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Tech News: 2021-18
 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
 * Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems
 * The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug.
 * Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes.

Changes later this week
 * Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none.
 * 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg The CSS classes,   and   do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * This is the way. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:29, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Checkuser
Good night GeneralNotability, I saw that I was mentioned here, however, as you probably noticed, I have no relationship with this MarquinhosWikipediano. In my contributions, this is the first edition since December 2020. Perhaps I was mentioned because my account had a different name until March 27 of that year (my full name). In February I asked to globally rename my account so that it had a shorter username, but as there was a Commons account with that name, it was necessary to wait a month for my account to be effectively renamed. My English is bad and, since I don't speak Portuguese, I had to use the translator to write this message, but I believe I understood what I meant. Finally, pleasure to speak, I am sysop in Wikipedia in Portuguese. Marcos (talk) 06:51, 5 May 2021 (UTC)


 * , I understand what you meant. I think this was just a mistake by the user who filed the sockpuppet investigation, I am not concerned that you are MarquinhosWikipediano. I have removed the page that was associated with your name. Pleasure to speak with you as well~ GeneralNotability (talk) 22:22, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Found a Zenmate proxy
Hi here. I found a Zenmate proxy 146.70.13.0/16, but because disruption from it is still nonexistent yet, I feel that anon-blocking would be better at the moment. 146.70.13.8 (talk) 09:50, 5 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Confirmed at WPOP (though the actual range is smaller), someone just needs to hit the block button. Blablubbs&#124;talk 12:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The /24 has been globally blocked and I'll deal with the WPOP report in a bit. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:54, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Username
I decided to block that username, I was pronouncing it with a shorter o and didn't think of what you pointed out, which makes sense to me. 331dot (talk) 08:08, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , somewhere out there there's a Richard Gobbler, born 4/20/1969, and his life is a living hell. SubjectiveNotability  a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 13:06, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Is that because his name's pronunciation is a bit of a mouthful? Cabayi (talk) 18:44, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
 * The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed to  . This is for technical reasons. You can comment at  if you have objections.

Arbitration
 * The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Wikidata weekly summary #467
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 *  Events 
 * Ongoing
 * Wikidata contest for International Museum from May 3-18 2021
 * Upcoming
 * OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
 * Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 11 at 18:00 CEST
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #62, May 16
 * Wikidata Bug triage hour about constraints, May 17
 * COSCUP 2021 Call For Papers now open
 * Wikimedia Taiwan x NCKUHis Digital humanities Wikidata Workshop National Cheng Kung University (Q706708), 2021-05-29 ~ 2021-05-31


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * WBStack setting changes, Federated properties, Wikidata entity mapping & more (covering some of the recent UI and setting changes that happened on WBStack in the past months by Addshore
 * Academic ancestor graphs from Wikidata
 * Papers
 * Roderic D. M. Page, Wikidata and the Bibliography of Life, doi:10.1101/2021.05.04.442638
 * Friederike Ehrhart, et al. Aresource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes (Q106708178), doi:10.1038/S41597-021-00905-Y
 * Videos
 * SPARQL #Wikidata​ retour aux bases #3 - YouTube
 * Wikidata, Linked Data… all the data! Knowledge representation for everybody - YouTube
 * Wikidata Nigeria tutorials on YouTube - How to contribute to Wikidata, add statements for streets named after a person
 * SPARQL Wikidata tutorial (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook


 *  Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
 * May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
 * Template:Generic queries for filmmakers is a new wikidata template which defines generic SPARQL queries specific for filmmakers.
 * Template:Generic queries for occupations is a new wikidata template with generic queries for items of items such as occupations or professions
 * Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
 *  Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Digital Atlas of Idaho URL, identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription
 * External identifiers: MyBIS species ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, NBM authority ID, MileSplit ID, Mixcloud ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, am.hayazg.info ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, The Draft Review ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, IUCN Green List ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Senate of Romania person ID, Chamber of Deputies of Romania person ID, LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway Club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official podcast, Danish redlist ID, Velocity Relative to Earth, athletics program, North Carolina session law
 * External identifiers: vedidk ID, MyBIS protected area ID, COG ID, Badok ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity person ID, DTB-Gerätturner-ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, University of Washington Campus Map ID, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - diplomatic mission IDs, SOUNZ work ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, Repositório da Produção USP Person ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, SOSBrutalism ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, OSDN project, SOR bird ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number, ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of French firms without SIREN id (P1616) ordered by number of sitelinks with search links in annuaire-entreprises‧data‧gouv.fr : the query makes it easy to find the SIREN number (P1616)   (source Property talk P1616)
 * Number of works per year by researchers supervised by Lars Kai Hansen (source)
 * Count of sitelinks of Nigerians on Wikidata (Source)
 * 30 largest cities with female mayor (Source)
 * Recent locations of boundary stones in Upper Lusatia (see pictures by clicking on the dots) (Source)
 * Types of items in Australia that don't have identifier properties (Source)


 *  Development
 * Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (T265296)
 * Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (T257494)
 * Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (T170401)
 * Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (T241422)
 * Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (T280627)
 * Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (T280779)

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: 2021-19
 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
 * You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Testing something
Hey, you're near the top of the "recently active admins" list. If you see this in next few minutes, can you locally disable the global block on, leaving the local block in place? I want to see how block messages display in the (possibly now fixed) Android app. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:41, 14 May 2021 (UTC)


 * , global block is locally disabled, local block is in place (well, okay, I first misunderstood what you wanted and locally unblocked the /21, but the /20 is still locally blocked) GeneralNotability (talk) 23:44, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Urghh, IP changed already! Thanks, but I'll try to come up with a better way of doing this... You can reblock. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:54, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * All righty, exemption removed - let me know if you have any other ideas. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:56, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Muhammad Zaid
Hi. Thanks for helping to sort that mess out!  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 14:58, 15 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Happy to help. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:39, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-20
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Recent changes
 * There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
 * Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from  to.
 * Octicons-tools.svg An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be renamed  . The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
 * 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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13:47, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

A request from a blocked editor for talk page access to be restored
Hi, General. On 9 November 2020 you removed talk page access from indefinitely-blocked editor. (In my opinion you were totally right to do so.) After waiting 6 months, the editor has now posted an appeal at UTRS. What the editor says in that appeal is not, in my opinion, in itself enough to unblock, but it goes a good deal towards being more like a reasonable appeal than any of what they said in their talk page before you removed talk page access. The UTRS appeal also says "Please reinstate my talk page access so that I can appeal my block". How do you feel about reinstating talk page access? JBW (talk) 21:32, 11 May 2021 (UTC)


 * , I see you went ahead and restored TPA (sorry, I've been pretty busy and haven't had much Wikipedia time the past few days) - for the record, no objections here. I have my doubts that they'll actually end up being a productive editor, but I'm willing to extend some rope. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:15, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks 😊 for your reply. I too have doubts that we will get a productive editor out of this, but I feel there's just about enough of a possibility that it's worth giving them a chance to prove us both wrong, in view of the change in approach shown in the UTRS appeal. (Though that may be no more than saying what they think we want to hear.) JBW (talk) 13:13, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

SPI question
Hey! Not challenging your close, I am trying however to learn more on SPI and relevant policy. Why did you state that this is not sockpuppetry? Doesn't BADSOCK point-6:
 * "Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts: Editors may not use more than one account to contribute to the same page or discussion in a way that suggests they are multiple people. Contributing to the same page with clearly linked, legitimate, alternative accounts (e.g. editing the same page with your main and public computer account or editing a page using your main account that your bot account edited) is not forbidden."

apply in relation to Draft:Ethide Laboratories edits? This also potentially avoid scrutiny as non-admins can't easily see who previously created speedy deleted articles, and multiple recreations of promotional articles is grounds for reporting and blocking.-- Eostrix  (&#x1F989; hoot hoot&#x1F989;) 06:02, 19 May 2021 (UTC)


