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Wikidata weekly summary #559
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * CJMbot (CJMbot lets users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside this file is then validated and processed. New items wil be created based on the data in the CSV file and existing items wil updated by adding statements and references).
 * RPI2026F1Bot 5 Task/s: Import dependency and version data from PyPi


 *  Events 
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikibase Working Hour February 13, 2023. The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase: The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, Steve will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, Steve will conclude by describing how he's used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons. Registration link
 * Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, February 22 and 24, 2023. This two-part workshop presented by CAPACOA will explain how to upload performing arts production photos to Wikimedia Commons and how to document credits in Wikidata.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #80, Work


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata: Observable notebook which explores social reproduction by occupation in France.
 * Data analytics for your list of created articles in The Signpost, February 4, 2023
 * DigAMus goes Wikidata
 * Papers
 * Transformer Based Geocoding
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #105 - YouTube
 * Demo of the Wikibase Export extension - YouTube
 * FOSDEM 2023
 * Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (Software for adding links between open data projects)
 * Public Transport Data in KDE Itinerary (Querying realtime journey data and dissecting ticket barcodes)
 * observablehq
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata
 * other
 * Wikipedias in the languages of Russia/Wikidata


 *  Tool of the week 
 * User:So9q/openalex-search-link-on-lexemes.js is a userscript that adds a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Wikidata Graph Builder released a major update, introducing new layouts and visualization ideas. You can read the full changelog here.
 * The new Service Level Objective for the Wikidata Query Service has been implemented: the current aim is to maintain a 95% uptime based on a 90 day rolling window. You can read the full announcement here.
 * Observablehq.com recently introduced a system of tags. Anyone authoring a notebook using data from Wikidata can add the #Wikidata tag: https://observablehq.com/tag/wikidata?filter=recent.
 * a.gup.pe provides group features for Mastodon. @wikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata in general. @querywikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata queries. Anyone can join those groups simply by following them in Mastodon. Anyone can share a message with all members of those groups by mentioning them in a publication in Mastodon or any other application of the Fediverse.
 * The hashtag #Wikidata can be used to tag all publications related to Wikidata in Mastodon. Anyone can find recent publications using this tag using the search feature: https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata.
 * @wikidata@wikis.world is the official Mastodon account of the Wikidata project.
 * You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata. The voting phase is open until February 24th.


 *  Did you know? 


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: said to be the same as (lexeme) (some source considers this lexeme to be the same lexeme or a spelling variant of another lexeme)
 * External identifiers: Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), federal identifier of street, DOSBox Compatibility ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Professional shogi player number, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID, Dicio ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, GLANSIS ID, Léxico ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Zoning symbol (planing zone of the municipality/region/state that applies to the subject), INEP ID, CulturaEduca ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), Manantiales y Fuentes de Andalucia (id for Springs and Fountains of Andalucía)
 * External identifiers: Hultschiner Soldaten ID, STS program ID, SACEM ID, IATE entry ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, IRIS UNIPD author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of literary works (Q7725634) by language (P407) in descending order (source)
 * Humans that have a 'relationship' with University of Leeds (source)
 * Railway stations named after literary works (source)
 * Week 6, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Free software grouped by programming language and instance of (source)


 *  Development 
 * [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing - Thank you Matej for moving this forward!
 * REST API:
 * Went over the feedback on the first release and deciding on the next routes to add
 * Added a new endpoint for getting descriptions (T327881)
 * Worked on throwing exceptions when something goes wrong (validation failed, Item not found, etc.) instead of returning an error response object (T327527)
 * Entity Schemas: Finished the technical exploration that will unblock the next steps for actual development
 * Query Service: Changed URLs with URL-encoded characters to be shown un-encoded for better line-breaks and readability (T327514)
 * Query Builder:
 * Adding support for a few additional datatypes (T328528)
 * Adding a basic language selector to make it easier to switch the language of the page (T328764)
 * Constraint checks: Working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand how to fix a violation on a statement (T219037)
 * Search: Exploring design options for how to make it easier to search for entities other than Items (T327507)

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


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

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Tech News: 2023-07
 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
 * On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:46, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #560
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
 * Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
 * MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
 * Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
 * If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog posts
 * New extension: Wikibase Export
 * BHL is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
 * Videos
 * Wikibase Export demo - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata using your smart phone (Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana) - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: Occupations of the parents


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/DisplayColourSwatches.js is a userscript that adds color swatches under color statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Blog Series on Wikibase Community via Tech-News
 * Freelance technologists are needed to import personal profiles for politically exposed people (PEPs) into Wikidata
 * The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on February 24. Don't forget to vote for Wikidata proposals!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * stamp perforation ( type of perforation for a series of stamps )
 * Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index ( Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) value of a country )
 * transcribed by ( person who has made a copy of a manuscript text )
 * External identifiers: Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Museu Paulista objects ID, Spreaker show ID, TVer series ID, TVer tarento ID, Padua Research Archive author ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Fonts in Use ID, Rate Your Music venue ID, beniculturali.it place ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno place ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Mosfilm movie ID, Mosfilm person ID, Adventure Game Studio game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Syoboi Calendar series ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), La grammatica italiana ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Sky News topic ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID


