User talk:Cassiopeia/Archive 49

Deleting a student's work
Hi Cassiopeia, I came across this edit where you deleted a student's work. I am assuming it was a mistake. Interstellarity (talk) 00:41, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for informing. I am not sure what was going on, but indeed I remove the content. Self reverted. Thanks you as always. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 03:20, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

UFC 253
I accidentally broke the page. IMAHua (talk) 20:43, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Good day. Thank you for your message and seeking help. I believe you were referring to this edit you made. It has been fixed by User:Kind Tennis Fan - see here. What you would do next time is:
 * go to the history page (click "view history on the top menu")
 * click the circle that you edit and the edit before yours (so two blue dots will appear)
 * click "compare selected revisions" which will bring you to "UFC 253: Difference between revisions" page
 * you can either (a) click "rollback" on your edit version or (b) restore this version on the previous editor's edit
 * state "self revert - accidentally remove info" and save the edit.


 * Let me know if anything else I can help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:06, 16 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Alright, thank you. IMAHua (talk) 00:17, 16 August 2020 (UTC)


 * No worries. Pop back here when you need help. Stay safe and enjoy UFC 252. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

You too. IMAHua (talk) 00:20, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #429
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 (all successful)
 * New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26, August 23


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
 * New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project, feedback welcome
 * Help:Dataset sizing


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: alternative form
 * External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures, Manioc book ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, Unsplash User ID, EIB project ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: latest start date, earliest end date, Number of votes after transferring, map URL, type of archaeological site, record number, front and back matter
 * External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, Panteono de edukado.net, LSG local body code, MobyGames attribute ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), Proballers player ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, Chrome Webstore extension ID, CTHS publication ID, LBS Physical ID, GBIF occurence ID


 * Query examples:
 * Largest collections of Picasso content (Source). The National Gallery of Art holds the most with 303 objects
 * Bubble chart of snooker world champions (Source)
 * Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders (Source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (T259440)
 * Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (T255387)
 * Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
 * Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (T249206)
 * Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
 * Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (T128486)
 * Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (T259340, T260118)

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: 2020-34
 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
 * If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an  tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else.
 * The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2020-W34"/> 20:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Page review training programme
Hi Cassiopeia,

I'm interested in getting involved with the New Pages Patrol. I've seen on the project's page that you have student slots available. I was wondering whether you might adopt me as a student on the training programme? Thanks and best wishes Modussiccandi (talk) 21:29, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Good day. NPPSCHOOL program is a comprehensive program which requires the participant to spend time to read provided material (WP pages) and do the assignments. The project consists of 3 parts with 10 assignments and 1 final exam. It covers notability, sources, tagging, wiki project, subsort, wiki content policies, CSD, PROPS, AfD, communication, review and much more topics. Participant usually takes 2-3 months to complete the program (it depends how much time you spend on the program). Many participant abandoned the program due to the find they need to spend more time on the assignments/reading material as they anticipate but I dont think you would have any problem at all since you are a PhD student and reading some material and doing assignment would be easy for you. Once you have complete the program, you would equip with the knowledge to review new pages. Each participant work on the assignment at their own pace  and most of them take about 2-3 months to complete it. If you have some personal commitment and need to take more than 7-10 days to work on the assignment, then just simply let me know.  Let me know if you are still interest to join the program after reading the info above. Stay safe and best. <b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 10:24, 18 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all the information. I have more free time on my hands at the moment since my next university term doesn't start until October. So, I would still like to join the programme, if possible. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 12:11, 18 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Greetings. The program page has set up. Welcome to NPPS SHOOL. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>)

Dan Henderson
Hi Cass. An admin had blocked me for restoring Sherdog data in the infobox on Dan Henderson. I would appreciate it if you could let them know about the consensus on WP:MMA. It is here and on my talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dan_Henderson. NEDOCHAN (talk) 17:37, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

