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Wikidata weekly summary #509

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ikkingjinnammebetinke (RfP scheduled to end after 7 March 2022 13:33 UTC)
  • New request for comments: Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items
  • Other: Qualifiers for given names and surnames

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - YouTube, Facebook, March 5th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, War
  • Past:
    • Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study
  • Videos
    • Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
    • Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried
    • Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data
    • Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example
    • Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example
    • Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
  • February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
  • Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. Apply here!
  • Job opening: Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: computational complexity
    • External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
    • External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of edits by user on French lexemes (source)
    • Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO (source)
    • Successful coups and attempts in Africa (source)
    • New York Times journalists that are alive (source)
    • Ukrainian coins and banknotes (source)
    • Types of quartz (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
  • Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
  • REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
  • Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
  • Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09

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

Recent changes

• When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [1]
• Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [2][3]
• The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

• The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

• Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
• If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:59, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #510

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the 35 presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - YouTube, Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Presentation and discussion: "Introduction to Linked Open Data Strategy with Lea Voget, Head, Product Management WMDE". Lea is not only the team lead of product, project and program managers at WMDE, she is also one of the main thinkers behind the Linked Open Data strategy. When: 11 March 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter). Registration: Registration link
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Associate Librarian Stacy Allison-Cassin and her students on Wikidata in the classroom. Agenda
    • Art+Feminism editathon at the University Library Center of the University of Salerno. 8 March 2022
    • Wikidata workshop, held in collaboration with IPTC and explores the use of Wikidata concepts when dealing with metadata in media applications. Timing: from 10:00 to 18:00 CET. With presentations from: Yle, RAI, France TV, IPTC, Gruppo RES, Media Press, Perfect Memory, New York Times, NTB, Imatrics.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Ukraine
  • Past:
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 #opendataday - YouTube
    • NFDI InfraTalk: Wikibase - knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture - YouTube (March 7, 4:00 PM CEST)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube: 1, 2, 3.

• Tool of the week
  • Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (phab:T300255#7746418). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
  • Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
  • Job openings:
    • The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
    • The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
    • Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: created during, Ghana Place Names URL, trained by
    • External identifiers: Old-Games.RU ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, SBN work ID, SBN place ID, Kanobu numeric game ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, CBDB.cz author ID, CBDB.cz book ID, ULI ID, NLC Bibliography ID, LMHL author ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Latvia water body classification code, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, QQ Music singer ID, PubCRIS product number, PKULaw CLI Code, NVE glacier ID, iXBT Games ID, TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Агрегатируется с, Observer
    • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, tiket to-do ID, TEIS ID, OBD Memorial ID, Hrono.ru article ID, db.narb.by ID, Shopee Shop ID, Grab Food ID, US trademark serial number, Scottish Built Ships ID, trivago hotel ID, skyscanner hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, pravo.gov.ru ID, NGO Darpan ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID
  • Query examples:
    • Use of free software license for describing software (source)
    • Count of latest available Twitter follower count for different programming languages (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages and their paradigms (source)
    • Most popular programming language on Wikipedia with multilingual articles (source)
    • Russian TV channels from and about Russia (source)
    • Places of birth of people named "Désirée" (source)
    • People in the Père-Lachaise cemetery who were born in a city that is or was in Ukraine (source)
    • Properties linking between a church and its saint (source)

• Development
  • Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
  • REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

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) 14:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

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

Problems

• There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:16, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue II, February 2022 Headlines Albania report: Traditional Food Photography Belgium report: Shakespeare is dead - Contemporary playwriting festival; Public Domain Day Belgium 2022 (10/02) report Estonia report: An examples of a visual storytelling – two virtual exhibitions France report: Wikimedian in Residence in Clermont Auvergne Italy report: New agreement for Wiki Loves Monument Italy 2022 Kosovo report: Traditional Food Photography Netherlands report: New photo collections of Alkmaar, Wiki goes Caribbean meeting, contemporary art Wikidata import and knowledge platform for GLAMS New Zealand report: National Digital Forum and Editing in a Time of COVID Nigeria report: 1Lib1Ref 2022 Kwara Poland report: New GLAM-Wiki partnerships and cooperations Serbia report: A month in the sign of 1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Additional photos from Swedish missionairies; Historical maps of Ukraine UK report: Khalili Collections Ukraine report: Stand with Ukraine! USA report: Women's History Month activities AvoinGLAM report: February in AvoinGLAM Content Partnerships Hub report: Encyclopaedia of Life release their 2 million species descriptions under CC0 Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Editing SDC with OpenRefine; Monthly OpenRefine and Wikimedia office hours Calendar: March'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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #511

