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Tech News: 2020-50
 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 put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function.

Changes later this week
 * Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #445
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Comment on a proposal for proposed deletion system


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia, presented in English by Mike Peel (Wiki Movimento Brasil). The event is supported by a WikiCite e-scholarship. December 8th 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT), via YouTube.
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 8 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia 2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony, December 11th at 17:00 GMT (details)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #42, December 13


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade. The Washington Post writes about enslaved.org, a Wikibase instance run at Michigan State University, that collects and creates Linked Open Data about the transatlantic slave trade. (Source)
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata by and with Alicia Fagerving from Wikipedia Day 2020
 * Video: How to use Wikidata Mix'n'match tool - YouTube
 * Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
 * Linking K10plus library union catalog with Wikidata
 * Building Wikidata One Branch of Knowledge at a Time


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have a central repository for wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index, road name formatter, ELSPA rating, kunya, religion or world view
 * External identifiers: FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID, BG EIK, All the Tropes identifier, Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID, Reliwiki page ID, Arken ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, Archives at Yale names ID, HAL journal id, Parler username, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery artwork ID, CINE21 film ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, Sonneveld-index, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), NSSDCA ID, ZOBODAT person ID, ZOBODAT taxon ID, DIA ID, SKD ID, Max Movie film ID, Gab username, Movist film ID, KOBIS ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, SMB-digital ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, CQVIP article ID, DBLP conference ID, Filmstriben film-ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Mailing List, curid, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data, archaeological site of, does not have cause, conductor for, reason for normal rank, value is one of, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, lineage marker, has surface, DBLP journal id
 * External identifiers: U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, theses.cz ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, CollEx-Persée ID, The Galileo Project ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum ID, Max-Movie-Personen-ID, CINE21 person ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Basic Formal Ontology ID, Fichier des décès ID


 * Query examples:
 * Russian cuisine
 * Belgian artists that rise to the public domain in 2021 (Source)
 * Asian food made from noodles (Source)
 * Bubble diagram by wiki page numbers in each language on objects kept at the Bardo National Museum (note: Commons is counted as English) (Source)
 * Amusement parks around the world (Source)
 * Schema examples: Video game


 * Development
 * Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
 * Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (T269102)
 * Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (T191831)
 * Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (T263258)
 * Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (T268625)
 * Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs: Docker Image Repository, Tarball Repository

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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:31, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2020
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 14:29, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #446
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
 * Past: WikiConference North America/2020
 * Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
 * Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
 * Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
 * Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
 * Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
 * Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
 * Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
 * Complex constraint check for recency of value
 * The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
 * Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
 * External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
 * External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID


 * Query examples:
 * All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
 * (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
 * Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
 * Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
 * Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
 * Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
 * Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
 * Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
 * Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
 * Schema examples:
 * Schema for stumbling stones
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Agriculture


 * Development
 * We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:42, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51
 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 Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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This Month in Education: November 2020
About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 07:14, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #447
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
 * Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
 * Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
 * Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall knowledge base of the Internet
 * Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
 * Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Complex constraint about labels' language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
 * External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
 * External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID


 * Deleted properties: street address (P969)
 * Query examples:
 * Tex-Mex singers (Source)
 * Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales) (Source)
 * Vito Russo Test in Wikidata
 * Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes (Source)
 * Patronage of rapid-transit transportation (Source)
 * People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they played
 * Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
 * Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names


 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
 * Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (T267023)
 * Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (T266638)
 * Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (T267502)
 * Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (T250550)

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
 * Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
 * 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:50, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes
 * The  template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes
 * You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
 * Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a  tag that can convert a piece of text on a page.
 * Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January.

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The Signpost: 28 December 2020
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent


 * In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds


 * Arbitration report: 2020 election results


 * Opinion: How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear


 * Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.


 * Traffic report: 2020 wraps up


 * News from the WMF: What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next


 * Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions


 * Essay: Subjective importance


 * Op-Ed: An unforgettable year we might wish to forget


 * Gallery: Angels in the architecture


 * Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

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Wikidata weekly summary #448
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for CheckUser: 997kB
 * There's a discussion about what the best label for required qualifier constraint happens to be.


 * Events
 * Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:TP administrative area is a new template designed for all items which are instance of administrative territorial entity. It defines useful queries for those items. For example, links to this page. Feedback and contributions are welcome.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: small logo or icon, lunar coordinates
 * External identifiers: CINE21 person ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, Cinémathèque québécoise person ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, SAPA ID, Manus Online author ID, Lichess username, CITWF person ID, DBLP publication ID, DataTrek ID, KANTO ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: abstract, thesis committee chair, character type, Calificación de videojuegos, Regente, Nação (candomblé), Liderança, Bharati Braille, number of walks, number of hits, doubles hit, triples hit, Through point
 * External identifiers: TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, World Rowing ID, MNBAQ ID, Libsyn show ID, PodBean show ID, BG School ID, JAD ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, BHCL UUID, Podtail show ID, Provenio UUID, AbandonSocios ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, International Encyclopedia of the First World War ID, SFLI ID, Game UI Database ID, DiVo person ID, e-GEDSH ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, Calaméo ID, Lumières Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey Player ID, IFF player ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, AV Production person ID, Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon ID, Studium Parisiense ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, A*dS Encyclopedia, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, The Podcast App show ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID, Play:Right video game ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, TheCocktailDB ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands


 * Query examples:
 * Check Corona vaccine progress using Wikidata SPARQL to get metadata about the countries see notebook - SPARQL query

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

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.

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 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!