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Books & Bytes – Issue 50
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 50, March – April 2022 
 * New library partner - SPIE
 * 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Tamzin
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news
 * Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news
 * Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
 * The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under . Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
 * An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Tech News: 2022-23
 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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new  function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression.

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02:44, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #523
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
 * June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
 * July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
 * Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?
 * Papers
 * "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
 * Videos
 * Live Wikidata editing #82 by Ainali and Abbe98


 * Tool of the week
 * Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
 * There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
 * Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
 * A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
 * External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
 * External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query examples:
 * Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
 * Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (T290733, T30535).
 * REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (T307031, T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (T306667).

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:25, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #524
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
 * Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
 * William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests
 * OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
 * Past
 * 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * 50,000 video games on Wikidata by Jean-Frédéric
 * The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)
 * Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database (in Basque)
 * Papers
 * A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
 * WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph
 * Videos
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
 * Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
 * Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
 * Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
 * DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
 * How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
 * Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
 * FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
 * The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata Testimonials
 * Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA)) (in French)
 * Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) (in French)
 * Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich) (in German)


 * Tool of the week
 * ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
 * Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
 * Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
 * Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
 * Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
 * New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: orchestrator
 * External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
 * External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID


 * Query examples:
 * Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
 * Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
 * items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
 * Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
 * A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
 * Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
 * Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
 * Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
 * In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
 * Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
 * Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (T306214)
 * Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (T290733), improving error messages for the new page (T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (T307869)
 * REST API: continued work on creating statements (T306667)

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) 15:28, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24
 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
 * All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes.

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 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes
 * By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

June GOCE newsletter
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:39, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Integration of POTD template
 * Closed request for comments:
 * How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
 * Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
 * Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
 * (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsi@undefinedaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
 * Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
 * Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
 * Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
 * Videos
 * Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
 * Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
 * Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
 * Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
 * Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
 * External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
 * External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID


 * Query examples:
 * Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
 * Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
 * List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
 * Cemeteries in France near churches (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
 * Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (T307869)
 * Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (T290733)
 * Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (T298146)
 * REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to 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!

<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) 14:57, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-25
<section begin="technews-2022-W25"/> 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 an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu Ic more vert 36px.svg).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users.

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).
 * Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations.

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute values, and instead use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
 * Backlog status

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
 * Backlog drive

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
 * TIP – New school articles

There is a new template available,, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
 * Misc

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.


 * Reminders
 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Wikidata weekly summary #426
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
 * July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
 * The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
 * Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
 * Past:
 * 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
 * Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
 * What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
 * Videos
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
 * The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
 * Podcasts
 * Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
 * Other
 * Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here


 * Tool of the week
 * IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: inker, penciller
 * External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
 * External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID


 * Query examples:
 * "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
 * Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
 * The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
 * Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (T307869)
 * REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (T306667)
 * Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (T309445)
 * Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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: 2022-26
<section begin="technews-2022-W26"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
 * Octicons-tools.svg All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

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 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services.
 * Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)