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. You can also look at a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #75 - YouTube, Facebook, March 19th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #100(!), March 20th at 13.00 UTC
    • Bug Triage Hour focused on data reuse, March 23rd
    • Wikidata 101 workshop (in Albanian language) March 15th at 10 o'clock at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
    • Ontotext Webinar - GraphDB as Company Data Central - "How GraphDB can help you create a graph model of your data and enrich it with reference data". March 17th
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Furniture

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • History of the Tour de France: a notebook to explore the history of the tour de France in three charts.
    • A dataset of scholarly journals in wikidata : (selected) external identifiers
    • Getting all the government agencies of the world structured in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus (built using Wikidata)
  • Videos
    • Breton Lexicographic data SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata SPARQL session (in French) - YouTube
    • moreIdentifiers UseAsRef gadget (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata working hour - QuickStatements (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Graph data formats: Common RDF vocabularies (in Czech) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeTranslations.js is a userscript that shows translations for a lexeme. The translations are inferred from statements on senses, such as item for this sense (P5137).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Ghana Place Names URL, trained by, KLADR ID, identifies
    • External identifiers: TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, Change.org decision maker ID, Podchaser episode ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, Dansk Navneleksikon ID, CiteSeerX person ID, CNKI author ID, naturkartan.se ID, HaBima Archive play ID, HaBima Archive person ID, Vedomosti company ID, Grab Food restaurant ID, Chinese School Identifier, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, svpressa.ru person ID, GameMAG ID, ICQ user ID, Scottish Built Ships ID, histrf.ru person ID, symogih.org ID, Mapping Manuscript Migrations manuscript ID, US trademark serial number, NLC Bibliography ID (foreign-language), GoFood restaurant ID, Official Internet Portal of Legal Information ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (building ensemble), skyscanner hotel ID, NGO Darpan ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Observer, identifiant spectacle Les Archives du spectacle, Supports qualifier 2, franchisor, Exhibited Creator, colocated with
    • External identifiers: trivago hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), MovieMeter TV season ID, MangaDex title ID, 1905.com film ID, 1905.com star ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Italian Women Writers ID, Championat.com ID, Arachne entity ID, IRIS Friuli-Venezia Giulia IDs, Sport24.ru team ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Virginia Burgesses and Delegates Database ID, Arizona Legislators Then and Now ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, ubereats store ID, FamousFix topic ID, FAOTERM ID, RSPA Ancient authors ID, RSPA Modern authors ID, ImagesDéfense ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, ILO code, Culture.ru institutes ID, Proza.ru author ID, Stihi.ru author ID, TV Maze season ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, Boobpedia ID, Leafsnap ID, neftegaz.ru person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties describing Art UK artworks (source)
    • Timeline of victims of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Population of countries that share a border with Russia (source)
    • Audio pronunciation of places in Wales (source)
    • Things with a national gallery of Scotland ID where the artist was or is a woman (source)
    • Software with gender information of developer, designer and the person named after source

• Development
  • Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
  • Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
  • Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
  • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint

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) 14:41, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

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

Recent changes

• In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [6][7]

Problems

• There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
• There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
• When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [9]
• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [10]
• On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [11]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
• The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [12]

Events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:07, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #512

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
    • AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project. Agenda with call link, March 22.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers by Lucas Werkmeister
    • Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source
  • Videos
    • Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
      • Lightning talks
      • Wikidata for performing and visual arts
      • Wikxhibit
      • How to retrieve Wikidata’s data?
      • Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data
      • Building a simple web app using Wikidata data
      • Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method
      • GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator
    • Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube
    • Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
  • Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
  • Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc.
  • Andrew put together a guide to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries
  • The proposed config change to remove the changetags right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID
    • External identifiers: LDT @ Library Name Authority ID, LDT @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, LDT @ Library Classification Authority ID, USP Production Repository ID, Transilien ID, United Russia member ID, MovieMeter TV season ID, Joshua Project people group ID, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, vc.ru company ID, Repetti on-line ID, Cybersport.ru ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Discover Moscow ID, ArTS author ID, IRIS UNIUD author ID, Game Informer ID, Ligue 2 player ID, Femiwiki ID, Arachne entity ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bhashakosha pp., local education level, hours per week, education level, time allocation, grading system, grade, ISCED-ALevel, ISCED category orientation, ISCED Broad Field, ISCED Narrow Field, ISCED Detailed Field, competency, sessions per week, applies to work, rack system, maintains consistent linking to
    • External identifiers: Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, USA Track & Field (www.usatf.org) athlete ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, DACS ID (2022), marriott hotel ID, identifiant Epigraphie, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, CPNI ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, eSbírky institution ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria cultural place ID, Zotero ID, World of Waterfalls ID
  • Query examples:
    • Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth! (source)
    • Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement (source)
    • Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline (source)
    • Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC)
    • Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names) (source)
    • Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan)
    • Map of institutions where "where people who studied there" have created written works whose main subject is knowledge graph (Q33002955), knowledge base (Q515701) and (Q33002955)
    • Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
  • Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
  • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

