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Tech News: 2023-17
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg The date-selection menu on pages such as will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities.
 * For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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David Hu (IIG)
Could I please see a copy of David Hu (IIG). Davidgoodheart (talk) 15:04, 18 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I'll email it to you, I'm not putting a negative BLP in userspace. WP:BLP1E explains the concept to start with, I can answer more questions if you have them. Courcelles (talk) 15:07, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, wait, appears you don't have email enabled. Courcelles (talk) 15:08, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Your recent changes
Hi.Thank U for making the change I requested for the article Microsoft Office. Can U please remove the from line 2? Again, thanks in advance.197.26.153.57 (talk) 18:00, 18 April 2023 (UTC)


 * DoneM Courcelles (talk) 19:56, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Rollback
I saw your name on the Admins granting rollback and was wondering if you could grant me that permission to help stop vandalism on RC. Thanks, PalauanReich (talk) 00:50, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Procedural notification
Hi, I and others have proposed additional options at Village_pump_(policy). You may wish to review your position in that RfC. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:14, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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Women in Red May 2023
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DYK
Could you please nominate this page Paul (given name) for DYK. I have spend countless time expanding this. I also don't know how to use DYK. Davidgoodheart (talk) 20:14, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I haven't spent any significant time at DYK in literally a decade. I wouldn't be considered conversant in their rules anymore by any reasonable measure.  Maybe ask at Wikipedia talk:Did you know? Courcelles (talk) 12:29, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Fontainebleaugrantleingang‎
Hi, I see that you blocked for username violation. I wanted to mention that this same editor is apparently using several other accounts. They have the same username pattern and the exact same type of strange edits to articles about hotels in Las Vegas, all with the same edit summary. The other accounts are: CodeTalker (talk) 14:56, 22 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Cleaned the sock drawer. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 15:13, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-18
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads.
 * The page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar.

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).

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Longer block needed
This user went right back to edit warring, f y i. Two reverts in a half hour. SergeWoodzing (talk) 18:37, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


 * A WP:BRD reversion of an unsourced edit by you is not edit warring. Gugrak (talk) 18:41, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You have learned nothing from your recent block. If we feel a source is missing, we ask for that, we don't revert twice in a half hour, no less with snotty comments like a discussion with yourself. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 18:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Both of you, discuss. Find the talk page, find a WP:3O, something rather than the revert button. Courcelles (talk) 20:45, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I always discuss and use talk pages. Very sad that an admin would tell me off too, rather than seeing habitual edit warring on the part of the user recently blocked for edit warring by that same admin. Very sad. Gives free license to go on edit warring. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 14:10, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Look at the timeline. You made a proposal, no comments were made so you enacted your own proposal after a few days.  No issues there.  The problem is then you were reverted, and instead of discussing, you simply reverted.  At that point your edit had been challenged, so bringing up the history of the person you were disagreeing with is not the way forward. Courcelles (talk) 14:29, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * "please see and use the talk page to discuss this further" is not what I'd call simply reverting, but you are the boss. It's your prerogative to let someone off the hook who did not see and use the talk page to discuss this further but rather reverted twice in a half hour after recently having been blocked for that by you. I thought you'd care, or I wouldn't have bothered you. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 11:18, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Are you interested in that user's continued very speedy use of revert without visiting a talk page? --SergeWoodzing (talk) 12:12, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Edit war on Reichstag building
Hey, I have seen you fully protected the Raising a Flag over the Reichstag article because there is a dispute on the content of a photo. But in the Reichstag building article, this editorial war is still ongoing. Please fully protect this one too. If I found any related editorial war on the content of that photo on any article, I'll let you know so you can fully protected it. Best regards, SeanTVT (talk) 14:38, 23 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Honestly, I'm asking you not to make any more reverts on this matter as well. But I did issue one block for edit warring combined with personal attacks. Courcelles (talk) 12:46, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Dilbaggg
This user has defended themselves about their edit warring by repeatedly accusing me and two other users of meatpuppeting. I'm not one to question admin actions, but is 36 hours a long enough block if we factor that in? Liliana UwU (talk / contributions) 11:04, 25 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Honestly, block lengths are as much a matter of art as anything. It was longer than their last edit warring block, which was in 2020.  Blocks, not being punitive makes me say this; if the editor comes back and repeats the behavior, it wasn't long enough and I can block them again.  If they come back and engage in collegial editing without revert warring, it was exactly long enough.  Either way, we end up with an answer on Thursday. Courcelles (talk) 12:50, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 May newsletter
The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:


 * Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
 * Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
 * Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
 * BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie,  Thebiguglyalien,  MyCatIsAChonk,  PCN02WPS, and  AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:14, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #570
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
 * BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))


 * Events
 * Upcoming events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 2, 2023: Fudie Zhao will be presenting on Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Agenda
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #90, Sewing
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live session (April 2023)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Creating Map Visualizations with Wikidata and Python, 24 April 2023, Jelle Vankerkvoorde
 * Videos
 * Open data and Wikidata: revolutionizing scientific research (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #109 - YouTube
 * Using MixandMatch gadget - YouTube
 * Back having fun with lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
 * EMWCon Spring 2023 -YouTube
 * Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content with Wikidata
 * Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so)
 * Workshops
 * Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata Workshop at
 * Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Wikimentor Africa workshop - Learn how to report bugs, make feature requests and manage your tasks


 * Tool of the week
 * Twitter Wikipedia Badge - is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (code, Tweet)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Channel One Russia Worldwide program ID, LSJ Wiki ID, Wastewater treatment plant in France ID, Musées Grand Est ID, INSPIRE-HEP literature ID, Musée Fabre ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Technic Platform modpack ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus root id


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Akadem organization ID, mosff.ru player ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Diritto on line ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, BSWW player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of where the presidents of BCALA were educated (source)
 * Number of Wikipedia sitelinks for Art Looting Investigation (source)
 * Family relationships of New Zealand MPs (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Piano Rolls


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (T214884)
 * Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like T335578 and T335581.

