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Wikidata weekly summary #568
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


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


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

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

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 01:52, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 20
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Lao Bảo Prison, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page European people.

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Wikidata weekly summary #569
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


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


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:01, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Sapèques distributed in Tonkin

 * https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1411685w/f560.item.r=sap%C3%A8que
 * https://rapportgallica.bnf.fr/recherche?query=(dc.identifier+all+%22bpt6k1411685w%22)+and+(gallica+any+%22sap%C3%A8que%22)&aig=2

--Donald Trung (talk) 11:02, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2023
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The Signpost: 26 April 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns


 * In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia


 * Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman


 * Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping


 * Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming


 * Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth


 * Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022


 * News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation


 * Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again


 * From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two


 * Humour: The law of hats


 * Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

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

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

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

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns


 * In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia


 * Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman


 * Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping


 * Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming


 * Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth


 * Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022


 * News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation


 * Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again


 * From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two


 * Humour: The law of hats


 * Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 13:19, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #570
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
 * BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

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Asking for a favor
@Donald Trung. Hi there, (and sorry in advance if this request is inappropriate!). I am really impressed by your contributions to articles and photos related to Vietnamese/Indochinese currency during colonial period. I am a postgraduate student doing a short research on the monetary system of French Indochina. I would appreciate it if you could point me to some primary/secondary sources (or just any resources in general) where I can learn more about the piastre and its history, especially in the context of French colonial rule. Thank you! NguyenLeDongHai (talk) 03:49, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * NguyenLeDongHai, Well, the best places you can find sources are the National Library of France and the National Library of Việt Nam. Both of these libraries allow you to search through old newspapers and official government bulletins. I personally mostly researched the coinage of the Nguyễn Dynasty during the Khải Định and Bảo Đại periods, but you could probably also find information on the colonial currencies there, maybe you could find the archives of the Bank of Indo-China as well. <br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>Government bulletins are good for things like emission numbers and official government policies, the best sources for the currencies of the Nguyễn Dynasty would be the Bulletin of the Southern Dynasty in the National Language, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find that one online. As for the actual effect of currency issues during this period I'd recommend local newspapers.


 * Also, feel free to share your paper and your findings when you're done with it, I'm planning on writing a The Lord of the Rings-sized number of articles (not an exaggeration) on the Nguyễn Dynasty and French Indo-China and love to read more sources to integrate into these planned works. --<span id="Donald_Trung:1683010081247:User_talkFTTCLNDonald_Trung" class="FTTCmt"> — Donald Trung (talk) 06:48, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Some advice, In 1933 the government of the United States had begun purchasing substantial amounts of silver, and the following year in June 1934 it passed the Silver Purchase Act, which stipulated that the United States Treasury should purchase silver from all over the world until the global price was higher than $1.29 per ounce, or until the total monetary value of the American silver stock would reach ⅓ of the monetary value of its gold stock. The original intent of the United States Silver Purchase Act was to be a commodity support programme for American silver producers, but it proved that it would have many unintended consequences for the global price of silver and silver-based currencies like those in China and French Indo-China. This legislation by the United States federal government would cause the global price of silver to rise by 75% in 1933 alone and two years later this price would triple. As almost all coins that circulated in French Indo-China were silver this greatly affected the French Indo-Chinese Piastre. --Donald Trung (talk) 07:00, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Regarding the above, that's a connection I made as we see a gradual disappearance of silver coinages in French Indo-China around this period, but as no economic historian of French Indo-China has ever made that connection I haven't included it anywhere because it would constitute original research. What is clear is that around this period the Government-General of French Indo-China started debasing the Piastre and that consequently the market value of a string of cash coins increased from 7 strings per Piastre to around 2~3 strings, despite the official exchange rate being 6 strings. The only reason heavily debased copper-alloy currencies would become more valuable would either be because of a local shortage of copper (could be due to the Japanese and German governments stockpiling copper for their war production) or due to a devaluation of the Piastre. Both scenarios are likely. The global metal market was in complete disarray during the great depression and most of its economic effects were deflationary rather than inflationary, so we also see a large issuance of paper money during the late 1930's and early 1940's. I don't have the official issuance numbers, but many banknote and coin catalogues tend to have them, you can download many books online from pirate websites, especially such catalogues. --Donald Trung (talk) 07:53, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Donald Trung, I can't thank you enough for the info above. Really appreciate your help! I will keep you posted once I'm done with the research. Cheers! NguyenLeDongHai (talk) 00:36, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
 * NguyenLeDongHai, Always happy to help. --<span id="Donald_Trung:1683095441460:User_talkFTTCLNDonald_Trung" class="FTTCmt"> — Donald Trung (talk) 06:30, 3 May 2023 (UTC)