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Tech News: 2023-26
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing  to all  responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the  database table.

Problems
 * Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours.

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-tools.svg The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the  CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the  parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the  parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition ) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution.
 * All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary.
 * The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems.

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Wikidata weekly summary #582
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (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.
 * Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th.
 * WikiIndaba 2023 Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Dude, where are my pictures?
 * BiCIKL is linking people unambiguously and efficiently to their work
 * Understanding Knowledge Graphs: A Beginner’s Guide
 * Videos
 * re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube
 * Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
 * Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
 * Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
 * Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube
 * From authority control to identity management - YouTube
 * DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube
 * Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube
 * Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
 * KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
 * Surveys
 * Results of the WMDE survey on ontology issues reusers are facing
 * Notebooks
 * Explore people having notable parents


 * Tool of the week


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), Professor at Cologne univ. ID, Numista ruling authority ID, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * 諱
 * Date of declaration as a town ( The date when a settlement is declared a town )
 * Loss of town status ( Date of loss of town rank )
 * External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Alienor.org ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, XWord Info author ID, WKF ranking ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, etymologiebank.nl ID


 * Query examples:
 * Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) (source)
 * List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page
 * (history) Where were the borders crossing between and  ?
 * Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject University of Washington Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community.
 * WikiProject New York Public Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (T338383)
 * EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
 * Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
 * mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (T329644, T338302, T339103, T329655, T329655)
 * Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (T327510)

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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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).



Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news
 * Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration
 * Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Wikidata weekly summary #583
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)

Scholarship applications are now open]].
 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023. [[m:WWC2023/Scholarship|
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour July 7, 2023: Let's collaborate to upgrade our community infrastructure! We'll transfer notes and content from Google Docs to our WikiProject subpages.  We'll be practicing our Wiki markup skills and learning to manage Wikidata Project pages Event page
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #99, Breast milk (Challenge started on 2023-07-03 12:01:21)
 * Past: The “Games & Literature” conference took place June 28th-30th at German Literature Archive Marbach (Q1205813), several sessions mentioned Wikidata (see for example Why we thought it was a good idea to build a DACH games database).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * EduWiki 2023 Wikidata for Education - YouTube
 * EduWiki 2023 Wikidata in Secondary School Classrooms - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Visualizing all Tour de France's yellow jersey wearers. See also, all notebooks about the Tour de France.


 * Tool of the week
 * m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
 * Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
 * Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * first performance by ( performer or performing group for the first performance of a work )
 * record of ( signal over time this object is a physical representation of )
 * orchestration ( the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement described using score notation )
 * type of document(s) held ( used to specify the type of document(s) contained in an archival collection or documentation file )
 * External identifiers: French sports venue number, Challenges billionaire ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, mosff.ru player ID, Austadiums ID, Akadem organization ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia.com ID, QLIT ID, Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Kartvelologists of Georgia ID, Politique pappers identifier, altesdresden.de object ID, BFM.ru person ID, beachsoccer.com player ID, National Science Foundation award, BIBFRAME Hub ID, elibrary.ru article ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris work ID, Radiomuseum company ID, BSDB player ID, NBC Olympics athlete ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * elected on ( Date when a person was elected to a, in difference to (= ).  cannot always be applied. )
 * collage combines images ( collage composed of images )
 * Nigerian registered company (RC) id ( RC number (Registration Number), identifier assigned to a business by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria )
 * Cent cols ( A property to link Wikidata entries to the dedicated pages of each pass by the Cent Cols )
 * Phonographic copyright ( identifier for phonographic copyright )
 * External identifiers: myjewishitaly.it ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Lemmy community identifier, Mythoskop ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara settlement ID, LFG player ID, Flashpoint database ID, Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, Wikibase World identifier, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, National Library of Colombia authority ID, CNR ExploRA author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Subject areas of journals that have published papers about the replication crisis (by User:Zeromonk and User:MartinPoulter)
 * Count of games published in ROM format per platform per year, 1995-1997 (source)
 * Countries with similar populations
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Conflation aims to identify and untangle conflated items.
 * WikiProject Scotland's Accused Witches aims at producing structured data documenting witchhunts, and prosecuted Scotland's accused witches on Wikidata using the University of Edinburgh's landmark Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736).


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (T338141, T338138)
 * We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (T339356), T338383)
 * Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
 * mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.

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: 2023-27
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file.

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: June 2023
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 * Africa Day 2023: Abuja Teachers celebrates
 * From editing articles to civic power – Wikimedia UK's research on democracy and Wikipedia
 * Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program in Yemen Brings Positive Impact to Yemeni Teachers
 * Using Wikipedia in education: students' and teachers' view
 * The Journey of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Lagos State
 * WMB goes to Serbia
 * But we don't want it to end!