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: 2022-12

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

New code release schedule for this week

• There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

• You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [13]
• The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [14]

Future changes

• Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [15]

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16:01, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #513

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
    • The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
  • Past:
    • Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
    • Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
    • Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
    • Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
    • Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the American Chemical Society (Q247556) Spring 2022 meeting
  • Papers
    • "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
  • Videos
    • DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
    • A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
    • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
    • A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
  • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
  • The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
  • 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: documentation files at
    • External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
    • External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
    • Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
    • UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
    • List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
    • Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries

• Development
  • [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
  • Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
  • Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
  • Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
  • REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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) 13:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

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

Recent changes

• There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [16][17]

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19:54, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #514

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. Agenda with call link, April 5.
    • Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
    • Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions, April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English on May 4.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
    • Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
  • Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata?
    • UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..."
    • Highlighting linked data projects. "...Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources".
  • Videos
    • The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - YouTube
    • Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
      • Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata
      • Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges
      • Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
      • Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts de la scène (in French)
      • Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata
  • Other
    • FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata"
    • OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to help translate the survey to their language? It will take around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier if you want to help!

• Tool of the week
  • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
  • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022 is now available.
  • WDQS backend alternatives paper with shortlist of options have been published.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
    • External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
    • External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID
  • Query examples:
    • Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata (source)
    • Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
  • REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
  • Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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: 2022-14

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

Problems

• For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (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 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [19]
• Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:01, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #515

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Stang (RfP scheduled to end after 14 April 2022 12:18 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Botcrux 10. Task/s: Change publication date (P577) of scientific articles from "1 January YYYY" to just "YYYY".
    • Pi bot 25. Task/s: Wikidata:Properties for deletion maintenance

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #104, April 17th at 12.00 UTC
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • April 26, Ghent, Belgium: public OpenRefine data cleaning workshop and meet&greet with the OpenRefine team, including preview of Structured Data on Commons functionalities. Physical event, free, sign up via this link.
    • Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open! The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC
    • April 22nd - 24th, from Wiki Mentor Africa, A three days workshop on Linking biodiversity data through wikidata using Webaps and jupyter notebooks to attend, register here
    • May 5th: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour, open discussion. Come with your favorite Phabricator task and we will improve its description together.
    • DigAMus goes Wikidata workshop: make digital projects in museums visible and findable. April 29, 3-5 p.m. TIB Open Science Lab. Register here.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #37, Numbers

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Chinese Ancestor Portrait Project
    • Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer
  • Papers
    • A formalization of one of the main claims of “Cortex reorganization of Xenopus laevis eggs in strong static magnetic fields” by Mietchen et al. 2005 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
    • A formalization of one of the main claims of “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information” by Hagedorn et al. 2011 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Query Service Tutorial in Tunisian by Houcemeddine Turki (WikiConference RU 2021 - Part 1, Part 2)
    • Live Coding - PyORCIDAtor, integrating ORCID with Wikidata - YouTube
    • How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Bundestag + Wikidata = Open Parliament TV (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
  • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata MOOC (online course) has been developed by Wikimedia France, involving several French-speaking Wikidata editors. The first version of the course will start on April 26 (in French only - registration here)
  • OpenRefine is running a short survey to learn about user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed. If you upload files to Wikimedia Commons and/or edit structured data there, please help by filling in the survey!
  • Wikibase cloud update (April): the closed beta of Wikibase.cloud is planned to start in mid-April. If you want to apply for closed beta access, please register with this form.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: APE code, maintains linking to, academic calendar type, taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, P10604, notable role
    • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID, Speleologi del passato ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Intesa Sanpaolo Historical Archive Map ID, Monoskop article ID, IDU foreign theatre ID, IDU theatre building ID, IDU theatrical ensemble ID, Cameroun COG, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, SRSLY person ID, FAOTERM ID, Catalogue of Life ID, Trovo ID, IFPI GTIN, MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: является автором художественной выставки, shoe color, government debt-to-GDP ratio, National Historical Museums of Sweden object ID, class of property value, has group, name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID
    • External identifiers: HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, bebyggelseområdeskod i Sverige, Israeli Opera site person id, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Identifier, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, IRIS Piedmont IDs, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most popular Chess openings (by number of sitelinks) (source)
    • Random set of popular ("having more than 20 site links") items (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on social media (source)
    • Listed viaducts in the UK (source)
    • Pages linked to the University of Clermont according to the number of articles on Wikimedia projects (source)
    • Which languages share a word for the same thing (visualized as a tree map). e.g. planet (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
  • REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

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) 13:54, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15

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

Recent changes

• There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
• On Wiktionary wikis, 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. [20][21]