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Spicy
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ale jrb · Dbachmann · DGG (deceased) · Jimbo Wales



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jimbo Wales

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news
 * Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration
 * The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous
 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Wikidata weekly summary #571
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
 * Papers
 * Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
 * The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
 * Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
 * Tool of the week


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * character in this lexeme ( character(s) this lexeme consists of )
 * External identifiers: none


 * Query examples:
 * Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line (source)
 * Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title (source)
 * Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle (source)


 * Development
 * (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
 * (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
 * (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
 * Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
 * Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (T214002)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (T214884)
 * Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (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: 2023-19
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
 * Octicons-gift.svg When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as, , and , can now be replaced.
 * Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the that uses .

Problems
 * Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph . The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities.

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-tools.svg Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review.

Future changes
 * During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames.
 * There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with   can be commented out.   can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2023
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Why did you name yourself after a municipality in Belgium?
I'm just curious. CodemWiki (talk) 16:26, 2 May 2023 (UTC)


 * LOL. I actually picked it not from Belgium. My place in Paris was on Line 2, two stops from Etoille.  No longer being my residence, but somewhere I enjoyed living greatly, it seemed reasonable enough. Courcelles (talk) 16:29, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Australia article
Hello there I request that you change the article back to the stable version which is the one last edited by Materialsscientist here. The repeated attempt by one editor to include a definite number of Indigenous languages in the info box does not have consensus, is contradicted by the information in the main body of the article and is contradicted by other sources which I have included on the Talk page. I think we should revert to the stable version until a consensus is reached on the Talk page. Thanks. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 12:47, 6 May 2023 (UTC)


 * We really don’t pick a version to protect unless there’s something utterly unacceptable on the version we happen to find. . Courcelles (talk) 12:59, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Australia Languages Misinformation
there is a guy that keeps putting like 200 native languages in the Australia info box and it’s incorrect and outdated plus it doesn’t belong to the info box. please fix it thank you Michael Reinolds (talk) 20:02, 6 May 2023 (UTC)


 * See above. We don’t really have a lot of choice between non vandalized versions when protecting. Courcelles (talk) 20:55, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * i understand that, but wouldn’t it be possible for the references that he added to be removed? everyone on the talk page says the same Michael Reinolds (talk) 21:40, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I dropped it back to EC to allow edits to be made, since the talk page appears to have a rough consensus. Courcelles (talk) 21:42, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * ok Michael Reinolds (talk) 21:42, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #572
<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:
 * WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
 * TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
 * Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
 * Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube
 * ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube
 * Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch
 * Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School?


 * Tool of the week
 * tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
 * re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * iconically alludes to ( item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme )
 * External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID


 * Query examples:
 * Name of languages ​​containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
 * Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
 * Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
 * Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (T214884)
 * Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (T334450)
 * mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (T330193, T329626)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (T332739).

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: 2023-20
<section begin="technews-2023-W20"/> 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
 * Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature.

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).
 * 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.

Future changes
 * There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget and userscript developers should replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time.

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User 2nd 2nd Mugistan
2nd 2nd Mugistan Was recently blocked from editing for socking. They can still edit their own talkpage, where they are repeatedly spouting hateful language. Can they be blocked from editing the talk page in the same manner as the puppet master 2nd Mugistan? IceBergYYC (talk) 16:25, 8 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Done. Courcelles (talk) 16:27, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you IceBergYYC (talk) 16:32, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

2023 Israeli airstrikes in Gaza - protected
Hello, the article lacks some important events for its NPOV. Can I write you here and you add (after your consideration/edit)? Thank you. Lilijuros (talk) 14:09, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * You can try the talk page? Courcelles (talk) 16:03, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Tried. Can you do this? Lilijuros (talk) 07:01, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * No. I am not getting involved in this topic as an editor. Courcelles (talk) 12:39, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Australia protection duration
Hi, I saw that you put Australia under ECP due to edit warring, which seems like a good move, but I'm wondering if it was necessary to impose it indefinitely, rather than, say, a week or so? It looks like the edit war around languages, vigorous as it was, had only been going on for less than 24 hours. Colin M (talk) 16:48, 10 May 2023 (UTC)