I would appreciate your contribution on the Dan Henderson page.NEDOCHAN (talk) 09:38, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Good day. I live in AUS and for such, I might not respond in time to those editors who live in US or EU. I have just commented on Hendo's talk page. Have a look and let me know if anything you need to know. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 10:30, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks! NEDOCHAN (talk) 10:53, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 11:00, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Muhammed Mokaev
Hi was wondering if you could take a look again at Mohammed Mokaev again. There is an article of him on the bbc and I have added that to the submitted article. Would you be able to review? Rassmallai (talk) 09:26, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Good day. For a MMA fighter, they need to have at least 3 fight under tier one promotion (UFC/Invicta) to pass notability guidelines or black belt(senior) medalist in IBBJF in BJJ competitions. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 10:37, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

3RR and edit warring
I have responded to your comments on the talk page of Dan Henderson but in a vain attempt at keeping discussion there on the article and not editors, I will respond to number one here: (from WP:EW) Not a single one of the reverts since April had any form of discussion with the editor that had been reverted. Someone was bold (be it an IP or a new user), an editor reverted (NEDOCHAN) and there was absolutely zero discussion on the talk page of the article or on the other editors pages. I warned the user about this and they immediately carried out a revert. 3RR is a bright line but edit warring can exist outside of that bright line which this case is a perfect example of. In summary, the block was for edit warring not a violation of the 3RR. Woody (talk) 12:34, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Good day and thank you for the message above. I understand NEDOCHAN didnt communicated with the IP edtior(s) He indeed did not violate the 3RR but do understand his behavior of doing the revert after your warning message to him and the way his communication might not be as civil as it should. However, his intend iwas a good faith one and he has helped countless copy editing in Wikipedia pages and has not been "intentionally" harm Wikipedia in anywhere in his contribution. I understand a personally message to the editor might help things in different light and I believe he has learned from this incident. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 10:45, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

This isn't about the editors, this is about the content and how we show what the sources say to our readers. The whole point of starting a way forward section on the talk page was to avoid discussing the editors behaviour and concentrate on a discussion on how to resolve the disparity in sources and show this to the reader. That is all I want now out of this so I can remove all this from my watchlist and get back to improving article content. Woody (talk) 20:16, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Not sure why I didn't get that ping. I have no doubt that he has an edit history and I have assumed good faith in my interactions so far. If I thought he was intentionally harming wikipedia I would have blocked him site wide not just on a single article where there was an issue. As per the unblocking guide the blocked editor will be unblocked "if the blocked editor can convince any admin that the block is no longer necessary because you understand what you are blocked for, you will not do it again..."


 * G'day. From my understanding there are two issues here (1) the unblocked of NEDOCHAN (2) the sourcing. I have a quick look at NEDOCHAN talk page and understand there is so heated communication. I understand the unblock process for I am a counter vandalism trainer and fighter in Wikipedia and I have seen many editors requested their account to be unblocked. I understand both side of yours and NEDOCHAN views and will drop a note on his talk page and hope he would listen to my advice to respond to unblock requests. As for (2) sourcing - I have read your proposal on Hando (Den Handerson) talk page and I will respond on Hendo talk page tmrw for it is close to midnight here and I am heading to bed. Good night Woody.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 13:29, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