 * Query examples:
 * Historical timeline of WorldPride events: (2000 in Rome to 2023 in Sydney) (source)
 * Which glaciers have been named after Moby Dick characters?
 * Free software grouped by licenses (source)
 * German nouns with unparseable combines statements
 * Grammatical features used on English nouns and proper nouns


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (T325647, T327881)
 * Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (T309021)
 * Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
 * Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (T102840)
 * Query Builder:
 * Adding support for additional data types (T328528)
 * Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (T329487)
 * Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (T219037)

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


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

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Tech News: 2023-08
 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
 * Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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Women in Red March 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 12:52, 26 February 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Just to continue the conversation about the lab leak at ITN, since it was closed
I think you're right, and I would've changed my vote to Oppose. It wasn't the US Government's position that there was a lab leak, and even so it didn't mean that it was deliberately engineered. I do think we should keep an eye on the story as it unfolds, though. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 16:12, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, absolutely, I agree that if there was a definitive consensus this was a lab leak, that it would be ITN worthy (and front page news around the world!) Courcelles (talk) 16:14, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #561
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
 * ScikingBot (Task/s: The bot is going to fix interwiki links for the Lombard Wikipedia)
 * fromCrossrefBot (Task/s: Importing licenses for 1.45 million CC licensed papers from the Crossref April 2022 dump.)
 * Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
 * MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 1st, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
 * Eager to discover the potential of Wikidata and Wikibase for semantics? SEMIC is organising a series of workshops that are very much hands-on. Join the first workshop online on 24 January 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Webex. Register for the first event via this link!
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 March 3rd - 4th
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #82, Restaurant
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live Session: February 2023 log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
 * CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
 * TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Inconsistencies on WDQS data - data reload on WDQS
 * Survey Results: Wikibase.Cloud user research. The goal of the research was to uncover usergroups and usecases.
 * Wikibase Suite Survey is now open! The goal is to understand what role Wikibase plays in your organization and identify what you need from Wikibase based on how you currently make use of it.
 * Wikibase.Cloud logo is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Senior Product Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Product Manager Wikibase Product Platform


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * Norwegian media rating ( age rating system for motion pictures, video and tv content used in Norway )
 * External identifiers: National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID, SACEM Museum artist ID, WSJ article ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, World Sailing sailor ID, WiKirby ID, SFMTA ID, Full Fact ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new), Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new), Rate Your Music concert ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * rebuilt ( year or date when the structure was reconstructed, rebuilt, repurposed or replaced by similar one (if the new and old structures have separate items, use P167/P1398 links instead) )
 * External identifiers: Faber Music composer ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Wise Music Classical catalogue ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, L’Équipe team ID, encyclopedia.com.ua ID, L’Équipe coach ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Flighthouse%20%3FlighthouseName%20%3FcountryLabel%20%28concat%28str%28%3Flatitude%29%2C%20%22%2C%20%22%2C%20str%28%3Flongitude%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcoordinates%29%20%3Fheight%20%3FbuiltDateLabel%20%3FfunctionalLabel%20%3FwikipediaUrl%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ39715.%20%20%20%23%20find%20all%20instances%20of%20lighthouse%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP30%20wd%3AQ18.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20all%20instances%20of%20country%20in%20South%20America%0A%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20lighthouses%20in%20South%20American%20countries%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Afloat%28STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fcoordinates%29%2C%20%22Point%28%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Flongitude%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Afloat%28STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fcoordinates%29%2C%20%22%20%22%20%29%29%20AS%20%3Flatitude%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fheight.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FbuiltDate.%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20p%3AP1433%2Fps%3AP1433%20%3FwikipediaUrl.%20%20%23%20get%20the%20English%20Wikipedia%20page%20URL%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FwikipediaUrl%29%20%3D%20%27%27%20%7C%7C%20LANG%28%3FwikipediaUrl%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20p%3AP1317%20%3FfunctionalClaim.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FfunctionalClaim%20ps%3AP1317%20%3Ffunctional.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Ffunctional%2C%20%22Operational%22%2C%20%22Not%20operational%22%29%20AS%20%3FfunctionalLabel%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlighthouseName.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FlighthouseName%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FlighthouseName.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FlighthouseName%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FlighthouseName%0A Map of lighthouses in South America] (source)
 * List of countries sorted by life expectancy (source)


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (T309021)
 * We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (T329606)
 * Query Builder:
 * We added support for additional datatypes. Lexeme (T329204), Sense (T329206) and URL (T329824) are already available now. Form (T329205) and Property (T329207) are in progress.
 * We continued the work on making it possible to switch the UI language (T329487)
 * Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (T219037)
 * We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (T102840)

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) 16:53, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-09
 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
 * Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task.

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).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC.

