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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events
Upcoming
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
24/06 (17:30 UTC): Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for tainacan with Ederporto and Dalton Lopes Martins (https://tainacan.org/en/ Tainacan) (in English), on YouTube
Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #68, June 27
LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 26 at 18:00 UTC
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Papers
Beyond VIAF. Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries (with detailed statistics on VIAF and Wikidata)
Videos
Using OpenRefine and creating wikidata schema - YouTube
Query SPARQL Wikidata around genealogy (in French) - YouTube
LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook
Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine - YouTube
Tool of the week
Template:PositionHolderHistory displays the full list of position holders for a given position.
Template:Generic queries for positions new template with generic queries for positions.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. phab:T275958
User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: not found in, named place on map
External identifiers: Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, Memobase ID, Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging ID, Skipsrevyen ID, EBAF authority ID, LdiF person ID, Musica Baltica person ID, EGID, RBF event ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: named after lexeme, replacement value, Qualis rank, role of component, table of contents available at URL, DICOM modality page, Flemish Heritage Themes ID
External identifiers: OlympicsIL ID, EBIDAT ID, Crosscut author ID, identifier BNM, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID, Handzone player ID, BES-Net user ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Research Resource Identifier, VK artist ID, MonumentalTrees.com, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, E-Flora BC species ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID
Query examples:
Map of public bookcases
SPARQL Jupyter notebook to explore generic queries for positions (using PAWS)
Biographies that can be linked in different Wikipedias (apart from deWP) (Source)
Vulnerable, endangered or extinct languages with number of lexemes in Wikidata (Source)
Articles in English Wikipedia about women that have the good article badge but do not have an article written in Spanish (Source)
Newest WikiProjects:
Wikidata:WikiProject Outdoor Gyms
Development
Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (phab:T284854)
Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219)
Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820)
Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
Testing infrastructure investigation and decision
Investigation: How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities
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) 15:23, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-25
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 otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [1]
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [2]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)
Events
Past:
log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24
Upcoming:
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [3], June 29th.
Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
Papers
Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools)
Videos
LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, for the #ArcticKnot.
SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot.
Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube
Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube
Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items
Tool of the week
Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact for the Wikibase Community User Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page before 2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC), after which voting will commence.
Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale.
Wikidata Vertical Analysis by AKhatun (WMF)
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns
A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: date of resignation, curid, consequence of text
External identifiers: RBF event ID, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID, ZKM person ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, Fotodok ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Vindskyddskartan.se ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: delta of, Astrological sign, announced at, contact point (2)
External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID, Classical Archives composer ID, UFC ID, Tapology ID, Bellator ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, Ethereum token address, Legie 100 legionary ID, PsycNET ID, Index Theologicus ID, MK ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, African Film Database ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID, HockeyLive player ID, eishockey.info player ID
Query examples:
Street names in Alsatian (source)
What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? (Source)
UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata (Source)
Count of statements by property for theatrical plays (Source)
Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Source)
Development
Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
"en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)
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) 15:03, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-26
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
Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [4]
Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [5]
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [6][7]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [8][9]
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Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
Technical news
IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
Arbitration
The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)
Events
Past:
Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
Upcoming:
SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
Schema explorers and how they can help guide adoption of common standards
Tackling Technical Debt, big and small, in Wikidata and Wikibase
Papers
A Study of the Quality of Wikidata
Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries
Videos
(workshop) Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians - YouTube
Adding descriptions and statements to Wikidata using Quickstatements - YouTube
Editing Wikidata (in German) - YouTube
Tool of the week
User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: voted on by, Qualis rank, author given names, author last name, delta of
External identifiers: Gutenberg Biographics ID, Idaho Species ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, Classical Archives composer ID, Crosscut author ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, E-Flora BC species ID, LexM ID, BES-Net user ID, VK artist ID, Legie 100 legionary ID, Buzer.de law identification, [email protected] ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, FOIH themes ID, African Film Database ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: code name, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, Impact factor, dependency grammar relations, biological target, URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state
External identifiers: fotoCH photographer ID, Raakvlak inventory number, cultural broadcasting archive station ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, MANTO ID, e-Rad researcher ID, WMO code
Query examples:
List of pairs of senses on the same lexeme that have the same gloss in at least one language (Source)
Which British Monarch saw most US Presidents; which US President saw most British Monarchs? (graph view) (dimensions view) (Source)
All paintings (Q3305213) that depict (P180) a painting (Source)
Count of qualifiers used in performer (P175) statements (Source)
Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (Source)
Latin American female mathematicians who are not on spanish Wikipedia but have an article in another language (Source)
US Governors and their religion, if listed (Source)
Living soccer players whose birthday is on January 1st (Source)
Museums nearby Cēsis (Q107582) (Source)
Distribution of public toilets per administrative units in Wales (Source)
Development
Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)
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) 15:08, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-27
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.
Recent changes
AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [10]
Problems
InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [11]
Changes later this week
The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [12][13]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [14]
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17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello Mdaniels5757:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2500 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
-akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
Closed request for adminship:
Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)
Events
Past:
LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [15], July 13th.
Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
Papers
A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
Videos
Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube
Tool of the week
Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: Wikidata:Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to Wikidata:Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID
Query examples:
Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)
Development
Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here
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) 16:14, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-29
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [16][17]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [18]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).
Future changes
How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.
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15:30, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #478
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events
Past:
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
Upcoming:
Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72, July 25
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata English & Italian by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project.
Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill
Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R
Introducing the MathFoldr Project
Videos
Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project (by Mahir256) - YouTube
Bringing IIIF Manifests to Life in Wikidata with Mirador 3 (2021 IIIF Annual Conference) - YouTube
Moving Wikipedia's InfoBox to Wikidata (in Taiwanese) - YouTube
Notebooks
Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice)
Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice).
A first look at featured articles in Wikipedia in French using Wikidata (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS)
Tool of the week
searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS
For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel, Laurentius and Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
Sitelinks to the recently created Tachelhit Wikipedia and Dagbani Wikipedia are being added.
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, number of request signatories, translation of
External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, Città e Cattedrali ID, MANTO ID, WMO code, IFPNI author ID, Landshuth ID, Pladias ID, Central records of collections ID, Podchaser creator ID, Steam Greenlight game ID, CEICE school code
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, URL for freedom of information requests, Legal History, bridge number, Notable role, inventory number, Weverse user ID, ITU radio emission designation
External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID, eBru ID, Daum Cafe ID, Douyin Video ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, SDBM IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID, The New Yorker ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, Marmiton ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, PubFacts author ID
Query examples:
List of all stages of all tour de France (source)
Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (source)
Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (Source)
Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (Source)
Unemployment rate in Sweden by year (1970-2020) (Source)
Serious plane crashes with only one survivor (Source)
Mayors' genders of U.S. cities above 100k population (Source)
Global usage of pronouns (in English Language) (Source)
Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (Source)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events
Next Wikidata and Wikibase office hour on July 28th at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries
Issues and Challenges in optimum utilization of Linked Data in Indian libraries
Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project
Tutorial: Wikidata: Intro to the Basics
Tutorial: Writing Data to Wikidata Using Spreadsheets
Wikibase: Free, Flexible and Collaborative Linked Data
Rune inscriptions in Wikidata / Wikibase; Sampo Model and Portal Series on the Semantic Web
Wikidata In Classroom • Creating Linked Data from Books and Magazines
LD4 meeting: Wikidata Affinity Group
Introduction to Wikidata (in Indonesian) part 1, part 2, part 3
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [19], July 27th.
COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
Openstreetmap x Wikidata meetup 2021.08.09 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
Typed Citations in the Journal of Cheminformatics
What happens in Wikibase when you make a new Item?
Discovering new comics with Wikidata’s powerful tools
Two metadata directions. Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization
Still mapping! "Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
Making the Camino de Santiago visible on Wikidata
Tool of the week
User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on lexeme pages.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Job opening: Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions is hiring software engineers and an engineering manager.
Job opening: Digital Channels Outreach Manager ("mentions contributing to Wikidata and Wikimedia platforms")
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: Wikimedia Incubator URL, symbol represents, bridge number
External identifiers: Adventure Corner video game ID, FRB person ID, Apple TV episode ID, Apple TV show ID, FRB event ID, Wikidata language code, Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: Plant life-form, cabinet, title of a church
External identifiers: VI.BE Platform ID, Smartify artwork ID, Women Also Know History ID, IrishTheatre.ie Company ID, BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID
Query examples:
List of all stage winners in the Tour de France with links to the list of stages won (source)
Map of miniature parks (Source)
Map of open data portals (Source)
Video games published before 1980, and their authors (Source)
Protected bridges over the Zadorra river basin (Source)
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory
Development
Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org
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 Abdulai (WMDE) 15:04, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-30
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).
Future changes
If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preferenceEnable responsive mode. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.
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An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.
Technical news
Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)
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Wikidata weekly summary #480
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events
July 2021 Wikidata+Wikibase office hours logs
July 2021 Wikibase Live sessions logs
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Videos
What is Wikidata (in German) - YouTube
Tool of the week
User:Mahir256/syndepgraph.js is used to make interesting SVG-based syntactic dependency graphs generated with {{Syndepgraph}} to appear.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Portuguese version of the Wikidata Query Service tutorial tool is now available.
Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: symbol represents, bridge number, syntactic dependency head relationship, syntactic dependency head position
External identifiers: Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, IRIS SNS author ID, U.S. Ski & Snowboard athlete ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: cabinet, title of a church, Apple App Store classification, amount of medals, GRAC/GRB content descriptor, GRAC/GRB rating category, Igromania developer/publisher ID, commentator, FLOSS development policy URL
External identifiers: BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, police zone ID, Tax identification number, Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, The Women’s Print History Project person ID, USA Climbing member ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Vokrug sveta Encyclopedia ID, Nationalencyklopedin ID, MPAA certificate number, Magyar írók élete és munkái ID
Query examples:
List of film directors who have worked with Jean-François Stevenin the most (source) Jean-François Stevenin is a French actor, dead the 27th of July
French municipalities containing the word "ville" (Source)
Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (Source)
Museums within 70 km of Dresden (Source)
Development
Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. Focusing on wrapping up the store part of the tool and moving on to the UI for reviewing mismatches.
