User talk:MargaretRDonald/Archive 3

Books & Bytes, Issue 30
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018  French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
 * Library Card translation
 * Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:01, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Help me!
I have seen (but can no longer find) the use in a species box of a link to an external image. I am hoping someone can help me with putting a link to an external image in the speciesbox. (Thanks)

MargaretRDonald (talk) 20:26, 4 November 2018 (UTC)


 * You can find the template code and the available parameters at Template:Speciesbox. I don't see a parameter that would be useful for this purpose, and if there were a link to an external image, the image wouldn't be displayed. The "External links" section at the bottom of the article seems a better place for a link to an external image, if that link should be added to the article at all. Huon (talk) 20:50, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I had found the template and like you could not find what I have seen in the past. I had already used the solution you have suggested, but would prefer the link to be in the speciesbox as it is here that the instantaneous species summary is found, while external links are often neither noticed nor read. MargaretRDonald (talk) 20:59, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I rather don't think such a use of external links agrees with the relevant guideline WP:EL. The best solution would be to find (or create) a freely licensed image. Huon (talk) 10:15, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for the (internal) link. Very helpful. (And, sadly, the ideal solution is all too frequently not available - plants in other states/countries/threatened etc.) MargaretRDonald (talk) 20:03, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * There might be arboreta or botanical gardens that have a specimen. Or we could ask someone who has taken a photo to release that image under a free license; sometimes people are willing to do that. See WP:Requesting copyright permission. Huon (talk) 20:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Linking categories
If you want to link to a category (but not place a page in the category) precede it with a colon. Category:Botany external link templates produces Category:Botany external link templates. Plantdrew (talk) 20:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I did spot that I had failed and got around it by using the web address instead, but that solution is far far better of course. MargaretRDonald (talk) 20:39, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Thomas Patrick Burke
Hi. Editing an "article for deletion" has a somewhat tricky protocol. You may make as many comments, bring as many arguments and sources as you wish to a discussion. However, you need to give only one opinion. In this discussion you have made three comments using keep, should bedeleted and, a gain, keep. So, in a case where you thought, for example, keep, bu tsubsequent arguments, evidence made you change your mind, the thing to do is to strike the keep, and give your new opinion, which might be delete. You are free to change opinions as often as you wish, but always strike your previous opinion, so that we can all follow the argument. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2018 (UTC)


 * That is so weird, to have arguments about something like that - there has to be something going on there - about that other than the subject - weird weird, weird really weird. JarrahTree 00:17, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks I will do that in future.
 * The whole thing is not terrific: the two related articles The Wynnewood Institute & Thomas Patrick Burke were both paid for contributions by the same person. I think Burke probably qualifies as notable.  However there is absolutely no evidence (despite its incorporation) that shows the institute consists of anything more than one man, giving lectures and arranging for lectures to be given. (In addition, its website shows no evidence of any lecture activity after 2011!!! And there are currently no upcoming events)  I did quite a lot of editing on Burke, because the the article felt like an advertisement and it irritated me. But I do think it qualifies but not the The Wynnewood Institute..... MargaretRDonald (talk) 00:43, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Pursuing the related issue of The Wynnewood Institute, Additional information given in this article is 1)that it is incorporated, and 2) it lists the lecturers (T.P. Burke and others). I don't know the how to put up this one for deletion, but believe that would be appropriate, as again, secondary sources are minimal. Any chance of either of you doing so?? Cheers, MargaretRDonald (talk) 01:01, 7 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Paid editing sucks. period. JarrahTree 03:37, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Indeed. And she was paid by an advertising agency! MargaretRDonald (talk) 21:36, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Apologies for adolescent terminology from a geriatric such as self, but the general issue arouses some rather base sentiments JarrahTree 02:10, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

status in importance
I have tried to get a sense of importance for anything in endangered or higher as being mid importance, and anything verging on extinction as being high/top - any thoughts on classifications like that at all ? (there is probably an earlier discussion I havent checked higher up this page, but... cheers JarrahTree 23:12, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've taken the view that in botany or zoology anything at the species level has low importance. And tend to prefer that view, particularly as the various categories of threatened species may change: For example in checking out the SPRAT entries for Acacia wardelii and Acacia ramiflora, I found both had been removed from the EPBC threatened lists. See  and .  But I am easy with whichever decision you wish to make and will not change whatever you choose to do (although when I come to do it, at this stage, I will continue with my current practice unless I can be persuaded that it is vitally important that I change. (I find it  hard enough keeping articles up-to-date without having to worry about the talk pages too!!) Cheers, MargaretRDonald (talk) 23:26, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * If you prefer, I'll leave out the importance parameter when I put in a review? MargaretRDonald (talk) 23:28, 16 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Wow you bring up some very salient points - phew - best place for us to continue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australian_biota JarrahTree 00:03, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Good move. Cheers. MargaretRDonald (talk) 00:11, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:20, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018  French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
 * OAWiki
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
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distribution maps
excellent! brilliant! raising standard of the articles just like that, thank you! happy christmas! JarrahTree 23:13, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Happy Christmas, . It's immensely hard work: Having created the maps, I generally have to create a whole pile of categories in the commons to make things easily findable. I first created these maps on 22 November, and I have still only uploaded half of them! (Glad you are appreciating them.) MargaretRDonald (talk) 23:26, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The visual amenity is something a lot of biota articles have like severe minus - to have a dist map is something I would bump up assessment of the article on the basis of the map alone, it takes us so much closer to what the herbarium sites have as basics. as for your hard work, it is much appreciated, and deserving of many thanks for raising the bar of quality JarrahTree 23:45, 7 December 2018 (UTC)


