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Wikidata weekly summary #438
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
 * WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ritual object
 * External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
 * External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole


 * Query examples:
 * [https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3Fmodel%20%3Flicense%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.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20the%20Wikidata%20Query%20Service%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Models%20of%20things%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wdt%3AP4896%20%3Fmodel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20features%20corresponding%20to%20these%20things%0A%20%20%23%20This%20greatly%20narrows%20the%20set%20of%20results%2C%20making%20the%20subsequent%20MediaWiki%20API%20call%20much%20faster%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Awikidata%20%3Fwd.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20the%20Wikidata%20Query%20Service%20again%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20The%20same%20model%20of%20the%20same%20thing%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wdt%3AP4896%20%3Fmodel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Convert%20the%20file%20path%20URL%20into%20a%20file%20description%20page%20title%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22File%3A%22%2C%20wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fmodel%29%2C%20%22%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftitle%29%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20the%20MediaWiki%20API%20Query%20Service%20for%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Categories%20that%20contain%20these%20pages%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Categories%22%3B%0A%20%20%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%20%20%20wikibase%3Alimit%2050%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Atitles%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Output%20the%20page%20title%20and%20category%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftitle%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcategory%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Acategory.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Only%20include%20the%20model%20if%20it%20has%20been%20categorized%20with%20a%20Creative%20Commons%20license%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20STRSTARTS%28%3Fcategory%2C%20%22Category%3ACC-%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Extract%20a%20%E2%80%9Clicense%E2%80%9D%20name%20out%20of%20the%20category%20page%20title%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28%3Fcategory%2C%20%22Category%3A%22%29%20AS%20%3Flicense%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons] - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
 * Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
 * UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
 * Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fdecade%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Fcount%20%3FdecadeCount%20%28100%20%2a%20%3Fcount%20%2F%20%3FdecadeCount%20AS%20%3Fpercentage%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdecade%20%3Fgenre%20%28count%28%3Fx%29%20as%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20TOP%2020%20Genres%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Ftop20Genre%20%3Fcount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28count%28%3Fx%29%20as%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP136%20%3Fgenre.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Exclude%20silent%20film%3B%20doesn%27t%20make%20a%20ton%20of%20sense%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20in%20this%20context%2C%20since%20it%27s%20more%20about%20the%20medium%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20than%20the%20content%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fgenre%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ226730%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fgenre%20as%20%3Ftop20Genre%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2020%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fx%20%28min%28%3FpubDate%29%20as%20%3FfirstPubDate%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpubDate.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fx%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP136%20%3Ftop20Genre.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Ftop20Genre%20as%20%3Fgenre%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28concat%28str%28floor%28year%28%3FfirstPubDate%29%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%20%220s%22%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%21isBlank%28%3Fdecade%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdecade%20%3Fgenre%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Movies%20per%20decade%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdecade%20%28count%28%3Fx%29%20as%20%3FdecadeCount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fx%20%28min%28%3FpubDate%29%20as%20%3FfirstPubDate%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpubDate.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fx%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28concat%28str%28floor%28year%28%3FfirstPubDate%29%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%20%220s%22%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20This%20filter%20is%20very%20important%20%28in%20both%20subqueries%29%21%20Otherwise%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20the%20results%20of%20the%20sub%20queries%20can%27t%20be%20properly%20aligned.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%21isBlank%28%3Fdecade%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdecade%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20See%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FQ22917333%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdecade%20%21%3D%20%222110s%22%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Movie genre trends] (Source)
 * Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
 * List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
 * Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
 * The most commonly depicted locations (Source)


 * Development
 * Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (T232620)
 * So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (T264883)
 * Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
 * Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:56, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43
 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 . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour.
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, the  function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of   with   wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
 * Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID . This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either   or  . A list of affected scripts is at the top of T265373.

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Siege of Jerusalem under Titus
For Sack of Magdeburg, ‎the siege of Jerusalem under Titus led to Jerusalem being ruined and utterly sacked by the Romans. I think thats what he means when he says "It is certain that no more terrible work and divine punishment has been seen since the Destruction of Jerusalem." --2001:8003:59DB:4100:D4A6:C6A0:FF0:2892 (talk) 05:56, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

thankyou for your reply on my talkpage. I had thought it referenced the sack under Titus, but unless I see anything concrete on it, I'll take your word on it for 1099 AD. 2001:8003:59DB:4100:D4A6:C6A0:FF0:2892 (talk) 06:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #439
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
 * Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
 * Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
 * Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
 * WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
 * Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
 * 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
 * Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
 * Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
 * Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Excerpts from Wikidata Birthday events
 * Video: How the Wikimedia Brazil contributed to Wikidata in 2020 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata and data reconciliation (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (Blog post)
 * WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
 * Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
 * Video: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperability and data access (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata for cultural institutions and GLAM-WIKI partnerships (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Training Workshop 4, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
 * Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
 * Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)