Changes later this week

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

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19:44, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue III, March 2022 Headlines Argentina report: Visual culture, human rights and digitization Australia report: Australia grows gender equity for International Women's Day Belgium report: Collaboration with GLAM institutes in Belgium Brazil report: Pills of GLAM Croatia report: ...starting bottom-up in indie archive! Estonia report: Glass, Books and Paintings France report: Mooc Wikidata India report: Wikimedian-in-Residence program initiated at the Research Institute of World's Ancient Traditions, Cultures and Heritage in Arunachal Pradesh Italy report: The growth of sharing on Wikimedia projects Netherlands report: Letters from Sierra Leone: the Sjoerd Hofstra photo collection in a new light New Zealand report: Forming Wikimedia Aotearoa and the Aotearoa New Zealand Theses Project Serbia report: News in Wikipedian in residence projects Spain report: WikiToro Sweden report: The Unique Historical Kalmar County project continues ...; WikiGap x 3; Students writing articles UK report: Khalili Collections Uruguay report: GLAM Activities by Wikimedia Uruguay USA report: Women's History Month Content Partnerships Hub report: UN Environment Programme sharing their knowledge on Wikipedia. Logo competition Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine: survey for Structured Data on Commons features WMF GLAM report: Commons APP calls, Bophana documentaries, and Image Description Week Calendar: April'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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #516

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
    • AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time: Martin Schibel will be speaking on Entitree. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time Agenda
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US (time zone converter). Where: Registration Link
    • Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software. Conference date: April 22
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WeDigBio Transcription workflow "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
    • More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard
  • Videos
    • Transfer bibliographic data from Zotero to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Art+Feminism community Hours: Add your event data to Wikidata! - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • other:
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?

• Tool of the week
  • Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
  • Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2).
  • There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated.
  • Wikidata metrics are now easily accessible on the Dashboard. Here's an example Dashboard including a blog post above detailing the process.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
    • External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
    • External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of rappers (source)
    • Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont (source)
    • List of corporate archives, location, and address where available (source)
    • French adventure video games (source)
    • Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia (source)
    • Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
  • REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.

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) 13:42, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (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 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [22]
• Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

• Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [23] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [24] [25] [26]

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23:11, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #517

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Pi admin bot (successful)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
      • Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
      • Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
      • Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
      • How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
      • The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
    • Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
    • From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
    • 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#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow (diff version)
    • Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics
  • Papers
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations (closed access)
    • Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License
    • WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1, 2, 3, 4]
    • Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
      • Creating subsets of Wikidata
      • Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks
      • Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata
      • Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session

• Tool of the week
  • Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
  • User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
  • Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
  • Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
    • External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, 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
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
    • External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID
  • Deleted properties:
    • GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
  • Query examples:
    • Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons (source)
    • Scottish river drainage basins (source)
    • The earliest road accident victims (source)
    • Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities (source)
    • Count of Wikidata property types (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
  • REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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) 14:04, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17

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

Recent changes

• On many wikis (group 1), 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. [27][28]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (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 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [29]

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22:56, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now - April 2022

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Wikidata weekly summary #518

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

• 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.” [30]
    • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:10, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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. [31][32]

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-Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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. [33] [34]
• If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [35]
• 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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19:33, 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 Wikipedia app for Android. [36]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [37]
• 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. [38]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [39]
• 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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15:22, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #519

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

• 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 Wikipedia 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!

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This Month in GLAM: April 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue IV, April 2022 Headlines Australia report: Growing the record of Australian Music Belgium report: About African Pagnes and Belgian music Brazil report: Brazil wins the first place in WLM 2021 France report: French GLAM meeting Italy report: Work with GLAMs on Wikisourse and Wikimedia Commons Mexico report: GLAM professionals add an image and become Wikipedians; Edificio Carolino Edit-a-thon New Zealand report: People in Paleontology, Digikult, and copyright term extension for New Zealand Nigeria report: Wikidata for Nigerian Novelist and Novel Poland report: Wikiresidence in progress and workshop Evolution in GLAM in Poland Serbia report: Important activities within the GLAM Sweden report: Training at the National Archives of Sweden; Training at the Stockholm City Museum; Training at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology; Improved images from Swedish Performing Arts Agency Switzerland report: Wikidata Coffee Breaks UK report: Khalili Collections Uruguay report: Wikimedistas de Uruguay report USA report: WVU Libraries; Earth Day-2022-SWC; Wiki-Gap AvoinGLAM report: Open Access vs NFT, GLAM School, Saami language, family trees Content Partnerships Hub report: Enter our logo competition; IGO/INGO; Needs assessments research results; Wrapping up some ISA-things WMF GLAM report: 1Lib1Ref, Image Description Week, Commons calls, and the Add an image events Calendar: May'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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #520

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

• 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!