 * all that hard work - thanks so much for all the extra maps - I am sure people do not realise or understand the effort gone into that JarrahTree 09:43, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I am working on a response on my commons page. See User:MargaretRDonald/sandbox/Problem with range map but I need some answers from WA herbarium (PERTH) and from various others before I put anything further up on my commons talk page. In the meantime, you can see a discussion of AVH data on Talk:Ficus coronata and the map which resulted from the discussion in Ficus coronata.  In any case, occurrence data is always illuminating, so I shall continue... MargaretRDonald (talk) 19:45, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Captions in January
The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)
My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:


 * 1) Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
 * 2) Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
 * 3) Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Macrozamia riedlei
– Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

grasses of australia
is something that needs to happen - in very roundabout way am trying to extract from current unhelpful range of items that constitute what they are - inspired by the local items by Una who as on the committee for a while some years back - any thoughts ideas or inspirations welcome, noting the other states dont seem to have much distinction from the absurd 'oceania' range  JarrahTree 02:13, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Could you spell out a little more what you are trying to say? (Not sure what it is you would like me - and others - to do.) Cheers, MargaretRDonald (talk) 19:23, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * apology for the enigmatic message - delayed - I used to be on a committee with una bell, and she has produced some very good material on perth area native grasses - I was contemplating playing with the whole oceania category as Australia isnt separated out from it - I was potentially looking for advice as to whether the kensington location had native grasses and if so how you got on with the material that you could locate... but it will be much more erratic as I had hoped as I have mislaid my materials... maybe it was as much whether you had done any articles on grasses and how you went - but even then it might be something I am unable to develop systematically for a while, not sure - case of wait and see...  JarrahTree 10:33, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * If I had her book I might have a crack at the Kensington grasses, but the last time I was there, it was just too hard to climb the fence to get decent photographs, plus for grasses even when they are flowering you often need a microscope.... which I don't have when I am in Perth.. So I suspect grasses may well be among the last plants to have good articles on Wikipedia. MargaretRDonald (talk) 17:59, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * next time n perth remind me i have spare copies of hers - very big problem is cross national boundaries - there seem to be 'regional' spread of grasses which doesnt make things easier - after initial idea it has become very low priority after a closer look at things... JarrahTree 23:16, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks . That would be fantastic. (Now I just have to be able to climb the fence and take a sample and look as if that is entirely ok... ) PS I am still working through the plants of Kensington Bushland. MargaretRDonald (talk) 02:08, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * np - the main focus she has is on the scarp - and the other thing for the sw of wa is the destruction of riparine environments - the late luke pen did lots about the recovery of such - that is another possible wa of looking at grasses and similar species that are riverside items JarrahTree 02:20, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Ficus coronulata
Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

got there at last
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unknown-importance_Australian_biota_articles - under 10k - please it would help if you create new biota articles if you could be please be kind enough to put biota-importance=low  - which is the default - so we keep the number under 10 k - it would be much appreciated if you can help with this (keeping the number down that is) - thanks... JarrahTree 08:37, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry to be so slack... PS thanks for noting the orphan status of McKee, (I started another article to reduce his orphan status) MargaretRDonald (talk) 08:45, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
 * nah no big deal it is all interesting to look at anyways - I would have tried to help re the orphan thing, but hey - it looked difficult! Back to India I say....  JarrahTree 08:51, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

important
as always australian biota gets walked over by mostly unheard eds...  - not that I can keep up with some of the more hyperbolic tangents... JarrahTree 06:08, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * plonked in my Oppose for what it is worth. MargaretRDonald (talk) 07:33, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I honestly think when they are on a mission - editors actually involved get ignored... :(   JarrahTree 07:35, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 32, January – February 2019  French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * New and expanded partners
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Help me!
I have inserted an image (the top one) in Elizabeth Nodder. It shows in the preview but there is only an empty space in the published article. Can you help?

