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Wikidata weekly Summary #620
''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-18.'' 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 20 March 2024 17:37 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Zafer Adminship granted, welcome Zafer!
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * PagesBot - Task: Adds no. of pages statements based on page(s) on items of type: scholarly article. Then adds a reference with based on heuristic equal to inferred from page(s).
 * Wicci'o'Bot - Task: Import identifiers of new properties created for TheTVDB (Q15616250), nientepopcorn (Q123434360) (and more properties I plan to request to be added shortly) inherent in the film and TV industry, using IMDb ID (P345) as source.
 * Closed request for comments: Duplicate Refs, Data Model and UI - (RfC closed 15 March 2024 18:57 UTC). The Community showed support for the proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references. A Phabricator ticket has been opened: T360224


 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 19, 2024: Please join us on March 19 for a community discussion about how GLAM professionals can incorporate Wikidata/linked data into their work week. Bring your success stories about institutional buy-in and how you’ve communicated the value of linked data to managers and colleagues. We hope to share some strategies that you can take back and use in your own workplace. This will be a followup of sorts to our call last May, and you can review some of what we talked about then, plus slides from our survey here: Notes from May 30, 2023 Meeting on Advocacy for Wikidata & Linked Data in Libraries.Agenda
 * Wiki Workshop 2024 - Announcing a new track and a Call for Proposals - Submit your contributions by April 29, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
 * WikiCon Aotearoa - Auckland 2024 - The New Zealand WikiCon has a couple of events introducing and workshopping Wikidata:
 * Saturday 23 March 2024, 11:15 NZT - Intro to Wikidata / 13:00 NZT - Beginner's OpenRefine Workshop
 * Sunday 24 March 2024, 11:00 NZT - Presentation: Breathing life into the Women's Archive through Wikidata


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Making the Colombian public domain visible in Wikidata results from WM Colombia are now published.
 * Papers
 * Connecting Local Archive Data to Wikidata: Focusing on the Archives of National Debt Redemption Movement. By Yun, J., & Oh, S.G. Documents the findings of connecting Wikidata with the Korean NDRM.
 * Narrating Queer History with Wikidata, Queer Data Days 2024 (UCL Department of Information Studies), Presentation by John Samuel.
 * Videos
 * WikiClub 3L (French) - learn how to create a Wikidata file and an Infobox with Simon Villeneuve.
 * Making Colombian public domain data visible on Wikidata (Spanish) - Presents the methodology and findings of analysis of data in the public domain of part of the collections of the National Library of Colombia. Part of the Conector.red project)
 * Wikidata Lab: Dear Diary (Portugese) - Aims to share resources and capabilities for integration of Wikidata with other free knowledge projects, in particular the Querido Diário project, from Open Knowledge Brasil. Hosted by Porto, É. & Giulio Carvalho, G.
 * Notebooks
 * The media directory a Wikidata-driven media directory by country


 * Tool of the week
 * ORCID Scraper - helps users get DOIs from orcid.org for a specific author and curate them using Scholia. It gives users an overview of which DOIs are missing and helps them easily import missing articles one by one.
 * Newest properties and property proposals to review


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * form decomposition ( decomposition of a word )
 * External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, DLE entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, ‎Oyez Project ID, ‎Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * document keywords ( Keywords associated with the text found in  of an HTML document. )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Media modality ( Lists which media modalities are present, particularly in multimodal creative works such as electronic literature. )
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * External identifiers: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, Doom Wiki ID, Instagram account numeric ID, ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, Traineras rower ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Peertube Channel Address


 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!


 * Did you know?
 * Query examples:
 * exploratory query to find new items for the WikiProject: Polish Socialist Party
 * SPARQL query examples for the Nobel Prize
 * Exploring Wikidata Items for people born in the Basque country
 * Birthplace of Colombians in the Public Domain
 * Relationship between Institutions, Works and Persons in the Colombian Public Domain
 * Newest WikiProjects: Polish Socialist Party - aims to document and enrich data and items (Leadership, sports clubs, commemorated buildings, art, publications etc.) that are connected with the Polish Socialist party.
 * WikiProject Highlights:
 * RfC: Slowking4 (2) - Comments are required on actions against the named editor.
 * Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items - Number of labels, descriptions and aliases for items per language (2024-03-18).
 * Showcase Items: Mahatma Gandhi - The "Great Soul", lawyer, political ethicist and leader of the non-violent resistance to end Imperial British occupation of India.
 * Showcase Lexemes: Jak - (Polish) The noble Bos mutus or Yak.


 * Development
 * 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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:53, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-12
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
 * Octicons-tools.svg IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
 * Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown.

Problems
 * RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly Summary #621
''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-25.'' 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!


 * '''Events
 * 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
 * Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
 * Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
 * Program - the live portions of the event take place across the weekends 5-7 and 12-14 April
 * YouTube Video Playlist


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Are our Wikibase QueryServices about to mess up two millennia of historical dates? by Olaf Simons. This article discusses the intricacies and drawbacks of historical dates stored in Wikidata under different Calendars (e.g. Julian and Gregorian).
 * At least a make shift solution: The “Julian calendar stabiliser” by Olaf Simons. An update to the above article, including input from community members.
 * Papers
 * Contributor or Commodity? Inequities of Labor and Representation in Wikidata - this paper by m:User:MatthewVetter explores gender diversity, representation and decision-makers of Ontology discussions impacting Queer and Gender diversity.
 * Videos
 * Co to są Wikidane - wprowadzenie dla początkujących [What is Wikidata? An Introduction for Beginners] (Polish) - recording of a webinar held by Wikimedia Polska, with Jarosław Błaszczak and Jolanta Drzewakowska.
 * Leveraging Quantitative Bibliometrics in Assyriology - Exploring Distant Reading, Computational Linguistics, and the FactGrid Cuneiform Wikibase Project, presented by Adam Anderson.
 * Wikibase Training workshop for Librarians at College of Science Library, KNUST organized by KNUST Wiki Club in collaboration with Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
 * Wikipediapodden episode 254 (Swedish) - Wikipedia Weekly Network recording, hosted by Jan Ainali and guest, Magnus.
 * How does a high school student promote the Taiwanese Wikimedia movement? (Chinese) - a podcast feat. Wang Wenyue of the Wikidata Taiwan community.
 * Notebooks
 * Cycling stage race explorer, an Observable notebook
 * Ontology Explorer, also an Observable notebook, explore the subclasses in front or behind a Wikidata Item.


 * Tool of the week
 * Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland published a Call for Software Contributions! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
 * Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
 * In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)


 * Newest properties and property proposals to review


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * form decomposition ( decomposition of a word )
 * Nanopublication identifier ( Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history. )
 * media modality ( lists which media modalities are present, particularly in digital, multimodal creative works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, ‎Oyez Project ID, ‎Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, hyatt Hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * document keywords ( Keywords associated with the text found in  of an HTML document. )
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( Imagehash difference hash is hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical. )
 * Image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * RTE substation ID ( Identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * Caste ( Property to indicate the caste affiliation of individuals in India. )
 * External identifiers: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, CalPhotos taxon ID, Traineras rower ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Peertube Channel Address, TMDB TV IDs, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, AllSkaters persons ID, Triton Poker player ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, Mammal Diversity Database ID (MMD ID), BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID


 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!


 * Did you know?
 * Query examples:
 * Graph of all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews and institutions holding their oral history
 * QLever: Find items with no 'en' Label but are linked to other Wikimedia Projects
 * Newest WikiProjects: The Women's Library LSE Suffrage Interviews Project - this project aims to populate and enrich items connected with participants of The Suffragette Interviews.
 * Newest database reports: Most sitelinked items - explore this DB report if you're curious to see what is connected most frequently to Wikidata Items.
 * Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 - in A Major, Op. 92, by Ludwig von Beethoven.
 * Showcase Lexemes: अग्नि -the Sanskrit word for 'fire' and also the Hindu God of fire 'Agni'


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (T347394)
 * EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
 * Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 13:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-13
 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 An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

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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Tech News: 2024-14
 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
 * Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed.