 * It was "indef" only in the sense that there's no way to automatically restore the semi, and I didn't want it to fall back all the way to unprotected. I'll send it back to semi now. Courcelles (talk) 17:26, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, got it, I wasn't aware of that limitation. Thanks for clarifying! Colin M (talk) 17:41, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's kind of a stupid thing, but if you raise a protection (to ECP or full), the system loses the underlying semi when it expires. On a high-profile target like this, that's not a desirable outcome.  Something like "ECP for a week, semi indef" has been asked for before but never coded into the software. Courcelles (talk) 17:47, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks. Couldn’t find a beneficial and proportional range block, so this was the fallback plan. Courcelles (talk) 13:08, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I expected to find a lot of vandalism on that page anyway because it's about an educational game that is commonly used in schools.... and thus might attract some school IP's. -- Shadow  of the  Starlit Sky  13:21, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * I appreciate it! At the core, "merge and delete" is not an allowable action under the CC-BY-SA, and the merge had already been done.  That said, if this came back under a different title, I'd consider G4 to apply and be willing to delete it (noting one of the AFD's was under a different title years ago.) Courcelles (talk) 13:51, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #573
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 * Discussions
 * CEUR-WS (Task: CEUR-WS Semantification bot to be used on publishing Workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org)
 * AcmiBot (Task: Sync links with ACMI API)


 * Events
 * Past: The Wikimedia Hackathon took place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. Several Wikidata-related projects were presented during the showcase (notes, replay). You can also find more documentation on this page.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Melanie Conroy, Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata; Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2023May 11, 2023.
 * Videos
 * Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project, Presentation by Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
 * Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata, Presentation by John Samuel on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
 * Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project, Presentation by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023
 * “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata, Discussion by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)


 * Tool of the week
 * CreateNewEntity.js got improved to support up to 11 languages.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is launching a laptop donation program to support Wikidata contributors with limited access to technology. If you've been actively contributing to Wikidata for at least a year, you can request a free laptop to support your work. WMDE Hardware Donation Program#Applying
 * Wikibase.Cloud data modeling research has been published. It shows user flows and pain points in the Data Modelling experience of Wikibase Cloud users in Q1/2023.


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 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID, ‎Xbox Games Store ID (Xbox 360), Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Global Smash Roster fighter ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Qualigeo ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * population by ethnic group (Part of a larger population isolated for statistical analysis)
 * points of bonus ( point of bonus in a tournament, given according some conditions (such as minimum number of goals...) )
 * External identifiers: Israel Composers' League composer ID, Stage 32 profile ID, kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, Radiomuseum.org company ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry


 * Query example: Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked (source)


 * Development
 * We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (T332739)
 * We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
 * We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
 * We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (T337081)
 * We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.

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16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Anonymous resumed the edit war and vandalism after leaving the block
As I predicted, after the end of the blocking, the anonymous person resumed deleting information with renewed vigor and with a monotonous repetition of his actually only argument about the alleged lack of connection between the discussion of decisions during the localization of the show and the show itself. It is obvious that this was vandalism and the anonymous person, as before, is not going to discuss anything. But I'm not even going to delete it again, because last time you made it clear to me that the removal of systematic vandalism is an edit war and is punishable. Even despite the removal of information from sources and the general surrealism of the situation (anonymous insists that the situation is not related to the show, although all sources mention this only in the context of the show). Not to mention that the requester most likely complained about an "edit war" due to a conflict of interest and interest in removing this information. Thank you. Solaire the knight (talk) 11:27, 13 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Still not vandalism. Likely even a valid removal per UNDUE. Continuing to say it doesn’t make you right. Courcelles (talk) 13:59, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Doesn't it even bother you that he continued the edit war after being blocked for it? Having an up-to-date warning on the talk page?  That is, now blocking and warnings, even blocking, do not matter, the main thing is who was the last to cancel?!  Okay, let's "play by your rules". If I now undo his edit, will it be a violation of the rules? I literally predict that he will undo edits again, up to the next block. You don't care at all? Or do you want me to cancel each time until he breaks the three-time cancellation rule, and then wait for him to block then again every time they come out of the block? Considering that the anonymous person is obviously not going to discuss anything and will do it forever, this is a vicious circle. Which, however, only exists if one takes his edits seriously. Solaire the knight (talk) 14:26, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Or you could start an RFC and get a consensus this material belongs from the wider community. You’re crying vandalism, but not making any case for the reinsertions you made as to why this material isn’t a COATRACK in this particular article. Courcelles (talk) 15:11, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * He will not write or discuss anything there, he will just continue the edit war. Well, or completely ignore the discussion if the article remains on his version. Just look at how he completely ignored my warning or your message about blocking and just continued to delete the text without any reaction (In fact, I already added a source to the article that covered the topic in much detail and connected these two issues much better, but it was removed because users recognized it as non-authoritative, because it contradicted their political views. Another irony). As for the arguments, if you stopped defending the vandal for a second and looked at the source, then you would know that the situation with this anime is being used as complaints about representation in the casting, because a number of VAs, including, believe that the show could not take a variety of casts for the role of characters due to a number of very unfortunate decisions of the licensor. Moreover, you continue to ignore the fact that the anonymous one monotonously deletes it without any arguments and, judging by the history of edits and bans of other addresses, it does this because of a political conflict of interest. Anyway, I already explained the situation to you. And I want to repeat my question, would my undoing their edit be a violation of the rules? I have no other options, because the anonymous person will either ignore the discussion or continue the edit war. Or most likely both. Only if you do not offer me to uselessly waste my time creating a meaningless topic in which no one will participate only in order to prove to you a few days later that the anonymous person is not agreeable. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:20, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Due to your blocking and subsequent disputes, I even forgot that the necessary section was created by ME on the article's talk page a few months ago. At the time when the section was discussed even with its original author. Of course, anonymous successfully ignored him. But if you like wasting my time so much, then I created another one, only to once again show that anonymous is not negotiable and will wage edit wars endlessly. By the way, while I was creating it, another user had already canceled it. I bet the anonymous person will continue again and not even look at the thread. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:43, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi @Courcelles Could you take a look here and here and here . Solaire is really starting to be overtly WP:UNCIVIL and some administrative action might be warranted. Best, CandyScythe (talk) 15:42, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, as soon as I created a section to demonstrate that the anon will ignore any discussion and continue the edit wars again, you started complaining about me again. If you really want to convince me that you're not covering him up because you want to save his edits, then you've clearly not chosen the best tactic. However, you have a literal conflict with me, which you are well aware of. What did you expect from me? Solaire the knight (talk) 15:45, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I have notified you that I view your behavior as targeted harassment. In this case, I will ask the administrators to stop any contact between us and from now on I will ignore any of your comments to me. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:51, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Change to the Checkuser team
Following a request to the Committee, the CheckUser permissions of have been restored. For the Arbitration Committee, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:13, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
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Henrysemple
Please revoke TPA for Henrysemple, whom you blocked. Thanks. Firestar464 (talk) 17:39, 16 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Done. Courcelles (talk) 17:59, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
For blocking the editor that trouted me 40,000 times. What a waste of perfectly good trout.