MargaretRDonald (talk) 22:47, 13 March 2019 (UTC)


 * The Naturalist's miscellany? I can see that image correctly. Maybe it's a cache issue? You could try reloading the page. Huon (talk) 22:54, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Great. I'll cease worrying. MargaretRDonald (talk) 23:02, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Wrong photo for Ursinia anthemoides
As a person who uses Wikipedia but does not write articles, I appreciate the work you do. I want to point out something that seems clearly incorrect: the photo on the page for Ursinia anthemoides appears to be something else altogether, certainly not the variety known as "Solar Fire."2601:644:200:85ED:6871:F66D:BE47:769A (talk) 19:46, 23 March 2019 (UTC) Bill Gretter
 * Dear Bill, thank you for this. For what it is worth, the photograph is of the seeds ("with their flower like wings" and not of the flower. MargaretRDonald (talk) 20:08, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Content you added to the above article appears to have been copied from http://www.chah.gov.au/. Copying text directly from a source is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed and I paraphrased some. Content you add to Wikipedia should be written in your own words. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:58, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing it. (I got a bit careless, because the text was identical on several source sites...) MargaretRDonald (talk) 12:37, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Images
Hello Margaret, I am sorry our paths have not crossed at meet-ups. I want to thank you personally for your fantastic maps on plant pages (and everything else as well). Also want you to know I only reverted your edit on the D. pulchellum talk page because there were already two requests for images there. ("Wikipedia requested images of plants" and "Wikipedia requested photographs in Australia".) Three seemed a bit much. I get your meaning though. Now there's just one. `Good thing is, it's prompted me to go looking for images myself when it's in flower - it grows not too far from where I live. (Also to expand the article.) Just need a bit of rain!! Gderrin (talk) 05:12, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Hopefully, we will catch up soon, and I hope despite the rain you have some luck in your image hunting. MargaretRDonald (talk) 12:41, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:00, 25 March 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

(Please excuse this post if it is a duplicate!)

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:45, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

A line
Your approach to contributing to articles is going to be raised at a notice board, it strongly discouraging to get metres of seemingly coherent but actually circular self justification for a minuscule contribution that looks like some who heard of wikipedia yesterday. Your recent contribution read like a talk page comment that somehow ended up in the article. I did hours of work on a high profile page and you inserted some historical data that I had already established was out of date, about two minutes effort maximum on your part and I did not dare touch it for the hours you could waste in discussing you and your contribution. A copy editor revised it your contribution the moment they saw, with a rude comment about the same and I hoped you would start up with them instead. I still work around your contributions if I go near any article you have added before, and avoided articles to avoid your exhausting self-vindication. If someone enjoyed wasting other peoples time this is an excellent way to go about it, but it is possible that you cannot be wrong, either way this is your last warning because I am prepared to invest time in demonstrating a net loss via your contributions. Your options are to accept that everyone else is slightly or very wrong and not waste their time where only you have convinced yourself that you are right to engage in the community in this demonstrably unproductive way. cygnis insignis 17:18, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

tools for checking
thanks for your message - as no one seems to actually go to the biota project page - there will be somethuing even more obscurre coming soon at the project. I will alert all known usual suspects when it is up and adequately provided. The rather horrible over-reliance on online things leads me to despair as to whether all those marvelous books we saw on the shelves in the library that time will ever have credence over online sources. JarrahTree 03:36, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * True,, but the old Flora of Australia online has not been updated in donkeys years, and there are so many genera missing (and species) missing, so I am pleased to see there is something happening at last on the commonwealth front. MargaretRDonald (talk) 07:44, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:Taxa by author
Hello Margaret, I've always (well, since recently anyway) had a problem with "Taxa named by ......". I think it should refer to the original author of the plant (or animal?). David Jones was a prolific author of orchid species - he named and described hundreds of species. But he is a "splitter" and often placed them in genera (like Diplodium, Arachnorchis, Oligochaetochilus  etc.). The "clumpers" (including Duretto, Backhouse, Shaw and others) then moved them to other, larger genera. The clumpers seem to have won, according to WCSP - APC hasn't covered orchids yet. Nevertheless, it seems to me that Jones should be given credit in "Taxa named by...". Jones did the work collecting, naming, describing and publishing. The others just changed the name "en masse". In other words, I think the category should be "Taxa originally described by....". (There is a "Category:Taxa named by David L. Jones (botanist)".) Over to you! Gderrin (talk) 00:43, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . Yes. I, too, would like a category:Taxa first described by..... Nonetheless, I think "Taxa named by" is pretty unambiguous. (But I am leaving this specific example until you change your mind. No worries.) MargaretRDonald (talk) 04:43, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

May you join this month's editathons from WiR!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:17, 27 April 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:27, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #468
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata
 * IP Masking Engagement
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion). Outcome --> no change to WD:N
 * Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties. Outcome --> constraints were removed


