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WP:V relating to photographs Policy against demands of proof of non-existence Unnecessary delay in publishing articles translated for $$ by an NGO Village Pump (technical) (32 threads) Most recent: Issue with transclusion of project subpages Dark mode issues Query on template/category identification Image thumbs displaying in negative Sections not collapsing on mobile Cleanup from decades past Discussion at Template talk:Hidden archive top § Heading text colour unreadable in dark mode Dark Mode doing strange things to Page History on pages where Pending Changes is active Dark mode images with transparent color Removing the need for round robin moves Table covers appearance settings Big shout out NPOV Noticeboard archive - redirected? Srikanth Odela List of cities proper by population density Template:Tennis record expansion Start a discussion notice on Talk pages dark mode on Wikipedia More MediaWiki problems? Automated redundancy check on redirects Display of Text Image is Distorted Adding documentation subpage to module doc pages Request for Lua code review: New language module For dark mode: How should a template change the "background-color" property? Not using screen width UX nit: on-hover of link to same page Level 4 vital articles Removing subpage w/o name change? Date editing tools? TemplateStyles CSS help: Background color in edit textarea for dark mode Bot activity problem Village Pump (proposals) (13 threads) Most recent: I see the new Dark Mode but can we also get a 3rd "Dim Mode"? Afd to Prn/Pcn Should it be permitted to list short names/aliases in the documentation pages for maintenance templates? Organized toolbar Bot to restore long-term protections after shorter-term higher protections expire Adding a slight speed bump to slow down revert wars. Does the community still want moved pages to be unreviewed Legalize "subsection" parameter of template "imdb title" "0 days ago" in time duration calculation Allow everyone to move pages in draftspace The Khmer Wikipedia appears with the letters in Bold Request Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Unnecessary line on fundraiser banner Village Pump (idea lab) (8 threads) Most recent: Could MOS:TMRULES be amended to avoid conflict with WP:COMMONNAME, esp for contemporary artists and their works? Adding categorisation for Image supported templates Rewriting WP:BITE Automate suggesting wiki links? Changing all values of the Hebrew language, from Yeshu(ישו), Yeshua(ישוע) Shorter link syntax in citations Bot to automatically fix one class of dead http links Resources on severe mental illness pages Village Pump (WMF) (8 threads) Most recent: Sunday July 28 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (Results of Movement Charter ratification) Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin July Issue 1 Living without the WMF? Revamped community wishlist is now open Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates POTY (Picture of the Year) competition needs help! 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Wikidata weekly summary #608

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

• Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:

1. Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
2. Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
  • Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
    • Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
    • Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
    • No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
    • Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
  • Notebooks
    • Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
    • Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
    • The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
    • Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
    • State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
    • An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

• Tool of the week
  • Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
  • Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID, ‎Black Games Archive ID, ‎Citra compatibility database ID, ‎DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, ‎IGN wiki article ID, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, ‎RPGFan game ID, ‎Arcade Hub ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
      • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
    • External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
    • Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
  • Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
  • Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #609

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.

• Events
  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
  • Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

• Tool of the week
  • WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, ‎HistoriaGames series ID, ‎Schnittberichte.com title ID, ‎Kemono Games game ID, ‎Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, ‎GamesMeter game ID, ‎GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, ‎Indie DB company ID, ‎NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ‎ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, ‎Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, ‎AFJV directory ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
      • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
      • creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
      • television judge ()
    • External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
    • Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
    • Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
  • Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
  • Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
  • Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

• Development
  • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Wikidata weekly summary #610

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
  • Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
• Papers
  • Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
  • Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
  • LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
  • Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
• Videos
  • Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
  • This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
• Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
  • (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
  • ‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, ‎MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
  • Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
  • Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
  • Map of running/out of service railway stations in France
  • Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
  • Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
• Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
• Newest database report: children of unborn parents
• Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
• Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

Development

• IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
• Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
  • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
• 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 · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Wikidata weekly summary #612

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

Discussions

• New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

• Past
  • Wikidata Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
  • PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
  • Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
  • The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
  • Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
• Videos
  • "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
  • Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
    • AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
    • Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

• Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
  • simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, ‎Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • If non-metric ()
  • civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London (source)
  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
  • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
• Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
• Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

Development

• IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
  • We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
  • We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
• mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Cinematography
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024: We are back!

Please help translate to other languages.

Hello, dear Wikipedians!

Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.