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg The Wordsmith
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Fuhghettaboutit · Spinningspark (deceased)



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Callanecc

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Callanecc

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
 * Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
 * A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news
 * The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
 * The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
 * A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
 * Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
 * The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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WikiCup 2023 March newsletter
So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
 * Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
 * 🇺🇸 TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
 * Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna,  Thebiguglyalien,  Sammi Brie,  Trainsandotherthings,  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, 🇮🇩 Juxlos,  Unexpectedlydian,  SounderBruce, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack,  BennyOnTheLoose and  PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #562
<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:
 * Mbchbot 3 (Task/s: Adding missing YouTube channel ID (P2397) statements to YouTube handle (P11245) claims that are missing that mandatory qualifier)
 * MidleadingBot 4 (Task/s: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
 * Biondibot (Task/s: Import us patent from a csv file)
 * bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 7, 2023: Lydia Pintscher and Silvan Heintze will tell us about the new Wikidata REST API and Silvan will demonstrate some of its aspects. Agenda
 * Do you want to present at Wikimania 2023? Program submissions are open now until the end of day Tuesday 28 March.
 * Wiki Workshop 2023 Call for Papers. The call is for extended abstracts (2 pages) of ongoing or completed work. The deadline is March 23.
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: Call for projects & sessions is now open! The deadline to submit sessions is April 4th. The final schedule will be made public on April 15th.
 * Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
 * Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - 8 March 2023, on YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * This app places on a world map all the places that have their Wikipedia page
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2022 edition
 * WikiData on Video Games
 * Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
 * Papers
 * Two years of explicit CiTO annotations (Q116676168), include how Wikidata and Scholia visualize citation typing annotations explain why research is cited
 * Videos
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 recorded livestreams: Day 1; Day 2
 * Wikidata for History of Science projects, by Martin Poulter - YouTube
 * How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia via categories - YouTube
 * How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia 2 - YouTube
 * LD4P3 - Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata - YouTube
 * Extracting political data & relations from Wikidata - YouTube
 * Operation of Wikidata and its centralized management of metadata linked to multiple databases (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata and higher education and research libraries (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WMDE Wikibase.Cloud team is currently seeking individuals who are interested in participating in interviews regarding the pressing issue of data modeling. Please reach out if you'd like to participate.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * Lighthouse Directory page ( group string for the item in The Lighthouse Directory )
 * colocated with ( event sharing location, facility or organization with another, typically larger event )
 * External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary ID, HAA member ID, Spotify user ID, Vintage Fashion Guild label, Biographical Dictionary of Emigrants of Georgia ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, Swiss Games Garden game ID, ERA ID, Sky News topic ID, Russian Second League player ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: FLOW ID, Electrodoc person ID, electrocd artist ID, Wattpad username, Virksomme ord ID, Identifier for an item in the norwegian database for political adresses ID, Kinoglaz film ID, DBpia article ID


 * Query examples:
 * Railway bridges in Germany and Austria (source)
 * Number of deaths in train wrecks per country (source)
 * Pairs of people who both have an English #Wikipedia article and are married to one another (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (T309021)
 * We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (T327882)
 * We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (T330252)
 * Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
 * Query Builder:
 * We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (T328764)
 * We have added support for the datatypes for Form (T329205) and Property (T329207)
 * Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (T321543)

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


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

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Tech News: 2023-10
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Recent changes
 * The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
 * On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed.

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 * A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon.

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Wikidata weekly summary #563
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
 * Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
 * HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
 * New request for comments:
 * Wikidata as fans resources


 * Events
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
 * Past
 * Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
 * The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
 * Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
 * The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity
 * Papers
 * How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter
 * Podcasts
 * WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.


 * Tool of the week
 * Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable milkmaids
 * Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany (source)
 * What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? (source)
 * World map according to shared borders (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 10, 2023) (source)


 * Development
 * Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (T328764)
 * EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
 * REST API:
 * We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (T330252)
 * We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (T327882)

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


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

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Tech News: 2023-11
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Changes later this week
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 * 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.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55
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 * New bundle partners:
 * Newspapers.com
 * Fold3
 * 1Lib1Ref January report
 * Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Wikidata weekly summary #564
<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: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
 * Papers
 * Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
 * Videos
 * Notebooks
 * Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.
 * Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.


 * Tool of the week
 * User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the WDQS current state and summarizes the suggestions with the most impact we’re exploring now, with a few in-progress.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: STS program ID, Electronic library encyclopedia.com.ua, Deutsche Synchronkartei person ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, Syoboi Calendar series ID, Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, Moscow University Herbarium ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, IRIS UNICAMPUS author ID, IRIS UNIECAMPUS author ID, IRISanRaf author ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, NTV program ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, Wise Music Classical work ID, IATE ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Rate Your Music work ID, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID, Epson Tour player ID, Digital Bhashakosha page number, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, Electrodoc person ID, Archivarta ID, CassiOpeA author ID, IRIS UNIROMA2 author ID, IRIS UNIROMA3 author ID, Sjøhistorie ship ID, electrocd artist ID, köztérkép ID, ForPost person ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Ivi title ID, Ivi person ID, Saint Petersburg Conservatory person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * system requirements ( system requirements for video game or software )
 * External identifiers: Brazzers ID, Universo del corpo ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Tekstowo.pl artist ID, Tekściory artist ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, BSDB player ID, The Athletic team ID, The Athletic player ID, GSAFD ID, Feminae ID, IFTTT service ID, stock keeping unit, Federiciana ID, LIBRA Unine ID


 * Query examples:
 * Lexeme with a Sense related to a geolocated Item (source)
 * Highest TV seasons numbers (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
 * Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (T214002)
 * Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
 * REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (T327882)

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

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 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Tech News: 2023-12
<section begin="technews-2023-W12"/> 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
 * Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images.

