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Wikidata weekly summary #518

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
    • TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
    • Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
    • Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
    • Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
    • May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.”
    • Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
    • Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
  • Papers
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
  • Videos
    • Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
    • Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
    • Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
  • EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
  • The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
  • Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
  • Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
    • External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
    • External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID
  • Query examples:
    • Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank) (source)
    • Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment (source)
    • Countries which are named after a person (source)
    • Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)

• Development
  • The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
  • REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

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!

Tech News: 2022-18

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

• On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on talk pages in the Misplaced Pages app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
• Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode.
• If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme.
• Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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

Recent changes

• You can now see categories in the Misplaced Pages app for Android.

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed.
• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
• The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #519

• Discussions
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
    • International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
  • Past:
    • Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh: video (French), slides: French, English

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Automating Values in Wikibase (new extension)
  • Papers
    • Building a Knowledge Graph of Events and Consequences Using Misplaced Pages and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Working with the Automated Values extension in Wikibase - YouTube
    • Bringing IIIF Manifests to life in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Fun with lexemes. By Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week
  • MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
  • User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
    • External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
    • External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
    • Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
    • Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
    • Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Slovakia

• Development
  • REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
  • Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
  • We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).

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!

This Month in GLAM: April 2022

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Wikidata weekly summary #520

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
    • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
    • International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Regional newspaper map with datawrapper and Wikidata
  • Papers
    • CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community (Q111987319)
    • OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts (tool)
  • Videos
    • How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
    • External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Similar web ranking
    • External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
  • Query examples:
    • List of oldest cryptocurrencies
    • Scottish rivers that merge to make a river with a new name (source)
    • List of candidates in the French legislative elections (source)
    • List of people with Elisabeth, Élisabeth or Elizabeth as first name (source)
    • Wikimedians with a Twitch channel (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)

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!

Tech News: 2022-20

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

• Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Misplaced Pages, Hebrew Misplaced Pages, Hindi Misplaced Pages, Korean Misplaced Pages, Norwegian Bokmål Misplaced Pages, Portuguese Misplaced Pages, Simple English Misplaced Pages, Swedish Misplaced Pages, Ukrainian Misplaced Pages. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons.

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #521

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
    • 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
    • External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
    • External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID
  • Query examples:
    • Relationships of Roman deities (source)
    • Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
    • Food names after a place in the UK (source)
    • French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
    • Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
    • Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
    • Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
  • First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
  • Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).

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!

Tech News: 2022-21

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

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
• The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

Problems

• The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all.
• Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

• Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers.

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project Agenda
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names, by Tiago Lubiana
  • Papers
    • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
    • Measuring gender diversity in Misplaced Pages articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Misplaced Pages articles.
    • Does birthplace affect the frequency of Misplaced Pages biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
  • Videos
    • Replay of the livestream "Even more fun with Lexemes" by Mahir256

• Tool of the week
  • Template Item documentation is now automatically displayed in the header of each item's talk page via MediaWiki:Talkpageheader.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Want to know more about Abstract Misplaced Pages & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
  • Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: candidate position
    • External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
    • External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier
  • Query examples:
    • List of candidates for the next French legislative elections (source)
    • Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata (source)
    • Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre / percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre
    • Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970 (source)
    • Top 100 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata (source)
    • Biennales that aren’t biennial (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (phab:T307087), all statements of an item (phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (phab:T307088))
  • Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (phab:T307915, decision)
  • Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (phab:T306008)

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!

Tech News: 2022-22

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

Recent changes

• In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
• The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.
• The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit.
• A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates.

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 50

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Issue 50, March – April 2022

• New library partner - SPIE
• 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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Tech News: 2022-23

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 7 June. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
• A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression.

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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #523

• Events
  • June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
  • June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
  • July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
    • Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?
  • Papers
    • "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
  • Videos
    • Live Wikidata editing #82 by Ainali and Abbe98

• Tool of the week
  • Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Misplaced Pages article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
  • There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
  • Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
  • A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
    • External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
    • External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
    • Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
  • REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).

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!

