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Hello CAPTAIN RAJU: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Rahulpatelfan (talk) 17:56, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
CAPTAIN RAJU, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 18:11, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
A quote from Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais; it is taken from the manuscript of Jules Massenet's opera Panurge, in the composer's own hand. It is my greeting of choice for the new year, because it encourages us to live joyfully, and try not to take life too seriously...while quaffing whatever beverage we choose, naturally. This has been a challenging year, to say the least; I hope that 2021 may bring a fresh start, and better days ahead. May the new year bring you joy and peace...and many days of fruitful editing.
CAPTAIN RAJU, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Davey2010Talk 00:33, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
CAPTAIN RAJU, Thank you for the well wishes on my talk page. Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Bestwishes Poppified (talk) 02:52, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
CAPTAIN RAJU, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
JACKINTHEBOX • TALK 08:56, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk·contribs·email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk·contribs·email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:10, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello CAPTAIN RAJU: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, TriiipleThreat (talk) 12:51, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
CAPTAIN RAJU, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Cavanaughs (talk) 23:59, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
CAPTAIN RAJU, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
North America1000 05:27, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello CAPTAIN RAJU: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, Dead.rabbit (talk) 18:55, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
Should we rename place of burial (P119) to place of mortal remains?
Events
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 5 at 18:00 CET
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #26 - YouTube, Facebook, 9 January
Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #44, January 10
Past: Wikidata sessions at rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) (replay)
Introduction to Wikidata
Wikidata for datajournalists
Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
Wikidata one year in Taiwan, what is our results and what is our future plan
Challenges of GLAM Taiwan
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Video: Applying linked data model for the Bogotá Digital Library (in Spanish) - YouTube
Video: Wikidata with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Wikimedia Armenia - YouTube
Video: How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero - YouTube
Video: How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine - YouTube
Video: How to import library materials to Wikidata using MarcEdit and OpenRefine - YouTube
Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
Video: Linking a new Wikipedia article to a Wikidata item - YouTube
Video: Schema and Wikidata - YouTube
Video: Using Twinkle on Wikidata - YouTube
Video: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata (in Urdu) - YouTube
Blog post: 52 Wikidata weeks 2020
Blog post: Scottish nautical wrecks in wikidata
Tool of the week
User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: graph girth, category for the view of the item, ALA-LC romanization, liturgical rank
External identifiers: PIAC ID, CPV Supplementary, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, ISDS ID, Mapy.cz ID, World Rowing ID (UUID format), 1914-1918-Online ID, JAD ID, Game UI Database ID, Lumières.Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey player ID, IFF player ID, Magyar életrajzi lexikon ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, Literary Encyclopedia ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Stitcher show ID, Castbox show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, PodBean show ID, Podtail show ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, The Podcast App show ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries manuscript ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries work ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries person ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries place ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries organization ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: YouTube custom URL, Author last names, Author first names, Naval flag, supplements, closed WMF project sitelink, has part (string value), member, number of data sets
External identifiers: IFPI Danmark work ID, National Museum in Warsaw ID, Olympedia Affiliations ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Erudit article ID, Olympedia Event ID, dati.beniculturali.it ID, Barnivore product ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, Port Letter, FFF player ID (new scheme), Hungarian Film Archive ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), EuroBabeIndex ID, MFAT person ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Alpine Linux package, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, NLS place type ID, BookDepository publisher ID, National Historic People id, NFL.com ID (new scheme)
Query examples:
Works identified (via dedicated property P3893) as entering the public domain on 1/1/2021, ordered by number of articles on Wikimedia sites (Source)
Painters in the collections of Paris Musées which enter the public domain on January 1 (Source)
Map of forts related to Dutch trading companies VOC and WIC found in the Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Source)
Map of forts in the Cologne fortress ring (Source)
First-level administrative divisions in Germany
Population of cities in Germany corresponds to the total number of vaccinations in Germany (Source)
Most popular theorems according to their number of articles on Wikipedia (Source)
Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (Source)
Deaths in 2020 - date of birth, date of death, cause of death and country of nationality (Source)
Summary of a UK parliamentary career seat-party-start pairs(Source)
Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight (Source)
Indonesian legislation related to indigenous people (Source)
Which artist could be "D.K. 1964"? (source)
Line graph of colleges and universities in India by year of establishment (Source)
Graph of Indian films that are remakes of other Indian films (Source)
Graph of academic descendants of C. R. Rao and K. Ananda Rau (Source)
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (Source)
Maps of different places in West Bengal according to suffix (Source)
Tree map of Rabindranath's poems according to the month of writing (Source)
Count of locations of exhibitions on Wikidata (Source)
Wikidata lexeme forms by language (Source)
Newest database reports: 2021, Greek given names
Development
Due to the winter holidays, no deployment has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.
