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Wikidata weekly summary #450
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful)
 * New request for comments: How should we develop and deploy documentation for items?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
 * Past: SMWCon videos are published incl. quite a few Wikidata related ones
 * Past: Wiki Workshop 2021 is accepting submissions. The deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1.
 * Past: Czech editaton finished (30.11.2020-31.12.2020). Purpose was connect NKCR AUT ID (P691) to Wikidata by hand in . Detailed info.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogpost: The nobody who could overtake Wikipedia (in German)
 * Blogpost: Documenting Software Applications on Wikidata, by John Samuel
 * Article: Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership: The case of Belgian prime minsters in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Paper: Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust - an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research making the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development.
 * Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video


 * Tool of the week
 * QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
 * You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
 * Wikidata Walkabout browsing tool has had some important recent improvements in language support, interface, etc. See a list of all comedy films directed by a vegetarian (in Spanish)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Bharati Braille, Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica's video game rating, solution to, archaeological site of
 * External identifiers: AV Production person ID, Mediafilm ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID, Libsyn show ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, SFLI ID, e-GEDSH ID, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Barnivore product ID, AVN movie ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, BG School ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, BHCL UUID, Calaméo ID, Studium Parisiense ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, DiVo person ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), Alpine Linux package, A*dS Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: minutes played, two-pointers made, two-pointers attempted, three-pointers attempted, three-pointers made, free throws made, free throws attempted, field goals made, personal fouls, Short DOI, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, number of vaccinations, category for software under a license, assessment outcome, quality for this class, Template combines topics, CCCM Museum (Macau Museum) object ID, CCCM Museum Object ID, Medium, FL number, Notable ascent
 * External identifiers: CantoDict identifiers, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, POSIX locale identifier, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, BABEL author ID, Songlexikon ID, FANZA AV actress ID, VAi Building ID, Biographies.net person ID, Literature.com book ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, TikTok music ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Conservapedia Article, NZ Museums ID, Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, WreckSite ID


 * Query examples:
 * Mathematicians born in prime number years featuring Albert Einstein, Pierre de Fermat, Georg Ohm, Carl Gauss, Évariste Galois, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, James Maxwell et al.
 * Timeline of coups d'état of the 21st century (including attempted ones) (Source)
 * Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata (Source)
 * Children of which were born with by a person, and their step child
 * Map of the shortest railway path (in terms of number of stations) between Dibrugarh and the Scottish Highlands (Source)
 * Map of place of birth of Olympique de Marseille football players (Source)
 * Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (Source)
 * Map of beaches in Mexico (Source)
 * Graph of shared borders between Indian districts (Source)
 * Descendants of Upendrakishore Roy (Source)
 * Timeline of Indian High Commissioners to Britain (Source)
 * A tree map of items for artworks depicting Mughal emperors (Source)
 * Example of documented usage of different Bengali words (Source)
 * 'Llan' place names in the UK (Source)
 * Organizations with DZI donation seal approval according to donation amount (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Russian given names


 * Development
 * Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
 * Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (T269205)
 * Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (T145712)
 * Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase ( T267893), Query Service frontend (T268025), and Query Service backend (T268022)

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) 17:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #451
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Alphama (RfP scheduled to end after 24 January 2021 15:12 (UTC))
 * Other: Wikidata will be one of the communities involved in the Phase 2 of the Universal Code of Conduct consultation. Have your say at the consultation talk page or get in contact with the UCoC facilitator, User:Sannita (WMF).


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook, 23 January
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #46, January 24