We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge! ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk)

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Introduction Membership news, obituary and election results Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page Closing words – Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Wikidata weekly summary #634

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
  • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
• New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

• Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
  • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT 12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Querying for audio on Wikidata - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.
  • Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: Why Wikimedia is an antidote to disinformation - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.
  • Diff Blog: Imagining a Wikidata future for librarians together - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.
  • Census IDs are Now Wikidata External Identifiers
  • Library Knowledge as Linked Data: A Wikidata Approach: Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".
• Papers
  • Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.
  • Papers from the just-ended Wiki Workshop 2024
    • Do LOD Conventions Impede the Representation of Diversity? The Case of Disabled Actors in DBpedia and Wikidata?
    • SPARQL for LIS Analytics: Exploring Gender Representation amongst PCC Wikidata Pilot Participant
    • Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph-Linguistic Fusion
    • Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Entity Schema Generator Demonstration (tool demonstration)
• Videos
  • Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine and Lydia Pintscher show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.
  • Wikidata Editing LIVE at Lexico Days 2024 - User:Abbe98 and User:JanAinali are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.
  • Get more out of Wikidata with Resonator - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available on ToolForge.
  • Knowledge Integrity: Reliability- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph Linguistic Fusion - Diego (WMF) and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the [Wiki Workshop 2024.
  • Inclusion of Communities: Using Wikibase to Leverage Community Sourced Data Initiatives - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).
  • (es) ¿Cómo fortalecer el dominio público con Wikidata? - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is on Paulina, a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.

Tool of the week

• Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata - User:BrokenSegue introduces their new tool.
• User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
• Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia article ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Overcast episode ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID, Google Play author ID, identifiant d'une personne sur Archelec, Standard Ebooks ID, Lojas com História ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, milononline.net entry ID, KANAL identifier, LAGL author ID, Alle Burgen, FC Krasnodar player id, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, GOArt databas, ArchWiki article, Star Wars.com, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Number of people who are both politicians and musicians by political spectrum (source)
  • Lexeme coverage of Indonesian languages
  • UK MPs and their office start/end years (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Inuktitut - This is the space to organize work to assure that the sum of all knowledge and the supporting infrastructure for necessary services are available in Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inuktitut).
• Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same pattern
• Showcase Items: Montblanc (Q761735) - town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia
• Showcase Lexemes: gbuɣi (L725113) - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"

Development

• EntitySchemas:
  • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
  • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
• mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Argentina
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

• Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo

• News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter

• Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession

• In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?

• Obituary: JamesR

• Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword

• Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom

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Wikidata weekly summary #637

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-22. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
  • DerIchBot - Task/s: Adding data about schools provided by the German and Austrian governments to wikidata.
  • DifoolBot 5 - Task/s: Change reference URLs into the related ID property and merge references with the same ID property.
  • AroundTheBot - Task/s: Automated import of Albanian nouns with IPA from Wiktionary, with the long-term goal of using this data to do pronunciation-based comparison/word evolution between languages.

Events

• Past: Wikimedia Indonesia hosted the 2024 Data Visualization Competition from June 5 to 18. The event featured data visualizations (posters and graphics) and short essays using data from Wikidata. Visit the competition page (in Indonesian) to view the winning entries.
• Upcoming: Wikidata's 12th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2024. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • Representación de datos abiertos con Wikidata Query Service (Q126917814). This paper details the Wikidata Query Service, for the creation of data visualizations. All visualization options available in the WQS are explored, accompanied by example queries that introduce the implementation of these visualizations. By Ángel Obregón-Sierra and Silvia Cecilia Anselmi.
  • Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models - with CUBE, a benchmark built out of Wikidata, to evaluate cultural awareness and cultural diversity of text-to-image models (Kannen et al, 2024)
• Videos: OpenRefine import into Wikidata of data from the BnF catalog: books by Marguerite Van de Wiele (in French)

Tool of the week

• Paulina, a new tool for exploring public domain works.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
• Newest External identifiers: English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • object of action & object class of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, The New Mithraeum ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • UEFA teams and the number of players on the team (source)
  • Species of birds and their sounds (source)
  • Archaeological sites and remains in Malaysia with National Heritage status (source)
  • Map of Filming Locations, excludes countries (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Reference Verification - a research and development project aimed at helping Wikidata editors check the quality of external references based on various types of AI/ML models.
  • NZWomenPhotographers - aims to improve information about New Zealand women photographers, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
• Newest database reports: Items with P569=P570 - Items with instance of (P31) --> human (Q5) and the same year in date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) (2024-07-22)
• Showcase Items: Crawford (Q20731004) - family name
• Showcase Lexemes: water (L3302) - (S1) common liquid substance (S2) chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen (H₂O) (S3) a body of water, usually a river, a lake, or an ocean

Development

• mul: We fixed the last blocker for the limited MUL rollout to Wikidata on July 29th (phab:T362917)
• EntitySchemas:
  • We fixed a misplaced background color in EntitySchema (phab:T369283)
  • haswbstatement searches now work for EntitySchema statements (phab:T369495)
  • We’re investigating how to make EntitySchemas searchable by label (phab:T362005)
• Query Service: preparation for the graph split is continuing by the Search Platform Team. We started looking into adapting the constraints checks for it (phab:T369079)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (Talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:13, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-30

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

Feature News

• Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
• Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [1]
• Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [2]
• Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
• Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [3]

Project Updates

• Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. You can also get other news from the Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin.

