikimedia Commons, and what the main barriers are. Research summary / presentation slides / full report
  • If you're using Wikidata dumps, please note that the update schedule may change from fixed weekday to fixed day of the month. More info in this ticket
  • Slides of the Wikidata presentation during UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week by Shani Evenstein now available on Commons.
  • A project to link branded businesses in Open Street Maps to Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Guggenheim fellows ID, Sandbox-Musical Notation
    • External identifiers: Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor label ID, Rhineland-Palatinate protected area ID, film-documentaire.fr author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: average speed, Digital Author Identifier, date of the latest value change, chữ Nôm, capacity factor, study or design for, motif (music), chess position
    • External identifiers: Salvador Dali Museum ID, Tainacan MHN ID, AWARE ID, Cini Foundation ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, Artcurial ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, Periscope pscp.tv, LinkedIn personal profile ID, Library of Parliament Person ID, Gamepedia Article ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, JRC Names id, Fandango theater ID, Epitafier.se
  • Query examples:
    • Color associations in national flags (source)
    • List of German-language female science fiction authors (source)
    • List of the Wikimedia projects in French and languages of France (source)

• Development
  • Prepare new constraint icons (phab:T191322)
  • View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (phab:T210615)
  • Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (phab:T214679)
  • Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (phab:T217244)
  • Work on multilingual support for schemas (phab:T215387)
  • Implement a length limit for the schema text (phab:T216148)
  • Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (phab:T215759)
  • Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (phab:T217333)
  • Deploy the score data type to production

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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Tech News: 2019-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [11][12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [13]
• Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2019)

Lady Gaga playing a keytar, which is a type of keyboard instrument Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Keyboard instrument Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organ (anatomy) • Zipper Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #357

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
  • An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in

• Events
  • Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
  • Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
  • "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
  • A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poukter, Wikimedia UK blog
  • On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
  • The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
  • Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on .
  • Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
  • New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
  • Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
    • External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
    • External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID
  • Query examples:
    • Maximum temperatures on Earth (°F/°C) (source)
    • People with social media accounts that are identical but differently capitalised (source)

• Development
  • Update property suggester data (phab:T216270)
  • Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (phab:T217331)
  • Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (phab:T215386)
  • Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (phab:T217338, phab:T218300)
  • Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (phab:T218459, phab:T218769)
  • Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (phab:T218889)
  • Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (phab:T214679)
  • Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (phab:T217244)
  • Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (phab:T210615)
  • Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (phab:T218111)
  • Fix an issue for score extension (phab:T218535)
  • Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (phab:T213483)
  • Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (phab:T175230)
  • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)

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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Tech News: 2019-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [14]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [15]
• The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [16]
• Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 31 March 2019

• From the editors: Getting serious about humor

• News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive

• In the media: Women's history month

• Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding

• Featured content: Out of this world

• Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM

• Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations

• Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles

• News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive

• Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention

• From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion

• Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur37

• Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?

• In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch

• Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride

• Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings

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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2019)

The interior of a gym in The Netherlands, around 1900 Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Gym Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Keyboard instrument • Organ (anatomy) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 April 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #358