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogpost: Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q, by Mike Peel and Andy Mabbett.
 * Video: Wikidata editing #27: #Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Dealing with more than one date value in Wikidata (using preferential rank) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lagewi/navigation.js userscript enables adding links to list subclasses and instances to Wikidata items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New dashboard for lexicographical data statistics: Wikidata Datamodel Lexemes
 * The Wikidata Analytics dashboards are now available at a new URL: https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/ (announcement)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: date canceled, subdivision of this unit
 * External identifiers: dati.beniculturali.it agent ID, dati.beniculturali.it site ID, dati.beniculturali.it cultural heritage ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, National Historic People ID, Olympedia event ID, TheCocktailDB drink ID, TheCocktailDB ingredient ID, Fichier des personnes décédées ID, POSIX locale identifier, National Museum in Warsaw ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: shadows, Sacrament conferred by, logo image within scope, BAMID film rating, ABC News Topic, number of rooms to rent
 * External identifiers: Portal da Literatura author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Parabola package, JAANUS ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, BiblioLMC ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, StrategyWiki page, Encyclopedia of Brno Object ID, Holocaust.cz ID, Australian Fungi ID, DeCS ID, Australian Lichen ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, The Language Council of Norway Term ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, SISSCO ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
 * The people of the government of Bangladesh on 13 January 2005 (Source)
 * Buildings in the Basque Country dedicated to San Roque (Source)
 * List of words for "beard" in Eighth Schedule languages (Source)
 * Map of train services starting at Howrah station (Source)
 * Map of big sculptures of New Zealand (Source)
 * Map of mosques in Bangladesh according to architectural style (Source)
 * UK deaths per month since 2005 split by sex/gender (Source)
 * Timeline of Indian cricket tours abroad (Source)
 * Timeline of inception of Mexican universities (Source)
 * Mangifera species and mango cultivars (Source)
 * Locations where The Antartic Circumpolar Voyage expedition passed (Source)
 * English Language forms missing an audio pronunciation -- you can contribute via LinguaLibre
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Greek War of Independence, development of content relative to the (this year is the 200th anniversary, from its beginning in 1821)


 * Development
 * Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
 * Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (T250550)
 * Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (T265783)
 * Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (T267656)
 * Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention

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) 15:07, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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 Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on at 07:00 (UTC).
 * MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #452
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
 * Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
 * Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog: Adding New Literature Sources to the Wikidata Integrator, by Charles Tapley Hoyt
 * Blog: Using Wikidata for teaching computer programming using real-world cases (in Basque)
 * Bog: Wikidata: data for everyone (in Dutch)
 * Methodology paper: A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses
 * Video: Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Wikidata for research (webinar in French) - YouTube
 * Video: Let's make sparks with SPARQL tools(in French), by Nicolas Vigneron -YouTube
 * Video: Wrap up presentation of the SWAT4HCLS hackathon project
 * Creating subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
 * Linking the complex portal with other FAIR sources through - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis to go live on 2021-02-08. If you are a Cloud VPS user or Toolforge developer, check your tools after that date to make sure they are properly running.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: character type, derived from organism type, applicable “stated in” value, number of aid beneficiaries
 * External identifiers: BABEL author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, Parabola package, FL number, Hungarian Film Archive ID, IFPI Danmark work ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, NZ Museums ID, StrategyWiki page, Australian Fungi ID, Discord invite ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, JAANUS ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: onscreen participant, catégorie d'établissement sanitaire et social, code Activité principale exercée, catégorie d'entreprise, Imagehash perceptual hash
 * External identifiers: SISSCO ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID, Malpedia ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Sachsen-Anhalt, Swiss Games Showcase ID, Baudenkmal-ID Niedersachsen, PeriodO ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, Pantone color ID, Family Video Game Database ID, AAR ID, github topic, TeatralRo ID, Landshuth ID, Patrinum ID, ChemRxiv ID, TlF ID, PO ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, CinefanRo person ID, CinefanRo film ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer IDs, BookBub Author ID, HERIS-ID


 * Query examples:
 * Czech religious buildings used also as a fire station
 * Common ingredients to prepare a sandwich (Source)
 * Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)
 * Mexican presidents who have an image of their signature on Wikidata (Source)
 * Timeline of Mexican writers who were born between 1800 and 1900 (Source)
 * TV-Series in Spain by Decade (Source)
 * Diplomats who are also art collectors (Source)

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.
 * Development
 * Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
 * Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (T267656)
 * Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (T268456)
 * Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (T265783)
 * Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
 * Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
 * Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (T267627)
 * Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (T270133)
 * Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (T271194)
 * 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) 17:52, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04
 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
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on at 09:00 (UTC).

