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The Signpost: 24 April 2022
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
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This Month in Education: April 2022
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 Volume 11 • Issue 4 • April 2022

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 * Audio-Educational Seminar of Wikimedia Mexico
 * Dagbani Wikimedians using digital TV broadcast to train Wikipedia contributors in Ghana
 * Digital Education & The Open Space With Herbert Acheampong
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 * Join us for Wiki Workshop 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #517
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship:
 * Pi admin bot (successful)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
 * Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
 * Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
 * Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
 * How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
 * The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
 * Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
 * From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
 * Past:
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow (diff version)
 * Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics
 * Papers
 * Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations (closed access)
 * Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License
 * WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1, 2, 3, 4]
 * Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
 * Creating subsets of Wikidata
 * Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks
 * Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata
 * Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
 * User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
 * Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
 * Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
 * External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
 * External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
 * Query examples:
 * Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons (source)
 * Scottish river drainage basins (source)
 * The earliest road accident victims (source)
 * Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities (source)
 * Count of Wikidata property types (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
 * REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-17
 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
 * On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

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-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older.

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22:55, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #518
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
 * TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
 * Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
 * Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
 * Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
 * May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.”
 * Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
 * Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
 * Papers
 * Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
 * Videos
 * Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
 * Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
 * Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
 * EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
 * The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
 * Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
 * Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
 * External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
 * External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID


 * Query examples:
 * Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank) (source)
 * Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment (source)
 * Countries which are named after a person (source)
 * Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)


 * Development
 * The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
 * Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
 * REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-18
<section begin="technews-2022-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
 * On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

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 developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
 * Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode.
 * If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include,   and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19
<section begin="technews-2022-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
 * You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android.

Problems
 * Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed.
 * Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
 * The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #519
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
 * International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
 * Past:
 * Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh: video (French), slides: French, English


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Automating Values in Wikibase (new extension)
 * Papers
 * Building a Knowledge Graph of Events and Consequences Using Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Working with the Automated Values extension in Wikibase - YouTube
 * Bringing IIIF Manifests to life in Wikidata - YouTube
 * Fun with lexemes. By Mahir256 - Twitch


 * Tool of the week
 * MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
 * User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
 * External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
 * External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
 * Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
 * Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
 * Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Slovakia


 * Development
 * REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (T305988, T307087, T307088)
 * Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (T298150).
 * We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (T277836).

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) 16:12, 9 May 2022 (UTC)