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 * Thanks, and, yes, that trout would be better fed to my cats! Courcelles (talk) 23:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #578
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 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Mike Peel shares his experience mentoring Wikimedia projects through FOSS outreach programs


 * Tool of the week
 * TalkPageHeader.js shows the talk page header for languages other than English.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
 * The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * time of periapsis ( the time at which the orbit of an object in space, typically a planet or a satellite, goes through its periapsis )
 * matched by identifier from ( this external ID was added because the following link was presented in both the external database and the Wikidata item )
 * External identifiers: Diritto on line ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * ISCED Attainment ( (no English description proposed yet) )
 * ISCED category orientation ( International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program )
 * Learning outcome ( specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program )
 * External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, BFM.ru persons ID, Open Yearbook org id


 * Query examples:
 * Count comparison of England, Scotland and Wales items claiming to be a human settlement as well as a parish (source)
 * Twins at Eurovision (source)


 * Development
 * Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
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Protection level for Charles III
Hello Courcelles. I'm requesting the protection level for Charles III to be reduced from 30/500 protection to 4/10 protection. Per WP:RFUP, "[b]efore posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at their talk page". I understand that the page had just been vandalised, but that was because it was the day of his coronation; things have cooled down since then. Cheers, Tim O&#39;Doherty (talk) 16:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Tim O&#39;Doherty (talk) 16:14, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * The coronation was full of mess-making accounts. Think we can try regular semi now. Courcelles (talk) 16:14, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

FoXX4961
You had blocked them as Mosart.fr; they have changed username and talked about what edits they would make. Can you take a look? Daniel Case (talk) 06:18, 24 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Reblocks are cheap. Let them try. Courcelles (talk) 12:03, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Emmanuel Ekwedike
New creation - you might like to see how similar it is to the previous one you deleted. The creating editor has a rather similar editing history (10 minor edits and a full scale article). Pam D  17:40, 24 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Cleaned the sock drawer. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 17:43, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Three socks and a few drafts removed. Courcelles (talk) 17:56, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Hanuman Chalisa
Hi, none of the accounts is autoconfirmed. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:07, 24 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Twinkle misclick… but I think I’m good with it. Some are old enough to get autoconfirmed with a few edits. Courcelles (talk) 23:48, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Stubbing clarification
Hello Courcelles. I'm hoping to get something clarified about my topic ban please. Am I still allowed to remove old posts from my Talk page? Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 10:33, 25 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Yes. Unlike some of the other actions you are restricted from, stubbing is something that, by definition, can only be done to content pages. Archiving/managing your own talk page is an entirely different matter. Courcelles (talk) 11:16, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Anytime. We do not need trolls at AN, ever. Courcelles (talk) 22:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Follow-up re. Meeraa chopraa
Hi! I saw that you blocked the user Meeraa chopraa following my report at UUA. First, a quick thanks for your work! I have a question regarding this block. I also reported this user for an unrelated issue at AIV, and this report was subsequently removed by the helperbot. I'm not sure anyone saw the report at AIV; my concern was that the user in question has been editing in blatant violation of WP:COI, and (in my opinion) their comments indicate that they have no intention of familiarising themselves with relevant policies. What do you think? Thanks! Actualcpscm (talk) 10:58, 26 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Well, the bot removed it because we can’t block that account twice. At this point, they’ll have either do the verification VTRS lays out, and be unblocked, or not. Nothing else to do. Courcelles (talk) 11:02, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Of course they can't be double-blocked, but I thought a hard block from AIV would have some kind of precedence over a precautionary soft block. Or not? I imagine this is not a very common situation :) Actualcpscm (talk) 11:06, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * (Was just explaining why the bot did what it did. Yeah, it’s unlikely a human admin saw the AIV report  I didn’t) Well, two possibilities.  Either they are Ms. Chopra and just completely unfamiliar with WP. Or they’re not, and the soft block stops the impersonation. Either way, the edits were not vandalism, so that sort of block would be unnecessarily antagonistic in case they are who they say they are. Courcelles (talk) 11:14, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, thanks! Have a good day. Actualcpscm (talk) 11:53, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Another sockpuppet in hiding
Hello!