Changes later this week
 * Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January.
 * 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.  18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #453
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
 * Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Set preferences and common.js (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
 * Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
 * A new tool, Ranker (documentation, announcement tweet and video), lets you edit the ranks of multiple statements at once.
 * The SPARQL endpoint for linguaLibre is now available (Source)
 * New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
 * Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Query Service(WDQS) Data Analyst Consultant. Apply today!
 * Clean-up tasks to experiment with bots or other tools


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: BAMID film rating
 * External identifiers: Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, 45cat 7" release ID, ABC News topic ID, Aracne author ID, Econlib person ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Songlexikon ID, Swiss Games Showcase ID, MNBAQ ID, Art in the Christian Tradition ID, Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, AAR ID, BiblioLMC ID, Cultural heritage ID in Lower Saxony, GitHub topic, Discord username


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: represented in sport by, photographer of, reissue, master's thesis, service status information URL, unusualness, Debian Package Tracker ID, Seismic classification
 * External identifiers: Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, EMS ID, FloGrappling ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Wolfram language WordData word ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, Finna ID, LexML ID, Swedish Literature Bank placeID, BVFE author ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources authority ID, playDB play ID, playDB artist ID, DicoPolHiS ID, Pandektis ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Baudenkmal), Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Bodendenkmal), Whiskybase distillery ID


 * Query examples:
 * Basque lexemes and their attestations in a 1745 Spanish-Basque dictionary, with links to dictionary entries in Wikisource
 * Lexemes describing a color (Source)
 * Danish-Hebrew Lexeme pairs (Source)
 * Lexemes in Swedish with usage example that demonstrates both a form and a sense and a reference (Source)
 * Episodes of the TV series "The Mentalist"
 * Nationality of authors publishing papers relevant to the Australian fauna (Source)
 * Number of musicians on Wikidata by country (Source)
 * Map of ISO 3166-2 codes (Source)
 * Map films that have been filmed in Mexico (Source)
 * Map of Githubtopics on Wikidata (Source)
 * Eye color distribution of the people on Wikidata (Source)
 * Timeline with the start date of the Summer Olympics (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Czech given names


 * Development
 * Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
 * Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
 * Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (T271589), and az-cyrl (T265906)
 * Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page T271402
 * Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (T267644)
 * Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (T267656)
 * Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (T264883)
 * Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (T265783)
 * Wikibase Release Strategy
 * Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (T271193)
 * Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (T272580)

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) 18:06, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-05
<section begin="technews-2021-W05"/> 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
 * IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
 * Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like  as well as the   syntax for IP ranges.
 * 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
 * Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be . This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2021-W05"/> 22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06
<section begin="technews-2021-W06"/> 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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app.

Changes later this week
 * You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis.
 * 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
 * When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones.
 * Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2021-W06"/> 17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #454
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 * Events
 * Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay)
 * Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Add to calendar). You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49, February 14
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook, February 14
 * Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata
 * Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group - (YouTube)
 * Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
 * Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January
 * New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published. In addition, you will find here the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
 * Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder, your feedback is welcome
 * Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page.
 * New updates to Mix'n'match:
 * Import/update function for Mix’n’match catalogs (manual) (source)
 * Refreshed the Mix’n’match dataset for potential new human Wikidata items (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of vaccinations, Commons media contributed by
 * External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Erudit article ID, Holocaust.cz person ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, SISSCO ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Patrinum ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, BVFE author ID, Family Video Game Database ID, LexML Brazil ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Debian Package Tracker ID, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IPHAE ID, FLOSS policy URL, Digest, subsidy, fingerprint
 * External identifiers: TlF Artist ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, GTDB taxon, Joods Monument ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID, AllMusic IDs, Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID, Astro Awani topic ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Can I use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur


 * Query examples:
 * directors of episodes of The Mentalist (source)
 * Articles from The Wētā entomology journal (Source)
 * Town halls of the municipalities that surround Nantes (Source)
 * Caves containing prehistoric art (Source)
 * Endemic birds in a place located in France (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Brazilian Laws


 * Development
 * Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (T272694)
 * Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (T272699)
 * Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (T272032)
 * Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (T273830)
 * Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (T265783)
 * Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (T272712)
 * Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (T138332)

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) 18:44, 8 February 2021 (UTC)