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

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #622
 

''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11. Translations are available.''

 Discussions   Events 
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata.  Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! Agenda
 * Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs: Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
 * Papers: Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by AWesterinen)
 * Videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly: Ep. 255 (Swedish) - Hosted by Jan Ainali and Magnus. This week covers scarcely clicked sources, API uses and wave at beautiful images.
 * Wikimedia Ghana is bringing together Ghanians to enrich and translate content for the Ga Language and Twi Language as part of the Wikidata For Education Project.
 * Mapping Linguistic territories using Wikidata and SPARQL - a topic presented by Camilo Fique, shows how to use Wikidata and the WDQS as tools for mapping linguistics. In this example, Camilo uses toponyms, specifically Human Settlements.
 * Evaluating Named Entity Disambiguation with Wikidata & SpaCy - creating a Named Entity Disambiguation model in SpaCy with the entity linker based on a custom knowledge base derived from Wikidata and Wikipedia, by Matthew Pellegrino.
 * Notebooks: Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament, a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * MEPs: Sitelinks and Gender differences - this Notebook by PAC explores the completeness or lack of content differentiated by gender of MEP's in the Wikimedia Projects, helping highlight lack of representation and information.
 * Metadata schemas and vocabularies for TU Delft's digitized special collections
 * Dashboard of Members of European parlianent - by PAC02
 * ORACC & Cuneiform Project - repository of LOD datasets for the FACTGRID Wikibase instance for the Cuneiform project.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * form decomposition ( decomposition of a word )
 * nanopublication identifier ( RDF-based publication, with references and history )
 * media modality ( which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * Newest External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, ‎Oyez Project ID, ‎Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * follows spelling paradigm ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * intervener
 * WEM facility code
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Oxford Reference entry, Peertube Channel Address, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, AllSkaters persons ID, BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog Author ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, BeSoccer player ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, KupiGolos game ID, ffspb.org player ID, Touhou Wiki id, TUESPWiki id, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * List of masters theses written in Māori (source)
 * Tram systems with 1435mm wide rails (source)
 * Location and official opening of statues in Denmark (source)
 * Map of objects on the banks of the Kama and the rivers flowing into it (source)
 * Remakes of Soviet films with their popularity (source)
 * Images for all monuments with a Bavarian monument authority ID in Passau administrative district (source)
 * Most frequent objects depicted on coats of arms (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Azerbaijan - aims to organize data related to Azerbaijan.
 * WikiProject Paralympics - The goal of WikiProject Paralympics is to improve items about Paralympic Games, Paralympians, and Paralympic events.
 * Lieder - This project aims to collect all Lieder, Lieder cycles and Poems as well as Composers and Poets related to them.
 * Cultural venues - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most complete high-quality database of cultural venues, such as theatres, concert halls, etc.
 * Cal State University Building/San Bernardino - Aims to document and lists guidelines for the California State University San Bernardino's participation in the California State University Wikidata Building Project.
 * Epigraphy - Aims to create Items of epigraphs on Wikidata.
 * Newest database reports: This query shows that there are 8000 botanists with a standard botanical abbreviation, IPNI code, and little else. Help expand, merge, and otherwise help us know who these folks are! (source)
 * Showcase Items: INS Vikrant(Q2283194) - 1961 Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy
 * Showcase Lexemes: لله قوریسین/Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish interjectional locution 'God forbid!'

 Development 
 * mul language code: We are continuing the work on fixing remaining issues for the next stage of releasing it (T356200)
 * REST API:
 * We continued work on modifying the data of a Property (T347394)
 * We continued work on creating Items (T342990)
 * EntitySchemas: We continued work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T359419)

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.

 Weekly Tasks 
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Sandwich
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #623
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 Events 
 * Did you manage to see the first weekend and sessions of the Leveling Up Days 2024, well fret not as there is another weekend of Wikidata-related sessions to come. Day 4 begins Friday April 12, join via Jitsi - see you there!
 * Wikidata - collect and use open data (Italian) - April 19 at the University of Catania, Léa Lacroix and Luca Martinelli (WMIT) will give an overview of Wikidata's use for sharing data, querying data and some of its main applications.
 * Build Open Data through Wikidata: a database integration model (Taiwanese) - April 9 19:00 - 20:00. Wang Wenyue (WMTW) will lead this discussion on how Wikidata can re-connect and index a topic that may be documented in multiple various places online.
 * Wikimania 2024: Submission deadline extended to April 10, 12:00 UTC! Get your Wikidata submissions in.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs: Told Cities: Unveiling the Heritage and Chronicles of UNESCO World Heritage Cities - initiated by Wiki World Heritage, this project aims to comprehensively document UNESCO World Heritage Cities using Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
 * Videos
 * Wikidata editing #113 (English) at Wikidata Leveling Up Days. Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists.
 * Panel: 10 years of FAIR principle - Lydia Pintscher joins a panel to talk about implementation of FAIR principles and how Wikidata and Wikibase can contribute.

 Tool of the week 
 * Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Only 13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * nanopublication identifier ( RDF-based publication, with references and history )
 * media modality ( which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * base units ( property that lists the different units that a unit is derived from, would be useful to add a qualifier for the exponent of each unit )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * Newest External identifiers: OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * follows spelling paradigm ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * WEM facility code
 * API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the type of representation as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, BSWW team ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, ffspb.org player ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Oxford Reference subject ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Tolkien-style plurals (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Lexemes with a Sense related to a geolocated Item
 * Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Hijri Calendar - aims to create and improve Items for Hijri Calendar dates such as 1 Ramadan (Q4886009).
 * MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
 * Newest database reports: birthdays today - People born this day of the year (primarily currently living people)
 * Showcase Items: John Cale (Q45909) - Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
 * Showcase Lexemes: armastuskolmnurk (L415173) - Estonian noun, translated "love triangle"

 Development 
 * REST API:
 * We continued the work on the endpoint for creating an Item via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * We continued the work on the endpoint for modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (]]phab:T347394]])
 * EntitySchemas: Work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements is continuing.
 * mul language code: We are fixing remaining issues uncovered during testing. (T355059, T356200, T135871, T356201)

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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) · 15:43, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Misc
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-15
<section begin="technews-2024-W15"/> 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
 * Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
 * Octicons-gift.svg A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check.
 * Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.

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).
 * New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 April newsletter
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:


 * with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
 * with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
 * with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
 * with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
 * with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (,, and ) are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #622
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 Discussions 
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
 * DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID (P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID (P227), IdRef ID (P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) or Library of Congress authority ID (P244)

