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Wikidata weekly summary #483
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata Labs XXXI in English on the topic of Reimagining Wikidata from the margins, August 31
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook, September 4 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #77, September 5
 * Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
 * Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about data quality, September 13
 * Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021 Come with anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live session (August 26th, 2021) logs
 * RubyConfTW 2021
 * Wikidata basics (in Chinese)
 * Wikidata and Open Streetmaps (in Chinese)
 * Using the MediaWiki open data API to solve data description problems (in Chinese)
 * Moving Wikipedia's Infobox to Wikidata's Property:Taiwanese place names (in Chinese)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Why Are Citations Not Part of Discussions on Open Knowledge?
 * Mapping Diversity Puts The Gender Gap of Toponymy On Paper (in Italian)
 * Videos
 * Wikidata: Behind the Scenes of the Great Wikipedia Data Repository (in Spanish)
 * Bring data from Wikidata and any other LOD Knowledge Graph to your Roam graph
 * Notebooks
 * What are the Wikipedia articles you've created about? a notebook which show how to compute statistics about the articles you've created in Wikipedia by "instance of" (P31) property


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
 * Wikibase Installation & Updating survey has been published!
 * The Board of Trustees election has started. Votes will be accepted until 23:59 31 August 2021 (UTC). View candidate statements, verify your eligibility and vote now.
 * Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
 * WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, remix of, container, release of
 * External identifiers: Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username, Team Deutschland Paralympics ID, BMC ID, Kartridge game ID, ISL ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Daum Cafe ID, Freeview show ID, Unconsenting Media ID, TeamNL athlete ID, Volleybox ID, COD ID, allabolag.se person ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry ID, GSSO ID, Fontaines de France ID, KNHB ID, DC Books book ID, Igromania developer/publisher ID, Deutsche Sporthilfe ID, Finnish National Gallery artwork ID, Igromania series ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, Svenska ord ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID, uses natural resource, created for, number of triples, reprinted in, Eneström Number, літературний редактор
 * External identifiers: Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code, Government Publications Number, Food.com ID, Dewan Negara ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, BBC Food ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II author ID, IndieMag game ID, Bleus Handisport-ID, Overnia, Edizioni Ares author ID, hmmlid, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Naver Post member ID, eAmbrosia ID, DC Character ID, Postimees topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fx_coords%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fx%20%3FxLabel%20%3Fdescription%20%3Fx_coords%20%3Frgb%20%20WITH%20%7B%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fdata%20%3Fx%20%3Fx_coords%20WHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%3Fx%20p%3AP2044%2Fpsn%3AP2044%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdata%20%0A%20%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fx_coords%20.%0A%20%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ34%20.%0A%23%20%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP131%2B%20%5B%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15979307%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25data%0A%23%20determine%20the%20max%20and%20min%20values%20%28used%20to%20calculate%20the%20spread%29%0AWITH%20%7B%20%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28MAX%28%3Fdata%29%20AS%20%3Fmax_data%29%20%20%28MIN%28%3Fdata%29%20AS%20%3Fmin_data%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%7D%7D%20AS%20%25min_max%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25min_max%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fx%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FxLabel.%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FxLabel%29%20%3D%20%22sv%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28%22H%C3%B6jd%20%C3%B6ver%20havsniv%C3%A5n%20f%C3%B6r%20%22%2C%20%3FxLabel%2C%20%22%20%C3%A4r%20omkring%20%22%2C%20STR%28ROUND%28%3Fdata%29%29%2C%20%22%20meter%22%20%29%20AS%20%3Fdescription%29%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20%3Fmax_data%20-%20%3Fmin_data%20AS%20%3Fspread%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28255%20-%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%20255%20%2a%20%28%3Fdata%20-%20%3Fmin_data%29%20%2F%20%3Fspread%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen%20%29%20%23%20255%20-%3E%200%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20FLOOR%20%28%3Fgreen%20%2F%2016%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_1%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20COALESCE%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3C%2010%2C%20STR%28%3Fgreen_1%29%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2010%2C%20%22a%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2011%2C%20%22b%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2012%2C%20%22c%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2013%2C%20%22d%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2014%2C%20%22e%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2015%2C%20%22f%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%22ERROR%22%0A%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_hex1%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28FLOOR%28%3Fgreen%20-%20%2816%20%2a%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%20%3Fgreen%20%2F%2016%20%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_2%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20COALESCE%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3C%2010%2C%20STR%28%3Fgreen_2%29%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2010%2C%20%22a%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2011%2C%20%22b%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2012%2C%20%22c%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2013%2C%20%22d%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2014%2C%20%22e%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2015%2C%20%22f%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%22ERROR%22%0A%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_hex2%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28STR%28%3Fgreen_hex1%29%2C%20STR%28%3Fgreen_hex2%29%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_hex%20%29%0A%0A%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28%2200%22%2C%20STR%28%3Fgreen_hex%29%2C%20%2200%22%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%20%20%20%0A%7D Map of Items in Sweden with coordinate location and elevation above sea-level statements] (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%20%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Flon%20%3Flat%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ515%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%20%3Flat%3B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Flat%20%3E%2040%29%20%23%20filtering%20out%20British%20Oversea%20Terrroties%0A%7D%20%7D%20AS%20%25cities%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25cities%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%22Most%20easterly%22%20AS%20%3Fdesc%29%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Flon%29%20%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25easterly%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25cities%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%22Most%20westerly%22%20AS%20%3Fdesc%29%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%20%28%3Flon%29%20%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25westerly%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25cities%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%22Most%20northerly%22%20AS%20%3Fdesc%29%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Flat%29%20%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25northerly%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25cities%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%22Most%20southernly%22%20AS%20%3Fdesc%29%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%20%28%3Flat%29%20%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25southerly%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25easterly%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25westerly%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25northerly%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25southerly%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A Map of UK's most extreme cities] (Source)
 * All current principal Local Authorities in England (Source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata:Mismatch Finder development continues. We are now working on the frontend. First pieces are starting to be visible at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org (but nothing usable yet)
 * Fixed an issue with unicode characters in constraints checks (T289805)
 * Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (T277855)
 * Continued work on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (T269724)
 * Continued work on new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (T195178)