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata meetup during the Wikimedia Summit, March 29th in Berlin (collaborative notes)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for archives in Saint-Etienne, France, on April 3rd and 5th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin in Wikibär on April 14th
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikidataCon 2019 application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open until April 29th
  • Structured Data on Commons: You can now test creating depicts statements
  • While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor, it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
  • OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
  • Discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about the improvements in SPARQL language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: capacity factor, position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
    • External identifiers: Libreflix ID, Kicker.de player ID, Library of Parliament of Canada person ID, RoMEO publisher ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, XING company ID, L'Express person ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, Gamepedia article ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Salvador Dali Museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, FaroeSoccer player ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, Artcurial lot ID, SNISB ID, Tainacan MHN ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, Cini Foundation ID, LinkedIn personal profile ID, ACA author ID, CDEC ID, AWARE ID, JRC Names id, Zomato ID, TV Spielfilm series ID, Fandango theater ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, JMdictDB ID, Zagat ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: First attestation, match interval, réédité par, calligrapher, Ordained by, code produit, Wikidata property example for media
    • External identifiers: Baden-Württemberg Schutzgebiete-ID, K10plus editions, Utpictura18 ID, Le Vif tag ID, Common Sense Media review ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, Democracy Club Election ID, MARGS ID, Kobo author ID, WoRMS source ID, Kobo narrator ID, NGMDb Prod ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, AntWiki, MESH Concept ID, MESH Term ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID
  • Query examples:
    • Siblings who have won the Israel Prize (source)
    • British female engineers, 1919-2019 (source)
    • Female scientific illustrators (source)
    • French archivists with a picture (source)
    • Archive institutions in Switzerland and how much they hold (source)
    • Graph of open source research software by field (source)
    • Groups of characters in the Marvel universe (source)
    • In what type of places are ancient Greek potteries stored? (source)

• Development
  • Work on a dashboard for external identifiers (phab:T204440)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API modules (phab:T217243)
  • Add tests for embed.html (phab:T212649)
  • Improve features for wikibase vandalism detection model (phab:T194737)
  • Improve Property Info cache performance (phab:T218115, phab:T218197)
  • Adding nofollow to external identifiers links (phab:T175230)
  • Hide query helper by default in Query Service (phab:T217886)
  • More work on wb_terms normalization (Phab board)
  • Enable trimming whitespace around Label/Description/Aliases and Schema text (phab:T215761)
  • Prevent moving Schemas between namespaces (and generally) (phab:T219313)
  • Limit the length of Schema labels, descriptions, aliases, and schema text in the frontend (phab:T218867)
  • Add tracking for clicks on the “check entities against this Schema” link (phab:T218899)
  • Disallow importing of Schemas from another wiki or XML files to avoid ID conflicts (phab:T218181)
  • Make sure RTL text is being handled correctly in the Schema labels, descriptions and aliases table (phab:T219136)
  • Add a publish button on mobile termbox: (phab:T218573)
  • Building the wbeditentity request to be fired on save request: (phab:T218577)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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  • 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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Tech News: 2019-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [18]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).

Meetings

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2019)

Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Story of the Negro Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gym • Keyboard instrument Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 April 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #359

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Stanglavine (welcome onboard!)
  • New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories
  • Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 14th in Wikibär
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
  • Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July 4-5. Call for submissions is now open

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention content receives, by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
  • [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled, causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API
  • The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
  • The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
  • The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
  • New tool: Related Properties, exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog post by Envlh)
  • Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings, video games

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: stroke order, CHVRS Classification, Classification RCQ, musical quotation or excerpt
    • External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Sumo Reference ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Periscope pscp.tv, BHCL ID, Baden-Württemberg protected area ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Springboks Rugby Player ID, Utpictura18 artwork ID, Le Vif tag ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, MARGS ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, FIS telemark skier ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Arcade system, Audio system, IANA time zone identifier, has sequenced genome, WMF short URL, translated to (language translation)
    • External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID, OpenEdition ID, MassBank Accession ID, identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl, identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu, CIN ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, DCMI metadata term, CroRec ID, Radio Courtoisie program ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, LNB Coach id, Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID, Trainline ID
  • Query examples:
    • Public art in London (source)
    • Software titles that have their own mascot (source)
    • Wikipedia articles using a transgender person’s deadname in the title (source)
    • Entities linked to a 3d model (source)
    • Graph of parties at the Feb 1974 general election in the UK (source)
  • Newest database reports: first names of Italians

• Development
  • More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440)
  • Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844)
  • Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (phab:T218893)
  • Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298)
  • Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181) and page moves (phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980)
  • Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300, phab:T219173)
  • Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (phab:T219979)
  • Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (phab:T219318)
  • Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
  • Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (phab:T204439)
  • More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (phab:T216987)
  • Let term value fields grow with their content (phab:T220185)
  • More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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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Tech News: 2019-15