 Events 
 * The next Wikidata Bug triage hour is happening on April 15th at 16UTC. It will focus on mobile editing of statements.
 * Telegram Office Hour - 04-10-2024 log - if you missed all the exciting updates, you can see them all here on the Archived log.
 * The Leveling Up Days 2024 was concluded, you can watch the videos available on the program page and contribute to the captions on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 16, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is, amazingly, 5 years old this month, and we are planning a very Zoomy celebration befitting our virtual community. We are hoping you can join and share some reflections. Feel free to sign our anniversary card and update your Zoom background to something festive! Agenda
 * Documenting Nigeria's Supreme Court Cases - this online event is a contest to enrich and connect the verdicts and sitting Judges of Nigerian Supreme Court cases. Points will be awarded for contributions. Event ends: 28 April 00:00 UTC.
 * Edit-A-Thon of the LOD user group: Midwest Collaborative Library Services - registration is now open for this online event, taking place 22 - 26 April.
 * II International Convention on GLAM Wikiverse and Gender - June 5, Aula Rubió, Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona (UB), 9:30-1:30 p.m.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Working towards a Brazilian History Knowledge Graph - Mike Young describes the progress towards building a KG on Brazilian history and how Wikidata supported this endeavour, especially for linking poiticians, movements, constitutions, laws and events that may not be notable for individual Wikipedia articles.
 * Reimagining cultural heritage data - this article by Jason Evans documents the efforts of the Llyfgrell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) to open their archives and datasets to Wikidata and the creation of their Wikibase-powered SNARC Tool (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru).
 * Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata how to remove the mismatches between Wikidata and Openstreetmap for villages of a district in Andhra Pradesh (India)
 * Andhra Pradesh/Notes/Arjunaraoc/Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata
 * Presentations
 * Wikidata: your friendly (University's) knowledge graph - Christian Erlinger on behalf of the University of Innsbruck has produced this slidedeck showing how Wikidata can be used for science and research communication.
 * Workshop: Making the Colombian public domain visible on Wikidata (in Spanish) - Fundación Conector with the support of Wikimedia Colombia presented this workshop to create items in Wikidata about Colombian authors. This is part of the directory of Colombian authors in Public domain
 * Papers: Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies - analyze the ontologies of Wikidata and the taxonomy of Wikipedia. Centelles, M. and Ferran-Ferrer, N. (2024)
 * Videos
 * Wikidata per la ricerca (Wikidata for research): online conference, organized on 9 April 2024 by Wikimedia Italia, by Epìdosis (in Italian: slides and video)
 * Demonstration of the XML-TEI Wikidata Geocoder Tool (French) - This tool from PhilippGam will showcase how the Wikidata Geocoder tool can extract information such as PersName, PlaceName, geographic coordinates and images from XML-TEI files. Try it here.
 * Live Wikidata Editing #113 with User:Abbe98 and User:Ainali explain the thought process behind how they edit whilst looking at biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists, during the Leveling Up Days 2024 event.
 * WikiConference NA 2023
 * Open scholarly communication with Wikidata - Daniel Mietchen talks about the benefits of Wikidata and the Wikimedia platforms to enhance researcher and collaborative workflows.
 * Wikidata for open museum data sharing - Rhonda Yearwood explains how Wikidata can facilitate and provide a platform for the open sharing of Museum and Gallery datasets.
 * Wikidata's usefulness for university knowledge sharing- Will (Wiki Ed) hosts workshops on Wikidata and advocates Wikidata as a way for Universities to share general reference knowledge.
 * FOSSGIS 2024 Modelling with 'Fuzziness' / 'Wobbliness' in Geodata (German) - Florian Thiery presents a paper on data-driven use cases for modeling vague or uncertain georeference data, to adhere to FAIR principles as closely as possible.
 * Notebooks: Medias by country

 Tool of the week 
 * Missing biographies, a companion tool which helps identifies people without a biography in a given Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
 * Only 6 more days to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 
 * General datatypes:
 * nanopublication identifier ( RDF-based publication, with references and history )
 * media modality ( which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * derived from base unit ( the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * ‎API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * follows spelling paradigm ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * EBITDA
 * Authorised capital
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * image decay ( image decay suffered by an old photograph )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * risk group ( Risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party / candidate for use on ballots )
 * tartan image ( image of the item's tartan )
 * tartan ( subject's tartan )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, az.lib.ru author ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, HCERES organisation ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, Duden Sense ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Algerian trademark number, YList ID, WDF players ID, GovTrack person, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, pressball.by football manager ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, Delisted Games ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, Kritikanstvo IDs, case number (mainland China), myabandonware.com game id, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples: Map of river names in german coloured by gender
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
 * Albums - A WikiProject about music album releases
 * Algeria - Aims to collaborate on Algeria-related topics
 * Showcase Items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) - Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
 * Showcase Lexemes: kone (L6888) - Finish noun, translate to "machine"

 Development 
 * mul langauge code: We are finishing the polishing for the first proper release coming soon.
 * EntitySchema: We are continuing the work on the new datatype that will make it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * REST API:
 * We continued work on creating an Item via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * We continued work on modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (T347394)

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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 13:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Misc (2/n)
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-16
<section begin="technews-2024-W16"/> 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
 * Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.

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).
 * Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
 * A new variable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.

Future changes
 * Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> tables. Some queries might need to be updated.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2024-W16"/>

MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #624
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 Discussions 
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
 * IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back

 Events 
 * It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs: Wikimedia begins mapping of Anambra MDAs, streets, markets on Wikidata - The Wikimedia Anambra Network and the Anambra State ICT Agency are collaborating on a project to map ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), streets, and markets in Anambra State on Wikidata.
 * Papers
 * Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata
 * Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata + AI audio abstract

 Tool of the week 
 * Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
 * There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * General datatypes:
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * derived from base unit ( the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * ‎API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * leaf morphology ( characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves )
 * ‎creative director ( person who makes high-level creative decisions )
 * beneficial owner ( natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation )
 * official server list URL ( website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software )
 * EBITDA ( accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted )
 * date popularized ( point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots )
 * authorised capital ( maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * follows spelling pattern ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID, ‎WildTangent Games ID, HCERES organisation ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Hanslick Online person ID, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, mosff.ru staff ID, PeerTube channel address, WDF player ID, ‎The Spriters Resource game ID, ‎Cemu Wiki article ID, ‎Génération Nintendo game ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, Zillow zpid, Aragonario ID (6th version), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, Algerian trademark number ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, ‎Delisted Games ID, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, pressball.by football manager ID, Duden sense ID, GovTrack person ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Kritikanstvo game ID, Kritikanstvo publication ID, Kritikanstvo critic ID, myabandonware.com game ID, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * image decay ( image decay suffered by an old photograph )
 * risk group ( risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual )
 * tartan image ( image of the item's tartan )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * hasFeldpostNumber ( Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars. )
 * total deposits ( total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution )
 * Total loans ( total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution )
 * source of transfer & destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender] )
 * type of deterioration ( to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc. )
 * rythme narratif ( video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions )
 * event role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * Patent Abstract ( Abstract of the patent )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, YList ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, case number (mainland China), English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID, Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID, Pitchbook Company Profile, Cbonds Company Profile, Sonic Retro article ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID, identifiant Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego, Algerian district ID, The Spriters Resource platform ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID, PEGI game ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Flora Croatica Database taxon ID, Algerian province ID, more kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, World Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Gentoo Guru ID

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 * Query examples:
 * World map of subway maps
 * View of the associative network of artists to societies (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now source
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject NZThesisProject Wikidata library training Christchurch 2024 - The aim is to organize an event to show participants how adding New Zealand collections to Wikidata can be useful, and to train participants to improve Wikidata Items so that tools such as Scholia, which builds academic profiles, will be demonstrated.
 * WikiProject Islam - Aims to collaborate on Islam-related topics
 * WikiProject Algerian History - The goal of this project is to ensure the completeness of the history of Algeria (Q473761) during its historic period to modern time in Wikidata.
 * WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject India/General Elections 2024 task force - is an initiative to create and up-to-date information related to general election (Q1076105) in India (Q668).
 * Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same sitelink name
 * Showcase Items: Bertus Aafjes (Q353003) - Dutch poet and writer (1914–1993)
 * Showcase Lexemes: dismesso (L1200000) - "discontinued/disused" in Italian

 Development 
 * mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
 * REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
 * Create an Item via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (T347394)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.

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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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Other objects and tools
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-17
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Recent changes
 * Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention.
 * You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

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

Future changes
 * This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of /vector.js to /vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.

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Growth News, April 2024


The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.

If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.

Community Configuration
Growth features are currently configurable at. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.

An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.

In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.

Experiment Results
Add a Image experiment analysis results

The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:


 * The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
 * The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
 * The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
 * A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).

