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Tech News: 2019-44
 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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
 * You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOUI now allows using  (pixels) instead of   (em) for some specific cases.

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).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named  to  . The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:11, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Adminship Anniversary
Thanks! --Edcolins (talk) 20:29, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Happy birthday, Wikidata!
 * Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
 * You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list


 * Events
 * Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, (18 October):
 * Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
 * Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
 * Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
 * Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by
 * Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
 * Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
 * Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
 * WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
 * New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
 * Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
 * A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
 * Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
 * Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)


 * Tool of the week
 * MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Open request for oversight permission: -revi
 * OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
 * The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
 * You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
 * External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
 * External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID


 * Query examples:
 * Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20pictures%20of%20animals%20with%20female%20grammatical%20gender%20in%20German%20but%20male%20grammatical%20gender%20in%20French%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%3FdeLemmas%20%3FfrLemmas%20%3Fimage%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%28STRLANG%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FdeLemma%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2F%22%29%2C%20%22de%22%29%20AS%20%3FdeLemmas%29%20%28STRLANG%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FfrLemma%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2F%22%29%2C%20%22fr%22%29%20AS%20%3FfrLemmas%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fde%20dct%3Alanguage%20wd%3AQ188%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AlexicalCategory%20wd%3AQ1084%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alemma%20%3FdeLemma%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP5185%20wd%3AQ1775415%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ontolex%3Asense%20%5B%20wdt%3AP5137%20%3Fanimal%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffr%20dct%3Alanguage%20wd%3AQ150%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AlexicalCategory%20wd%3AQ1084%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alemma%20%3FfrLemma%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP5185%20wd%3AQ499327%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ontolex%3Asense%20%5B%20wdt%3AP5137%20%3Fanimal%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fanimal%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ729.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fanimal%0A%7D%20AS%20%25animals%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%3FanimalLabel%20%3FdeLemmas%20%3FfrLemmas%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25animals.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25animalsWithLabels%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25animalsWithLabels.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22haswbstatement%3AP180%3D%22%2C%20STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fanimal%29%2C%20STR%28wd%3A%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fsearch%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Search%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikimedia.org%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrsearch%20%3Fsearch%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrnamespace%20%226%22%3B%20%23%20NS_FILE%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrlimit%20%22max%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftitle%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atitle.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20STRAFTER%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%22File%3A%22%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0A%7D Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French] (source)
 * Map of bus stops in Biscay (source)
 * Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee (source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (T235055)
 * Save original revision data in store (T235052)
 * Add interface for tracking/logging (T236233)
 * Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (T235056)
 * More work on reducing the resource loader modules
 * More work on tainted references

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.

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 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Nomination of Pink Subaru for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Pink Subaru is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Pink Subaru until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Whpq (talk) 13:29, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:


 * 1) with 964 points
 * 2) with 899 points
 * 3) with 817 points
 * 4) with 691 points
 * 5) with 388 points
 * 6) with 146 points
 * 7) with 145 points
 * 8) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello ,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
 * Coordinator
 * This month's refresher course
 * Tools
 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
 * It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
 * Reviewer Feedback
 * Second set of eyes
 * Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
 * Arbitration Committee
 * Community Wish list

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg MSGJ

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ivanvector
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
 * The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
 * A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Wikidata weekly summary #389
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
 * Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1)  on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
 * The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
 * The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
 * ''Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
 * Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
 * Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)


 * Tool of the week
 * SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
 * Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
 * is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
 * New feature on Mix'n'match: job management


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
 * External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
 * External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID


 * Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
 * Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
 * 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
 * Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
 * New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
 * Schema examples:
 * Painting
 * Member of parliament from Sweden
 * Malayalam lexeme
 * Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
 * Newest database reports:
 * Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
 * Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) constraint check


 * Development
 * Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
 * Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (T236677)
 * Update Wikibase Lua documentation (T225497)
 * Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (T234079)
 * Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (T230881, T220284, T234330)
 * Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (T232595)
 * Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (T236491)
 * Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (T231204)
 * Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (T235152)
 * A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (T235622)
 * Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (T230342)
 * More work on tainted references

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) 16:35, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-45
 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
 * At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.

Changes later this week
 * can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use  to set a different default block length for IP editors.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello, please reapply my changes for the CLAAS wiki entry
Hi, Im Jakob and am currently an intern at CLAAS of America. I do have a bachelor and master degree in agriculture and sales

I wanna improve the wikipedia entries for the CLAAS group and products. You can trust me. The CLAAS name must be written in capital letters. I found several mistakes on the curretn wiki entrie.

In future I wanna put more effort improving the wikipedia websites from CLAAS.

So please reapply my changes so I can continue the work — Preceding unsigned comment added by IICaYeNnEII (talk • contribs) 17:46, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Ahecht's page swap


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap
 * SD0001: hide-reverted-edits* T-Watch* W-Ping* easy-merge
 * Enterprisey: diff-permalink* search-links* section-redir-note* fancy-diffs* EditWarChecker


 * 1009Clock.jpg Pending requests
 * Inline editor for cleanup tags
 * Script to remove empty parameters
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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Global watchlist - Update 2
 Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:


 * General notes
 * To report a bug or request a feature, please create a new task on Phabricator with the script's tag


 * Recent additions
 * Site validation has been tightened. Previously, only the language code and project name had to be valid - now, they must be a valid combination (i.e.  exists, and so is valid, but   is not valid, because no such wiki exists).
 * When the global watchlist feed is loading, an OOUI widget will be shown, rather than an animated gif.
 * An option has been added to no longer group edits to the same page. For now, this isn't very useful, since metadata for the edits (editor, summary, tags, etc.) are not yet shown, but they will be soon. Until then, ungrouped edits are treated the same as pages with only 1 edit - the minor and bot flags are displayed if applicable. If edits are grouped, the minor and bot flags are only shown if they apply to all of the edits.