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

• More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
• Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [19][20]

Problems

• You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [21]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [22]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [23]

Changes later this week

• When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [24]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [25]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [26]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [27][28]
• The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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Wikidata weekly summary #360

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Non-free content

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata at work on tcworld.info
  • Searching News Articles Using an Event Knowledge Graph Leveraged by Wikidata (pdf) (search engine demonstration)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
  • New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
  • Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
  • The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
  • Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
    • External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
    • External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gender balance of art prizes and Gender balance of literary awards (source)
    • Images used on more than one item about a person (source)
    • Map of public libraries in Wales coloured by county (source)
    • Artworks by street artist Invader in Versailles (source)
    • American Sign Language signs for the letters of the English alphabet
    • French Sign Language signs for the letters of the French alphabet

• Development
  • Added Sámi monolingual language codes sia (Akkala), sjk (Kemi) and sjt (Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (phab:T217521)
  • Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (phab:T220609)
  • Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (phab:T220122)
  • Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (phab:T212869)
  • Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (phab:T217741)
  • Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (phab:T220587)
  • Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (phab:T207363)
  • Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
  • More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (phab:T216987)
  • More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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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Tech News: 2019-16

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

• All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [29][30]
• You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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Tech News: 2019-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [31][32][33]
• The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [34]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [35][36]

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Wikidata weekly summary #361

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
  • Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
  • Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
  • OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
  • Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
  • Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
  • The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
  • Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
  • Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
  • You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
    • External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
    • External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID
  • Query examples:
    • All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
    • Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
    • Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
    • Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
    • Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)

• Development
  • Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
  • Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
  • Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
  • Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
  • Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
  • Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
  • Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #362

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: BRPever

• Events
  • Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
    • Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
    • Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
  • Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
  • The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
  • Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
  • New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
    • External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
    • External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network
    • Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
    • Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
    • Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)

• Development
  • Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
  • Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
  • Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
  • Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
  • Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
  • Add new monolingual codes: qya sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo) (phab:)
  • Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
  • Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
  • More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

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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Tech News: 2019-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [37][38]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [39]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [40]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [41]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [42]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [43]

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• News and notes: An Action Packed April

• In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

• Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

• Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

• Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

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• Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

• News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

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• From the archives: Portals revisited

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Wikidata weekly summary #363

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
  • Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
  • Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
  • Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
  • Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
  • An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
  • New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
    • External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
    • External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater
  • Query examples:
    • Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
    • Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc. (source)
    • Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
    • Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)

• Development
  • Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
  • Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182, phab:T222133, phab:T222129)
  • Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
  • Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
  • Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
  • Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
  • Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
  • Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)

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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Tech News: 2019-19

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

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [44]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #364

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
  • Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
  • Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
  • Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
  • New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
    • External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
    • External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Street signs in Rennes (source)
    • Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
    • Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
    • Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
    • Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata

• Development
  • Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
  • Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
  • Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
  • Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
  • More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on phab:T221764)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
  • Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

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• 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.
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Tech News: 2019-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).

Meetings

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Recent changes

• The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [45][46]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [47][48]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [49]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [50]

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Wikidata weekly summary #365

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
  • Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
  • Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
  • Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
  • Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
  • Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
  • QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
  • Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
    • Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
    • BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
    • Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
    • Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
    • Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
    • GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
    • Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
    • Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
    • Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
    • Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
    • Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
    • AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
    • ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
    • Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
    • All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
    • Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
    • External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values (source)
    • Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
    • Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
    • Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)

• Development
  • Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
  • Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
  • Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #366

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
  • Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
  • Published in WWW 2019
    • Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
    • QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
    • Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
    • Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
  • Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
  • Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
    • External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
  • Query examples:
    • European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
    • Map of meteor impact craters (source)
    • Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
    • Number of riots per country (source)
    • European country having the most female politicians (source)

• Development
  • Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
  • Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
  • Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
  • More work to get termbox ready for deployment
  • Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

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
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  • 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.
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Tech News: 2019-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [51][52]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