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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 Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [40]
• 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-Wikipedia 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. [41]

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18:58, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #521

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

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:55, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

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. [42]
• The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [43]

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. [44]
• 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. [45]

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-Wikipedia 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. [46]

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00:21, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

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 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 Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
    • Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia & 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!

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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. [47]
• 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-Wikipedia 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. [48][49]
• 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. [50]
• 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. [51]

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20:28, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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-Wikipedia 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. [52]

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02:46, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #523

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

• 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 Wikipedia 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!

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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 Wikipedia 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #524

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

• 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 Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia'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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia - 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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:27, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

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. [53][54]

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-Wikipedia 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). [55]
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [56]
• 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. [57][58]

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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16:58, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

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

• 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 Wikipedia 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!

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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 Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [59]
• Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, 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. [60]

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-Wikipedia 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. [61]

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. [62]

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20:18, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #426

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

• 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 Wikipedia 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!

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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-Wikipedia 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). [63]
• 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. [64]
• Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [65]

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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20:02, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

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

• 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. [66] should have a wiki commons link to [67] since they both refer to [68].

• 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/wiki/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!

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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-Wikipedia 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. [69]

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19:32, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VI, June 2022 Headlines Albania report: CEE Spring 2022 in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: In the middle of new projects Australia report: A celebration, a commitment, an edit-a-thon: Know My Name returns for 2022 Belgium report: Heritage and Wikimedian in Residence Brazil report: FIRST WikiCon Brazil & Three States of GLAM Croatia report: Network(ing) effect(s) France report: French open content report promotion Italy report: Opening and closing projects in June Kosovo report: Edit-a-thon with Kino Lumbardhi; DokuTech; CEE Spring 2022 in Albania and Kosovo New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large and Auckland Museum updates Poland report: Wikipedian in residence in the National Museum in Cracow; The next online meeting within the cycle of monthly editing GLAM meetings; Steps to communicate GLAM partnerships better and involve the Wikimedian community Sweden report: 100 000 memories from the Nordic Museum; Report from the Swedish National Archives Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program UK report: Featured images and cultural diversity USA report: Fifty Women Sculptors; Juneteenth Edit-a-thon; Juneteenth Photobooths 2022; Wiknic June 2022; New York Botanical Garden June 2022; LGBT Pride Month Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Structured data on Commons editing now possible with OpenRefine 3.6; file uploading with 3.7 Calendar: July'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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #528

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
    • 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
    • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day
  • Past:
    • Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
    • Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
    • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
    • Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
    • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
    • Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Papers
    • Wikidata and the bibliography of life (Q112959127)
  • Videos
    • Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
    • Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
  • User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
  • Q113000000 was created.
  • Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
  • Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: opus number
    • External identifiers: 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, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
    • External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID
  • Query examples:
    • Current list of French departments (documentation)
    • Prime ministers of Japan whose manner of death is homicide (source)
    • 1st level administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
    • List of globes and how many times they've been used

• Development
  • Data Quality Days!
  • Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
  • Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
  • Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
    • Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
    • Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
  • REST API:
    • Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
    • Started work on the API route for removing a 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
  • Update the description of the "of" property in your language.
  • 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) 13:30, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28

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

Recent changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [70]
• It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [71]
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:24, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #529

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
    • Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
    • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, Lexical categories
  • Past
    • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. (replay on YouTube)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Barassi Line: a globally unique divider splitting Australia’s footy fans
    • Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata
    • Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia
    • My GLAMorous introduction into the Wikiverse
  • Papers
    • Enriching Wikidata with Linked Open Data
  • Videos
    • Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - YouTube
    • Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
    • The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule.
    • Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Threads
    • OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.

• Tool of the week
  • EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
  • User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job openings:
    • AFLIA: Wikidata Course Manager/Facilitator
    • WMF: Senior Program Officer, Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
  • There is a new Telegram group for OpenRefine users.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
    • External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of recent heatwaves (source)
    • Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata (source)
    • Cause and mode of death of ex-prime ministers (source)
    • Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants (source)
    • Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes (source)
    • People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages (source)
  • Newest database reports:
    • Albums ranked by number of sitelinks

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing
    • Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (phab:T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
  • REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
  • We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
  • EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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) 14:41, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-29

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

Problems

• The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [72]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August.