 * Tool of the week
 * WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
 * Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) develops instructional material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS): wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of rooms, permits, prohibits, economy of topic, check-in time, check-out time
 * External identifiers: CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article, GADM ID, Lambiek Special pages ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, ILO Thesaurus ID, AVN performer ID, CCFr library ID, xHamster performer ID, AWMDB performer ID, Normattiva ID, American Heritage place ID, BHL name ID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Minecraft UUID, Nachlässe in Austria ID, AniList anime ID, National Park Service people ID, AniList manga ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, O*NET OnLine code, Opta football competition ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, The Boardr profile ID, Great Places ID, PIM award ID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, DC Historic Sites place ID, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: annual average daily traffic, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par, Online catalog, funeral, Inaugural address, Hong Kong film rating, word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
 * External identifiers: aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole, Base constructions bibliothèques ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Malmö Museer, IMVDb music video ID, NSSDCA ID, Docker Hub repository, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Persée article ID, Geneanet Family Name ID, Blogger user profile ID, USL League One ID, Stolperstein identifiers, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID


 * Query examples:
 * Commemorative plaques and their subjects in Aberdeen, Scotland; with photos of plaque and subject and Wikipedia links. (Source)
 * Cities with female mayor (Source)
 * Most common variants of the name "Susanne" in each country (Source)
 * Birthplaces of art historians (Source)
 * Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (Source)
 * Birthplace of Olympique de Marseille players (Source)
 * COVID-19 deaths by month (Source)
 * Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
 * Get information of Europeana item using federated query


 * Development
 * Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
 * Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (T264883)
 * Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
 * Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (T265897)
 * Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
 * Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
 * Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
 * Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (T265118)
 * Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (T258354)
 * Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour.
 * Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed.

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

Future changes
 * Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can.
 * There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits.
 * The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized.

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Tech News: 2020-45
 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
 * You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the  parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g.  . Note that   is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
 * Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter).
 * The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information.

Future changes
 * A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of  when it is given a negative argument.
 * In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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Wikidata weekly summary #440
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
 * Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
 * Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
 * Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
 * Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
 * Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
 * SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons, by Zbyszko Papierski
 * Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to query wikidata with SPARQL, by Lianna D'amato
 * CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
 * Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
 * Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
 * Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
 * Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
 * All videos from the WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference are now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.
 * This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.
 * 1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.


 * Tool of the week
 * reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
 * All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia Commons (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
 * Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
 * Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
 * Happy Birthday from Semantic MediaWiki
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms  feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit
 * Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
 * Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
 * Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
 * Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
 * Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
 * Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
 * User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
 * The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a distributed format. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
 * The Election Tracker, uses Wikidata to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
 * Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11 are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
 * witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for accused witches in Scotland.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
 * External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
 * External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki


 * Query examples:
 * Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
 * Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
 * Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
 * Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
 * Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
 * Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
 * Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
 * Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
 * Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
 * Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
 * Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
 * Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
 * Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
 * Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography


 * Development
 * Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (T263435)
 * Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (T264883)
 * Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (T266673)
 * The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

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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Wikidata weekly summary #441
<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 request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
 * Other
 * "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
 * Value label constraint


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
 * Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
 * Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
 * Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. by Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
 * Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as . Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01.
 * Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
 * External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
 * External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID


 * Query examples:
 * Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
 * POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
 * Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
 * People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
 * Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
 * Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
 * Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
 * List of longest Cars (Source)


 * Development
 * Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
 * Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
 * Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
 * Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (T264538)
 * Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (T266673)
 * Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (T263435)

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: 2020-46
<section begin="technews-2020-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.

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

Future changes
 * You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested.
 * From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2020-W46"/> 15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47
<section begin="technews-2020-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.

Recent changes
 * Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.