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-gift.svg A link to the user's page will appear on  — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via and via the API.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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Welcome back
Welcome back, Courcelles. It is nice to seeing your name around the project -- In actu (Guerillero)  Parlez Moi 15:48, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Likewise... man, we do go way back! Jusdafax (talk) 16:24, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Nice to see everyone again. Just doing some basic stuff as I catch up on everything... this place changes constantly! Courcelles (talk) 17:13, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Not me, I'm the same! Just older. Very nice to have you back, my friend.-- Ponyo bons mots 18:04, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I do so miss our chats from years ago. Glad to see you're still here! Courcelles (talk) 18:06, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Happy to see your datestamp. BusterD (talk) 17:22, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

User talk:Study of Hadith with Muhammad Ismail
Hi, thanks for dealing with this. Maybe you would consider extending the block to TPA? Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 18:33, 17 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Done. Courcelles (talk) 18:34, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Arbitration Enforcement Sanction:karagory
1) Administrator Courcelles, I respectfully request that my arbitration enforcement sanction be removed. In return, I promise not to make any edits about Peter Navarro anywhere in Wikipedia, ever.  I don't know what else I can do to show good faith.

2) Can you answer for me what a typical/normal time period would be to archive something? I really don't know. I wasn't trying to be funny when I asked for reference.  The editors I have dealt with on this article have not been all that helpful to me; other article editors have been very helpful and friendly.  I really wanted, and still want to know the Wikipedia way of archiving.  Thanks. Karagory (talk) 20:32, 17 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I’d be willing to let the restriction go in a few months if you go do useful edits elsewhere, but for now, I think the mandatory break from Navarro. And for most articles, 3 months is a perfectly reasonable archive time given a desire to only keep discussions up that still have active interest to be continued, archiving bots run by the most recent time stamp, not the oldest, so even a quick note that you want to keep talking about an issue would reset the clock. Courcelles (talk) 00:28, 18 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I would certainly agree to that restriction. I will not edit the Navarro article even after the restriction as a show of good faith.  Thank you for your explanation.  All I was looking for was little assistance instead of:  NO, that it was way it is because I said so; that is not the Wikipedia way.  I know you put up with a lot of grief as an Administrator, but I appreciate you making Wikipedia better.  Thanks Karagory (talk) 13:13, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Chaos (Warhammer)
Why delete and redirect? Why not simply redirect? I saw no assertion the comment was defamatory, COPYVIO, attack/harassment, tainted by socks, or any other reason that we would want to deny regular editors the history from which to source and improve a potential future article on the topic. Jclemens (talk) 15:53, 19 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. Undetected the history. Courcelles (talk) 16:11, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. There's a 99% chance that no one ever will... but I think it sends the right message to allow for the possibility. Jclemens (talk) 19:57, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

I see something imploded at ANI
I reported a user at ANI before going to bed and woke up to find the entire thread had been memory holed. Out of morbid curiosity… what happened, without going into detail (obviously)? Dronebogus (talk) 22:04, 19 March 2023 (UTC)


 * It was removed in this edit. The user was blocked. Courcelles (talk) 22:14, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red April 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:51, 27 March 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

ANEW bot
The bot does not require anything in particular for a section to be archived except that it's over 48h old.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:28, 20 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Oops. Sorry, I think I might have had the RFPP bot on the brain... Courcelles (talk) 13:36, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Help
No I agree and your right It is biased, can you help me wipe the matter of all personal details and Im happy to voluntarily delete, i'm not the right person to be making submissions as I am unbiased. Jadamondo (talk) 14:16, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #565
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
 * WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
 * Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
 * Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
 * Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
 * Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
 * How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
 * Notebooks
 * Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.


 * Tool of the week
 * Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * ISCED Attainment ( ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label. )
 * first performance by ( performer or performing group for the first performance of a work )
 * External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit (source)
 * Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)
 * Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
 * Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (T323173)