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22:59, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #530

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot 1. Task/s: Automatically adds author information to Wikidata scholarly articles (items where instance of (P31) = scholarly article (Q13442814)) that have missing author information. Currently works for articles with the following references: PubMed ID (P698), PMCID (P932), Dimensions Publication ID (P6179), ADS bibcode (P819). Part of Outreachy Round 24.
    • BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
    • ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
    • ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
  • New request for comments:
    • Documented and featured SPARQL queries

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
    • Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • The Lay of the Land: Data Visualizations of the Language Data and Domains of Wikidata (Q113181609)
  • Videos
    • Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - YouTube
    • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
  • Fellowship: Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's harvest_template.py script.
  • Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
  • OpenRefine 3.6.0 was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the release page for a changelog and download links.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, Delaware Division of Corporations file number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for
    • External identifiers: Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn Artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of driverless rapid transit railway lines worldwide
    • An example of finding problematic references
    • Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)
    • People born on rivers (source)
    • Humans with "native language" "German"

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (phab:T313116)
  • Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (phab:T313467)
  • REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
  • We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (phab:T307869)
  • We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (phab:T312223)

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) 17:24, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30

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

• The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [73]

Problems

• Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [74]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [75]
• Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [76]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:27, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #531

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names|Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
    • EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
    • Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, Software
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
    • Tour de France Femmes : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online
    • Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data
    • Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST
    • Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship (source)
    • This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown
    • Map of notable people based on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD which is based on Wikidata. Made by Topi Tjukanov
    • Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
  • Videos
    • The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - YouTube
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - YouTube
    • WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Generic queries for authors has now generic queries about narrative locations (P840) of works written by an author.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contains the statistical territorial entity, recordist, spoken by
    • External identifiers: Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met Constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Gitee username, Anghami artist ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Base Budé person ID, Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for, Matrix space, Tribe, Prisoner's camp number, field of this item, Linkinfo ID, Zhihu question ID, Baidu Tieba name
    • External identifiers: IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID, Galleria Recta author ID, Business Online ID, Real Time IDs, The Devil's Porridge Museum Worker Database, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Scinapse Author ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ID, National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID
  • Query examples:
    • Grammatical features used on forms of French lexemes (source)
    • Most notable people (by sitelinks) (source)
    • List of draughts (source)
    • Map of NZ graduates based on coordinates of employer (source)

• Development
  • [Significant change] New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module
  • REST API:
    • You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API
    • We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
  • Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
  • Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (phab:T313896)

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.
  • Remove the billionaire (Q1062083) value for property {{{}}}. See the list and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:43, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-31

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

• Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings

• This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:21, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #532

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Pi bot 26 Task/s: Auto-correct coordinates set to the wrong globe
    • Pi bot 27 Task/s: Auto-copy coordinate globe to located on astronomical body (P376) (except for Q2)
    • William Avery Bot 9 Task/s: Remove tracking parameters from reference URLs, as suggested at Wikidata:Bot requests § Tracking parameters in reference URLs. I would like to run this as a recurring task, after clearing the c. 2800 current instances.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8 (approved) Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names § Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at WD:RBOT § Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
    • The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
  • Past
    • First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Books
    • Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship
  • Blogs
    • Most notable person, everywhere in the world
    • Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!
    • Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata - User:MargaretRDonald
    • Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes
    • Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists in historical Newspaper and Journals
  • Papers
    • Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians Online - Tweet
  • Videos
    • New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022 - User:DrThneed
    • Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia (in French) by VIGNERON and Jsamwrites
    • Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's 10th birthday: you can contribute to the collaborative celebration video by sending a "happy birthday video" before September 18th, more information here

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: recordist, spoken by, foliage type
    • External identifiers: Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID, Super Basketball League ID, Sport24.ru team ID, P. League+ ID, Paleobiology Database ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Theatrical Index person ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Zhihu question ID, counts instances of, holds diplomatic passport of, Identifier of Czechoslovak books
    • External identifiers: Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Baidu Tieba name, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID, identifiant BD oubliées d'un auteur, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, Onestop ID, Federation Council reference ID, athletics.by person ID, AFC player ID, izsambo.ru person ID, Rugby Union of Russia athlete ID, Online Torwali Dictionary ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, USK ID, BiatlonMag profile ID, motocross.ru profile ID, Football 24 article ID, abART book series ID, Turkish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933–1945 ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of death (P570)
    • Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists (source)
    • Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal (source)
    • Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo (source)
    • Places named after Lenin (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292, phab:T313113, phab:T313466)
    • We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
  • Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (phab:T278962)
  • REST API:
    • Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
    • Looking into feedback from first testing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help out, 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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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

• GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [77]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:50, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VII, July 2022 Headlines Argentina report: Provinces: our main characters Brazil report: Brazil holds its National Wiki Conference, and many GLAM partners join Colombia report: A very busy July for Colombian libraries / Un Julio bastante movido para las bibliotecas colombianas France report: Wikimedian in residence in Clermont-Ferrand New Zealand report: News from Auckland Museum, the West Coast, and New Zealand's thesis repositories Poland report: Edit-a-thon in the National Museum in Cracow, GLAM editing contest on the collection of artworks Portugal report: Portugal’s first GLAM-Wiki open access museum project is launched!! Serbia report: Presentation of GLAM activities at Edu Wiki Camp UK report: Khalili Collections USA report: GLAM for the Masses AvoinGLAM report: Wikimania Content Partnerships Hub report: Wikimania activities WMF GLAM report: What next for 1Lib1Ref? Calendar: August'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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #533