This Month in GLAM: May 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue V, May 2022 Headlines Albania report: Summer of Wikivoyage 2022 Argentina report: Face-to-face and virtual events on May Australia report: Over 1000 references added in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand for #1Lib1Ref Belgium report: New Wikidata Property Brazil report: Wiki Loves Espírito Santo is a sucess Estonia report: From university to library Finland report: Photowalks in Southern Finland, spring 2022 France report: International Museum Day 2022 India report: Digitization of Tibetan Buddhist canons, The International Museum Day 2022 Wikidata Competition Italy report: May in and for museums Kosovo report: Cooperation with the National Gallery of Kosova and Summer of Wikivoyage 2022 Malaysia report: WikiGap Malaysia 2022 @ Kuala Lumpur Library New Zealand report: Pacific Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject, Auckland Museum's Exploratory Study and Report back on #1Lib1Ref Poland report: Wikipedian in residence in the National Museum in Cracow; Training at the Wawel Royal Castle National Art Collection; How can we make GLAM’s digital resources more reusable in education?; The International Museum Day 2022 Wikidata Competition Serbia report: New GLAM brochure and Wikilive 2022 Sweden report: Rembrandt and others – drawings from the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm; Stockholm Museum of Women’s History; The map book of Heinrich Thome; Sörmland Museum; Wikidata competition – International Museum Day 2022 Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program UK report: Khalili Collections Uruguay report: Wikimedistas de Uruguay report: 1bib1ref, Museum of Natural History, and more! USA report: Hackathons and Edit-a-thons Content Partnerships Hub report: International Energy Agency share their knowledge and graphics on Misplaced Pages Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine: looking for test uploads! WMF GLAM report: Results from 1Lib1Ref May 2022 Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Wikidata weekly summary #524

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
    • Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
    • William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05)
    • OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Misplaced Pages – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Misplaced Pages's content gender gap. Agenda
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
  • Past
    • 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland
    • 50,000 video games on Wikidata by Jean-Frédéric
    • The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)
    • Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database (in Basque)
  • Papers
    • A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
    • WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph
  • Videos
    • Dagbani Misplaced Pages Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
    • Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Misplaced Pages - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
    • Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Demographic profiling in Misplaced Pages Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
    • DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
    • How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
    • Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
    • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
    • The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata Testimonials
      • Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)
      • Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA)) (in French)
      • Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) (in French)
      • Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich) (in German)

• Tool of the week
  • ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Misplaced Pages, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Misplaced Pages. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
  • Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
  • Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
  • Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
  • Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
  • New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: orchestrator
    • External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
    • External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID
  • Query examples:
    • Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
    • Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
    • items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
    • Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
    • A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
    • Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
    • Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
    • Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
    • In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
    • Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
    • Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)

• Development
  • Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
  • Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)

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!

Tech News: 2022-24

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 can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Misplaced Pages, Achinese Misplaced Pages, Adyghe Misplaced Pages, Afrikaans Misplaced Pages, Akan Misplaced Pages, Alemannisch Misplaced Pages, Amharic Misplaced Pages, Aragonese Misplaced Pages, Old English Misplaced Pages, Syriac Misplaced Pages, Egyptian Arabic Misplaced Pages, Asturian Misplaced Pages, Atikamekw Misplaced Pages, Avaric Misplaced Pages, Aymara Misplaced Pages, Azerbaijani Misplaced Pages, South Azerbaijani Misplaced Pages). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

• By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

June GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2022 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since April 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Blitz: of the 16 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, 12 completed at least one copy-edit, and between them removed 21 articles from the copy-editing backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 27 editors signed up for our May Backlog Elimination Drive; of these, 20 copy-edited at least one article. 144 articles were copy-edited, and 88 articles from our target months August and September 2021 were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: our June Copy Editing Blitz, starting at 00:01, 19 June and closing at 00:59, 25 June (UTC), will focus on articles tagged for copy edit in September and October 2021, and requests from March, April and May 2022. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 07:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 209 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,404 articles. Election news: Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators continues until 23:50 on 15 June (UTC), after which, voting will commence until 23:59, 30 June (UTC). All Wikipedians in good standing (active and not blocked, banned, or under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikidata weekly summary #425

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Integration of POTD template
  • Closed request for comments:
    • How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
    • Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
    • Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
    • (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsiaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
    • Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
    • Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
    • Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
  • Videos
    • Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Misplaced Pages Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
  • Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
  • Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
  • Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
    • External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
    • External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID
  • Query examples:
    • Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
    • Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
    • List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
    • Cemeteries in France near churches (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
    • Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
    • Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
    • Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
  • REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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!

Tech News: 2022-25

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

Recent changes

• The Misplaced Pages App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ).
• Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Misplaced Pages, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
• A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
• Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
• Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video.

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #426

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
    • July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
    • The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
    • Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
  • Past:
    • 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
    • Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
    • What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
  • Videos
    • Dagbani Misplaced Pages Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
    • The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
  • Podcasts
    • Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
  • Other
    • Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here

• Tool of the week
  • IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: inker, penciller
    • External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
    • External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID
  • Query examples:
    • "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
    • Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
    • The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (phab:T306667)
  • Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (phab:T309445)
  • Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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!

Tech News: 2022-26

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

Recent changes

• Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
• All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services.
• Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin.

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. should have a wiki commons link to since they both refer to .

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
    • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
  • Past
    • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
    • Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
    • Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
    • Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
    • Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
  • Report
    • User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
  • Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
    • Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
    • External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
    • Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
    • Map of tram depots in France
    • Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
    • List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
    • French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
    • French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
    • Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
    • Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
    • We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
  • We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
  • We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)

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!

Tech News: 2022-27

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
• This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage.

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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)