Thank you for executing a block on the sockpuppet "Sem Lula" and the anonymous IP user "182.228.179.211". There seems to be a third account to which this person is linked.

In a preceding discussion, two people were referred to as "militant women". Then "Sem Lula" made clear that she was one of these people. None of them is yet blocked. They are "Dinoz1" and "Ertrinken".

In order to get to the bottom of this abuse and root out the problem, we should put a block on the main user behind all of this. Otherwise that person might continue their suspect activities. Trakking (talk) 11:51, 25 May 2023 (UTC)


 * No. The LTA who started that thread has a history of lobbing grenades into ANI with new socks. Nothing they say should be taken seriously. Courcelles (talk) 11:55, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't relate to those IP and accounts. To be clear, yesterday I've opened and incident against user, wich has a consolidated history of crosswiki abuse. Ertrinken (talk) 12:04, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Courcelles: Today I was vandalized again and had my legitimate edits reverted by an anonymous troll using the same extremist phrase "sai minion" as the previous troll you blocked. Trakking (talk) 11:39, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked for 60 hours. Courcelles (talk) 12:35, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Russian SFSR
Since what I recently edited Vladimir Vysotsky with Russian SFSR to infobox, then someone removed it, every Russian person has an infobox with "Russian SFSR" without redundancy per   parameter. In this recent case as a result for edit warring on Vladimir Putin article, as per discussion from the talk page and ANI notice. Should we enforce these restrictions per WP:GS/RUSUKR and WP:TBAN? 112.204.206.165 (talk) 03:06, 26 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Vysotsky died in 1980, so he has nothing to do with the general sanctions. And who is topic banned? What are you even asking be done? Courcelles (talk) 10:38, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * See User talk:Mike Novikoff, as posted by, so if this user had tried to warn them, next time you revert it I'll report you to WP:ANI, the case will be indisputable. But also for example, Russia-related topics with "Russian SFSR" is needed for the infobox in biography and historical events, including Vladimir Lenin, 1980 Summer Olympics, Battle of Stalingrad, and so on. 112.204.206.165 (talk) 12:17, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay why is this here? (As in, on my talk page?) Courcelles (talk) 12:36, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I was pinged, but I'm not involved and don't care to become so. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:10, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Neither am I... hence my great confusion! Courcelles (talk) 13:11, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

User talk:DarklarkOxs
What account or accounts did the user sock with?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:08, 26 May 2023 (UTC)


 * WikipediaWarrior01, TheWarriorOfWikiiz, User101FrOas… and it all traces back to Javalsta which means this is MasterofRoblox anyway. Courcelles (talk) 22:14, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * My.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:28, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * What a catch Courcelles! What tipped you off? --  Ponyo bons mots 22:34, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Some stranger from BC, I think… ;) Courcelles (talk) 22:40, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Teamwork makes the dream work.-- Ponyo bons mots 22:45, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Charles III protection
Hi Courcelles! I noticed you changed the protection level at Charles III with summary "dropping to semi", but the actual change made was to drop move protection from sysop to ECP, with editing protection unchanged. Misclick? -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 19:08, 28 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_III&diff=prev&oldid=1156387788  I changed editing to semi and moving to ECP.  Not sure if we need sysop move protection or not, but I think I got the editing protection exactly where it needs to be. Courcelles (talk) 19:33, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * And if you think we need sysop move protection, please feel free to put it back. Courcelles (talk) 19:39, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Huh, guess I misread that! I was confused because it was showing up as "recently extendedconfirmed-protected", but I guess that's because of the downgrade on move prot. Sorry for the confusion. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 19:51, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

MenuRax39272
Hey Courcelles. looks like a dead ringer for. Worth another sweep? -- ferret (talk) 23:30, 27 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Yep. Blocked and tagged. Courcelles (talk) 23:47, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Got three more sleepers and tagged everyone. Courcelles (talk) 00:12, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * For a fun follow up, MenuRax39272 joined Discord to complain to me about this "incorrect" block and that I brought it to your attention. They did so under the Discord account "Javalsta" :P -- ferret (talk) 12:54, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * ROFL… they’re socking everywhere.  Courcelles (talk) 13:21, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Looks like there's another one: Special:Contributions/JaioLang. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 20:06, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Confirmed and tagged. No new sleepers, though. Courcelles (talk) 20:19, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ingenuity
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ddstretch · Prodego · Resolute



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

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
 * As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news
 * Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration
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 * The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
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 * Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "". This has now been fixed.

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 * For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #579
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 * Events
 * Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
 * Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.