NPP school
I have gone through topics like notability guidelines and others and am ready for the school.Tbiw (talk) 15:02, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Good day. The participant needs to have a minimum total of main space edit of 1000. As per your main space contribution here is 873. Pls pop back here when you have reached minimum of 1000 main space edit. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 12:30, 23 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I have 1000 main space edit now.Tbiw (talk) 22:18, 23 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Good day and thank you for the link. NPPSCHOOL program is a comprehensive program which requires the participant to spend time to read provided material (WP pages) and do the assignments. The project consists of 3 parts with 10 assignments and 1 final exam. It covers notability, sources, tagging, wiki project, subsort, wiki content policies, CSD, PROPS, AfD, communication, review and much more topics. Participant usually takes 3 months to complete the program (it depends how much time you spend on the program). Many participant abandoned the program due to the find they need to spend more time on the assignments/reading material as they anticipate. Once you have complete the program, you would equip with the knowledge to review new pages. I am the trainer for CVUA and NPPSCHOOL, do note that NPPSCHOOL program is a lot harder than that of CUVA and I do expect answers provided need to supported by guidelines, justification of your reason, provide all hist diff for any tagging, article page, editor talk page, reports/discussion pages and any relevant hist diffs. Let me know if you are still interest to join the program after reading the info above. At the meantime, pls complete WP:TWA please. Btw, you can delete the messges on your talk page, however, it is not a good idea just to remove the not accepted articles / selected messages. Leave them all for archive for all the messages still can be viewed from your history log page. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 08:10, 24 August 2020 (UTC)


 * How will i archive my talk page? Tbiw (talk) 08:30, 24 August 2020 (UTC)


 * First of all, please add additional colon " : " from the previous message thread before you start writing (I have added it for you, pls see it in "source editing" mode) - the colon is to indent one space to the right as this is the communication protocol in Wikipedia. Ps read Help:Wikitext for more Wikipedia mark up. As for achieving, pls read and follow the instructions at Help:Archiving a talk page. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 08:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I have mobile phone not laptop. I can't do the WP: TWA.Tbiw (talk) 08:46, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Again, pls add the additional colon before you start writing. I would be hard for you to take up the program as there are script you need to download to do the assignment and TWA is a very important basic info an editor needed prior to start the program. Try to find yourself a laptop and get back here when you have done that.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 09:07, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

yooo i wanna be in anti vandalism
i see there is opening in anti vandalism. because of the pandemic i have f- all to do so i'd like to see if i could do the training! Nolanisntfunny (talk) 23:33, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Greetings. Pls note that you need to have minimum 200 total main space edits to join the program. As of now you have 60 total main space edit - see here. Once you reach the minimum total main space edit, then pop back here. At the mean time pls complete WP:TWA program to gain some basic info of Wikipedia guidelines. Thank you.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 12:36, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #430
<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: Wikidata distributed birthday in October. You can organize an (online) event with your local group or favorite WikiProject! See also: calendar in progress, information for organizers, 24-hours online meetup
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will talk about gadgets and user scripts. 25 August. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #27, August 30
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata (via ArXiv)
 * Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online.
 * Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
 * Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
 * Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.
 * Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.


 * Project & events [$2-10k]
 * e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: SMARTS notation, tala, raga, recording location, law or regulation identifying number, earliest end date, latest start date, extinction date
 * External identifiers: Filmstarts title ID, Trismegistos text ID, SPLC Individual ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, BHF magazine ID, Macedonian cadastral municipality ID, Monumentbrowser ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938 ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister ID, BHF author ID, Proballers ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, Opera Online opera house ID, CTHS publication ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Namesakes, Engineer's Line Reference, bibliography, external auditor, ITF-identificatiecode voor speler 2020, rotated image, mirrored image, combined from, overlaid from, number of deaths in senior care homes, number of cases intensive care, negotiated by, is solution to, Commons category for the exterior of the item, Number of taxpayers, medium
 * External identifiers: Abbreviations related to ancient authors and works and to academic works regarding classical antiquity, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Emporis company ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, FBref.com squad ID, Operator licence number, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Istrapedia ID, monumenta.ch ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Art Bonus ID, The Living New Deal ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, UG Digital Collections, jewishencyclopedia.com ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, Grandterrier.net ID