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
  • Ongoing:
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
    • Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, Fire

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Turns out most famous people aren’t that famous at all
    • An introduction to Wikidata: How worlds of Wikimedia link
  • Papers
    • An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph
    • The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement
  • Videos
    • Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata - Overtime Discussion
      • Wikimania Hackathon: Let us play with PubMed to enrich Wikidata with medical information
      • When Quechua meets Wikibase - QICHWABASE
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
    • Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script
    • Some reflections on wikidata and color biology
    • Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements
    • Wikidata tutorials:
      • Add the official street address of an institution
      • Add visitor numbers to an institution
    • Wikidata tutorials (in French):
      • Adding an institution's official website
      • Create a Wikimedia Account
      • Adding a webpage

• Tool of the week
  • KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project? OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
  • Wikimedia integration in OpenRefine: looking for developers

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
    • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
    • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common numbers of statements per item (source)
    • Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category Mosques in Dubai (source)
    • Art people who died in Nazi camps (source)
    • Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item (source)
    • Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article (source)
    • Longest natural watercourses in France (source)
    • Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement
    • Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet

• Development
  • Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
  • Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
  • REST API:
    • Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (phab:T314790)
    • Doing research around PATCH and JSON Patch

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) 15:45, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

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

• The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (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 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [78][79][80]

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21:08, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #534

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (successful)
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French
    • Alternate disclosure policy

• Events
  • Past events:
    • Clutch sprint August 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Automatic word relatedness evaluation
  • Videos
    • Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
    • Highlights from Wikimania 2022
      • Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation By Mahir Morshed
      • Partner Up for Wikidata!
      • Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities
      • Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project
  • Tutorial
    • Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks

• Tool of the week
  • List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
  • Template:Documented queries skeleton
  • Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
  • OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
    • External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
    • External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)¹
    • Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL" (source)
    • Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China (Source)
    • Journals with the most retractions (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
  • REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
  • Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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) 15:39, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34

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

• Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [81][82]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [83]

Future changes

• The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [84]

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00:12, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #535

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Small wiki toolkits/Workshops#Writing Wikidata queries using the WDQS tool
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
  • Past:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
    • Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
    • Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
    • Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
  • Papers
    • DrNote: An open medical annotation service
  • Videos
    • [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
    • Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
    • Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)

• Tool of the week
  • SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
  • The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
  • The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
  • Open vacancy:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia - Technology internships in the GLAM and Wikidata fields

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
    • External identifiers: IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
    • External identifiers: Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Occupations as classified by ISCO/ESCO (source)
    • Occupation of people in the New Zealand Thesis Project (source)
    • Average weights and heights of sportsmen (source)
    • Letters by numbers of alphabet where they are found (source)

• Development
  • REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)

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) 16:47, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-35

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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems

• In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [85]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:05, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #536

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
    • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
  • Papers
    • Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Find museums without official website on Wikidata
      • Add coordinates of an institution
      • Different ways to display SPARQL queries
      • How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
    • External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
    • External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
    • Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
    • Education of French prefects (source)
    • Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
    • Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
    • Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
    • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
    • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
  • Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

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: 2022-36

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 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [86][87]

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23:22, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #537

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 Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
    • Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Introducing Knowledge Graphs featuring Elena Simperl - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #89 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Adding the address of an institution (in French) - YouTube
  • Dataviz
    • All Tour de France's stage winners from 1903 to today
    • All Vuelta's stage winners by country of citizenship

• Tool of the week
  • View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
  • Job opening:
    • Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
    • External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
  • Query examples:
    • Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
    • Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
    • Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
    • Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
    • Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
    • Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)

• Development
  • REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
  • Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

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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This Month in GLAM: August 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VIII, August 2022 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign in Albania and Kosovo in 2022 Australia report: Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney Brazil report: In-person and online activities hosted by Brazil during Wikimania 2022 Estonia report: Summer in WMEE - from collecting professors´ portraits to new potential co-operations Germany report: Coins and paintings by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Indonesia report: 4 Islands Outreach; Digital Clippings; Balinese Wikisource Competition Italy report: Italian institutions ever closer to Wiki Loves Monuments Kosovo report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign and Wikivoyage Netherlands report: West Africa in the Van der Kraaij Photo Collection 1972-1987 New Zealand report: A Wikipedian at Large Poland report: The summary of GLAM editing contest and the end of residency at the National Museum in Cracow; Cooperation with Wawel Royal Castle; Hack(art)hon for Zachęta Portugal report: Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata Serbia report: Contemporary Art Edit-a-thon and Wikipedian in residence at the Historical Archive of Negotin Sweden report: 100 000 Bildminnen; Uniforms, images from New Sweden, colonial officers, the map book of Fryderyk Getkant, and more!; Swedish general election 2022 UK report: Culturally diversifying Wikipedia Uruguay report: Wikimuseos & editing clubs in Uruguay USA report: Wikimania, Meetups and More AvoinGLAM report: Crisis & GLAM Content Partnerships Hub report: Tools; Helpdesk; IGO/INGO Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: New tool in development utilizing Structured Data WMF GLAM report: Capacity building for Bophana Center Calendar: September'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.