Changes later this week
 * If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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Wikidata weekly summary #442
<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: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 17 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: SWIB20 (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference, multiple Wikidata-related presentations, free and online, November 23-27
 * Upcoming: Editathon (or "connection sprint") on parliamentarian documents in Swedish, November 20
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Dan Shick on creating and managing community documentation, November 17. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #39, November 22
 * Past: ELIXIR BioHackathon 2020 updates:
 * Project #13: >20 thousand PDB ligand identifiers added and new formatter URL: https://twitter.com/ESchymanski/status/1326875606177492993
 * Project #33: Using wikidata query service in the taxon_mapper in Molseq - connecting molecular (genbank) and specimen (GBIF) data app
 * Project #35: Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas with Wikidata starting at 18:00


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Knowledge graph (in Polish) by Zbyszko Papierski on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 6:45 pm to 9:30 pm GMT+1
 * Video: A Linked and Open Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age by Martina Trognitz, recorded in April 2019
 * Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas
 * Video: Introduction to Gene Wiki
 * Video: ISB Biocuration 2020 Online Workshop: Genewiki 2 Methodology - Updating with bots
 * Video: An Introduction to Wikibase and Wikidata. Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24
 * Video: Programming for Cultural Heritage: Using Python to retrieve data from Wikidata
 * Video: Wikipedia & Wikidata for Middle East Librarians
 * Video: OpenStreetMap & Wikidata using Sophox - OpenStreetMap US Connect 2020
 * Video: Adding Pashas to Wikidata. 7 videos: Wikipedia to OpenRefine, Standardizing dates, Standardizing names in OpenRefine, Wikidata reconciliation, Adding additional data, Combining Arabic and English Lists, Wikidata Schema
 * Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".


 * Tool of the week
 * ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: dedicated heritage entity, defining mutations, digitised by, for color scheme, parent (unspecified)
 * External identifiers: MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID, IMVDb music video ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, Docker Hub repository, USL League One ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, ClassInd game ID, AAGM people ID, AAGM site ID, AniDB tag ID, UAF person ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Opera Online performer ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica ID, BBFC reference, AlKindi ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Twitch tag ID, European Film Awards ID, MSRI institution ID, MSRI person ID, stolpersteine-berlin.de Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-hamburg.de Stolperstein identifier, LIMIS person ID, NSDOK Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-bremen.de Stolperstein identifier, snublestein.no Stolperstein identifier, AIWARDS ID, Twitch team ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: use as citation in Wikimedia page, GitLab username, given name identical to this family name, population connectée, indexed in bibliographic review, ISDS ID, inscription image, Wanfang article ID, CQVIP article ID, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CIP data sheet
 * External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IAFD distributor ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, FISG person ID, Ligue 1 player ID, Ligue 2 player ID, AAA ID, Museum Day ID, TeachMe tutor ID, ISOF place, CRGPG ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, Geneall ID, Namuwiki (2), Union des artistes ID, Kinorium Movie ID, Kinorium Person ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, Foodlocate Restaurant ID, Musica Brasilis ID, IEV number, CONOR authority IDs, LibraryThing venue ID, BPI ID, PromoDj ID, Salzburgwiki, Drizly Product ID, Baijiahao ID, ESPN men's college basketball team ID


 * Query examples:
 * Rivers and canals in the United Kingdom.
 * Map of images taken for the Wicipics photography campaign in Wales (Source)
 * Number of people and terms of UK parties since the 1945 election (Source)
 * UK MPs who have voluntarily resigned their seats and then come back for a different seat in the same Parliament (Source)
 * Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (Source)
 * Date of birth of current French prefects and their sources (Source)
 * Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (Source)
 * Living 'notable' people with the given name "Karen" per 100k per country (Source)
 * Paintings in the Suter Art Gallery (Source)
 * Chilean ministers who were not educated at any high school (Source)
 * Age of US presidents start and end time (Source)
 * Map of Welsh Railways (Source)
 * Connections of railways of the Netherlands (Source)
 * Distinct languages of Wikidata lexemes. Top 5 are Russian-101144, English-69066, Latin-32106, Hebrew-28286 and Basque-22904.(Source)
 * Death place of all Basque people with known birthplace on Wikipedia, by century. Interactive map on kepler.gl (Source)

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.
 * Development
 * Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (T266638)
 * Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
 * Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
 * Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (T191831)
 * Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (T266496)
 * Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (T267553) and prototype test workflow (T267554)


 * 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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Books & Bytes – Issue 41
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 * New partnership: Taxmann
 * WikiCite
 * 1Lib1Ref 2021

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Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
The Reply tool  is available at most other Wikipedias.