Made it so that Special:EntityData doesn't throw an exception when called with an invalid flavor parameter (phabricator:T286275)
Limit languages of entity stubs in RDF output (Breaking change)
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) 17:53, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-31
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.
Problems
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [20][21]
Changes later this week
When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [22]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).
Future changes
The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).
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20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #477
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events
Upcoming:
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [23], Aug 10th.
LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
Past:
JOSS2021 National Diet Library-sponsored session "Linked Data, Wikidata, GLAM" (in Japanese)
Tool of the week
Template:Generic queries for musicians new wikidata template to explore the work of a musician.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:So9q/duplicate item.js is a userscript that can duplicate the current item, minus sitelinks and descriptions (not allowed by Wikidata).
Collection of Wikidata:Weekly summary query examples (2015-2021) by MKar
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: edition/version, open source software policy URL
External identifiers: Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID, Women Also Know History ID, Marmiton ID, Knesset member ID, The New Yorker contributor ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, BNM bibliographic record ID, Treccani's Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, e-Rad researcher number, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: FLOSS development policy URL, Umění pro město ID, broadcast of, dissertation program, DDB-Person-Nummer
External identifiers: GSSO ID, COD ID, ARTEINFORMADO Person ID, CDAEM Person ID, ASE person ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, IRIS Pisa IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Shironet ID, Paleobotany ID, arheologi.ro ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID
Query examples:
Map of Welsh lakes and reservoirs (Source)
Gender statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org
Statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org by their value of instance of property
Place of birth of Swedish 1912 Summer Olympics participants (Source)
Interactive map with all Olympic Games medalists by place of birth (Source)
Development
Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
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 deploy Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
Help write the next summary!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:57, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-32
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [24]
Changes later this week
The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.
Future changes
The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [25]
Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [26]
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16:18, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #481
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events
Ongoing:
Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion
Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata
Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q
Making feedback loops work for Wikidata
Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going?
Upcoming:
A biodiversity-themed hackathon is being organized at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium for September 20-24. Three of the ten proposed topics are Wikidata-related — biodiversity-related Wikidata lexemes, taxonomic names, and women in biodiversity research. Remote participation is possible.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Papers
Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
Videos
Guide to fetch Wikipedia data from Wikidata using Wikibase-SDK and node.js (in Hindi) - YouTube
How to create an item on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
Books
SPARQL wikibook
Tool of the week
Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:So9q/KORP-link.js is a userscript to add a link to the Swedish corpus KORP in the Tools section on items.
WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: performed at, Smithsonian trinomial format regex, setlist, number of Classification of the Functions of Government
External identifiers: Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, ASE person ID, Alsharek Archive author ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, ARPI author ID, IRIS SSSUP author ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: dissertation program, CDDA designationType, container, remix of, insurance number (building), numéro de parcelle
External identifiers: SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Palynodata taxa ID, arheologi.ro ID, DDB-Person-Nummer, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID, Svenska Ord ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage object ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage institutions ID, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Mapping the Lives ID, MART catalog person ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Palynodata publications ID, opaquenamespace ID, HarperCollins product ID, Derrieux Agency person ID, Lambic.Info ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, GLN, Unconsenting Media ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Iași Central University Library ID, Volleybox ID, Team-Deutschland-Paralympics-ID, ISL ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, ASJC
Query examples:
List of properties which have instances or subclass of organisations as possible value (source)
List of classes which are used as value constraints for the properties (source)
Concepts, processes, practices, etc. linked to the philosophical concept of power (Source)
Twelve Times table using Wikidata items (Source)
Newly protected World Heritage sites in 2021 (Source)
Total number of wins for each world snooker champion (Source)
Who was the UK Prime Minister when each of the English Premier League/First Division title winners last won the title (Source)
Map of the birthplace of sports team players by decade (lines link birthplace to home venue location) (Source)
Newest WikiProjects: Neighborhood Public Art in Boston
Development
Cut save-time for edits in half (phab:T288639)
Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
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) 13:31, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-33
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 add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [27]
Problems
There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [28][29][30]
Changes later this week
A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [31]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [32]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).
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19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #482
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: MusikBot II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)
Events
Upcoming:
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Érica Azzellini and Éder Porto on MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link, August 24.
BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
Past:
Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata
Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects
Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Articles
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
Blogs
Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher - Charles Tapley Hoyt
The Invisible Citation Commons - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein
The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries - Bob DuCharme
Wikidata or scraping Wikipedia - Denny Vrandečić
Videos
Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube
Tools of the week
Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed: Try it!
The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources from Zotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, mix or remix of
External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, PsycNET ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username
New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: hunting areas, number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID
External identifiers: TeamNL player ID, Finnish National Gallery ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, NDL earlier law ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs, KNHB ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code
Query examples:
Predicates implicated in non-scholarly-article item bloat (source)
Church of Scotland Synods as Geoshapes (Source)
Map of the origin of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts, current location (Source)
Current principal local authorities in England
Development
Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder
Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)
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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Tech News: 2021-34
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 Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).
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