 * Tool of the week
 * IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * alternate universe counterpart ( this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject )
 * visited by ( organisms attracted by this plant taxon and reported to visit it )
 * Mastodon instance URL ( the mastodon instance of/about the subject )
 * beforehand owned by ( person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc )
 * afterward owned by ( person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc )
 * solubility product constant ( equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution )
 * funded by grant ( title or name of the grant funding this item )
 * External identifiers: stats.fm artist ID, Zeno.org ID, World Arachnid Catalog ID, Springs and Fountains of Andalucía ID, TMDb collection ID, TMDB company ID, WGA work ID, Peacock ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Type of musical notation ( system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition )
 * External identifiers: Identifiant "Politique pappers", Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID, Holarse, wiki.ubuntuusers.de article ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Kialo ID, PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), PesticideInfo chemical ID, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage ID, Image Duplicator ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Musées Occitanie ID


 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
 * Newest database reports:
 * External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (T337720)
 * Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (334682)
 * Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (T335857)
 * EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.

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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Ruach Chayim
Should not their other account, HoneymoonAve27, be blocked too? They have accepted on srwiki they are the same person, and their editing on enwiki too shows obvious similarities. Ktrimi991 (talk) 17:10, 30 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I saw Ruach Chayim claiming to be Honeymoon, but nothing from Honeymoon indicating such. I'm not sure I trust the word of a troll to confirm sockpuppetry when I can't confirm the same through checkuser. Do we have anything more definitive? Courcelles (talk) 17:12, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed, one can't rely just on RC's words. However, behavioral evidence is strong IMO. Among other things:
 * HA27 proposed to split the Netflix article into Netflix Inc and Netflix . RC did the same thing.
 * HA27 made that edit . RC edit warred to readd that edit and got blocked for that
 * HA27 had the habit to write "fix" in the edit summary (some examples ). So did RC (some examples ). In many cases what they are "fixing" is adding the now-deleted "Kosovo template" to next to every mention of Kosovo
 * HA27 removed Albanian names from the Balsic article . So did RC . Note how for both the justification in the edit summary is "no need"
 * Both removed stuff they did not like from articles with the justification "no need" in the edit summary. Many such examples as
 * HA27 added that and RC edit warred to keep it in the article
 * I can cite more similarities if need be, but IMO these are enough. Ktrimi991 (talk) 18:00, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Over on the Serbian wikipedia they submitted a request to have their user rights transferred to this account and were apparently able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Serbian wiki admins that both accounts were controlled by the same person . I expect the evidence is in the revision deleted history of the first account's talk page, which was deleted to protect their privacy.
 * Behaviourally there's also this thread on their talk page, where the new account is warned to avoid getting involved in the same problems their last account was getting involved with . I don't think it's too likely that someone impersonating an established account would mimic drama that would risk getting the account blocked.
 * I do find it funny that on srwiki they seem to be telling everyone who'll listen what their previous account was, but when asked on this project who they are they evaded the question then got offended and demanded an apology . 192.76.8.85 (talk) 18:02, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Now that was a convincing case. Blocked. Courcelles (talk) 18:06, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had been trying for some time to figure out their previous account, but only the IP user made the connection. Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 18:11, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I guess my first response was too jaded... I've seen entirely too many socks show up and claim to be a more experienced editor to take such statements at face value without deeper analysis or a reciprocal declaration. Thanks to you both for providing that. Courcelles (talk) 18:24, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Afd ?
Hi Courcelles. I was just going through to see how the AfD backlog got down so quickly and I came across Articles for deletion/Suryapet Junction. Given that the only keep vote is from someone not topic banned from deletion, it seems to me that maybe there's a draftify and/or soft delete consensus? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 00:32, 1 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I was aware of Jack’s topic ban, but A) the AFD is so old the comment was not a violation, so I’m not sure we can discount it and soft delete purely on the later topic ban, and B) the two other commenter’s arguments are not the strongest reasoning I’ve ever seen. Courcelles (talk) 00:56, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-24
<section begin="technews-2023-W24"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article.
 * The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software.
 * The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages.

Problems
 * For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended  (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed.
 * Currently, the "" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing  keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr" style="white-space: nowrap;"> . See an example fix.

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 * VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here.

Future changes
 * From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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User talk:Haskko
Hiya!

Would you mind revisiting this? I think we mistook a good faith misunderstanding of WP:RS and WP:NOR with WP:HOAX. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106;&#x1D110;&#x1d107; 18:59, 3 June 2023 (UTC)


 * @Jpgordon Can you verify anything they’re saying? Because this blew all my AGF when I was trying to investigate if they were legitimate or trolling us. If you can see enough to feel like they’re working legitimately, go ahead and unblock. Courcelles (talk) 19:37, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed, that stupid piece of nonsense hurt his appeal pretty badly. I've reduced his block to mainspace only and suggested he prove himself in his user space. Thanks. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106;&#x1D110;&#x1d107; 21:35, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Tendentious IP at Ramen
Howdy! There's lots of WP:RGW activity going on here from an IP who targets random articles for "Chinophilia", with no sources and no talk page usage. Do you mind taking a look? Thanks. -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  00:00, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * 3 months without that IP should help. Let me know if they change IPs and I’ll drop some protections. Courcelles (talk) 00:24, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Mark Curry (rapper)
Hello. I see you deleted Mark Curry (rapper). He had a No. 13 hit with Bad Boy for Life, thereby satisfying WP:MUSICBIO. Please restore to User:Launchballer/Mark Curry (rapper). <u style="color:#00F">Laun <u style="color:#00F">chba <u style="color:#00F">ller 11:25, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * @Launchballer As far as I’m aware, userifying isn’t really a thing now that we have Draftspace. So I’ve moved the entire history to Draft:Mark Curry (rapper). Courcelles (talk) 13:53, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Sacred Name Movement
You inserted a warning about sock puppetry for the article "Sacred Name Movement". I've not been watching an article that became marked in this way before, so I don't know the protocol. Thought it would be logical to name at least one of the accounts you thought was socking. My first time, so I'm only asking about this. Pete unseth (talk) 14:56, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Look through the history. I count six accounts blocked for being socks. Deny recognition, as to not calling out the sockmaster in the protection log. Courcelles (talk) 15:05, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I have not yet learned how to spot such. Thanks for helpful reply. Pete unseth (talk) 17:12, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Special:Contributions/Church of Christ (Temple Lot) Independence, Missouri QUORUM OF THE TWELVE. This is just one of the endless stream of socks that have been hitting both that page and the content area. Courcelles (talk) 17:15, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