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 Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorizedfor all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
Thanks for the well wishes for my birthday! Razorflame 19:24, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
College of Wooster Greeks
Hello Captain - While cleaning up my latest article, the List of fraternities and sororities at the College of Wooster, I noticed you had jumped on some typos. Thanks for that; but I see that I'd subsequently (and erroneously) swapped out several of your corrected paragraphs while I was moving things from a sandbox and adding graphics. I saw your contribution in the page history, and have attempted to manually re-insert all the changes you made. (except for one stylistic item). I believe I have captured all of them. The page is cleaner now, with those changes and the graphics, and cleanup of several other typos I found. Jax MN (talk) 01:32, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
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 choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [1]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [3]
Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [5]
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6]
Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [7]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).
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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #450
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful)
New request for comments: How should we develop and deploy documentation for items?
Events
Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
Past: SMWCon videos are published incl. quite a few Wikidata related ones
Past: Wiki Workshop 2021 is accepting submissions. The deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1.
Past: Czech editaton Výzva 63 000 (Q102733400) finished (30.11.2020-31.12.2020). Purpose was connect NKCR AUT ID (P691) to Wikidata by hand in Mix'n'match (Q28054658). Detailed info.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogpost: The nobody who could overtake Wikipedia (in German)
Blogpost: Documenting Software Applications on Wikidata, by John Samuel
Article: Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership: The case of Belgian prime minsters in Wikipedia and Wikidata
Paper: Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust - an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research making the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development.
Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video
Tool of the week
QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
Wikidata Walkabout browsing tool has had some important recent improvements in language support, interface, etc. See a list of all comedy films directed by a vegetarian (in Spanish)
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: Bharati Braille, Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica's video game rating, solution to, archaeological site of
External identifiers: AV Production person ID, Mediafilm ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID, Libsyn show ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, SFLI ID, e-GEDSH ID, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Barnivore product ID, AVN movie ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, BG School ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, BHCL UUID, Calaméo ID, Studium Parisiense ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, DiVo person ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), Alpine Linux package, A*dS Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: minutes played, two-pointers made, two-pointers attempted, three-pointers attempted, three-pointers made, free throws made, free throws attempted, field goals made, personal fouls, Short DOI, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, number of vaccinations, category for software under a license, assessment outcome, quality for this class, Template combines topics, CCCM Museum (Macau Museum) object ID, CCCM Museum Object ID, Medium, FL number, Notable ascent
External identifiers: CantoDict identifiers, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, POSIX locale identifier, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, BABEL author ID, Songlexikon ID, FANZA AV actress ID, VAi Building ID, Biographies.net person ID, Literature.com book ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, TikTok music ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Conservapedia Article, NZ Museums ID, Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, WreckSite ID
Query examples:
Mathematicians born in prime number years featuring Albert Einstein, Pierre de Fermat, Georg Ohm, Carl Gauss, Évariste Galois, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, James Maxwell et al.
Timeline of coups d'état of the 21st century (including attempted ones) (Source)
Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata (Source)
Children of which were born with by a person, and their step child
Map of the shortest railway path (in terms of number of stations) between Dibrugarh and the Scottish Highlands (Source)
Map of place of birth of Olympique de Marseille football players (Source)
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (Source)
Map of beaches in Mexico (Source)
Graph of shared borders between Indian districts (Source)
Descendants of Upendrakishore Roy (Source)
Timeline of Indian High Commissioners to Britain (Source)
A tree map of items for artworks depicting Mughal emperors (Source)
Example of documented usage of different Bengali words (Source)
'Llan' place names in the UK (Source)
Organizations with DZI donation seal approval according to donation amount (Source)
Newest database reports: Russian given names
Development
Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)
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 Sadat (WMDE) 17:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: December 2020
This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XII, December 2020
Headlines
AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wrap up of the Wikipedia in African Libraries project pilot cohort
Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs
Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released
Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters
New Zealand report: Māori Women Weavers Edit-a-thon
Serbia report: GLAMorous end of 2020
Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments submissions livestreamed; Nordiska museet uploads; Sjung med oss, Mamma!
UK report: Wales, Women in Leeds, and the Hajj
USA report: WikiConference North America and Salons
WMF GLAM report: The GLAM & Culture office hours
Calendar: January'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.
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 11:42, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: December 2020
This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XII, December 2020
Headlines
AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wrap up of the Wikipedia in African Libraries project pilot cohort
Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs
Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released
Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters
New Zealand report: Māori Women Weavers Edit-a-thon
Serbia report: GLAMorous end of 2020
Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments submissions livestreamed; Nordiska museet uploads; Sjung med oss, Mamma!
UK report: Wales, Women in Leeds, and the Hajj
USA report: WikiConference North America and Salons
WMF GLAM report: The GLAM & Culture office hours
Calendar: January'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.
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 14:32, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia Day is always a big day for Wikimedia NYC. While we cannot meet in person, we still have something special planned. We will begin the event with the debut of a new video celebrating our community. This will be followed by a panel discussion with some of the people you'll see in the video talking about Wikipedia's 20th anniversary, Wikimedia New York City, and the amazing work they do on Wikimedia projects.
The event will be broadcast live via YouTube. Feel free to ask questions for the panel through the chat!
We will also have some NYC wiki trivia you can participate in, with confectionery prizes.
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