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Roxy the Dog
Given that WP:GENSEX is a Contentious Topic, and in light of this AE thread and their lenthy block log, don't you think a one-week regular admin action block may be insufficient? ■ ∃ <b style="color:#C64600">Madeline</b> ⇔ ∃ <b style="color:#613583">Part of me</b> ; 15:35, 21 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I do, but I am a teacher, and my 2nd block went into chaos mode as I was working on ensuring all the alerts had been done! I'm about to do more now. Courcelles (talk) 15:52, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * , now finished what I was trying to do before class went to noisy mode! Courcelles (talk) 16:18, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Not to be too demanding but there seems to be a minor formatting mishap: You have been sanctioned Edit warring. The usage notes at transgendered may also be of interest for the future. ■ ∃ <b style="color:#C64600">Madeline</b> ⇔ ∃ <b style="color:#613583">Part of me</b> ; 16:48, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, modified. Courcelles (talk) 17:03, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Protection of ICC arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova
Hello. In the last two days, I've declined protecting this page twice at WP:RFPP/I as preemptive since I didn't see much if any disruption to warrant doing so. Now I've noticed you having done so (logged by for some reason), so I'm wandering how that came about; if there was admin shopping, etc. Thanks for taking the time. El_C 08:30, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Um, why would you decline it? General sanctions/Russo-Ukrainian War is a blanket authorization for such protections, and we’ve never waited for disruption to spread from page to page when the 500/30 is authorized for the topic area and the page is so firmly within the topic that there are no edits a non extended confirmed editor could make without violating the sanctions.  (Note the complete shield from edit warring granted by the community to editors who revert non-EC editors within the topic area). As a new article under such a sanctions regime, it should have been protected immediately to enforce the sanctions, and I’m really surprised you’d decline it twice.  And, no, there was no admin shopping, I left a note directly on RFPP saying I was protecting the page.  Courcelles (talk) 08:52, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That is in fact not so. There has been a longstanding practice among admins, which I believe started with WP:ARBPIA3, to not preemptively protect pages even under such blanket restrictions. Only when disruption actually occurs do these normally come into effect. El_C 10:02, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I was on arbcom during ARBPIA3, and was part of the discussions that led to that novel remedy being introduced, refined, and voted on, so suffice it to say we remember history and the intent of the regulation differently. In fact, the committee voted down the interpretation that it was a discretionary action to be used in response to disruption. Courcelles (talk) 12:24, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Maybe it was WP:ARBPIA4, then...? Anyway, there was a time period during 2017 (or 2018? or 2019?) when someone was requesting for a lot of ARBPIA pages to be protected preemptively by the tens (10 here, 20 there, etc.), which I did. I think I got to like 100 of em until there were objections to that blanket protection of pages that had zero disruptive edits. As I recall, we asked ArbCom and they said something to the effect of 'do whatever.'
 * A conversation then ensued at RfPP by several of its most active admins (I think Ymblanter participated, I definitely remember did), which then resulted in a unanimous agreement to stop preemptively protecting those (well, unanimous except for me, I was neutral, I still am). And that has been the prevailing practice ever since. We both have protected a lot of pages, you +1K, me +10K, and are likely to continue doing so, so it'd be good if we could arrive at a consistent approach for these requests. El_C 13:16, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd be ready to consider flooding RFPP with requests with no current disruption to be de facto disruption of the process, as basically pointy. But extending a sanction to a newly created article, I don't see a problem with getting in front of all the of the utter garbage edits that comes from this conflict, especially with that one being linked on the main page currently.  (I guess my opinion on this is "if someone bothers to ask without flooding the process, I'll push the buttons to enforce the sanctions.  No one else has to, and no one should flood RFPP without active disruption, but I read the 300/50 General Sanction as saying the default setting of these pages should be ECP.) Courcelles (talk) 13:55, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I will quote from our protection policy:"Administrators are authorized to enforce this restriction through extended confirmed protection or any other means". So I still read the meaning as a may, not a must, even in ARBPIA cases. And I for one, having been around for a long time and being old-fashioned anyway, still like to see at least some kind of disruption before protecting a page. Protection still should be the exception, not the rule. Protection is such a crude tool, when blocks or partial blocks would suffice. As an addendum, I definitely know of at least 2 admins working at rfp who simply don't process ecp-protection requests anymore. If we really want all articles in contentious areas protected preemptively, then let's codify this unambiguously in some way. Lectonar (talk) 14:08, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * To be clear, to the best of my recollection, many of these were not necessarily benign ARBPIA pages, but rather, ones with a moderate to high potential for disruption—and now that Israel's far-right government seems intent to rescind the Gaza disengagement law, for example, I expect to see many of them needing to be 'legit' protected. The matter also arose of the two different types of preemptive protection requests: ones which had zero edits by unconfirmed accounts whatsoever -versus- those ones that did have edits by unconfirmed accounts but which were nevertheless uncontroversial (i.e. edits that otherwise would fall under WP:SILENCE)—not an easy feat for ARBPIA, but still, believe or not, there are in fact many such edits that neither side contest.
 * In any case, I personally have greatly decreased preemptive protections of any kind, save for the most potentially egregious cases. So for example, I believe I preemptively protected zero pages in 2022 and only one in 2021 (Jill Biden from none to indef semi as WP:AP2 upon Joe Biden assuming the presidency). Anyway, perhaps it's time to attempt to incorporate how to approach 500/30 mandates in the protection policy, especially since these are no longer limited to ARBPIA, but now also extend to other sanction regimes, such as the aforementioned WP:GS/RUSUKR, WP:APL50030, and possibly even more that I'm not immediately able to recall. El_C 19:29, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