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IP block exemption request for my alternate account
Hello, I plan to be travelling a lot this summer, which will at times involve the use of VPNs or anonymous proxies to avoid local blocks of content. According to WP:IPECPROXY, I should be able to get IPBE for this reason. I would like it on my alternate account, User:Asheiouy, which is the account I will be using to travel with. If you need any information from me, please let me know.

Please @ ping me as I often lose conversations. > Asheiou  (they/them • talk)  21:18, 8 June 2023 (UTC)


 * @Ponyo, you might have handled something like this more recently than I have? Do you have any thoughts? Courcelles (talk) 23:07, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the policy has loosened up quite a bit whilst you were on your sabbatical. You can set it for a specific amount of time now as well. How long will you be travelling ?-- Ponyo bons mots 23:11, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Ponyo I'll be popping in and out of my home country until the end of September. I don't see myself needing it after that point for a good while > Asheiou   (they/them • talk)  23:16, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * (So expiring Oct 1 would be perfect, I am flying back home for the last time on Sep 30) > Asheiou   (they/them • talk)  23:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, you should be good to go (literally and figuratively).-- Ponyo bons mots 23:29, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Knew you’d know what was up. Courcelles (talk) 23:44, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help :) > Asheiou   (they/them • talk)  23:45, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

UT Bethsheba Ashe mention
Good <morning/afternoon/evening> Courcelles. I got the notification that you mentioned me on BA's page but of course their silliness has been revdel'd so I can't actually see whatever it was. Was it anything that needed attention like a mistake I made or something I should have done differently? -Thanks for your time, GabberFlasted (talk) 16:41, 9 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Nope. Just me basically saying I was deleting that self-promo user page they had. Courcelles (talk) 16:44, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Update to the SP/SM situation. Please check your filtered emails.
Hello Courcelles. Last week, I emailed you updates to the SP/SM situation with more ongoing evidence but my guess is they may have been filtered to spam or a similar category. Please check those and pass them on to the functionaries. Thank you. Saucysalsa30 (talk) 20:10, 9 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I’ve sent everything up to functionaries-en. Courcelles (talk) 22:19, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #580
<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
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
 * Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata
 * Creating Bengali Freebase Using Wikidata
 * Probability of having notable parents by country of citizenship


 * Tool of the week
 * narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * quality is the result of process ( quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces )
 * External identifiers: theCrag ID, ‎SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * ISCED field ( mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education )
 * Romanian river code ( River codes from ApeleRomâne )
 * External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID


 * Query examples:
 * Terminus stations of the Transilien railroad network (source)
 * List of children of Johann Sebastian Bach (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished work on accessing data for Properties (T337720)
 * We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (T338138)
 * You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (T171140)
 * Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (T335754)
 * EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.

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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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
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 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Thank you
For this, I was recently informed that I can not use the template anymore because I am not an admin... - Adolphus79 (talk) 22:12, 11 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hmm… not aware of the background on why you were told that, but the bot is quirky enough that “nothing left to do here” requests sit around a good bit. Courcelles (talk) 22:16, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I know, that is why I have generally tried to do my best as a useless non-admin to clear the backlog when possible... lol - Adolphus79 (talk) 22:20, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * P.S. I just happened to notice this, just to make us both feel old... - Adolphus79 (talk) 03:02, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Wikihistory, wow. Just for the record, I need little help feeling old these days! Courcelles (talk) 15:21, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #581
<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
 * Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention)
 * TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open.
 * The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page.
 * The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
 * Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register
 * GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open. Deadline is June 30, 2023.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Using Wikidata Lexemes and Items to Generate Text from Abstract Representations
 * The Wikipedia Republic of Literary Characters
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube
 * Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube
 * Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata, How to Create a Wikidata Item, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items
 * Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube
 * Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube
 * Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube
 * Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities?, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases
 * OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube
 * Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube
 * Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube
 * KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube
 * SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Analysing the profile of people invited to France Inter's Matinale using Wikidata
 * Wikidata Queries
 * Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article
 * Charleroi Streets Gender Inequality
 * Citation Factory
 * Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement  with Natural History Collections


 * Tool of the week
 * Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series
 * Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * satellite view ( image of the subject taken from outer space )
 * External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID, KPU Plant Database ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID, documenta archiv ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Israel Composers' League composer ID, Alabama Authors ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * HyperTextAPI
 * Gottstein code ( Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant )
 * altesdresden.de object ( altesdresden.de object )
 * Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي
 * Moroccan administrative geographical coding
 * External identifiers: COSL profile ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, NBC Olympics Athlete ID, European Bridge League ID, research.com ID, ComingSoon.it TV IDs, Team France profile ID, FIGC player ID, Theapolis theater ID, Theapolis actor ID, AVP player ID, Volleyball Canada ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, Korean Tour player ID, Austadiums ID, DEL player ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID


 * Query examples:
 * Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? (source)
 * Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann (source)
 * List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID (source)
 * British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions (source)
 * Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account (source)
 * [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge
 * [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of March 5, 1902?


