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The Signpost: 2 August 2020
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?


 * COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money


 * News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin


 * In the media: Dog days gone bad


 * Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy


 * Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom


 * Traffic report: Now for something completely different


 * Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist


 * News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users


 * Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia


 * Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project


 * Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil


 * In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?


 * COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money


 * News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin


 * In the media: Dog days gone bad


 * Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy


 * Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom


 * Traffic report: Now for something completely different


 * Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist


 * News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users


 * Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia


 * Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project


 * Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil


 * In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 18:26, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #427
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Wiki13


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service.
 * Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook, YouTube
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24, August 9


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
 * (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel)
 * (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256)
 * (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed))
 * (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs)
 * (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib)
 * (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil)
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook YouTube
 * Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube
 * Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages


 * Tool of the week
 * SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: height of center of mass, road number formatter, Vietnamese middle name, heraldic attitude, traffic sign template image
 * External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, South Africa EMIS code, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD resource ID, Gateway to Research organisation ID, SÚKL code, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: certified as, number of stages, convergence rate, step count, Alternative form, view, version type for works, advertisement copy
 * External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, TOPCMB ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, SAT-matrikulo, Signal number, BHF author ID, BHF magazine ID, SPLC Group ID, SPLC Individual ID, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Presence compositrices ID of work


 * Query examples:
 * Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions
 * a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
 * Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata (Source)
 * Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup (Source)
 * Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata (Source)
 * Commons queries:
 * Orienteerers:  (source, at 53:45)
 * Animal hugs:  (source)


 * Development
 * The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
 * Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
 * REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
 * Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
 * Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:37, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32
 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
 * All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period.
 * Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed.
 * There is a problem with the global preferences for the "" option. Developers are working on fixing it.
 * A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed.
 * Users'  and   pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the MonoBook skin, the  identifier is now  . This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses  to prevent large archives was changed.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2020
About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 05:27, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #428
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516
 * Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 (successful)


 * Events
 * Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
 * Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".


 * Tool of the week
 * OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe
 * With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: size comparison diagram, view
 * External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, Fototeka person ID, LibraryThing series ID, TOPCMB ID, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: image of entrance, extinction date, notation writer, raga, tala, SMARTS, Editio princeps, recording location
 * External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby, Sochy a města ID sochy, podvignaroda, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, European Investment Bank project ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id, cadastral municipality ID, NPR station ID, NYARC Discovery ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, Trismegistos Texts ID


 * Query examples:
 * Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender
 * Political alignments of the parties of world leaders (Source)
 * Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today (Source)
 * Commons queries:
 * Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit (source)
 * [https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicted%20%3FdepictedLabel%20%3FsampleImg%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Ftarget%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Ftarget%20wdt%3AP31%3F%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ146%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20include%20specific%20sorts%20of%20cats%20and%20individual%20cats%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Ftarget%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20wd%3AQ43577%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20and%20also%20breeds%20of%20cat%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25targets%0A%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Ffile%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fdepicted%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ffile%29%20AS%20%3Fsample%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25targets%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20p%3AP180%20%3Fstmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20ps%3AP180%20%3Ftarget%20.%0A%20%23%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20%20Make%20sure%20the%20cat%20is%20marked%20as%20prominent%20--%20%2a%2acommented%20out%20for%20now%2a%2a%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20p%3AP180%20%3Fstmt2.%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fstmt2%20%21%3D%20%3Fstmt%29%20.%20%20%20%20%23%23%20%20now%20get%20another%20depicts%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt2%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fdepicted%20.%20%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicted%0A%7D%20AS%20%25things%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicted%20%3Fsample%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25things%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20exclude%20anything%20that%20was%20an%20original%20target%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Ftarget%20AS%20%3Fdepicted%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25targets%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25things1%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25things1%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicted%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdepictedLabel%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsample%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl%20%3B%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3FsampleImg%29%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 Things depicted with cats] (source)


 * Development
 * finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
 * wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
 * working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (T255387)
 * addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
 * fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (T259440)
 * finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33
 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
 * FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact.

Problems
 * The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2020
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 05:40, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #429
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 * Discussions
 * Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 (all successful)
 * New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26, August 23


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
 * New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project, feedback welcome
 * Help:Dataset sizing


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: alternative form
 * External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures, Manioc book ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, Unsplash User ID, EIB project ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: latest start date, earliest end date, Number of votes after transferring, map URL, type of archaeological site, record number, front and back matter
 * External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, Panteono de edukado.net, LSG local body code, MobyGames attribute ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), Proballers player ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, Chrome Webstore extension ID, CTHS publication ID, LBS Physical ID, GBIF occurence ID


 * Query examples:
 * Largest collections of Picasso content (Source). The National Gallery of Art holds the most with 303 objects
 * Bubble chart of snooker world champions (Source)
 * Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders (Source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (T259440)
 * Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (T255387)
 * Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
 * Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (T249206)
 * Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
 * Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (T128486)
 * Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (T259340, T260118)

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!

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 17 August 2020 (UTC)