So for example, you indef ECP'd the protection request for the List of equipment of the Russian Ground Forces under RUSUKR (diff), which I haven't looked at and may well be due due to accompanying moderate levels of RUSUKR-related disruption. But if not, contrast that with my declining the request by the same submitter for T-54/T-55 (diff), which I did not immediately see as having accompanying moderate levels of RUSUKR-related disruption—note that the #Russo-Ukrainian War section accounts for a tiny portion of the total text in the T-45/T-55 article. The point is that there's a growing risk that the submitter is getting mixed signals from the two of us. El_C 20:51, 22 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Yeah, and the article about the tanks is really a Cold War article that extends into today by a small margin. That’s not something I’d protect under general sanctions, since there’s plenty of edits that can be made without coming anywhere near the current war. The list is different, though, the lede says it’s for current equipment used by a belligerent party in the current war, not for a complete historical list, or even, say, one since the establishment of the Russian Federation.
 * The core problem? We likely have two different interpretations of the sanctions regime, and no easy way to reconcile them.  I read the sanctions as saying new editors may not touch the topic, and anyone can revert for any reason without worrying about edit warring. If that’s going to happen?  Why let them waste time making the edit?  If an admin wanted to go through whole categories and apply ECP, I think the sanctions authorized would support that action, (though it’s absolutely not something I want to spend my time doing evaluating hundreds of articles for how fully they are connected to topics new editors can’t touch.)
 * aAs to it being a may, not a must? Yeah, because we want humans to determine how much of the article would be unaffected by the sanctioned topic, and we can’t lay down commands on how human volunteers spend a limited resource we have — time of humans with a sysop flag. Courcelles (talk) 22:16, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * In a way I think we are on the same side, but with different conclusions; I am well aware that I would not need to fear repercussions either as an editor if I just reverted an edit in articles which fall under the sanctions, and also not as an admin if I ecp-protected articles which are in the same category. But I think assuming good faith with editors even here is not a waste of resources: once they have made a disruptive edit, then sanctions can be applied. It would be perhaps be a good move to bring this discussion and its underlying points of contention up somewhere. Lectonar (talk) 08:03, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I would never sanction the editor for making an edit unless it was, of course, a de facto disruptive edit or an edit warring issue. Folks don't know, after all.  That's kind of why I like protecting, it saves newer editors the stress of making an edit and seeing it reverted for no reason they can easily understand other than it being made by the wrong person. Courcelles (talk) 18:31, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's good, I'm glad to learn that this latest example, at least, isn't a pressing issue. But the concern remains about ones that may still arise, and not just with you and me—I won't get into the nuances of #related content -versus- #primary articles for the time being.
 * But I'd stress that I am not necessarily in disagreement with your position. I still don't know if it's overall better or worse. When I said that "I was neutral, I still am," I truly meant it. After +10K protections and as one of the most active contributing admins, possibly the mostest, in both WP:RfPP and WP:AEL protections, I find that often the more I learn, the less I know.
 * My stance therefore only follows that aforementioned discussion, that is now likely over half a decade old, which as mentioned had unanimous agreement, and which from then on became the prevailing practice. Which is why I suggested something be codified once and for all, one way or the other, at protection policy. Which I realize is easier said than done, but I really can't think of anything else. But I'm definitely open to creative ideas! El_C 23:56, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #566
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 *  Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
 * IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
 * MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))


 *  Events
 * Past
 * Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
 * WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, Bones)
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
 * Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base
 * Papers
 * In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
 * Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
 * A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
 * Can you trust Wikidata?
 * Videos
 * Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
 * Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
 * WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
 * A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
 * Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
 * Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Statistics on Wikidata property scopes


 *  Tool of the week
 * User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects


 *  Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * student retention rate ( Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year )
 * External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Authors from Latin America born today (source)
 * Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain (source)


 *  Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)
 * Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (T321543)
 * REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (T323813)

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

Administrator changes
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Technical news
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11.
 * The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
 * A link to the user's page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on . This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration
 * The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
 * A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Tech News: 2023-14
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Recent changes
 * The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories.

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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).
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 * Octicons-tools.svg The deprecated <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide.
 * Some of the links in will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account.
 * You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> magic word. There will also be a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page.

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 * The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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Inquiry
Hello Courcelles, Back in 2011, you full protected the user talk page of User talk:KnowIG due to the user's actions. I see that their two archives were not protected, and did not experience any vandalism or issues in the years since. Do you have any objections to lowering the protection of User talk:KnowIG to extended confirmed (or lower) so that I could address the Tidy Font errors (a high priority WP:lint issue) in the signatures appearing on that page? Zinnober9 (talk) 20:18, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Done. Courcelles (talk) 20:50, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your assistance, issues addressed, page is clean. Zinnober9 (talk) 21:04, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Anytime, though I won't pretend to be technical enough to understand what these lint errors are, I'm willing to trust fixing them is useful! Courcelles (talk) 12:35, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Tamaz Somkhishvili article
Hello. As I can see, you deleted this article due to a number of reasons. But somebody recreated it as Somkhishvili Tamaz with simple recombinated name and same text and sources. As I understand, this recreation violates wikipedia policy? Should this article be removed as well? Caramoble (talk) 08:10, 30 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Might be right, might be wrong, but rather than pull another deletion rabbit out of my hat, I'm going to list it AFD. Courcelles (talk) 12:41, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

AE alteration needed
On the AE for me, HJ Mitchell made a comment "...Please refrain from making substantive edits to your comments once posted, and especially once replied to...." I contacted them and they had not actually seen me do that. They were just irritated that I had not made a comment all at once, but had added and revised it in several edits, but there were no intervening comments by anyone. Right now that stands as an accusation that readers will forever assume is a true accusation. I'd like that comment removed. -- Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 03:18, 30 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I've got no grounds to remove another admin's comment from an AE. The only one that can make a decision like this properly would be  himself. Courcelles (talk) 12:36, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Good point. Thanks. -- Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 19:36, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi
Hello I wanted to ask for your help, there is an admin he is misusing his privileges in a page for the city i was born. He is reverting my edits and blocking me for a period of time. The name of the page is "Podujevo" it is not the correct name and as well he is using his phone and created a 2nd account to make it look like i am (edit) warring and then comes with his main account and blocks me. What can i do ? Fa7bardh (talk) 19:31, 30 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Likely you’d need to go to WP:ANI, I don’t look at WP much on the weekends. Courcelles (talk) 15:00, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Talk:Alison Weir
You protected this page in June 2012 following an oversight action. Do you believe that continued protection of the talk page is warranted? 67.180.143.89 (talk) 23:52, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * That was a pretty serious long term abuse. Can’t see any reason to unprotect this, even after a decade. Courcelles (talk) 15:02, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

User you blocked
Hi, Courcelles. isn't exactly an asset to Wikipedia, but my warning to them was quite recent, and they haven't edited since. Bishonen &#124; tålk 20:19, 2 April 2023 (UTC).