Personalized praise experiment results

This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)

English donors encouraged to try editing

As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)

Future work
Annual Plan

The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024
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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
 * with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
 * with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
 * with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
 * with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (,, and ) are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #625
<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   Press, articles, blog posts, videos   Tool of the week   Other Noteworthy Stuff   Newest properties and property proposals to review 
 * Nubuke Wikidata Workshop - Sat. 27 April 1100 - 1400 GMT at the Nubuke Foundation, Lome Close Accra, Ghana.
 * There's still time for nominating your favorite tool in the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners unveiled at Wikimania 2024
 * Coordinate Me 2024 - an international Wikidata competition around content with geodata. The competition starts on 1 May 2024 and ends on 31 May 2024.
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is just around the corner, taking place in Tallinn, Estonia from 02 - 06 May. We hope there will be lots of Wikidata hacking projects worked on.
 * Blogs
 * Diff Blog: Museums around the world, according to Wikidata - Wikimedia's own blog, Diff, has this interesting graphic showing museums around the world. To explore further, check the Wikidata Query.
 * Papers
 * Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata - This paper documents the experiences mapping PanglaoDB's free text cell types and genes i Wikidata to improve reusability and fairness. By Tiago Lubiana & João Vitor F. Cavalcante.
 * Exploring Wikidata for Social Science Research (Portugese) - Highlights the relevance of open resources such as Wikidata for the Social Sciences, providing access to information that facilitates research in the social, economic and cultural areas. By Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado.
 * Integrating Wikidata with Data Sleuthing Techniques For Enhanced Knowledge Discovery of Hidden Figures - this is a training resource to find and enrich Items on Natural History collector's.
 * Videos
 * The Data Mine: Wikimedia Content Quality 2024 - a short video on how to find mismatched data between Wikidata on other data sources.
 * MWCon Spring 2024 (Day 3) - This session of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference explores the different extensions you can use with Wikibase. See the rest of the program here
 * Getting Started with OpenRefine - Introducing OpenRefine, importing data, filtering and faceting and bulk editing, as well as how to connect to other data sources for reconciling your data. By Margaret Heller & Diana Rusch.
 * A Decade of Scholarly Research on Open Knowledge Graphs - Houcemeddine Turki host this presentation of the LREC-COLING 2024's findings. You can read the full paper here.
 * Beyond Wikidata: building a universal knowledge graph with MediaWiki and Wikibase - James Hare explores Wikibase as a focused alternative to creating a knowledge graph around a specific theme or project.
 * Antvaset's Wikidata Ontology explorer - explore Wikidata's Ontology in this top-down tree explorer. By Anton Vasetenkov.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland closed their Call for Software Contributions! Discover the project proposals submitted and share your feedback.
 * Release of Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.7WMDE .18 - minor security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.7
 * OpenRefine 3.8.0 was released


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * ‎API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * leaf morphology ( characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves )
 * ‎creative director ( person who makes high-level creative decisions )
 * beneficial owner ( natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation )
 * official server list URL ( website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software )
 * EBITDA ( accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted )
 * date popularized ( point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots )
 * authorised capital ( maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * follows spelling pattern ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * risk group ( risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual )
 * timetable/schedule URL ( link to the timetable or the schedule (in PDF, HTML, image format) for the given service or the event schedule. The current timetable/schedule should have preferred rank. )
 * deterioration ( to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc. )
 * External identifiers: Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID, ‎WildTangent Games ID, HCERES organisation ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Hanslick Online person ID, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, mosff.ru staff ID, PeerTube channel address, WDF player ID, ‎The Spriters Resource game ID, ‎Cemu Wiki article ID, ‎Génération Nintendo game ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, Zillow zpid, Aragonario ID (6th version), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, Algerian trademark number ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, ‎Delisted Games ID, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, pressball.by football manager ID, Duden sense ID, GovTrack person ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Kritikanstvo game ID, Kritikanstvo publication ID, Kritikanstvo critic ID, myabandonware.com game ID, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID, NICE Paintings ID, Sonic Retro article ID, Algerian district ID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, The Spriters Resource platform ID, Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego ID, Cerist.dz CCDZ ID, Flora Croatica Database taxon ID, Quadrinhopédia artist ID, SPV profile ID, CPV profile ID, Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID, Hindawi Foundation book ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Pennsylvania State Senate ID, Vanhan kirjasuomen sanakirja ID, Suomi–ruotsi-suursanakirja ID, ‎FilmVandaag ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * hasFeldpostNumber ( Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars. )
 * total deposits ( total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution )
 * Total loans ( total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution )
 * source of transfer & destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender] )
 * rythme narratif ( video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions )
 * event role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * Patent Abstract ( Abstract of the patent )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * founder of ( Organization, religion, or place that was founded or co-founded by subject. Inverse of P112. )
 * writing technique ( technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support )
 * identifiant Inventaire du patrimoine immobilier culturel
 * External identifiers: TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, YList ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, case number (mainland China), AccessAble venue ID, Pitchbook Company Profile, Cbonds Company Profile, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID, PEGI game ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Algerian province ID, World Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Gentoo Guru ID, Oxford University Press ID, FilmVandaag ID, FBW-Kennung, Duden node ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Taylor & Francis book ID, AbeBooks book ID, COBISS ID, Dhliz person ID, LGD Block Code, Edinburgh University Press ID, BD Gest' work ID, Gentoo Wiki ID, Barnes & Noble ID, Vanguard Books ID, Douban Personage ID, De Gruyter ID, Thriftbooks ID, eBay item, numéro d'établissement d'une ICPE, Columbia University Press ID, Kōmako id

You can comment on all open property proposals!
 * Deleted properties:

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 * Query examples:
 * Two or more statements on a certain property - generates a list of all elements where there are two or more statements on a certain property (without deprecated statements).
 * Explore data about Tabakalera participants - find biographical information of film director's that have participate din the San Sebastian Film Festival Tabalakera cultural centre.
 * Mothers on Wikidata - explore the mother and child relationships of Wikidata items.
 * Presidents of French Universities - curious about which individuals have presided at French Universities and Higher education institutions? This query explores that!
 * Showcase Items: Jerzy Spława-Neyman - A polish Statistician, the first to introduce a confidence interval to statistical hypothesis testing.
 * Showcase Lexemes: Pfeil (DE) - Arrow, part of the Weekly Lexeme Challenge.
 * 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.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-18
<section begin="technews-2024-W18"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes


 * The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: . These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences (""). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
 * Seven new wikis have been created:
 * a in Betawi
 * a in Kusaal
 * a in Igala
 * a in Karakalpak
 * a in Burmese
 * a in Malay
 * a in Georgian
 * You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
 * Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems
 * Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.

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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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-19
<section begin="technews-2024-W19"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences (""). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the . More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.

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).
 * When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".

Future changes
 * A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
 * Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #626
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<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. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-06. Translations are available.''

<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 
 * Reminder: the period for feedback on the Wikidata Query Service graph split ruleset closes on 15-May-2024. More information here!

 Events 
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 took place in Tallinn, Estonia. Wikimedians from all over came together to hack on a huge variety of topics, including Wikidata and Wikibase topics. See the entire Program
 * International Museum Day 2024 on Wikimedia: Take part in the translation, media, and data challenges!
 * Registration for Wiki Workshop 2024 is now open! The event will be virtually held on *June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC
 * Coordinate Me 2024 is an international Wikidata competition taking place over the month of May. This year, the focus is on enriching or creating Wikidata items with the Property: Coordinate Location (P625). To participate, |first enroll on the dashboard to ensure your edits are tracked.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Papers: MisgenderMender - A community-informed approach to interventions of misgendering.
 * Videos
 * Intro to Wikidata Query Service - hosted by User:Gnoeee, this comprehensive video will equip newcomers to Wikidata with the skills to effectively start querying Wikidata.
 * Siobhan Leachman, NZ Citizen Scientist and Wikipedian - CitSciOz23 Keynote Speaker, this prolific editor discusses her passions and workflows for contributing and enriching Wikidata on topics as diverse as women scientists, scientific illustrators, artworks and citation data, moths and more.
 * WikiSearch from Wikibase Data - Wout Geveart shows how the WikiSearch extension is using Wikibase data to explore and visualise the data in new ways.
 * WikimediaAPIs: a WM Technology Training Session - Mr. Neechalkaran of the WM Indic MediaWiki Developers Usergroup introduces the function and utility of WM projects APIs, including the REST AOI, the Wikidata API and more.
 * Accessing Wikidata's Data: An Introduction to the Wikidata REST API (Zoom recording). A WikiMentor Africa session by Eugene Egbe.