 * Query examples:
 * British MPs with sons- or daughters-in-law who were also MPs (source)
 * MPs with the largest number of children or childen-in-law who became MPs (source)
 * Descendants of Robert Emett (born 1729), with counts of sitelinks and external IDs for them and their spouses (source)
 * Programming languages written by women (Source)
 * Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (Source)
 * Female soccer players who have a (known) social media account (Source)
 * Largest cities in France by population (Source)
 * Commons queries:
 * [https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0Aselect%20%3Fimage%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fthumb%20%28%3Fp170Label%20as%20%3Fauthor%29%20%28YEAR%28%3Fp570%29%20as%20%3Fdeath%29%20%3Fcopyright_statusLabel%20with%20%7B%0A%20%20select%20%2a%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20service%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%2a%20wd%3AQ1757%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fp170%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FitemLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FitemDescription%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FitemDescription%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fp170%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fp170Label%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fp170Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fp170%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fp570%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fp170%20wdt%3AP7763%20%3Fcopyright_status.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcopyright_status%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcopyright_statusLabel%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcopyright_statusLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20as%20%25works%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20include%20%25works.%0A%20%20%3Fimage%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fitem.%0A%20%20%3Fimage%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl.%20%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fthumb%29%0A%7D Works in Helsinki, and their copyright status] (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Gazetteer


 * Development
 * Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
 * Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (T260532)
 * Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients ( T259340)
 * Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (T258558)
 * Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
 * Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well

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: 2020-35
<section begin="technews-2020-W35"/> 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

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September Women in Red edithons
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

CVUA training request
Hi ,

I am interested in getting involved with countering vandalism. I've seen on the project's page that you have student slots available. I was wondering whether you might take me as a student on the training programme? I have gone through Syllabus and the requirement for the course and am ready for it. Thanks. -- Roller26 (talk) 21:12, 25 August 2020 (UTC) Roller26
 * Good day. Pls read Notes CVUA and pop back here if you still want to enroll in the program after you have read it. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 09:28, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I have gone through the notes and am ready for the course. -- Roller26 (talk) 10:12, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I have set up the program for you. Do note the motto of the Counter Vandalism Unit is Civility – Maturity – Responsibility. Welcome to CVUA. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 10:20, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey, I had completed the 1st assignment on the same day and am ready to move to 2nd section if everything is fine. Just pinging you here in case you didn't receive my ping on the page itself. Take care -- Roller26 (talk) 12:57, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * : Good day. I have reviewed your assignment.Btw, any questions/communication regarding the program, pls address it on the program page. Thank you.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 07:38, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #431
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 * Events
 * Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. By Global Open Initiative - YouTube (1), (2)
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST.
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28, September 6
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
 * Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service, by Dr Chris Langley
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way - article by Lydia Pintscher in the Wikipedia Signpost


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
 * WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC
 * The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service.
 * reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine's API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Butcher tableau, front and back matter, external auditor
 * External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID, Chrome Webstore extension ID, PARADISEC Catalog, NPR station ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Emporis company ID, Art Bonus ID, British Museum object ID, monumenta.ch ID, The Living New Deal ID, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: parent superproperty, publisher of, performed at, Barcelona Public art identifier, opening hours (v.3), Fanbase name, aerial view, ground clearance, axle track, placeholder text element ID, displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table, Liturgical rank
 * External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945, Firefox add-on ID, London Stock Exchange company, Fatcat ID, NDL law ID, e-Gov law ID, OFAC sanction ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, YUAG ID, Grove Music Online ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Map of structures that have won architectural awards - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players (Source)
 * Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes (Source)
 * Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 (Source)
 * People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth (Source)
 * [https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FmakeLabel%20%3FmodelLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2a%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20decommissioned%20aircraft%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Ahistoric%20%22aircraft%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20make%20and%2For%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20%28osmt%3Amanufacturer%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aaircraft%3Amodel%3Awikidata%29%20%3FmakeModel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%20the%20make%2Fmodel%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20If%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20model%2C%20get%20the%20make%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ76920834%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP176%20%3Fmake.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmodel%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20model%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmodel%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmodelLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmodelLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20A%20make%20must%20be%20a%20business%20to%20distinguish%20it%20from%20a%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Or%20it%20must%20be%20part%20of%20an%20industry%20%28e.g.%2C%20Wright%20Brothers%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20%28wdt%3AP106%7Cwdt%3AP452%29%20%5B%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20manufacturer%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmake%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmakeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmakeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmakeLabel%2C%20%22Unknown%22%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FmakeLabel%29 Location of decommissioned aircraft] - OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
 * Railway network in Czechia (Source)
 * People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) (Source)
 * List of locations of Woolf's books (Source)


 * Development
 * Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
 * Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
 * Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate

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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Editing news 2020 #4
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Reply tool


The Reply tool  has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.


 * More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They  posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
 * Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
 * Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة.  ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

 * The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
 * Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily . Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected.  Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures.  If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool
Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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NPP school
user: tbiw is back to get his NPP school. I have completed WP: TWA Tbiw (talk) 22:44, 3 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Good day and thank you for the link. NPPSCHOOL program is a comprehensive program which requires the participant to spend time to read provided material (WP pages) and do the assignments. The project consists of 3 parts with 10 assignments and 1 final exam. It covers notability, sources, tagging, wiki project, subsort, wiki content policies, CSD, PROPS, AfD, communication, review and much more topics. Participant usually takes 3 months to complete the program (it depends how much time you spend on the program). Many participant abandoned the program due to the find they need to spend more time on the assignments/reading material as they anticipate. Once you have complete the program, you would equip with the knowledge to review new pages. I am the trainer for CVUA and NPPSCHOOL, do note that NPPSCHOOL program is a lot harder than that of CUVA and I do expect answers provided need to supported by guidelines, justification of your reason, provide all hist diff for any tagging, article page, editor talk page, reports/discussion pages and any relevant hist diffs. Let me know if you are still interest to join the program after reading the info above. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 07:24, 5 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes i am ready for it. And am ready to participate and be a student of NPP school. Am ready to face every challenge in it.Tbiw (talk) 10:23, 5 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I have set up the program for you and pls bookmark the page in your computer. Welcome to NPPS. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 04:38, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

I am glad to be there my master. Thanks for the admission sir. Tbiw (talk) 07:45, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy
Hello, Cassiopeia. I would appreciate if you were to agree to being my mentor in the Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy. Thank you and best regards.  Juan de Bolas  Talk 11:00, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Good day. Please note that there are many editors who were interested in counter vandalism course and abundant the program mid way due to lack of anticipation of the amount of efforts/time needed in reading the program material, doing assigned "homework" and exams requirements . Generally, it would take an editor 1.5-2 months to finish the course. So do prepare yourself for lots of reading and homework.

Please make sure you enable WP:Twinkle and know how to provide hist diff - see here Simplest diff guide. Once you have done the assignment and would like to get it review then ping me on the sub page (at the end of the assignment). I will usually review the assignment a day after you ping me. Do raise any questions of the review if there are any, if not and you are ready to proceed to next assignment then let me know and I will post it accordingly. One thing to note - very important - '''Do NOT revert more than 3 times within 24 hours on the same page if the edit you reverted are NOT considered blatantly vandalism for you will be blocked. ''' Please bear in mind. The motto of the Counter Vandalism Unit is Civility – Maturity – Responsibility. Welcome to CUVA.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 09:40, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello
Hello am done with the assignment and work.Tbiw (talk) 14:56, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Good day. Pls keep all NPPS communication in the program page. Thank you.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 08:40, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Tony Ferguson’s record.
@Cassiopeia Hey man, on ESPN Tony Ferguson record is 26-4. But on wiki his record is 25-4. IMAHua (talk) 04:15, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Good day. Ferguson's ESPN fight record here-1 and Sherdog is here-2. Wikipedia uses Sherdog for all MMA fighter fight recrod.  The different is that ESPN record one additional fight on June 2, 2011 against Chuck O'Neil for the semi-final TUF TV reality show bout which is not considered a official professional fight for it is a TV series event. <b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FA0"> Cassiopeia</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 08:38, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Oh okay. IMAHua (talk) 17:35, 7 September 2020 (UTC)