 * Events
 * Ongoing:
 * Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to info@undefinedberd-bw.de
 * Upcoming
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
 * May 21-22, 2021 Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
 * OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Hiba Arnaout et al, Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata (full text link)
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #44 - YouTube
 * Link to all the Wikipedia Weekly Network/Live Wikidata Editing sessions by Ainali and Abbe98
 * Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons und Wikipedia bearbeiten 2021/001 (in German) - YouTube
 * SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #4 - YouTube
 * How to use Wikidata to list nearby tourist places on a web page (in French) - YouTube
 * How to add lexemes to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * How to edit library data in Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Editing the drawings in the Gambara Bovardi collection at the Levi Foundation in Venice on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js is a user script that replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT when editing hyphenation snaks.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 20k+ DOIs of Chinese language scientific journal articles have now been added to WD, thanks to scraping->validation->matching->quickstatements workflow built by Stevenliuyi (via a WikiCite eScholarship)
 * Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
 * Template:Item documentation displays Template:Generic queries for occupations for items of class occupation (Q12737077) and Template:Generic queries for filmmakers for items with occupation (P106) filmmaker (Q2526255)
 * 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: identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription, counterpart position, earned run average, official podcast, diel cycle, intended background color, scope note
 * External identifiers: 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, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Memento Vienna person ID, universal equine life number, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Apple Music label ID (US version), bio.se movie theater ID, MyBIS protected area ID, Dialnet thesis ID, hPSCreg cell line ID, Michigan State University Library Comic Art Collection Record Number, LTit person ID, JECFA number, Badok ID, Sigla ID, DCinemaToday company ID, CEV coach ID, CEV team ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity ID, AdServio ID, PeakVisor peak ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Anime Filler List show ID, Anime Filler List episode slug, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Danish 2010 redlist identifier, synonymer.se ID, SOUNZ work ID, vedidk ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, UNITER Award person ID, sense on DHLE


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: infects, setlist, oral history at, DIVA author ID, DIVA record ID, type of lens
 * External identifiers: ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, CDep.Ro NGO ID, causesanti.va ID, Adevărul topic ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts ID, cIMeC.Ro Museum ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Styria Museum ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Archive Alsharekh person ID, Douban series ID, RomArchive IDs, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, Scholasticon person ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, WMF lang code


 * Deleted properties: iFixit repairability score (P7478)
 * Query examples:
 * Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (Source)
 * List of Wikimedia language codes (Source)
 * Plant genera that honor women (Source)
 * Poets whose fathers are lawyers (Source)
 * Phrase-book for types of food (mapping Catalan and English) (Source)


 * Development
 * Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (T279762)
 * Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (T280779)
 * Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (T280627)
 * Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (T279945)
 * Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (T281356)
 * Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (T281587)
 * Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (T280650)

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.
 * Near 6,100 items have the Template:Item documentation in their talk page. Help deploy this template.
 * Help write the next summary!

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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)

Wikidata weekly summary #470
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous. Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated.


 * Events
 * Past
 * Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings- May 2021
 * How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021) - working hour (2)
 * SPARQL #Wikidata divers
 * Session du mardi 18 mai
 * Session du mardi 25 mai
 * Upcoming
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.;, June 1st.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #65, June 6
 * Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, to solve issues related to its affilation to the Wikimedia Foundation, June 9
 * Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Mapping of ImageNet and Wikidata for Knowledge Graphs Enabled Computer Vision
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process
 * Use of VanderBot Wikidata API writing script (testing)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * User:So9q/ordia-link.js - is a script to add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
 * dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
 * User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
 * automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
 * automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
 * and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: district heating grid
 * External identifiers: DiVA authority-person, CDep.Ro NGO ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, PoetsGate poet ID, Repositório da Produção da USP person ID, ctext data entity ID, Australian Music Centre work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Martian coordinates, gobbledygook
 * External identifiers: Nevada Women's History Project ID, AADFI member ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Price One Penny Periodical ID, Price One Penny Library ID, composers.am person ID, armradioarchive.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, AZGS Document Repository ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, PAS member ID, ℒoviℱm Top Songs ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800-2000) ID, BIU Santé image bank ID, cadastral plot in France, Internet Game Database developer ID, allabolag.se person ID, Olschki author ID


 * Query examples:
 * People with bird-like surnames in Czech (Source)
 * Properties used to link from preprints (Q580922) to scholarly articles (Q13442814) (Source)
 * Birthplace of Spanish poets (Source)
 * UK Parliaments since 1801 with number of members, number of distinct member-terms, and count of missing seats/parties. (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Fresnel lenses of lighthouses


 * Development
 * Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (T283240)
 * Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (T281356)
 * Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (T200689)
 * Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
 * Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
 * Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (T283576)

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) 13:16, 31 May 2021 (UTC)