 * The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
 * It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:


 * As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
 * There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.
 * The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month. Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
 * Венов_дијаграм.svg A large A/B test will start soon. This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone.  During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool
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Next: Notifications
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

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Books & Bytes - Issue 42
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 * New EBSCO collections now available
 * 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
 * Library Card input requested
 * Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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Pope shortdescs
If you're going to import and replace all the popes' shortdescs, perhaps you should establish some consensus to standardize them and make them standard instead of doing 260+ articles ad hoc?? Elizium23 (talk) 01:54, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Don't worry. I saw your earlier message.  I will leave well alone other than to add papal tenure if it is missing. (Hopefully that is OK.)  I will keep the existing format.  I have no desire to start a major change exercise. My main desire is to ensure each Wikipedia article I look at has a short description and that the short description is consistent with the short description on Wikidata. Chewings72 (talk) 02:04, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I would hope that the short descriptions be consistent with one another, and I don't really care about what's on Wikidata. That's the whole point of moving away from it. Elizium23 (talk) 02:09, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Excuse my confusion, but I thought the whole idea behind the introduction of short descriptions was to create some consistency of brief descriptions between Wikipedia and Wikidata. Be that as it may, to avoid any future issues regarding consistency, can you tell me what you see as the preferred format for Wikipedia short descriptions for the popes.  Thanks Chewings72 (talk) 02:20, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism Elizium23 (talk) 02:22, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Thank you.  Chewings72 (talk) 02:24, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

your edits with Provelt
On 27 January you edited King Khalid page with Provelt, but this tool uses only "last" parameter for the authors in the refs. So please review your work after you use it, thanks. --Egeymi (talk) 09:20, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I did not realise that. Thank you for the advice.Chewings72 (talk) 10:04, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

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Correct it
Heyyy why did you removed my words? In buddha and arniko? Buddha was born in lumbini (present nepal) And arniko spread pagoda style architecture Ananta5421 (talk) 12:15, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Please read the discussions on the Buddha article talk page regarding the possible birth place of Buddha. There is no consensus supporting your view.  Chewings72 (talk) 00:42, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

No everyone knows Buddha's birthplace but they don't want to write nepal they write lumbini yes lumbini is in nepal buy it's written like this 'buddha was born in lumbini and he spend his life in ancient india' indirectly again people will think buddha was born in india Ananta5421 (talk) 01:10, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Same goes in pagoda style you have write stupa is the inspiration of pagoda what is the proof?it's a myth which is famous here too but maybe you can write myth 'pagoda style originated from stupa style of india' Ananta5421 (talk) 01:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

And yes why don't you search about ashoka piller ashoka was an indian king he knew later his indian people will try to fake Buddha's birth place so he made a piller tha says buddha was born here in lumbini (nepal) Ananta5421 (talk) 01:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Please read: Gautama Buddha Birthplace sources and quotes Chewings72 (talk) 11:06, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Yes he was born in lumbini According to wikipedia which is correct but lumbini is in nepal Ananta5421 (talk) 11:07, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

He traveled whole indian sub continent mostly to india so he stayed in India more but he was born in lumbini nepal Ananta5421 (talk) 11:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

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Awkward short descriptions for Roman gentes
Please stop adding "Families from Ancient Rome who shared Foo nomen" as a short description in articles about Roman gentes. This is awkward and confusing—it suggests that gentes were random collocations of unrelated families that just happened to share a name by some coincidence. Roman gentes were families, in the broad sense—not collections of unrelated families. I understand you're getting this from Wikidata—but whoever wrote that in Wikidata obviously didn't know what they were doing. The best short description to use here is "Ancient Roman family", without any circumlocution about multiple families sharing nomina. P Aculeius (talk) 06:44, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * OK. I will do as you suggest. Chewings72 (talk) 09:02, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Sorry if I sounded hostile, was on edge a bit due to a couple of negative interactions with other editors.  Your edits are very welcome—this one just needs to be adjusted.  P Aculeius (talk) 16:15, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * That's fine. Thank you.  :) Chewings72 (talk) 00:12, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Life-span dates in short descriptions
Is there a reason you're adding these? I've never seen life-span dates in short descriptions before, is there is new advisory to do this? It doesn't seem to me to be necessary of there's nothing to disambiguate. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:24, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments. I have been adding life span information (either actual dates or relevant century information) for some time. I started doing this after I noted there were existing short descriptions for biography articles where life span dates had been included.  I believe that they are helpful to Wikipedia readers as, along with brief descriptions of occupation(s) and nationality, life-span dates concisely inform the reader as to when the individual lived - a useful piece of information.  I am of the view that for the few extra characters required, it is a worthwhile addition to biography short descriptions. I have read the Wikipedia short description help and guidance pages and, unless I missed something, I don't see anything explicit there that precludes adding dates.  I do my best to keep all short descriptions as brief as possible consistent with the guidance on this topic. I also ensure that I export the revised short description to Wikidata to maintian consistency between the Wikipedia and Wikidata.  Chewings72 (talk) 05:58, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:10, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Dear Chewings72, I too have some concerns with your work on short descriptions. The guideline (WP:HOWTOSD) says "be brief: aim for no more than about 40 characters (but this can be exceeded when necessary)", but it seems that your descriptions are systematically longer, and very often much longer than about 40 characters. Do you actually check how it looks on a smart phone? Apaugasma (talk&#124;contribs) 12:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * It is an interesting challenge to get what I consider to be the basic relevant information into a short description without exceeding 40 characters. I notice that there was a major debate over including dates (which is what I have been primarily doing) on the talk page of Short description back in late 2020 where a wide range of views were expressed on the subject (and no clear consensus reached). Further reading of the project page for short descriptions (and its talk page) suggest to me that there is a lack of any clear consensus from the Wikipedia community on balancing content with length. Given recent concerns raised about my efforts to improve short descriptions and fill in missing descriptions, I think I will cease for the time being making any more additions and  amendments and see how the ongoing debates on the content and formatting of Wikipedia short descriptions pan out.  There is plenty of other work and improvements I can still do on Wikipedia articles on which I can better use by time.  Thanks  Chewings72 (talk) 09:49, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's difficult to get them under, or even at around, 40 characters. If that guideline is to stay, it would probably be better to leave the writing up of short descriptions to the editors who work on the articles themselves, since they ought to have a better feel for what is essential. Anyways, as you say, there's plenty more work to be done around here, so thank you for that. Apaugasma (talk&#124;contribs) 13:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hello brother, I noticed that you returned my article. I have modified some words such as (Bedouin) for the word Arabs. Also, I deleted the word Najd because it is incorrect, so we find a region in Saudi Arabia that has no relation to the history of the Arabs. The history of the Arabs is related to the Hijaz and Yemen only Samlaxcs (talk) 11:55, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