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikidata periodic table - Tool by User:Ricordisamoa, to browse all chemical elements available on Wikidata, with atomic number, chemical symbol, and localized label. It also includes two charts of the nuclides, with links to every isotope in Wikidata, colored by half-life or decay mode.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * A new UI mode is available for the online validator for EntitySchemas. It represents validation reports as a table rather than a very long string, and replaces most links with hyperlinks with some of the text behind them; making them easier to read. Currently being tested at https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple-improved.html, we are looking for participants to evaluate this tool. Some experience with editing Wikidata is appreciated, but no experience working with Schemas is required. If you are interested, you can sign up here. We hope to begin interviews around May 13. For more details, visit User:M.alten.tue

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * representation type ( property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items )
 * source of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity )
 * destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, The Law Dictionary entry, urban area census code, Wardah Books ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, Palula dictionary ID, CDC Stacks ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, الملف الاستنادي للمؤلفين العراقيين, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, TheLegacy ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * List of lists of ambassadors per host and sending country
 * List of current embassies per host and sending country, and their counterparts
 * Images of types of dance in the world (source)
 * Newest database reports: young mothers (source)
 * Showcase Items: Deirdre (Q1183379) - heroine in Irish mythology
 * Showcase Lexemes: 사랑하다 (L741213) - verb "to love (cherish with affection)" in Korean

 Development 
 * We attended the Wikimedia Hackathon.
 * REST API: We are finishing the route for creating an Item (T342990) and modify the data of a Property (T347394)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)

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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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #627
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 Discussions 
 * Project Chat - Data model pages: Alexmar983 and User:Epìdosis have proposed updates to standardize the nomenclature in the Wikidata: Data Model pages, join the conversation. Also see this Talk page for a draft proposal for a new Navbox.
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 - Task: Infer Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of an episode from the Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of the corresponding TV series.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs: Navigating the world of Wikidata: An intro and hands-on experience. This blog entry documents the session from Yaw Tuba and Nana Yaw Botar and organised by Open Foundation West Africa in building skills for new and experienced editors alike.
 * Papers
 * Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - This paper documents a project at the MN to digitise collector metadata from museum exhibits for reuse, research and provenance. S. Mering et al.
 * Erenrich, Daniel. ‘Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata Completion Using Wikipedia’. 1 Jan. 2023 : 1 – 14.
 * Ilievski, Filip et al. ‘A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata’. 1 Jan. 2024 : 1 – 20.
 * Videos
 * using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localised Analogies - Sofia Spatharioti explains how information from Wikidata and Wikipedia can be used to provide more contextual comparisons when dealing with large numbers, dimensions or statistics.
 * Thesaurus INAPP in Wikidata (Italian) - Camillo Carlo Pellizzari shows INAPP thesaurus usage on Wikidata and how to normalise keywords assigned to publications.
 * Authors INAPP on Wikidata (Italian) - Camillo also presents how Wikidata can record biographical data and the presence of authors affiliated with INAPP.

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikidata:Projector - is a tool that shows maps and lists with Wikidata items for a specific topic, usually a location. As an example, see the Projector for Corfu
 * Wikidata Anti Pattern Analyzer companion tool to the Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata research paper

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * representation type ( property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items )
 * source of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity )
 * destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process )
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, Palula dictionary ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, Lille norske leksikon-ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, GOG product ID, Yandex.Music track ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Indigenous Performers Arts Alliance (IPAA) Members living, working or from Canada
 * Schools of magic by numbers of students
 * Schema examples: List of roles played by siblings
 * Newest database reports: Lost links - (New editor removed sitelink and did not reconnect it)
 * Showcase Items: Mister President (Q3050361) - novel written by Miguel Ángel Asturias
 * Showcase Lexemes: Ordbokredaktør - (Bokmål; a literary version of Norwegian) appropriately, for Lexicographer.

 Development  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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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-20
<section begin="technews-2024-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.

Recent changes
 * On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
 * If you use the user-preference "", then the template-page feature "" will now also work without reloading the page.
 * Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute. This is identical in usage to the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
 * The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.

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 results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.

Future changes
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Two columns of the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> database table (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> table instead (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ). In your existing SQL queries:
 * Replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> statement
 * Below that add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">
 * See T222224 for technical reasoning.

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Tech News: 2024-21
<section begin="technews-2024-W21"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.
 * New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description.

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 HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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Wikidata weekly summary #628
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 Discussions 
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Browse9ja Bot - Task: Automated data retrieval focusing on Nigerian / African-based information, integrating a chatbot, NLP API, knowledge graph, and machine learning model.
 * DhlizBot - Task: add Dhliz ID (P12696) for persons/films/TV series that exist in Dhliz (Q125594802) database.
 * AmeisenBot 2 - Task: Working on bot requests at WD:RBOT using QuickStatements.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure, by Bluerasberry. "The split will create a WikiCite graph separate from the main Wikidata graph. The main Wikidata graph will retain content of broader interest, including items for authors, journals, publishers, and anything with a page in a Wikimedia project."
 * Learnings from AI and Heritage inclusive Metadata requires more than erasing stereotyping terms - this article explores the presence of contentious terms in Wikidata labels.
 * Reconciling Shira: Wikibase Cloud and OpenRefine - as part of the Shira project to document and digitise Penn University's Jewish music collections, the author gives a step-by-step process on installing OpenRefine for Wikibase Cloud instances.
 * Papers
 * Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Storia della collaborazione tra Wikidata e le biblioteche della Rete URBE nel controllo di autorità. Abstract: "The contribution draws a history of the presence of the identifiers of the authority records of the URBE network libraries in Wikidata, and of the collaboration that has evolved since 2020 between the Wikidata community and the cataloguers of the URBE network libraries, relating to the harmonisation of these authority records with Wikidata and the improvement of the quality of the respective data. The first part of the contribution traces the main stages of collaboration in chronological order, while the second part of the contribution presents the main areas in which the collaboration materialises (or can materialise) in the daily authority work carried out by cataloguers in theme-based groupings".
 * Using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localized Analogies. Numerical analogies that translate unfamiliar measurements into familiar reference objects (e.g., “275k sq miles is roughly as large as Texas”). By "Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake M. Hofman"
 * Videos
 * ¿Cómo contribuir masivamente a Wikidata con OpenRefine? (Spanish) - As part of the Coordinate Me Campaign, this is a review of the OpenRefine tool for contributing large sets of data to Wikidata.
 * Patrimoine spolié : le projet ProvEnhance (French) - A seminae on the looted heritage project on the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. At timestamp: 55:02 onwards, Wikibase is discussed as a platform to host the Looted Heritage and Provenance research project.

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikidata GenderStats measures gender bias at the user level by computing stats on created items.
 * Created items : a list of items created by a user with labels. This not new but this has been repaired.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Project Manager Machine Learning, Wikidata. Application deadline: Apply until 26.05.2024

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * population by native language ( native language population of a place )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, case number (mainland China), Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, ‎GOG product ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * address of addressee ( address of the address e.g. on a postcard )
 * TheaterEncyclopedie ID ( An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie )
 * relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator ( relation to the SDGs )
 * taxon synonym of ( taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, Palula dictionary ID, NLR editions, glubinka.by, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, Yandex.Music track ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, Archnet authority ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, TheLegacy company ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, IAFD actor UUID, Database of Hungarian archaeology ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, Oxford Dictionary of English ID, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, LGD Subdistrict Code, PLC (Primary Location Code), Sinhala Cinema Database ID, LGD District Code, LGD Village Code, LGD State or UT Code, Slovenski etymološki slovar ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID, Jedipedia.net ID, JJM Habitation id, McDonald's US product, Justapedia, Atarimuseum ID, PNG School Code

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * A map with locations of Pablo Picasso works - (source)
 * Descendants of King Antso III (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * MELA on Palestine - The Wiki project page for the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) work group on Palestine.
 * India Aviation - A usergroup focused on airports in India
 * Newest database reports: Complex constraint violations (list of Properties)
 * Showcase Items: 12 Angry Men (Q2345) - 1957 drama film by Sidney Lumet
 * Showcase Lexemes: panneband (L1223420) - means "headband" in Nynorsk

 Development 
 * We have completed the preparation work to migrate the Query Builder's front end from Wikit to Codex (T360096)
 * We also continued work on the EntitySchema data type and refining the CI flow for EntitySchemas (T362000)

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.