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Tech News: 2022-37

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 search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [88]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [89]

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01:50, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #538

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • بوٹ دا عثمان
      • Task/s:
        • Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
        • Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
    • The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Vue le vue, by Magnus Manske
    • Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board election
  • Papers
    • Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
    • Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
    • WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
    • Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
    • Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
    • Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
      • Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
      • Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
    • ContribuLing 2021
      • Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
      • Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
      • Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by "Report an issue" method
  • Dataviz
    • A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
  • Presentation
    • New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022

• Tool of the week
  • WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
    • External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
    • External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
    • Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
    • List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
    • Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
    • People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
    • French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
    • Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
    • World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
    • Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
    • Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
    • Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
    • Cause of death of US presidents by party

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
    • Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
    • Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
    • Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
  • Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
  • Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
  • Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)

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: 2022-38

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

• Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [90][91]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
• In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [92][93]

Future changes

• In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:16, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #539

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

• 🧵 Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • JhsBot 6
      • Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • 2022 September status on Danish lexemes in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #91 - YouTube
    • How donations to Wikidata work (in English with French subtitles) - YouTube
    • BridgeDB & Wikidata. A powerful combination that generates interoperable open research (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Presentations
    • Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
  • The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
    • External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
  • Query examples:
    • Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
    • Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
    • Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
    • Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
    • Song titles that match female given names (source)
    • Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
    • Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
    • Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
    • People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
    • Software license, by year (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Hiking trails

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
  • Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
  • Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)

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, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-39

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

• Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
• Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [94]
• Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [95] [96]
• In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [97]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-40

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

• Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [98] [99]
• The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
• Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [100] [101]
• The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:23, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #540

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • EuropeanCommissionBot 1
      • Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
    • William Avery Bot 10
      • Task/s: Fix instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143)-->Minor Planet Center (Q522039) to stated in (P248)-->Minor Planet Center Database (Q106600690) as requested at Request to fix certain instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143) (2022-09-25)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
      • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
      • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
    • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney
    • Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata
    • Wiki Loves…. Wikidata!
    • More Picasso paintings in one year than all the Vermeer paintings? (Answering an art history question SPARQL).
  • Papers
    • LOD4Culture: Easy Exploration of Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data
    • Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
    • 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
    • Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
  • View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
  • 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
  • It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
  • Job openings
    • Open call for a WiR at The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Senior Software Engineer (Wikibase.Cloud)
      • Software Engineer (Wikibase Suite)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: won sets
    • External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
    • External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
    • Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
    • British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
    • Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
    • Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
    • Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
    • Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
    • People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
    • Films with "it" in the title (source)
    • Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
    • Emblems depicting birds! (source)
    • Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
  • REST API:
    • Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
    • Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
  • Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)

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) 13:38, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue IX, September 2022 Headlines Albania report: Wiki Loves EuroPride in Albania Australia report: Behind the scenes with Australia's Wiki Loves Earth 2022 winner Austria report: A Börthday present for Wikidata - the DACH Culture Contest Brazil report: Reopening of Museu Paulista and other news France report: Meeting with Prime minister cultural adviser; Residence at the Brittany Museum India report: Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949 Indonesia report: GLAM Socialization; Wikistories for GLAM Competition Italy report: September month of results and planning Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Monuments Suriname first edition: 554 photos New Zealand report: New Zealand Thesis Project and Te Papa Forget-me-nots Poland report: The results of GLAM editing contest; GLAM Coordinators Meeting Serbia report: External projects, great results and high level of independence Sweden report: Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022 Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm UK report: Islamic art and global art USA report: Advocacy and Invention; New Smithsonian WiR; Called to Create; DC Statehood and Home Rule; Annual meeting; Wikipedian in Residence Opportunity at the Pérez Art Museum Miami Content Partnerships Hub report: Workshops on tool prioritization and helpdesk Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: View it! tool development update Calendar: October'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.

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Tech News: 2022-41

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 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
• On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [102][103]

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14:08, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #541

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

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
    • UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
  • Ongoing
    • DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
  • Past
    • The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 1 (en, de)
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 2 (en, de)
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #93
    • DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
    • Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
  • Dataviz
    • All Nobel laureates by year and gender
    • Tribute to Annie Ernaux, Literature Nobel lauréate in 2022

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50)

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image
    • External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
    • External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
    • Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
    • "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
    • Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
    • Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
    • Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
    • Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
    • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
  • Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
  • Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
  • Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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) 14:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)