 * Upcoming changes
 * Starting with version 5.0, there will be an option at the settings page to switch to and from a "stable" version of the script. When activated, the script import in your global.js should be replaced, and then the page refreshed with the new script loaded. The stable script will live at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/stable.js, and will be updated with each full release. Otherwise, it shouldn't be edited, providing a version that is less prone to bugs as the script is developed.


 * Announcements
 * WARNING: Starting with version 5.1, the option to mark the pages of a site as seen be implemented using the  API option, rather than manually listing the titles. This is being done to simplify the implementation code. This will result in the same functionality as marking all pages as seen via Special:Watchlist (i.e. even if the page isn't visible due to your filter choices, it will still be marked as seen). If you would like to keep using the current method for a while, please switch to the stable branch.

Version 5.0 has just gone live. It includes the new features mentioned above.
 * Next release

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Wikidata weekly summary #390
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
 * Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
 * Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November


 * Tool of the week
 * Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
 * The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
 * @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, statement is regarded as spoiler for, room number, scope and content
 * External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society ID, Sega Retro ID, classicamiga ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, Gaming-History company ID, SK cinema authority ID, SK cinema film ID, CA PROP 65 ID, ePSD identifier, Czech cadastral area ID, dp.ru company ID, Fortuna liga player ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, AaRC person ID, MIC market code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: general law, population rank, area rank, population density rank, references, territorial entity ranking context, mentions named entity, plot features event, Jyutping (2)
 * External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID, IPC ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, UVL game ID, WikiTreeCategories, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, OGDB game title ID, common exchange code, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, CISCE school code, CBSE Affiliation No., JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20minimum%20temperatures%20on%20Earth%20%0A%23%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP7422%0ASELECT%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoor%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20p%3AP7422%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25267%20%5D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28%20ROUND%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2a%201.8%20%2B%2032%20%29%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%09%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ42289%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20ROUND%28%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20-%2032%20%29%20%2F%201.8%20%2a%2010%29%2F10%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor0%20%7D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor1%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20COALESCE%28%3Fcoor0%2C%20%3Fcoor1%29%20as%20%3Fcoor%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20CONCAT%28str%28Floor%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%220s%20%C2%B0C%22%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%29%0ALIMIT%201000 Minimum temperature records on Earth]
 * Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011 (source)
 * List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of publication (source)
 * Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA (source)
 * Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020 (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wolfram Language, most frequent first names in Poland, Paintings and images of signatures of painters


 * Development
 * In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (T236749)
 * Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (T235261)
 * Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
 * Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (T232248)
 * Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
 * Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (T224013)
 * For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (T235152)
 * Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (T233397)
 * Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
 * Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
 * Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (T237849)

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) 14:54, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46
<section begin="technews-2019-W46"/> 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
 * MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W46"/> 22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2019
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GA Reassessment
Mustafizur Rahman, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. —Nemoschool (talk) 10:47, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Saturday Nov 16: Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Wikidata weekly summary #391
<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: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia


 * Tool of the week
 * The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
 * OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
 * Autojump from a field to another will be removed
 * Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Commons category for the interior of the item
 * External identifiers: Birds of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Moths of India ID, NBAIR pest ID, Odonata of India ID, Planète Aventure ID, Reptiles of India ID, ZSI author ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, askArt person ID, Flowers of India ID, National Health Portal hospital ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete alphabetical ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, UVL game ID, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, OGDB game title ID, CISCE school code, JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IAST transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, IFCO rating, stellar age, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 schedule, nominalisated form, date of assent, effective date, valid for, supervisor, Xmodmap keysym, Properties for Indian ragas
 * External identifiers: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, OGDB company ID, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, AboutTheArtists artist ID, Czech city district ID, Prague administrative district ID, NinDB game ID, DUC ID, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, Cinepub person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Cinept film ID, CinePT person ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Lutris platform ID, Beaux-arts ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, India PlayStation Store ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Czech municipality ID, Lutris genre ID


 * Query examples:
 * Adaptations of The War of the Worlds (source)
 * Graves at the Stockholm church Riddarholmskyrkan who use book Riddarholmskyrkan - inventories and graves (Q61765464) as a source, source
 * Map of sisterly relationships with cities in India (source)
 * Map of the languages without any Wikidata Lexemes yet (source)
 * Newest database reports: translations for port/starboard and windward/leeward


 * Development
 * Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (T231728)
 * Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (T233003)
 * Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (T237984)
 * Track Bridge openings by property datatype (T231204)
 * Viewing existing references in the Bridge (T233397)
 * Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (T235765)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:37, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2019-47
<section begin="technews-2019-W47"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the  database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W47"/> 20:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Nov 20: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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