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Tech News: 2022-23
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02:44, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Nance Wallace (19:04, 7 June 2022)
Hi. I would like to correct a place name but I don't know how. Can you take care of it? It's mentioned on the Canaan page I think. The name of the place is Greenbrier, Saskatchewan but it is spelled Greenbrie.

Greenbrier is where my father was born on the family homestead so I would like it to be correct. I can send you a picture of the Greenbrier sign with the school behind it. This is the only sign I saw when we were looking for the property.

Thanks. Nance Wallace --Nance Wallace (talk) 19:04, 7 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Good day. I believe you meant the page Canaan and in the body text there is no Greenbrie.  Cassiopeia  talk  07:37, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Rob Wilkinson for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Rob Wilkinson 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/Rob Wilkinson 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.  ♡RAFAEL♡(talk) 10:24, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from NasDasilva (01:57, 11 June 2022)
Change username --NasDasilva (talk) 01:57, 11 June 2022 (UTC)


 * . Good day. Pls read this page  - Changing username and follow the instructions.  Btw, the editor who change or add information to the articles need to provide independent, reliable source for verification - see WP:PROVEIT and WP:BURDEN.Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia   talk  02:05, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Juan Adams for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Juan Adams 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/Juan Adams 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.  ♡RAFAEL♡(talk) 16:45, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Tutor
Hi, greetings from this part of Nigeria, I hope your day is going fine. It's been over a week since you told me you'll review the assignment the next day and I've been waiting since then. Hope all is well?  Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  13:39, 9 June 2022 (UTC)


 * OK. Will review it this weekend. Thank you. Cassiopeia</b>  talk  13:32, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Alright, thank you.  Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  15:03, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, hope you're having a good Sunday. The weekend is almost over, just reminding since you said weekend.  Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  17:47, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I have reviewed half of the assignment and pls message me on the program page.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>   talk  01:49, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

False information
Cassopeai insists on spreading false information under Fiziev page. The fighter confirmed he is of Azeri and Russian ethnicity. As his mother is Russian and his Father Azeri. Cassopeia keeps changing it to Kyrgiz. Arguing that his parents ethnicity does not determine his. Please stop him from spreading false information, thanks 89.205.133.207 (talk) 07:53, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * You need to provide independent, reliable source such as from the newspaper to state your claim.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>  talk  10:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #524
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
 * Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
 * William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests
 * OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
 * Past
 * 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * 50,000 video games on Wikidata by Jean-Frédéric
 * The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)
 * Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database (in Basque)
 * Papers
 * A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
 * WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph
 * Videos
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
 * Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
 * Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
 * Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
 * DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
 * How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
 * Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
 * FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
 * The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata Testimonials
 * Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA)) (in French)
 * Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) (in French)
 * Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich) (in German)


 * Tool of the week
 * ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
 * Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
 * Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
 * Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
 * Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
 * New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: orchestrator
 * External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
 * External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID


 * Query examples:
 * Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
 * Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
 * items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
 * Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
 * A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
 * Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
 * Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
 * Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
 * In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
 * Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
 * Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (T306214)
 * Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (T290733), improving error messages for the new page (T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (T307869)
 * REST API: continued work on creating statements (T306667)

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-24
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Recent changes
 * All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes
 * By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Gane vs Tuivasa announced as France headliner
Hi mate, just a quick one however I've just seen that Gane vs Tuivasa has been officially announced about 3 hours ago as the headliner for the Paris, France card and was wondering if the UFC Fight Night 210 needs renaming?

Seen as you are one of the best here, I thought it would be best left for you to decide.

Lowkick MMA: https://www.lowkickmma.com/ciryl-gane-vs-tai-tuivasa-ufc-paris-sep-3/

I hope all is well for you and sending you much love!! ❤️🙏

UFC Beavis (talk) 14:48, 15 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Page name has already renamed. Thanks for letting me know.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>  talk  03:22, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I noticed and no worries 😊
 * UFC Beavis (talk) 09:30, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

UFC 279
Hiya Cassiopeia,

It appears UFC Fight Night 211 will now be UFC 279 according to the article listed below. I know moving all the pages is complicated and I’m not sure how to do it correctly, so bringing it to your attention. Thanks!

https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2022/06/ufc-279-aljamain-sterling-vs-tj-dillashaw Sdpdude9 (talk) 03:35, 16 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for letting me know. My internet provide services was down and I was not feeling well and didnt edit anything for the last 3-4 days. I am good now and tots of things edits and review to catch up. Will doing the moving and after I am back from the gym later of the day. Stay safe and enjoy tmr fights. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>  talk  01:27, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jeremiah Wells has been accepted
<div style="border:solid 1px #57DB1E; background:#E6FFE6; padding:1em; padding-top:0.5em; padding-bottom:0.5em; width:20em; color:black; margin-bottom: 1.5em; width: 90%;"> Jeremiah Wells, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_talk/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Jeremiah_Wells help desk] . Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.

Thanks again, and happy editing! HeinzMaster (talk) 19:54, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

List of practitioners cleanup
Hi Cassiopeia.