WikiCup 2023 July newsletter
The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
 * Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
 * Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember 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. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere 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 (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #584
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (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 conference (YouTube)
 * Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog- Tuesday, July 11, 2:30pm EST
 * Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas - Tuesday, July 11, 11:30am EST
 * Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) - Tuesday, July 11, 11am EST
 * WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration - Wednesday, July 12, 11:00 am - 11:30 am
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
 * How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base Wednesday, July 12, 10:00 am - 10:30 am ET
 * Ongoing
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #100, Ants (Challenge started on 2023-07-10 12:01:24)
 * Past
 * Sailesh Patnaik presents Wikidata for Education at the July session of the Network of Open Orgs - YouTube
 * Wikidata Online Course - Cohort 1 graduation - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * A volunteer-based initiative is flourishing in Arabic Wikipedia: Reliability enhanced with +10k citations added
 * Wikidata Map in 2023
 * Videos
 * How to create a Wikidata Lexeme with ease - Beginner's Guide (in Twi and English) YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
 * HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Overview of potential solutions regarding survey on ontology issues reusers are facing have been published. Are there important pieces missing? Is there something you disagree with? Generally sounds sensible? Do add your thoughts.
 * Wikidata development plan for Q3 has been updated. Wikidata:Development_plan


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * excavated by ( person who has conducted an archaeological excavation of a historic site )
 * verdict ( decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury )
 * Founder of
 * underlying structure ( an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost )
 * timetable
 * External identifiers: Antenna Structure Registration Number, BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, Gameswelt ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID


 * Query examples:
 * Week 26, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Portraits of queer men people
 * World Universities on Mastodon (source)


 * Development
 * Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions and are looking for input on them now.
 * mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (T316767)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (T339356, T338383)
 * Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (T327510)
 * WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (T321967)

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) 13:06, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-28
<section begin="technews-2023-W28"/> 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 Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
 * Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments.
 * is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata.
 * The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

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).
 * The default protocol of and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https.
 * and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago.

Future changes
 * There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

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CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2023
Dear Wikimedian,

Greetings! We are pleased to inform you that CIS-A2K has successfully completed several activities during the month of June. As a result, our monthly newsletter, which covers the highlights of the previous month, is now ready to be shared. We have taken care to mention the conducted events/activities in this newsletter, ensuring that all relevant information is captured.


 * Conducted events
 * Community Engagement Calls and Activities
 * India Community Monthly Engagement Calls: 3 June 2023 call
 * Takeaways of Indian Wikimedians from EduWiki Conference & Hackathon
 * Punjabi Wikisource Proofread-a-thon
 * Skill Development Programs
 * Wikidata Training Sessions for Santali Community
 * Indian Community Need Assessment and Transition Calls
 * Partnerships and Trainings
 * Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion GLAM Project
 * Wikimedia Commons sessions with river activists
 * Introductory session on Wikibase for Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion members

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Wikidata weekly summary #584
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
 * MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?
 * Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
 * The humble guide to building an asset library
 * Papers
 * OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
 * "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
 * A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia
 * Videos
 * Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube
 * Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * LD4 conference (YouTube)
 * Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
 * Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
 * Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
 * WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
 * How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * autosuggest value ( qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject )
 * External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * verdict ( decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury )
 * Founder of
 * underlying structure ( an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost )
 * timetable
 * Canadian Archival Information Network authority record
 * External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword


 * Query examples:
 * List of data journals at Wikidata (source)
 * Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
 * WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)


 * Development
 * Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (T327510)
 * EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (T339924)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (T328149)
 * mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (T340832)

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: 2023-29
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 * Octicons-tools.svg We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.

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 * 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-tools.svg MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> API now.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57
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 * Suggestion improvements
 * Favorite collections tips
 * Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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Wikidata weekly summary #585
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
 * Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
 * Ongoing
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation
 * Wikibase and reconciliation, by Adshore
 * Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology
 * Papers
 * Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - YouTube
 * WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - YouTube
 * WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - YouTube
 * Dataviz
 * Wikicommunes (See also the thread on Mastodon)


 * Tool of the week
 * Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * median household income ( median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country )
 * login URL ( URL of a webpage used to log into a service )
 * registration page URL ( URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service )
 * External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Threads username, Dutch word ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Top scorer ( This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: ; ; (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ). )
 * External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs, IbsenStage ID, TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme (source)
 * Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs (source)
 * People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors" (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Henrik Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661).
 * WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library at the Getty Research Institute (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (T214885).
 * mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (T340644)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (T328149)
 * Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
 * Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
 * Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
 * You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} 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!

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Tech News: 2023-30
<section begin="technews-2023-W30"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg  On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.

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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Women in Red August 2023
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