 * , as a rule we don't consider the use of multiple accounts to be sockpuppetry if they aren't used at the same time and aren't actively pretending to be different people. The general assumption is that they lost access to their account, forgot their password, something like that. In this case, the last edit of the older account was 3-4 days before the first edit of the newer account. There are limits to this, of course - if someone switches accounts right after getting several warnings and then resumes their problematic behavior, that's evasion of scrutiny and will probably earn them a block. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:16, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! So WP:AGF for returning accounts with no significant warnings.-- Eostrix  (&#x1F989; hoot hoot&#x1F989;) 16:37, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , exactly. Now, sometimes they're obviously the same person but trying to pretend that they're not (my personal favorite is when someone makes an obvious autobiography, it gets deleted, they get warned for making autobios and they subsequently create a new account that totally isn't the same person), and that isn't something we look at favorably...but as long as they're not evading something and aren't pretending they're multiple people we'll let it slide. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:44, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

DS 2021 Review Update
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Your IP block
Hi there. I see you blocked this IP. I'm wondering if this is also this registered account. I tried to run it through the Editor Interaction Analyzer, but it wouldn't work with the IP. Lots of similar edits from some of the IPs. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 22:09, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * My mistake, I was only able to find one match. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:52, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #469
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past
 * HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube
 * Ongoing
 * #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
 * #1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th May 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
 * 27/05 (17h UTC): Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process with Ederporto, Pharos e Susannaanas (in English), on YouTube
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 25 at 18:00 CEST
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook, May 29 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #64, May 30
 * LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: The history, present and future of WBStack & WBaas (Wikibase as a service) 27 May 2021, 1PM Eastern US. Please fill in this form to register!


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora. Wikidata was used to generate sentences to train a language model.
 * An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
 * Videos
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 - Main track - Saturday 22
 * Curating bibliographic metadata of scholarly publications: demo of Wikidata-based Scholia workflows
 * Demo of Ordia, a Wikidata tool to visualize lexicographic information from Wikidata
 * Adding references to Wikidata items, as part of #1Lib1Ref campaign (in Italian)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (screenshot)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The prefix  allows to link to a search for lexemes on any Wikimedia wiki. Sample: lexemes:describe (project chat announcement).
 * The JS module got a major update, and now makes accessible pre-generated mappings between Wikidata ids, Wikimedia language code (P424), ISO 639-1 code (P218), ISO 639-2 code (P219), ISO 639-3 code (P220), and ISO 639-6 code (P221), that can also be used by non-JS programs by fetching the desired JSON. Examples:
 * mapping of Wikimedia language codes to Wikidata ids
 * mapping of ISO 639-2 to Wikimedia language codes
 * Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
 * User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms: Portuguese modal adverb - Deployed support for Portuguese modal adverbs in the Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool
 * User:Jon Harald Søby/addSenseImage.js - User script to add images to sense statements on lexemes
 * Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#identifierInput.js - fixing a bug in IdentifierInput.js gadget for Wikidata to better handle when a property has no format restraints


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: type of lens, oral history at, official map URL
 * External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Apple TV movie ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, causesanti.va ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, North Carolina session law, #SOSBrutalism ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, Museums in Styria ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID, SOR bird ID, ToateAnimalele ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca entity ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID, OSDN project, Scholasticon person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: music for work, in sense, academic calendar type
 * External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID, Buzer.de law identification, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, Apple TV show ID, Apple TV episode ID, Australian Music Centre work ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Unified book number, GLEI ELF, RBF event ID, Poetsgate poet ID, Badkartan.se ID, Book Owners Online person ID, ifixit device ID, Price One Penny Author ID, Price One Penny Publisher ID, Price One Penny Work ID, Medical Institution Code, AlternativeTo software ID, RoBasketballFed IDs, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Enciclopedia della Matematica ID


 * Query examples:
 * Danish idioms (Source)
 * Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (Source)
 * Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title
 * 20th-century UK parliaments with count of father/mother who were MPs (Source)
 * The tallest known female politicians (Source)
 * Writing systems/characters and their year of appearance (Source)
 * Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)


 * Development
 * Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
 * Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (T281468)
 * Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (T281272)
 * Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (T280650)
 * Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (T281587)

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) 15:45, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21
 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 Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

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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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)