 Weekly Tasks 
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #629
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 Discussions 
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: ELMCIPBot - Task: Import records from ELMCIP Knowledge Base (Q113705072) as part of the Wikidata WikiProject Digital Narratives
 * New request for oversight: KonstantinaG07 - RfP scheduled to end 8 June 2024 16:09 (UTC)

 Events 
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 28, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 28 May, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on the LCCN Wikidata Bot with Mary Campany, Steven Folsom, and Matt Miller. 2024-05-28: Wikidata Affinity Group Call Agenda
 * Coordinate Me 2024 (Spanish): An international Wikidata competition around geolocation content, from towns, hospitals, public art and natural monuments to improve or create Wikidata elements with a coordinate location (P625) in focus countries. Contest ends 31 May 2024.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Using Wikidata (and Mapbox) to make a UNESCO World Heritage Sites map Stefan Bohacek documents a follow and code along project to make a map displaying UNESCO World Heritage sites on a Mapbox, fuelled by Wikidata.
 * Libraries using Wikidata: 11 examples - following on from the previous post, this Diff blog highlights 11 projects where Libraries and Librarians are using Wikidata in their projects.
 * Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them Bob DuCharme inspired by WikiFlix demonstrates how SPARQL queries can be used to find YouTube-hosted media content entered in Wikidata to curate your next Watchlist.
 * Enhancing KG's with LLM's: A novel approach to keyword extraction and synonym merging. This blog post shows an example of using a Wikidata subgraph with AI to discover new connections and relationships.
 * Papers
 * RQSS: Referencing Quality Scoring System for Wikidata - The authors show how RQSS framework can be applied to Wikidata subsets to qualify Reference Quality. By S. Beghaeiraveri, A.Gray & F. McNeill.
 * Automatisierte semantische Anreicherung von historischen Texten: Erkennung und Verknüpfung von Entitäten mit Wikidata und Wikipedia (German) - The paper discusses using AI and Wikipedia and Wikidata as Knowledge Graphs to identify, classify and link entities from the Berlin State Library.
 * ParaNames 1.0: Creating an Entity Name Corpus for 400+ Languages Using Wikidata - ParaNames is a multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 140 million names spanning over 400 languages. Names are provided for 16.8 million entities, and each entity is mapped from a complex type hierarchy to a standard type (PER/LOC/ORG). Using Wikidata as a source, the authors created the largest resource of this type to date.
 * Videos
 * FOSSGIS 2024 Das Zusammenspiel von Wikidata, Wikipedia und OpenStreetMap (German) - A presentation of ​​what tags are present in OpenStreetMap that connects to Wikidata and Wikipedia.
 * IWD Inspire Inclusion Campaign English Wikidata Training - Rhoda James gives an introduction to Wikidata, its principles and common misconceptions and how to begin editing.

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikipedia:WE-Framework: WE-Framework is a tool developed by Sergey Vladimirov that allows editing related Wikidata elements in an article without having to go to Wikidata. When you save your Wikidata edit, it will reference the utility in the edit summary.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a machine learning project manager to make it easier to use Wikidata's data in machine learning settings.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * category for births in this time period ( category item for people who born in this time period )
 * category for deaths in this time period ( category item for people who died in this time period )
 * representation type ( property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items )
 * source of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity )
 * destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process )
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * population by native language ( native language population of a place )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, case number (mainland China), Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, ‎GOG product ID, Archnet authority ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, TheLegacy company ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Palula dictionary ID, Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID, Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID, ‎Jedipedia.net ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * last appearance ( last work featuring a fictional character or item )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * address of addressee ( address of the address e.g. on a postcard )
 * TheaterEncyclopedie ID ( An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie )
 * relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator ( indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components )
 * taxon synonym of ( taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of )
 * Competitor ( Competitors in game shows )
 * basionym of ( taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of )
 * land acknowledgement
 * protonym of ( taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of )
 * replaced synonym of ( taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of )
 * student count by gender ( I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time. )
 * has semantic role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, NLR editions, glubinka.by, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, Yandex.Music track ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, IAFD actor UUID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, LGD Subdistrict Code, PLC (Primary Location Code), Sinhala Cinema Database ID, LGD District Code, LGD Village Code, LGD State or UT Code, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID, JJM Habitation id, McDonald's US product, Justapedia, Atarimuseum ID, PNG School Code, Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID, Garner's Modern American Usage ID, Meurgorf historical dictionary, SNARC ID, milog.co.il entry ID, Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID, F.C. Copenhagen player id, Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id, Milldatabase ID, A Dictionary of Biology ID, Chinese Basketball Association ID, WHO Country Database ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Birthplace of French Heads of State
 * Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Solarpunk - aims to collects Wikidata Items (focus list) and supports the Solarpunk Movement.
 * Newest database reports: Items without Labels - explore Wikidata Items that are missing a Label. This list is handy for finding abandoned, incomplete or vandalised Items.
 * Showcase Items: Hessischer Rundfunk (Q23565) - German public broadcaster
 * Showcase Lexemes: L1221007 - Nynorsk noun, translates to "a spy ring"

 Development 
 * EntitySchemas: We continued work on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas in statements. We focused on the input so it shows the label of the EntitySchema when entering the ID. Search by label and aliases will follow. (T362004)
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We looked into how to improve error messages.
 * We wrapped up the route for modifying the data of a Property. (T347394
 * We are nearing the finish line for the route for creating a new Item. (T342990)
 * We are continuing work on the route for modifying an Item. (T342993)
 * Developer advocacy: We are collecting content for a new landing page for developers who want to build applications with Wikidata's data.

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.

 Weekly Tasks 
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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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 * Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
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Wikidata weekly summary #630
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 Discussions 
 * Open request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - RfP scheduled to end after 9 June 2024 06:47 (UTC).
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: TongcyBot - Task: Linking the Chinese and English Wiktionary, specifically in categories using Template:auto cat, and pages in the Template, Module, Appendix, Reconstruction, and Rhymes namespaces.
 * Open request for permissions/Bot: IliasChoumaniBot - Task: Automatic updating of data from JSON files on German scientists.
 * Closed request for comments: IP Masking Engagement - The RfC was closed due to inactivity. Discussions are still welcomed on Meta.

 Events 
 * Wikidata workshop at the university of Catania, Sicily, Italy, on June 14th.
 * Lexicodays 2024, June 28-30, online event dedicated to Lexicographical Data on Wikidata with a focus on languages of Indonesia. Proposals for the program open until June 20th.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Deploying Wikidatalite into Toolforge - This article explains the deployment process of Wikidatalite into the Toolforge platform. This tool is now available at wdlite.toolforge.org.
 * (fr) Wikidata and the missing data : discussion in French about missing data in Wikidata
 * (fr) Sous-classe ou instance de ? Comprenons nous l'ontologie de Wikidata ?, discussion in French about "Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata"
 * Papers
 * Taxonomies and Ontologies in Wikipedia and Wikidata: In-Depth Examination of Knowledge Organization Systems. This paper explores the Knowledge Organisation System (KOS) of Wikipedia, Wikidata and gender-related biases contained within. By M. Centelles & N.Ferran-Ferrer.
 * Videos
 * BHL Day 2024 | Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements - talk by Siobhan about her biodiversity work.
 * Contributing to Wikidata - African Library Activism Month - Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi provides a tutorial on the characreristics of Wikidata and how Librarians can contribute.
 * Learning Clinic: Wiktionary & Lexemes on Wikidata - this clinic co-hosted by Taufik Rosman and Sadik Shahadu of Wikimedia User Groups Malaysia and Dagbani respectively.
 * ¿Cómo convertir la edición de Wikidata en un juego? (Spanish) - User:Piracalamina and User:Jmmuguerza show in this Wikitools how to create a API to add your own themed game to The Distributed Game.
 * Miscellaneous
 * Wiquizz a quiz generator based on Wikidata and Query.wikidata.org

 Tool of the week   Other Noteworthy Stuff   Newest properties and property proposals to review 
 * WikiTwister - RoloWiki: Replace the interwiki links of a Wikipedia article with a pop-up card full of useful Wikidata, & Wikidata Quick Dip: Browse the Wikidata properties used by the pages in a category.
 * Wikidata Infobox is now used by over 5 million Commons categories.
 * Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets is a new page where you can propose to turn CSS and JS scripts into gadgets, so that the can be activated from Preferences instead of through user common.css and common.js pages.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Head of Product Strategy and a Senior Software Engineer.