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
 * We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
 * EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
 * mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (T329644, T338302, T329655, T316767)
 * Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (T327510)

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 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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: 2023-25
<section begin="technews-2023-W25"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing  or pressing  . It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. I merely mentioned you, but I’m not 100% sure if I need to do this, but I’m just doing so to protect myself, and for your information, of course. It’s in regards to an issue involving my protection requests. Fork99 (talk) 20:22, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

You're a coward
Just admit you only protected those pages due to some perceived threat to protect their honor. I'm just telling you, those pages did not meet any criteria to jump protection and there wasn't any mass coordinated disruption. You're a coward who is only on here to spread your far-right worldview of pointing out every hypothetical Jew with a blue badge of dishonor. 77.247.90.25 (talk) 15:49, 15 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Me? Far right?  ROFL. Courcelles (talk) 15:51, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-26
<section begin="technews-2023-W26"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to all <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the  database table.

Problems
 * Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours.

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-tools.svg The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition ) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution.
 * All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary.
 * The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #582
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 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.
 * Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th.
 * WikiIndaba 2023 Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Dude, where are my pictures?
 * BiCIKL is linking people unambiguously and efficiently to their work
 * Understanding Knowledge Graphs: A Beginner’s Guide
 * Videos
 * re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube
 * Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
 * Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
 * Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
 * Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube
 * From authority control to identity management - YouTube
 * DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube
 * Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube
 * Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
 * KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
 * Surveys
 * Results of the WMDE survey on ontology issues reusers are facing
 * Notebooks
 * Explore people having notable parents


 * Tool of the week


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), Professor at Cologne univ. ID, Numista ruling authority ID, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * 諱
 * Date of declaration as a town ( The date when a settlement is declared a town )
 * Loss of town status ( Date of loss of town rank )
 * External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Alienor.org ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, XWord Info author ID, WKF ranking ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, etymologiebank.nl ID


 * Query examples:
 * Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) (source)
 * List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page
 * (history) Where were the borders crossing between and  ?
 * Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject University of Washington Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community.
 * WikiProject New York Public Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (T338383)
 * EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
 * Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
 * mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (T329644, T338302, T339103, T329655, T329655)
 * Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (T327510)

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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A beer for you!

 * Thanks. I did find it funny to be called a coward without them saying what pissed them off. Courcelles (talk) 18:41, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Blocked user
Hi - I think you recently blocked User:CptJohnMiller as a sock of User:Militaryfactchecker. You might want to take a look at User:Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves Britons never, never, never shall be slaves who is apparently a new editor but has a very similar edit pattern and does not hesitate to make offensive comments. Thanks. Dormskirk (talk) 23:35, 18 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Confirmed and blocked. Courcelles (talk) 23:41, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * 🤣🤣🤣🤣 2A00:23C6:4D8C:6201:D093:BAD9:6B14:F9DB (talk) 08:20, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 June 2023
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Reducing the protection level for 'List of active Russian Navy ships'
Hi! You increased the protection level for the 'List of active Russian Navy ships' page on 25 May 2023. In my opinion, I think this protection level should be reduced, as now the edit activity on this page has decreased substantially. Due to the topic's relatively niche nature, many relevant sources will only present on Russian-language sites, without which the page would be updated much less frequently. Since the protection level has increased, myself along with other regular editors of the page, can no longer update the page based on these sources. For example, over the past month, two new vessels have been laid down for the Russian Navy, and another is expected to be commissioned imminently. Despite me putting in a request on the Talk Page (with sources included), there have been virtually no updates to the page since the protection level increase was implemented, aside from a few minor updates to references. Thanks. IvtI 09 (talk) 15:05, 19 June 2023 (UTC)


 * We can try semi… but non Extended confirmed editors can’t edit anything about the ongoing war, per General sanctions/Russo-Ukrainian War. Courcelles (talk) 15:52, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red July 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:42, 27 June 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

TP access
You and recently rangeblocked this IP. Could we please revoke TPA access, if possible? Thanks in advance. Add: See User talk:2600:8807:A00:23:703E:BC2A:F771:8306. Amaury • 23:47, 19 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Done. We need not tolerate this kind of abuse. Courcelles (talk) 23:57, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi and, thank you both very much. Please let me/us know if this continues from other addresses. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 11:29, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Topic Ban
Ive appealed your ban, I think it was an unfair knee jerk reaction. DarrellWinkler (talk) 16:30, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you
Forgot to say thank you for sorting out the sock puppets I posted at ANI, so thank you, cheers. Govvy (talk) 15:08, 21 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Happy to help! Courcelles (talk) 15:18, 21 June 2023 (UTC)