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) 12:58, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35
 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
 * Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category: on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems
 * Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
 * 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 will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on . This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Jake Wartenberg
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Emperor • Viridian Bovary
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Guideline and policy news
 * Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
 * A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
 * A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
 * A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news
 * The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Reply-link officially superseded by DiscussionTools
Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #484
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih., Sep 7th.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * A new R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata: tidywikidatar
 * A global directory of official governmental online accounts and services, by Albin Larsson and Jan Ainali
 * Papers
 * Creating and Querying Personalized Versions of Wikidata on a Laptop
 * Type or Individual? Evidence of Large-Scale Conceptual Disarray in Wikidata
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
 * Other
 * Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
 * Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
 * Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
 * Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
 * In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
 * External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
 * Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
 * Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
 * Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)


 * Development
 * Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
 * Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (T277855)
 * Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (T269724)
 * Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (T195178)
 * Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (T280229)
 * We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.

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!
 * Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:21, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36
 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 wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break.
 * Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing.  The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #485
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
 * Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
 * 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
 * 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
 * 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
 * Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
 * Ongoing:
 * Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
 * Past:
 * Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
 * other
 * Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Wikipedia podcast.


 * Tool of the week
 * Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
 * Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: GRAC rating
 * External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
 * External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
 * List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
 * count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
 * List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
 * People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
 * Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
 * Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)
 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
 * Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (T280229)
 * Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (T251480)
 * All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)

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


 * 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: 2021-37
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> 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
 * 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features.
 * A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

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).
 * Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner.
 * You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.
 * The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> mode has been added to show a program's output.

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Wikidata weekly summary #486
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 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)., Sep 21st.
 * Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
 * Ongoing:
 * The Creative Commons Global Summit and Hack4OpenGLAM hackathon take place from September 20 until 24 (fully online). Several sessions and projects are related to Wikidata and/or Wikibase (see schedule search).
 * Past:
 * Data Quality Days:
 * Periodic editathons as a way to improve data quality on Wikidata: an experiment in Italy - YouTube
 * Bringing Czech authority files into 21st century: Integration with Wikidata - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Mapping the Scottish Reformation - using Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project - YouTube
 * OpenSym 2021: WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties - YouTube
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #53 (user scripts and gadgets that can help you edit) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Sign up here if you want to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: created for, Candomblé nation, NZTCS conservation status, Mexican video game rating category
 * External identifiers: INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry-Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Every Noise at Once ID, Spotify show episode ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Bing entity ID, TermCymru ID, NZTCS ID, Online Begraafplaatsen person ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Naver Post member ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: relevant date for copyright, issuing agency, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods ID, main subject for, type host taxon, has thematic relation, location of lexeme usage, ODOT county code, illustrative content
 * External identifiers: e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Google Fonts ID, Kallías, Owler company ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Allrugby, SLSP editions ID, Issuu ID, XXI Secolo ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, HJP ID, NVE reservoir ID, Biografija.ru ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, IRIS Tuscany IDs, Joshua Project people group ID, Flipboard ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide (2021- Version) ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Poetsgate poem ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Zenodo Communities ID, National Union Catalog ID


 * Query examples:
 * Biological taxa named after (metal (and other) music bands
 * Works by Dante Alighieri (1265 - September 13/14, 1321)
 * Cumulative page views for candidates in Czech parliamentary election 2021, split by party (Source)


 * Development
 * The new Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service will be in production 18 Oct 2021
 * Working on changing the way sitelinks to Wikimedia Commons are created from Item data; now using topic's main category (P910) and category related to list (P1754) before Commons category (P373) (T232927)
 * Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
 * Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
 * Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (T235292)
 * Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (T290950)
 * Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (T290951)
 * Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (T280684)
 * Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (T280229)

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: 2021-38
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> 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
 * Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
 * MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed.
 * A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems
 * There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers.