 * Came there off an AIV report and I belatedly noticed that. My brain saw your block, and your warning, and just didn’t connect they had completely different timestamps… oops.  Still, two harassment blocks in 70 edits tells me this is an editor we’re better off without. Courcelles (talk) 20:25, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Bishonen &#124; tålk 20:46, 2 April 2023 (UTC).

Tech News: 2023-15
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-gift.svg You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed.

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 * 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #567
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
 * BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata
 * How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
 * Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
 * Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items
 * The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
 * Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins
 * Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections
 * Papers
 * Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
 * Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube
 * SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube
 * Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube
 * [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * information sign ( property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board )
 * location URL match pattern ( regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against )
 * External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * orchestration ( the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form )
 * part of other combined lexeme ( qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme )
 * External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Superheroes with a degree in the humanities (source)
 * Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate0%20%3Fdate1%20%3Fprec%20%3Fdiff%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdate0%20%3Fdate1%20%3Fprec%20%3Fdiff%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%2811%20%20AS%20%3Fminimum_precision%29%20%23%20minimum%20precision%3B%207%20%3D%20century%2C%208%20%3D%20decade%2C%209%20%3D%20year%2C%2010%20%3D%20month%2C%2011%20%3D%20day%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP570%20%3Fstatement0%2C%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement0%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank0%20%3D%20%3Frank1%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank0%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement0%20psv%3AP570%20%3Fvalue0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20psv%3AP570%20%3Fvalue1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue0%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue1%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fprecision0%20%3C%20%3Fprecision1%2C%20%3Fprecision0%2C%20%3Fprecision1%29%20AS%20%3Fprec%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fprec%20%3E%3D%20%3Fminimum_precision%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue0%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue1%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdate0%20%3C%20%3Fdate1%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%207%20%2C%201%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%208%20%2C%2010%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%209%20%2C%20100%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%2010%20%2C%201000%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3E%3D%2011%2C%2010000%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%200%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20AS%20%3Fprecision_adj%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%28%3Fdate1%20-%20%3Fdate0%29%20%2a%20%3Fprecision_adj%20AS%20%3Fdiff%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2010000%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Fdiff%29 People with far apart reported death dates] (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).
 * WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T332139)
 * Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (T328148)
 * REST API:
 * We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (T323813)
 * The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en

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 #568
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
 * Papers
 * Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; English-language edition, Édition en langue française
 * Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
 * Videos
 * Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube
 * "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube
 * IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
 * Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Notebook
 * Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
 * Twitter thread
 * How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there


 * Tool of the week
 * Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon is out (announcement and details)
 * Christos started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID, Team Fortress Wiki ID, Federiciana ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Aisberg author ID, OPENBS author ID, Bicocca Open Archive author ID, IRInSubria author ID, cybersport.ru player ID, Boomplay album ID, IRIS HUNIMED author ID, IRIS UNISR author ID, PubliCatt author ID, FantLab dictor ID, Portráidí ID, Kulturenvanteri.com ID, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID, Musée Fabre ID, Musées Grand Est ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Shipbucket drawing ID


 * Query examples:
 * ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)
 * Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward
 * Newest database reports:
 * Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (T332139)
 * QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (T328764)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (T323813)

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


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

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Tech News: 2023-16
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 * At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed.

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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).

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 * Thanks. Special:Contributions/2620:9:6000:5800:0:0:0:0/64 /64 reblocked] without talk page privileges. Courcelles (talk) 21:02, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

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Barnett effect ECP?
Hi Courcelles, hope all is well. Idly curious what I missed here with Barnett effect - I lifted a ten-year semi-protection which was a response to basic vandalism, but I think you have flagged as needing ECP? All the best, -- Euryalus (talk) 02:00, 14 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I was dealing with the linty old socks request above it and the script screwed up…. My protection log will show I didn’t actually touch that page. ;) Courcelles (talk) 02:02, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * yeah I noticed that too. :) Curiosity was really if the old vandalism was linked to some sort of current LTA of which I was unaware. Glad it's not, and good luck with Linty's socks!-- Euryalus (talk) 02:05, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I confess I don’t understand the lint thing, but Zinnober9 does, and we generate database reports for it, so it can’t hurt to fix. Not like sock puppet pages from 18 years ago actually need indef full protection… While I have your attention, what do you think about the deceased user pages?  I know full is standard procedure, but ECP really seems like enough for those userpages of folks who didn’t attract much negative attention. Courcelles (talk) 02:11, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Seems reasonable, per application of the least possible protection to prevent disruption. Can't imagine why people would need to edit them but whatever. There's a couple I can think of that would be vandal targets and need to stay as they are, but this could easily be case by case. -- Euryalus (talk) 04:59, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Per your comment about negative attention - SlimVirgin (who I miss every day) received both negative and positive attention and I can well imagine someone gaming the system to get ECP and then messing with her page. If you are okay with leaving it at ECP I just hope that you will both have her page on your watchlist to rvt if anything should happen. Thanks for your time and I hope you both have a nice weekend. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 19:38, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Oops messed up my ping . Apologies. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 19:39, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * SV is the one I absolutely will not be leaving at ECP… Courcelles (talk) 19:41, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yep agree with that. Also Kevin Gorman. And you have a great weekend too. -- Euryalus (talk) 20:06, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

