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This Month in Education: April 2022
This Month in Education

 Volume 11 • Issue 4 • April 2022

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In This Issue 


 * Audio-Educational Seminar of Wikimedia Mexico
 * Dagbani Wikimedians using digital TV broadcast to train Wikipedia contributors in Ghana
 * Digital Education & The Open Space With Herbert Acheampong
 * HerStory walks as a part of edit-a-thons
 * Join us for Wiki Workshop 2022
 * The youngest member of Tartu Wikiclub is 15-year-old student

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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.

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).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 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.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

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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.”
 * 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.

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).

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.
 * If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme.
 * Octicons-tools.svg 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,   and 3 others.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 May newsletter
The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * 1) Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
 * 2) 🇨🇽 AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
 * 3) Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
 * 4) Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
 * 5) Vexilloid of the Roman Empire.svg Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
 * 6) Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
 * 7) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: May 2022
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Tech News: 2022-19
<section begin="technews-2022-W19"/> 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.

Problems
 * Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed.
 * 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.

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

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2022-W19"/>

15:20, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #519
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * 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:
 * 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 (T305988, T307087, T307088)
 * Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (T298150).
 * We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (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!

<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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:12, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Colin M
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ks0stm

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
 * Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news
 * The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2022
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CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2022
Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about April 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.


 * Conducted events
 * Annual Proposal Submission
 * Digitisation session with Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha
 * Training sessions of organisations working on river issues
 * Two days edit-a-thon by local communities
 * Digitisation review and partnerships in Goa
 * Let's Connect: Learning Clinic on Qualitative Evaluation Methods


 * Ongoing events
 * Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team


 * Upcoming event
 * Indic Wikisource Work-plan 2022-2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:47, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Wikidata weekly summary #520
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * 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 (T305988, T307087, 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
<section begin="technews-2022-W20"/> 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 . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * 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.
 * 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 soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons.

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18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

I think a mistake was made, I did not edit Typhoon Meranti (2016). 138.75.53.109 (talk) 08:17, 18 May 2022 (UTC)Jayen Soh 30

May 22: Wiki-Picnic and Hackathon in Brooklyn
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--Wikimedia New York City Team 02:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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A kitten for you!
Thanks for all the work you do on deletion sorting.

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Wikidata weekly summary #521
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 * 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 (T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (T307087) completed.
 * First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket 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!

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Tech News: 2022-21
<section begin="technews-2022-W21"/> 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.
 * The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

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.
 * 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.

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).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers.

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Hgmaguire
Sorry, you want to delete my page, only my truther utube link on it is its not allowed by wikipedia. Sorry. Wow i didnt know was like the system. Hgmaguire (talk) 08:06, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

May 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Tagging User pages for speedy deletion
Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU,

I have a favor to ask. You patrol a lot of new user pages throughout the day. If you see content on User pages that looks like the draft of an article, PLEASE move it to Draft space or to a User Sandbox rather than tagging the page for speedy deletion, CSD U5. Most of the pages I see that you have tagged are by very, very new editors and they might not be aware of the fact that their main User page is not an appropriate location to write an article. So, get the "Move to Draft" script or just use the Move feature and allow them to work on their article in Draft or User space. It must be crushing to create an account on Wikipedia, work on a draft and then have the page deleted just because it was in the wrong namespace. If it was me, well, I wouldn't come back to try a second time if that was the reception I received.

Of course, my advice should not be followed if the content is autobiographical or promotional or an attack page or vandalism or any of the regular kind of content that causes us to delete pages. Thank you for considering my suggestion. I appreciate all of the work you do here. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 06:34, 27 May 2022 (UTC)