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Question from MirzaMohammedRz (12:28, 25 July 2024)

How can I add a photo which I don't own --MirzaMohammedRz (talk) 12:28, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

MirzaMohammedRz, it depends on the licensing for the photograph. Can you provide any more details? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:41, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sizya (21:43, 26 July 2024)

i want to write about something new --Sizya (talk) 21:43, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Sizya, if you're looking for a topic to write an article about, I'd recommend Wikipedia:Requested articles. That said, creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 11:03, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Awerhenshi (20:55, 28 July 2024)

How do i make a article --Awerhenshi (talk) 20:55, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Awerhenshi, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 08:10, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #638

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-29. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
  • UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.
  • Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • "Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata" By Martin Poulter for the Cultural Content Substack
  • WikiEdu: What I learned taking an introductory Wikidata Course - Anne-Christine Hoff, associate professor of English at Jarvis Christian University, describes her experiences and learnings from taking an intro to Wikidata course, provided by the WikiEdu.org, a project of the Wiki Education Foundation.
  • Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - This study investigates the behaviours, communication patterns and interactions of the core small Wikidata community that are responsible for 80% of its content, in order to future contribution and participation. By E. Koutsiana et al.
  • A Wikidata-Based Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources - This paper presents KIF, a Wikidata-based framework for virtually integrating heterogeneous knowledge sources and discuss how it was used to solve a real integration problem in the domain of chemistry (involving Wikidata, PubChem, and IBM CIRCA). By G. Lima et al.
• Press release: Arricchimento dei dati di authority di SBN attraverso il confronto e lo scambio con Wikidata (in Italian): ICCU, the institute coordinating the biggest Italian OPAC (the OPAC SBN, involving more than 7 thousands libraries), has just finished enriching about 16200 nearly empty authority records with data taken from the respective Wikidata items (Wikidata items link to SBN authority records through P396); this announcement describes in detail the enrichment work, which started in June 2023; for more information (and bibliography) about the collaboration between ICCU and Wikidata, see d:Wikidata:Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche/SBN (in Italian)
• Videos
  • Intro to Wikidata - This intro to Wikidata was provided for participants of the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024, held in Brasília. Presented by Artur Corrêa Souza and Éder Porto, organised by Wiki Movimento Brasil.
  • Mining and Modeling Text using Wikibase - the University of Trier is building a knowledge graph on French Enlightenment novels 1751 - 1800 with the use of Wikibase.

Tool of the week

• User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This user script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
• Common values, yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• KDE Itinerary, KDE's travel assistant app, gets more Wikidata integration.
• The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback to evaluate "default values for all languages" (mul) in the Termbox. Please share your thoughts on this 5-10 minute anonymous survey: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-default-values-feedback
• The Wikidata (integrations) for Wikimedia projects team have released a progress report on their ongoing research project, investigating the "State of Wikidata usage on other wikis". Available on the Research page, alternatively on Commons.
• The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
  • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
• Newest External identifiers: Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Political Dictionary entry, United Nations Digital Library ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, FDC ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums, GamingOnLinux Database ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Where were people who went to space born?
  • Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
  • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Military Equipment in Policing - Project to connect police equipment defined as military equipment to capabilities, uses, manufacturers, descriptions, etc.
  • Quran - to collaborate on Quran-related topics and organise Quran Wikidatans; help others and get help whenever needed to improve Quran-related items (and properties); create Quran-specific tools' libraries, queries, and resources;
  • Sufism - collaborate on Sufism-related topics
• Newest database reports: Hindustani nouns without gender in a language
• Showcase Items: Fugger (Q37018433) - family name
• Showcase Lexemes: ikkje-vald (L3483) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "non-violence"

Development

• IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
• EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
• Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
• REST API:
  • We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
  • We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Deletion review for Category:DVD interactive technology

Mika1h has asked for a deletion review of Category:DVD interactive technology. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 17:21, 29 July 2024 (UTC)