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * population by native language ( native language population of a place )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * taxon synonym of ( (without English description) )
 * replaced synonym of ( taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of replaced synonym (for nom. nov.) (P694) )
 * protonym of ( taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of original combination )
 * basionym of ( taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of basionym (P566) )
 * External identifiers: Dhliz ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, WIPO Lex ID, Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, ‎GOG product ID, Archnet authority ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, TheLegacy company ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Palula dictionary ID, Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID, Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID, ‎Jedipedia.net ID, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas hospital ID, Atarimuseum ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, LGD Village Code, LGD District Code, LGD State or UT Code, LGD Subdistrict Code, SNARC ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur PID, Garner's Modern American Usage ID, Artcena ID, Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Sinhala Cinema artist ID, Sinhala Cinema film ID, Meurgorf identifier, milog.co.il entry ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, ‎Milldatabase ID, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Biology ID, Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, IAFD actor UUID, F.C. Copenhagen player id, Norwegian prisoner of war camp ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik person ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik work ID, Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID, PLC (primary location code)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * last appearance ( last work featuring a fictional character or item )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * address of addressee ( address of the address e.g. on a postcard )
 * TheaterEncyclopedie ID ( An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie )
 * relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator ( indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components )
 * student count by gender ( I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time. )
 * has semantic role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * model for (2) ( what the subject is a conceptual or scientific model/theory for )
 * Dynasty ( A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a monarchy or imperial system but sometimes also appearing in republics. A dynasty can be used to describe the time period in which a person lived, an event happened, a work was created, or a place existed. )
 * showrunner ( person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show )
 * antonomasia ( epithet or phrase that takes the place of a proper name )
 * screen size ( Size of a display screen as measured along the diagonal )
 * External identifiers: NLR editions, glubinka.by, Cerist journal ID, Soldatregisteret ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, person ID in MNAHA, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, JJM Habitation id, Justapedia, PNG School Code, Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID, Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id, Chinese Basketball Association ID, WHO Country Database ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, SALDO sense ID, Flown From The Nest person id, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, Seret film ID, Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus ID, Oxford Paperback Thesaurus ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Paleobiology Database ID for this journal article, Naturalis Repository ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat identifier, 广播电视播出机构许可证编号, Vikidia ID, This Is Basketball player ID


 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals! ''' Did you know?   Development '''
 * Query examples:
 * Mountains with a height over 7000m - display on a map. Adjust the P:elevation above sea level to widen or narrow the search.
 * Find Items that share an Identifier - this query has identified a possible duplicate by matching P5696 - Indian Railways Station Code.
 * Who has worked with this Celebrity? - this query looks for co-stars, colleagues and co-actors of Seth Rogen. Adjust this value for other celebrities or professionals.
 * Schema examples: Tamkang University location - building and location entities associated with Tamkang University, Taiwan.
 * Newest WikiProjects: Timna Valley - a community project on the Timna Valley archaelogical site.
 * Newest database reports: Gadget usage statistics - find out which gadgets are used the most and perhaps find something new.
 * Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan - 15th Century Portugese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Globe (despite his death in the Philippines).
 * Showcase Lexemes: Be - The english copular verb that helps express all of existence.
 * EntitySchemas: The new EntitySchema data type is ready for testing on Test Wikidata
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished the route for modifying the data of an Item (T342993)
 * We finished the route for modifying the data of a Property (T347394)
 * We continued working on the route for creating an Item (T342990)
 * We fixed an issue where IDs were shown for badges and after editing a statement. The fix will be rolled out this week. (T366236)

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.  Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE)  17:00, 03 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-23
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Recent changes
 * It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available.
 * The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> " to "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ".
 * One new wiki has been created: a in Kadazandusun

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

Future changes
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Wikidata weekly summary #631
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 Discussions 
 * Open request for adminship: Kadı - RfP scheduled to end after 14 June 2024 17:51 (UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - Closed as successful. Welcome back Squirrel!
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * MDanielsBot 2 Task(s) - Replace translations of descriptions and labels.
 * TapuriaBot Task(s) - interwiki
 * Skybristol bot Task(s) - Flesh out mapping of DOI provider orgs to WD orgs, syncing DOI prefix values.
 * EpidòseosBot Task(s) - improve incomplete references to GND for sex / gender; add new references containing GND ID for sex / gender when the property has no references containing stated in.

 Events 
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 11, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 with Ismael Olea. Link to agenda.
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Conference, September 25-27, 2024 in Waterford City, Ireland. This conference usually hosts Wikidata-related sessions. You can now propose your contributions to the program until July 14th, and apply for a scholarship until June 30th (full announcement and links)
 * WikiIndaba conference 2024, 4 - 6 October 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This conference typically hosts Wikidata-related sessions. Program submissions 05 - 30 June 2024.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * 100,000 video games on Wikidata - Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games has just passed a major milestone: 100,000 video game (Q7889) items on Wikidata.
 * Videos
 * (es) How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata? - This is a Spanish-speaking Wikitools workshop exploring Paulina (see: Tool of the Week), a search interface powered by Wikidata for finding and exploring author's and whether their works are in the public domain.
 * Notebooks
 * Radio France meets Wikidata 😘: Extracting IDs from radio France and matching them with Wikidata using P10780 property
 * Wikidata's analytics for Radio France's podcasts

 Tool of the week 
 * Paulina: Data for the Public Domain - Explore the cultural heritage of humanity. Search Paulina by author and discover if they have freely accessible works in the Public Domain.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Propose to transform an existing CSS or Javascript script (i.e. scripts that you can enable in your common.css and common.js pages) into a gadget: Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * showrunner ( person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show )
 * Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Vikidia ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * Music mood ( qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not) )
 * ecosystem type ( type of ecosystem that the item represents )
 * Burgenwelt ( Burgenwelt; castles )
 * construction time
 * Nom dans la langue locale
 * YAMAP mountain ID ( YAMAP mountain ID )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, AllGame style ID, MoFo ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, FC Metz player id, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English ID, itch.io numeric ID, produsent-ID hos Nasjonalmuseet, Phasmida Species File taxon ID, Psocodea Species File taxon ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID, Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID, filmas.lv film ID, filmas.lv studio ID, filmas.lv person ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Elonet company ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Average height of people named Joe
 * Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
 * Timeline of inception of Ghanaian universities
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Honoris Causa France - aims to coordinate the actions carried out in terms of reporting the attributions of honorary doctorate (Q11415564) by French universities.
 * HolyWells - aims to organize Items around Holy Wells.
 * OghamStones - aims to organise Items around Ogham Stones
 * Western Michigan University Libraries - used to gather Wikidata work being done at Western Michigan University Libraries.
 * Visibilizando el dominio público colombiano - to help the unique, permanent and visible identification, worldwide, of Colombian authors in the public domain, within the framework of Colombian legislation.
 * Newest database reports: Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
 * Showcase Items: Pomona College (Q7227384) - private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States
 * Showcase Lexemes: bustadmarknad (L1122204) - "housing market" in Nynorsk

 Development 
 * The UnpatrolledEdits gadget now shows a notice when there are older and multiple unpatrolled edits, previously it only showed the notice when the most recent edit was unpatrolled. Please help translate the messages here.
 * Query Service: We are fixing a bug where no examples are shown in the example dialog (T366871)
 * EntitySchemas: We have enabled the new datatype for testing on test.wikidata.org and are preparing the rollout to Wikidata (T365686)
 * Item UI: We fixed an issue where labels were not shown for badges or after making an edit (T366236)
 * Wikibase REST API: We have continued the work on the route for modifying the data of an Item (T342993)

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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (Talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:10, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-24
<section begin="technews-2024-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
 * The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> class, Parsoid now also adds the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available.