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Wikidata weekly summary #367

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
  • Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada

• Press, articles, blog posts

• • Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
  • Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
  • At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
  • Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
  • Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
    • External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
    • External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gay parades in Italy in 2019
    • Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
    • Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
    • Dunes in Wikidata (source)
    • Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
    • Map of archives in the world (source)
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• Development
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  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
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  • Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
  • Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
  • WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
  • Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
  • More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
  • Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
  • Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)

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Recent changes

• You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [53]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [54]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [55][56]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [57]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [58]
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Tech News: 2019-24

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Recent changes

• When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [59][60]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [61]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [62]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [63]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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Wikidata weekly summary #368

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
  • Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
  • Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
    • External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
    • External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID
  • Query examples:
    • Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search) (source)
    • Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
    • Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies (source)

• Development
  • When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
  • More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
  • Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221831)
  • Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221833)
  • Add EntitySchema in the license footer (phab:T224536)
  • Several improvements to shex simple tools (phab:T221604, phab:T221606)
  • Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (phab:T223372)
  • Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (phab:T224593)
  • Improved tests and fixed failing tests

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Wikidata weekly summary #369

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles

• Events
  • Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
  • Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
  • On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
  • New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
    • External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
    • External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
    • Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
    • Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
    • Péniches in Lyon
    • Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
    • Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
  • Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism

• Development
  • Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (phab:T216835)
  • Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (phab:T224545)
  • Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621)
  • Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235)
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
  • More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997)
  • Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

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Tech News: 2019-25

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

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [64]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [65]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [66]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [67]

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Wikidata weekly summary #370

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
  • Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
  • WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
  • Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
  • Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
  • Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
  • From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
  • Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
  • Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
  • Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
  • The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
  • CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
    • External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
    • External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on (source)
    • Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
    • Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
    • French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
  • Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard

• Development
  • Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
  • Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
  • Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
  • Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
  • Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
  • Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
  • Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
  • Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
  • Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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Tech News: 2019-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [68]
• Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [69]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #371

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
  • Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
  • State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
  • Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
  • Published in ArXiv:
    • DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
    • ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
  • Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
    • External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID
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    • General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
    • External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language (source)
    • Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (source)
  • Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
    • Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre (source)
  • Newest database reports: education by country

• Development
  • More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
  • Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (phab:T225935)
  • Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (phab:T224832)
  • Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (phab:T218282)
  • Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (phab:T225603) according to the migration plan (phab:T221765)
  • Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (phab:T205045)
  • Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223305)
  • Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (phab:T225500)
  • Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (phab:T222193)
  • Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (phab:T226672)

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Tech News: 2019-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [70]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [71]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [72]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [73]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #372

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
  • The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
  • Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
  • Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
  • You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
  • Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
  • Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
  • New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
    • External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
    • External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage
  • Query examples:
    • 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
    • Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales (source)
    • Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
    • Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
    • World map of sign languages by country (source)
    • Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
    • Map of World Heritage places in Europe (source)
    • Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
  • Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery

• Development
  • Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
  • Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
  • Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
  • Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
  • Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
  • Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
  • Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
  • Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

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!
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Tech News: 2019-28

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

• For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [74]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [75]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
• The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [76]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [77]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [78]

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Tech News: 2019-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [79]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Edit filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [80]

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Wikidata weekly summary #373

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Upcoming: Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting on July 16th
  • Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
  • How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
  • Videos of the presentations given during the Wikidata OSM workshop in London