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Right name
You can see the right map of Qing, attention Guizhou and Guangxi, the map of yellow river also
 * You have not provided a valid or clear explanation for your change to the map. Chewings72 (talk) 12:57, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

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Short descriptions
The discussion at wikipedia talk:Short descriptions talks about the implications of exceeding the limit. In some contexts, the excess is simply discarded. Personally, I think that the limit is generally too small to be useful - see wikipedia talk:Short descriptions - but that's the current policy. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 14:37, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
 * As a regular editor adding or correcting short descriptions to articles, I understand the alleged implications of not staying within 40 characters. I try to keep my suggestions within 40 characters, but sometimes it is hard to do so while sufficiently capturing the essence of the article's topic.  So I strongly endorse your conclusions (as per your link) regarding short description limitations.  Regards Chewings72 (talk) 08:18, 2 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you. As I assume you saw from the discussion thread, I was in a minority of one at the time. So please add your support there so that evidence can be built over time that there is a demand for change. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:40, 2 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Happy to support your efforts when next the opportunity arises. I had not included wikipedia talk:Short descriptions on my watchlist, so never saw the arguments until you pointed this out to me today.  So when you are ready to have another go, please let me know and I will add my support to your very reasonable arguments.  Chewings72 (talk) 11:18, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I really would need to see a significant body of favourable comment on my remarks at the SD talk page before being willing to stick my head above the parapet again. Also, I think that the holdouts need to see growing evidence of a groundswell of contrary opinion before being open to change. It has to be a steady drip over time. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:25, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree. Chewings72 (talk) 11:46, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Seuna (Yadava) dynasty
Hi. During your latest revert on this article you may have inadvertently supported an earlier vandalism by IP 103.134.110.68. I have restored the article back to a stable version by user:HinduKshatrana. Kannada and Sanskrit were the primary languages of the empire and there is sufficient content about that in this article which is well cited. Marathi made a late arrival but needs to be included anyway.Pied Hornbill (talk) 14:51, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
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Correctable of Azo of Iberia
The article reads (Modern interpretation): Moses speaks of "Mithridates, satrap of Darius" (identifiable with Mithridates I of Pontus) installed by Alexander to rule over the Georgians. Darius died in 330 BC, and Mithridates I of Pontus was not born at that time ... Mithridates II of Cius should be written here, because during his transfer (302 BC) the Kingdom of Iberia was formed. Correction is necessary here. Thanks in advance.--Lasha-george (talk) 17:38, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I have no specific expertise in this area. I was just amending the short description so that it is consistent with the article's text as it currently reads.  If you believe the current text is incorrect, please seek consensus by describing your concerns on the article's talk page.  Thanks. Chewings72 (talk) 06:42, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok. Thanks Chewings72.--Lasha-george (talk) 08:49, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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