RPPD information
Hello, I have a question about two types of pages I'm considering asking for a protection reduction on, and since you've handled some of my recent requests, felt you were a good person to ask. This is not a formal request, only information gathering, I'd make the formal request at RPPD if these are acceptable and noncontroversial sorts of requests.

For user pages/subpages of deceased Wikipedians that have been full protected, are these valid for temporary page protection reductions to address lint errors?

My other question is for user pages of long blocked, long dormant, socks (ten+ years with no known activity). In general, should these remain at full protection indefinitely, or is a reduction acceptable for addressing the lint acceptable, either reduced temporarily or indefinite?

In each case I'm eying about 11 pages, so not a large quantity in either case. I'd make two separate requests if these are valid due to their nature.

Thank you for your insight, Zinnober9 (talk) 20:30, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * For both of those categories, assuming they aren't recent protections, I'd likely be willing to drop them to extended confirmed (subject to changing my mind when I see the actual pages, of course.) Full protection in this kind of situation is a bit of a hack from before EC was available, and while it stopped nonsense, it cut off uncontroversial maintenance of the sort you are doing. Courcelles (talk) 20:51, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Of course. I was just seeking the general impression of these sorts of requests. For the sock pages, most recent protection was 2006, so those probably will be fine. I'll formally post that request at RPPD in a minute.
 * For the deceased, I was looking at these eleven pages:
 * 2022 (1): Levent
 * 2021 (5): Aditya Kabir/Page content, Patrick Rogel, JGHowes, SlimVirgin
 * 2020 (3): Aditya Kabir, Ron/admin, Ron/Toolbox
 * earlier (3): Bhadani (2018), Sanko (2012), Ron/Editnotice (2011)
 * If any are too recent to make a request for, that's perfectly fine.
 * Zinnober9 (talk) 00:42, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I’ll drop all these to EC momentarily, but let me know when you are done, so I can revert myself? Courcelles (talk) 01:56, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Don’t feel like you have to rush, given I don’t speak HTML I’m not sure how involved fixing this is on each page. But, yeah, at least some of these I will be going back to full when you’re done. Courcelles (talk) 02:00, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I should have these all done in next 24hrs, but yes, I will message you when I've completed them all. Thank you for your assistance! Zinnober9 (talk) 05:14, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Courcelles All complete with these pages, you may protect them back up. Thank you for your help! I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't spot that the issues on Aditya Kabir and Ron/admin were transcribed from other pages, so ended up not needing to change anything on these two after all, but all others went as expected. Zinnober9 (talk) 01:30, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries. I’ve moved SlimVirgin’s user page back to full, but the others I am somewhat inclined to see full as overkill. Courcelles (talk) 01:58, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #569
<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:
 * AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)
 * New request for comments:
 * Creating properties which link to an archived website


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
 * Past
 * Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-04-19


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * How to put an end to best book lists once and for all
 * Papers
 * Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata (Documenting Queer History on Wikidata - French), John Samuel, Panel: Queer Data : les plateformes numériques d'archives, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris, 23 April 2023
 * Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
 * Videos
 * Using PetScan and Wikidata Terminator, Mooré Wikimedia Community (in Mooré)
 * Wikidata Atlas: Putting Wikidata on the Map
 * Notebooks
 * Probability of having notable parents by occupation and gender
 * Living with Machines: Toponym recognition and resolution — input and output exploration
 * Twitter thread
 * Average number of words in Wall Street Journal articles by author gender


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikibase newbie docs are here (to help to onboard new Wikibase users easier).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * handled, mitigated, or managed by ( approach or method that can be used to address an issue or problem )
 * holds diplomatic passport of ( country of the diplomatic passport held by the person )
 * External identifiers: Dailymotion video ID, Databáze sérií ID, Universo del corpo ID, Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, AML ID, AniList character ID, Amarkosh ID, Moly.hu author ID, Podcast Index ID, SINTA affiliation ID, Hall of Light developer ID, Hall of Light publisher ID, Hall of Light artist ID, Kinoglaz person ID, Michaelis ID, Kino1TV ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: KPU Plant Database ID, SoccerPunter team ID, HAL non-registered author ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Dizionario dei prodotti DOP e IGP ID


 * Query examples:
 * Administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
 * Rivers in France over 50 km long (source)
 * List of mental disorders (source)
 * Paintings once owned by Red Flag Names (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 16, 2023) (source)
 * Place of birth of humans with Github username (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (T323813)
 * EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (T332139)
 * Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.

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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