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
  • Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
  • Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: IMFDB work ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, National Transportation Safety Board report ID, Epitafier.se ID, magazine in BitArkivo.org, iTunes movie collection ID, Musisque Deoque author ID, DigitalNZ ID, PharmGKB ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Perseus ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, Typing discipline, video game mod, Arachne collection ID, NOTAM, begin and end of covered period ; covered period, periphrasis, Kerala state school code, The Latin Library author ID, type code, FEC campaign committee id, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, Ex æquo with, EU Publication office ID, Supreme Court docket number
    • External identifiers: National Library of Luxembourg ID, Lebanese National Library ID, National Library of Morocco ID, National Library of Iceland ID, Syriaca person ID, Syriaca work ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Library of Chile ID, ACMI ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Hazardous Chemical Information System ID, ANZCTR ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, AICS Chemical ID, PBS Manufacturer ID, PBS Drug Code, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Arachne object ID, Gotlands museum, Indian Super League player ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Album of the Year artist ID, Album of the Year album ID, HOV-ID, Nosdéputés.fr identifiant, TikTok username, NosSénateurs.fr identifiant, eBay username, Jaxsta profile ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, Musixmatch writer ID
  • Query examples:
    • places in Canada with no English label
    • Languages having the most usage examples in Wikidata's lexicographical data (source)
    • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland, colour-coded by gender (source)
    • Symphonies written by Camille Saint-Saëns (source)

• Development
  • Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (phab:T226939)
  • Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (phab:T227207)
  • Track number of links to schema pages (phab:T218903)
  • Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (phab:T227201)
  • Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (phab:T224863)
  • Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (phab:T226152)
  • Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (phab:T220696)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (phab:T225073)
  • Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
  • Opening a modal with edit this link information (phab:T226996)
  • Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
  • Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (phab:T222886)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #374

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: 1997kB

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, July 16th (log)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Tainan Meetup in Taiwan, July 31st (Facebook event)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
  • You can nominate tools for the Coolest Tool Award until July 29th
  • Wikimania's draft program has been published
  • User:Bodhisattwa joined CIS-A2K as Wikidata Advisor
  • wbEntity config value to be dropped on July 24th - if you use it, please consider replacing it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wolfram Language unit code, unabbreviated text, extracted from, imprimitur granted by, terms of service, surface gravity, lexeme, chassis, enemy of
    • External identifiers: PharmGKB ID, Handball123 player ID, ACMI web ID, AtlasFor ID, Adventure Gamers ID, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Russian organisation number, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, Anime Characters Database character ID, Anime Characters Database anime ID, ANZCTR ID, Arachne collection ID, Arachne object ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Biyografya ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, HCIS ID, Lebanese National Library ID, MPG ID, National Library of Luxembourg ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, Penguin India author ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Australian Educational Vocabulary ID, Syriaca work ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, COURAGE ID, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, National Library of Iceland ID, NosDéputés.fr identifiant, Perseus author ID, The Latin Library author ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, HOV-ID, PBS Drug Code, AICS Chemical ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: image of bone or fossil record, (de)evolution method, WeChat Official Account, Dose, hat Mitglied, Variété de la forme, value group number, orientation, Digital audio workstation, title geographic ref, location of point of view
    • External identifiers: misas.org Catholic church ID, identificador de arte público de Zaragoza, Taxonomicon ID, Wayback ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, AFCD PFKID, Plant Breeders Rights Database AID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV show ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, Bossu ID, Textile Connect publication ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of living people who have walked on the Moon (source)
    • Artworks depicting the Moon (source)
    • People that have been on spaceflights operated by at least two different sovereign states, and their time in space (source)
    • Temporal distribution of book editions in Swedish (source)
    • How long after a UK general election that a political party has appointed a new leader, since 1945 (source)
  • Newest database reports: family names in Ireland

• Development
  • Fix a bug that was preventing to add multiple glosses (phab:T228080)
  • Show number of senses and forms on page information for WikibaseLexeme entities (phab:T224844)
  • Show number of statements and external identifiers on page information for Wikibase entities (phab:T224842))
  • Track number of external identifiers on Wikidata over time (phab:T224129)
  • Fix a few queries on Grafana (phab:T227788)
  • Update the query host for Grafana (phab:T218710)
  • Add support for "MediaInfo" as value for "allowed entity types"-constraint (phab:T224362)
  • Data bridge: open a modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
  • Extract data bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)

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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Tech News: 2019-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
• The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [81]

Problems

• The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [82]