Problems
 * There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed.

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 new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available.
 * On multilingual wikis that use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Weekly Summary #632
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 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Mdann52 bot - Task(s): Updating callsign, frequency and FCC ID of US Radio Station items from FCC database.
 * M2Ys4U-Bot - Task(s): Import data about candidates standing for election in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.
 * Looking ahead
 * Lexico Days 2024 is coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of presentations, discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an online event.
 * Wikidata Workshop for Botanists at the XX Intl. Botanical Congress, July 21 - 27, 2024, Madrid, Spain.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos Tool of the week Other Noteworthy Stuff Newest properties and property proposals to review
 * Blogs
 * Diff Blog: Why Wikimedia (and Wikidata) is an antidote to disinformation - Wiki Movimento Brasil discuss how Wikidata has equipped researchers, activists and the public the ability to safeguard truths about human rights abuses during the civic-military Brazilian dictatorship between 1964 - 1985.
 * Making location based timelines with Wikipedia, Wikidata and mojeek - Tara Calishain of Calishat blog.
 * (de) 20 Years of WMDE - scroll down the timeline and see what Wikimedia Deutschland has done in its 20 years of existence!
 * Papers
 * Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata - This paper describes the annotation of more than 10,300 of the Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata identifiers enabling them to be connect to the graph of structured data. By Piere Nugues.
 * Towards a linking between WordNet and Wikidata - The authors propose linking the 2 described reosurces through hapax legomenon and natural language processing techniques to create new connections and uses. By J. McCrae & D. Cillessen.
 * Videos
 * WikiWednesday Webinar – Increasing Education & Outreach through Wikidata & the Wiki-Commons - Victoria Stasiuk and Navino Evans of the Digital Literacy for GLAM show how museums and galleries have opened up their collections through Wikidata and Commons and increase education, outreach and volunteer engagement strategies.
 * What is Wikidata? How to use Wikidata? - Asaf Bartov hosts this informative session on Wikidata at the Wikimania Singapore 2023. If you're attending Wikimania 2024, this session will prepare you for other Wikidata-related sessions.
 * Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch - The runup to Wikimania Katowice has begun. Refresh yourself for upcoming sessions with this Wikidata basics workshop hosted by Leon Liesener.
 * Gestapo.Terror.Places (in Lower Saxony 1933-1945) - This app displays on a map of lower Saxony areas of interest or significance of the terror-related crimes of the Gestapo during WWII.
 * A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the final set of rules for the WDQS graph split.
 * Programming Languages ranked by Sitelinks in Wikidata


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * showrunner ( person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show )
 * External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Music mood ( qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not) )
 * ecosystem type ( type of ecosystem that the item represents )
 * construction time ( Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times )
 * Nom dans la langue locale
 * YAMAP mountain ID ( YAMAP mountain ID )
 * coin edge ( Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering. )
 * ozone depletion potential ( relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11 )
 * External identifiers: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Douban Personage ID, Canadian Great War Project person ID, stiga.trefik.cz, PMC journal ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID


 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know?
 * Query examples:
 * Tool Registry for Digital Humanities
 * Operas ordered by First Performance
 * Performing Arts Productions with a Composer property
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Assoc. Football - Euro 2024 - for best practices on UEFA Euro 2024 items.
 * Bulgarian Elections - for describing data related to elections in Bulgaria.
 * ARS3D - statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data model.
 * WikiProject Highlights:
 * (de)Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata - User:Matthiasb uses examples of Highway intersection classification on Wikidata of locations in and around Berlin to highlight inconsistencies between the data model and legal classification. By highlighting a considerable number of differences in a relatively small geographic area, these comments provide further context on an earlier discussion within the German Wikipedia community on integrating Wikidata further into Wikipedia articles.
 * Newest database reports: Badge Stats - How are badges being applied in Wikidata, which items have the most Good or Featured Articles? Savvy editors can use this to enrich said articles in their own Wiki.
 * Showcase Items: Mordor - A desolate volcanic plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this week's showcase.
 * Showcase Lexemes: вода - A Russian word for a clear, vitality-giving liquid, of course it's Water.

Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item (T342993)
 * We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
 * Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not showing any examples (T366871)
 * We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (T367174)

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.

Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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: 2024-25
<section begin="technews-2024-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
 * People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details.
 * The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future.
 * The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.
 * Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here.

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 June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable.
 * Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #633
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 Events 
 * Past: The 200th online Wikidata meetup in Swedish was held.
 * Upcoming: Lexicodays, online event dedicated to Lexemes on Wikidata, will take place on June 28-30. It takes place across time zone and both in English and Indonesian. Check the program and find the access links on the event page.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs: 20th Century Press Archives – history in newspaper clippings, made accessible by ZBW and Wikimedia. The blog discusses how ZBW and Wikimedia collaborated to digitize and make accessible the 20th Century Press Archives, integrating its metadata into Wikidata items and providing fresh access to 3.8 million digitized pages from raw microfilm1.
 * Notebooks: Dashboard of European Parliament

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikidata in Prometheus - Prometheus is a non-commercial image archive for art and cultural studies. It hosts images from a variety of image and media databases and now works can be connected with Wikidata.
 * New Mix'n'match feature: For lists of (full or auto) matches where both the MnM entry and the Wikidata Item have coordinates, it now shows the distance between them in the description. (source)

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * The Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a brief survey to understand the various ways people contribute to the project and identify user contribution patterns. A request has been made for a CentralNotice banner to deploy the survey to a broad audience. Your feedback, comments, and questions on this request are welcome: CentralNotice/Request/Wikidata Community Survey 2024
 * The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from July 1 until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * showrunner ( person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show )
 * music mood ( qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording )
 * Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, AviBase person ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * Nom dans la langue locale
 * YAMAP mountain ID ( YAMAP mountain ID )
 * coin edge ( Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering. )
 * ozone depletion potential ( relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11 )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, stiga.trefik.cz, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Devri ID, OpenCitations Meta Identifier, IGN franchise ID, Plex person key, Overcast episode ID, OBJ ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, UNIBO professor ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Number of solar eclipses per decades
 * Longest gap between original film and remake (without any intermediate remakes) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Multilingualism - organizes work around achieving 100% Wikidata multilingualism for every language with MediaWiki internationalization support. It is initiated, developed & supported by Wikimedia Language Diversity community volunteers.
 * NAVISone
 * Newest database reports: Identical labels and descriptions
 * Showcase Items: Kofi Annan (Q1254) - 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
 * Showcase Lexemes: ʒirilana (L719353) - Dagbanli proverb that translates to "liar"

 Development 
 * [Breaking Change Announcement] Upcoming Changes to Wikibase: EntitySchema data type
 * EntitySchemas: We prepared for the release of the new data type to link to EntitySchemas in statements on July 2nd.
 * Mul language code: We picked up the remaining issues before enabling it by default on Wikidata
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We completed the route to modify the data of an Item (T342993)
 * We continued improving and reworking errors (T366172, T366175)

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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)  16:50, 24 June 2024 (UTC) 
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Govdirectory weekly focus country: Cameroon
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Tech News: 2024-26
<section begin="technews-2024-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
 * Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage.
 * The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode.

Problems
 * You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug.

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 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 July newsletter
The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:


 * with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
 * with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
 * with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
 * with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (,, and ) are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-27
<section begin="technews-2024-W27"/> 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
 * Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update.
 * Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis.
 * If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers.
 * Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months.
 * Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
 * One new wiki has been created: a in Mandailing

Problems
 * Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team.

Future changes
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