I'm right now having a dispute with an IP user on List of Muay Thai practitioners. You have already encountered him on Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture. The IP address may change but from tone and geolocate, its pretty obvious its the same user.

Some of the changes to page which he has added MMA fighters, I consider not constructive. List of Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners is now bloated because almost every notable MMA fighter is a BJJ practitioner. Greco-Roman wrestling has MMA fighters who have no recorded experience in it. We already have categories for an extensive list of practitioners. Therefore I think we can trim the practitioner page.

I plan to make a clean up on these pages. But I wanted to ask your opinion on something. When we include MMA fighters under this section, what is an ideal criteria for putting notable ones on the page? For List of Muay Thai practitioners, I believe only Champion fighters that utilize muay thai as their main weapon in MMA and are known for it throughout their entire career should be included. Otherwise we will get a bloated list Category:Mixed martial artists utilizing Muay Thai. Fighters like Fabrício Werdum and Rafael dos Anjos have developed Muay Thai skills but they do not belong on the list in my opinion. Their main weapon will always be BJJ and they didn't even develop proper Muay Thai skills until they moved to Kings MMA which was already half way into their career. How can we claim these are the same as other fighters who have been using it as their main style since the very start of their career?

The same applies to List of Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners where we should include only specialists that use it as their main weapon in MMA. As for Greco-Roman wrestling, I need to look more on the fighters but some like Luke Rockhold definitely do not belong there.

Let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks

-Imcdc (talk) 13:06, 20 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late reply as I have not been editing for a week due to some personal matter needed to be taken care of. For the list of...., you can specify on the criteria to be included in the page by recreating a sub section name "Notes/Key" for the subject to be included  - example for BJJ certain degree and ADCC and IBBJ world champion with the support of independent reliable source and trim the list. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>   talk  09:53, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Integration of POTD template
 * Closed request for comments:
 * How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
 * Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
 * Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
 * (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsi@undefinedaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
 * Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
 * Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
 * Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
 * Videos
 * Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
 * Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
 * Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
 * Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
 * Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
 * External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
 * External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID


 * Query examples:
 * Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
 * Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
 * List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
 * Cemeteries in France near churches (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
 * Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (T307869)
 * Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (T290733)
 * Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (T298146)
 * REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-25
<section begin="technews-2022-W25"/> 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 Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu Ic more vert 36px.svg).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users.

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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).
 * Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations.

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute values, and instead use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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20:16, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
 * Backlog status

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
 * Backlog drive

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
 * TIP – New school articles

There is a new template available,, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
 * Misc

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.


 * Reminders
 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
 * To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
 * Notes

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:01, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Can you help me with deleting an article?
I been seeing lot of New Zealand article pop up that do not deserve to be up not only are they not notable fighters but they dont meet general or boxing criteria

first obvious one is this one Alapati A'asa --Bennyaha (talk) 23:49, 22 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, I understand you already know that the article has been AfD as I saw your comments on the AfD discussion. The article was AfD here. If you want to AfD an article, you need to enable Twinkle on your account and there will be a "TW" on your manu at the top of all pages in Wikipedia. Click "TW" and click "XFD" and state your reasons and notability requirements prior save the edit. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>  talk  09:38, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much Bennyaha (talk) 10:12, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>  talk

Question from Johnsumon on Reference desk/Mathematics (08:53, 23 June 2022)
Hi howare u pls i want to know sunce 2018 until now nothing i get help --Johnsumon (talk) 08:53, 23 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Good day. You have only 2 edits in Wikipedia and the first edit is the your message to me and the second is on your sandbox. You didnt provide the hist diff of you 2018 question in Reference desk/Mathematics for such I cant help you. Even you will send me the hist diff, I still can not help you as  Reference desk/Mathematics would be the right place for any mathematics questions.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>   talk  09:45, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #426
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
 * July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
 * The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
 * Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
 * Past:
 * 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
 * Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
 * What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
 * Videos
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
 * The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
 * Podcasts
 * Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
 * Other
 * Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here


 * Tool of the week
 * IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: inker, penciller
 * External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
 * External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID


 * Query examples:
 * "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
 * Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
 * The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
 * Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (T307869)
 * REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (T306667)
 * Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (T309445)
 * Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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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Women in Red in July 2022
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Tech News: 2022-26
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 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
 * Octicons-tools.svg All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services.
 * Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin.

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 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Scout7416 (22:25, 29 June 2022)
What are some rookie mistakes that I should avoid? --Scout7416 (talk) 22:25, 29 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Good day and thank you for the questions. There are "many rookie mistakes" for an new editor to make. One way to avoid that is to complete the TWA program (all the missions) which you have activated in your talk page for TWA program would provide you some of the basic Wikipedia fundamental guidelines. One thing I need to emphasis is that if you add or change any thing in a page, you need to provide independent, reliable source for verification - see WP:PROVEIT and WP:BURDEN for verification is the core policy of Wikipedia. Secondly, do not vandalize Wikipedia pages for you will be blocked from editing if you continuing doing so (I would not consider vandalism is a mistake but it is always with the intention to do so). Let me know if anything else I could help. Stay safe and best.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#FF8000"> Cassiopeia</b>   talk

NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
(t &#183; c)  buidhe  20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)