Changes later this week

• Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [83]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [84][85]
• With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [86][87]
• Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
• The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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Wikidata weekly summary #375

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: 1997kB, welcome on board!
  • Closed request for comments: Adopt a username policy

• Events
  • Past: lecture on Wikidata and Mix'n'Match at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, 24 June
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call discussing communication in Wikidata/Wikimedia communities, 30 July. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Technical usability of Wikidata’s linked data - Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability, by Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
  • Scripts that use the Query Service need to be identified by user-agent header
  • Structured Data on Commons - testing statements other than Depicts is ongoing this week before release into production on Commons.
  • OpenRefine 3.2 was released
  • The config value mw.config.get('wbEntity') has been dropped in order to improve the page load time

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IAAF competition category, video game mod of, typing discipline, shrinkage, specific absorption rate, quotation or excerpt, surface roughness, related category, start grade, inverse label item, end grade, privacy policy URL, start of covered period, end of covered period
    • External identifiers: Album of the Year artist ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, Jaxsta profile ID, Indian Super League player ID, misas.org Catholic church ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, FEC Campaign Committee ID, National Library of Morocco ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, NosSénateurs.fr identifier, Supreme Court docket number, PBS Manufacturer ID, Kerala state school code, Taxonomicon ID, Album of the Year album ID, Gotlands museum, Musixmatch writer ID, Qobuz artist ID, wiki on WikiApiary, extension on WikiApiary, skin on WikiApiary, Zaragoza public art ID, Paris Foreign Missions Society ID, TikTok username, AFCD PFKID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, LezWatch.TV show ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: estimated IQ, Manner of torture, date of the first one & date of the last one, Glacier Status, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, bequest, Sells, Opinion joined by, ComingSoon.it film ID, Acknowledgments, copyright exemption, Subscribers, external georeferencer URL, 出演作品, Bar
    • External identifiers: Media Art Database console games ID, Acharts artist ID, Acharts chart ID, Museu do Diamante ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, AMPAS collections person ID, AMPAS collections film ID, Hiking Project ID, Douyin, Vidwan ID, AllTrails ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, identifier of french public Forest, Rijksmonument complex ID, Mojarto artist ID, located on street with OSM relation ID, muenchenwiki.de article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Settlements along the Way of Saint James in Basque Country (source)
    • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland (source)
    • List of regional languages of France (source)

• Development
  • Re-evaluate supporting dcatap namespace (feel free to give feedback)
  • Data bridge: open modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in the modal (phab:T226997)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
  • supporting baserevid request param in lexeme api endpoints (phab:T217245)
  • Fix new store code in order to continue the terms migration (phab:T226008)
  • Fix an issue with broken WikibaseQualityConstraints tests (phab:T228855)
  • Fix issue that used to cause many fatals on production (phab:T227450)
  • Drop wbEntity config in entity pages (phab:T85499)
  • Fix an Internal error in Recent Changes for Lexeme (phab:T228996)
  • Create better summaries for our wbeditentity endpoint (phab:T220696)
  • Respect user's preference for thumbnail sizes on Wikidata (phab:T224189)
  • Allow linking to Schemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Fix a bug with Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
  • Update accounting for WDQS lag in wikidata maxlag param (phab:T221774)
  • More work on allowing accesing one wikibase instance from another (phab:T214557)
  • Deploy the mobile termbox on test.wikidata.org and fix various bugs
  • Show progress/activity on termbox mobile if a save request is still being processed (phab:T222890)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:18, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [88]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

21:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Christchurch mosque shootings

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Christchurch mosque shootings. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2019

• News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India

• In the media: Politics starts getting rough

• Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban

• Arbitration report: A month of reintegration

• Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?

• News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way

• Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect

• Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract

• Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things

• In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:18, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Theodore Edgar McCarrick

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Theodore Edgar McCarrick. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2019)

The human body has several organs. Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organ (anatomy) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Butter churning in Nepal • Flea market Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 August 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •