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Administrators' newsletter – January 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Galobtter
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Orangemike
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BorgQueen •  Davidruben • Ocee • Revolving Bugbear • Theda • There'sNoTime • Timc • Tijuana Brass • Tristessa de St Ange

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Addshore



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Joe Roe • SilkTork
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg AGK • Joe Roe • SilkTork
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Guideline and policy news
 * There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD:
 * G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is db-disambig; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
 * R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion).  This is db-redircom; the text is unchanged.
 * G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use db-blankdraft.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
 * Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news
 * Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length . All accounts must have a password:
 * At least 8 characters in length
 * Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the [//github.com/wikimedia/password-blacklist Password Blacklist library])
 * Different from their username
 * User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
 * Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
 * Copyvio-revdel now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , ,.

Miscellaneous
 * Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
 * Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Wikidata weekly summary #345
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?


 * Events
 * Video of Lydia's keynote at GNDCon


 * Press/Blogs
 * Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
 * Europeana Innovation Agenda
 * The Hand-editor’s Tale
 * mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
 * Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
 * The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (T112577, T170432)
 * A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
 * There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
 * Happy New Year! (L40653)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
 * External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
 * Query examples:
 * Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
 * Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
 * Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
 * Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
 * Catchphrases (source)


 * Development
 * Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.


 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:42, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #346
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?


 * Events
 * Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
 * Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
 * AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
 * How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
 * Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
 * Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
 * Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
 * Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
 * Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
 * Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
 * External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
 * External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name


 * Query examples:
 * Articles about obituaries (source)
 * Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
 * 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French settlements with more than one word in the name] (source)
 * People after which a state is named (source)
 * "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
 * Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
 * Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)


 * Development
 * Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (T204031)
 * Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (T207401)
 * Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (T207150)
 * Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #347
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
 * Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
 * VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
 * Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
 * The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
 * New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
 * Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
 * External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
 * External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number


 * Query examples:
 * Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
 * Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
 * Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
 * Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
 * Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)


 * Development
 * Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (T212427)
 * Improved the visual appearance of glosses (T207401)
 * Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (T211438)
 * Improving our Javascript to be more standard (T210744)
 * Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (T209504)
 * Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (T212210)
 * More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (T207150)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #348
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
 * Keynote by Amrapali Zaveri (video)
 * Keynote by Daniel Mietchen (slides, video)
 * Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
 * Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
 * External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
 * External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música


 * Query examples:
 * Images of exoplanets (source)
 * Types of protected historical objects in Loire-Atlantique, France (source)
 * Common long words in scholarly article titles (source)
 * Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
 * Image grid of synthesizers produced by ARP Instruments (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality


 * Development
 * Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (T213998)
 * Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (T211015)
 * Fixed an i18n message (T206416)
 * Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (T211568)
 * Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (T213281)
 * Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (T204041)
 * Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (T209922)
 * Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (T201838)
 * Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (T209931)
 * Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
 * Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (T207150)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:06, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to attend a mini Unconference in Mission Valley
Who: All members of the public

What: San Diego mini Unconference.

When: Sunday 3 February 2019, 6:00PM PST / 1800 until 7:30PM PST / 1930

Where: Starbucks at Fenton Marketplace

Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )

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Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to the limited size of the cafe.

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Wikidata weekly summary #349
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy


 * Events
 * February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
 * Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
 * How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
 * Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
 * Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
 * Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
 * City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
 * External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code


 * Query examples:
 * Things depicted in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum (source)
 * Stradivari(us) instruments (source)
 * Rivers whose names in Spanish start with "Guad" (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany


 * Development
 * Started development on Shape Expressions
 * Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (T211865)
 * Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (T211768)
 * Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (T210502)
 * Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:59, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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