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 The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> parameter has been renamed to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0.

Future changes
 * The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021
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Thank you for the RX article
It has been downloaded. --Salimfadhley (talk) 09:55, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Blablubbs
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)



Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Callanecc
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mkdw

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

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
 * Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news
 * DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under.

Arbitration
 * A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
 * Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
 * The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous
 * Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
 * The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Thank you again!
Thanks for that nursing article. Much appreciated. --Salimfadhley (talk) 21:33, 4 October 2021 (UTC)


 * @Salimfadhley You're welcome! —&#8205;Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 22:13, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Script update
Hello, I'm a user of your userscript markAdmins. It looks like the bot stopped updating the data feed in May, but quite a few changes in advanced permissions (sysop/CU/OS/IA) have taken place since then. Would you mind making the following changes to User:MDanielsBot/markAdmins-Data.js?

+sysop

Blablubbs, BusterD, Clpo13, Jake Wartenberg, Less Unless, Trialpears

-sysop

AGK, Alvestrand, Black Falcon, Dppowell, Deathphoenix, Eliz81, Emperor, JGHowes, Mark Arsten, MindSpillage, MrDarcy, Mulad, Protonk, QEDKbot, SlimVirgin, ThaddeusB, Vianello, Who, Wknight94

+checkuser

Dreamy Jazz, Ferret, GeneralNotability, Girth Summit, Roy Smith, TheresNoTime

-checkuser

DGG

+oversight

Dreamy Jazz, LuK3, TheresNoTime

-oversight

AGK, Mkdw, ST47

+iadmin

Ragesoss

-iadmin

Galobtter

Thanks, Giraffer (talk·contribs) 20:06, 14 October 2021 (UTC)


 * @Giraffer Oops, looks like there was a change that broke the bot. Should be fixed now. —&#8205;Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 17:27, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for the speedy change (it's a script I rely a little too much on) :) Giraffer (talk·contribs) 16:43, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Clpo13
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Evad37

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news
 * Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections.  and  are reserve commissioners.
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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reFill
Hi! I saw the entry at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/tools/toolforge-mdaniels-refill-ng and was curious whether it is operational and if it improves on WP:reFill in any way? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:23, 4 November 2021 (UTC)


 * @Curb Safe Charmer: No, that was just for when reFill was down. —&#8205;Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 14:13, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

AIV bot
Hello! Your bot is really helpful at AIV. I have a (non-urgent) feature request if it's not too time-consuming to implement. I wonder if the bot could remove reports earlier (say, after an hour) if they've been declined with one of the AIV templates by an admin? Best, <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 22:41, 17 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi. Sorry for the delay. I'll look into implementing this, but it's unlikely to happen soon: I have some stuff going on in real life, and I didn't write the AIV function in the first place (I just took that over from SQL when they left a while ago). —&#8205;Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 16:19, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).



Administrator changes
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Technical news
 * Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page.
 * The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
 * The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script
 * LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

Updated scripts
 * SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
 * Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
 * ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests
 * Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages
 * Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
 * Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
 * Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous
 * User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
 * Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts
 * Ahecht:
 * draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
 * massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
 * watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
 * Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
 * Caburum:
 * UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
 * Chlod:
 * CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's copied templates.
 * DaxServer:
 * BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one inside a   tag block into an.
 * FlightTime:
 * OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend Clear to the top of each section on the archive page.
 * Jon Harald Søby:
 * diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
 * warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
 * JPxG:
 *  PressPass  adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
 * CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
 * TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like track listing and get total runtimes.
 * Nardog:
 * CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
 * IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
 * TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
 * NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
 * ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
 * CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
 * LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
 * QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
 * Novem Linguae:
 * DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
 * NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
 * UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
 * VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
 * WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
 * P.T.Đ:
 * TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
 * Qwerfjkl:
 * editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
 * RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
 * talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: | |  (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a talkback notice). It also adds a [] link next to section headers.
 * Rublov:
 * diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
 * Rummskartoffel:
 * auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
 * generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
 * share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
 * show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
 * Tol:
 * VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a citation needed tag.
 * Venkat TL:
 * ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
 * Vukky:
 * StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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Arbitration


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

Administrator changes
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 * The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed   in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
 * The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration
 * Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
 * The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
 * A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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