User talk:Mike Peel/Archive 60

Wikidata weekly summary #449
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
 * Should we rename place of burial (P119) to place of mortal remains?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 5 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #26 - YouTube, Facebook, 9 January
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #44, January 10
 * Past: Wikidata sessions at rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) (replay)
 * Introduction to Wikidata
 * Wikidata for datajournalists
 * Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
 * Wikidata one year in Taiwan, what is our results and what is our future plan
 * Challenges of GLAM Taiwan


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Applying linked data model for the Bogotá Digital Library (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Wikimedia Armenia - YouTube
 * Video: How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero - YouTube
 * Video: How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine - YouTube
 * Video: How to import library materials to Wikidata using MarcEdit and OpenRefine - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Linking a new Wikipedia article to a Wikidata item - YouTube
 * Video: Schema and Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Using Twinkle on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata (in Urdu) - YouTube
 * Blog post: 52 Wikidata weeks 2020
 * Blog post: Scottish nautical wrecks in wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: graph girth, category for the view of the item, ALA-LC romanization, liturgical rank
 * External identifiers: PIAC ID, CPV Supplementary, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, ISDS ID, Mapy.cz ID, World Rowing ID (UUID format), 1914-1918-Online ID, JAD ID, Game UI Database ID, Lumières.Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey player ID, IFF player ID, Magyar életrajzi lexikon ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, Literary Encyclopedia ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Stitcher show ID, Castbox show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, PodBean show ID, Podtail show ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, The Podcast App show ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries manuscript ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries work ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries person ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries place ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries organization ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: YouTube custom URL, Author last names, Author first names, Naval flag, supplements, closed WMF project sitelink, has part (string value), member, number of data sets
 * External identifiers: IFPI Danmark work ID, National Museum in Warsaw ID, Olympedia Affiliations ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Erudit article ID, Olympedia Event ID, dati.beniculturali.it ID, Barnivore product ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, Port Letter, FFF player ID (new scheme), Hungarian Film Archive ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), EuroBabeIndex ID, MFAT person ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Alpine Linux package, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, NLS place type ID, BookDepository publisher ID, National Historic People id, NFL.com ID (new scheme)


 * Query examples:
 * Works identified (via dedicated property P3893) as entering the public domain on 1/1/2021, ordered by number of articles on Wikimedia sites (Source)
 * Painters in the collections of Paris Musées which enter the public domain on January 1 (Source)
 * Map of forts related to Dutch trading companies VOC and WIC found in the Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Source)
 * Map of forts in the Cologne fortress ring (Source)
 * First-level administrative divisions in Germany
 * Population of cities in Germany corresponds to the total number of vaccinations in Germany (Source)
 * Most popular theorems according to their number of articles on Wikipedia (Source)
 * Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (Source)
 * Deaths in 2020 - date of birth, date of death, cause of death and country of nationality (Source)
 * Summary of a UK parliamentary career seat-party-start pairs(Source)
 * Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight (Source)
 * Indonesian legislation related to indigenous people (Source)
 * Which artist could be "D.K. 1964"? (source)
 * Line graph of colleges and universities in India by year of establishment (Source)
 * Graph of Indian films that are remakes of other Indian films (Source)
 * Graph of academic descendants of C. R. Rao and K. Ananda Rau (Source)
 * Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (Source)
 * Maps of different places in West Bengal according to suffix (Source)
 * Tree map of Rabindranath's poems according to the month of writing (Source)
 * Count of locations of exhibitions on Wikidata (Source)
 * Wikidata lexeme forms by language (Source)
 * Newest database reports: 2021, Greek given names


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, no deployment has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Hammersoft
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news
 * You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration
 * By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
 * Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , ,.

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


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


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2020
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 11:42, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Any solution to this?
Did you ever figure out a solution, or have any other suggestions, to the problem we discussed at User talk:Mike Peel/Archive 59? ww2censor (talk) 12:13, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I still think the obvious solution is to split the articles, but it sounds like that's a lot of debate away and a lot of work. So I've been getting on with the simpler cases instead for now (there are still quite a lot of them to tackle!). If you want to get rid of the red warning text, you could use Commons category multi, but that's just kicking it into the long grass for a bit. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:54, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2020
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 14:32, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

semi-automated edit concern
I saw this diff come up which I think was triggered since the article page name did not match the Commons category name. However, the commons cat is clearly related to the page at had (its still about the game itself). A quick check of your contributions in the last hour show a mix of other similar removals that may be wrong, pages that aren't exactly the same name as the commons cat but which the commons cat would clearly be appropriate to include. Given the edit timings you're likely doing this semi-automated (AWB? not sure), but you may want to slow down and check that. --M asem (t) 20:46, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * This is part of a long-term project to synchronise links between enwp and Commons via Wikidata. I'm using a Python/Pywikibot script to make the edits, but I'm checking them as I go. In this case, commons:Category:Fez (video game) should be linked from Fez (video game), but not from Development of Fez - if there was a Commons category that was for the development of the game, then it would make sense to link to that, but as it stands the Commons link is misplaced. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * As Masem points out, the Commons category is clearly related. Seeing closely related Commons categories saves the reader to find the related article and provides convenient quick access. I suggest the perceived need to have a strict 1-to-1 relationship between Commons categories and Wikipedia articles is restrictive and not in the interest of readers. If it were enforced, the Commons category might as well be deleted. Your proposal at Village pump (proposals) was restricted to categories, but you now enforce this on articles. Where was this discussed? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:23, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * There was an RfC at Category talk:Commons category Wikidata tracking categories. I don't think that the links I'm removing are useful to readers, hence why I'm removing them. Always happy to discuss individual examples if you want. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:19, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * And that RfC ended inconclusive. The authors of articles who put those Commons categories into closely related articles obviously think they useful. Those articles often started as splits from their main articles, which demonstrates their relevance. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 10:49, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, Mike, you can hardly claim that very poorly-attended Rfc shows any consensus of approval. I'd dial it down, a lot. Johnbod (talk) 18:13, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

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


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


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:07, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Electoral results for the district of
I noticed that Pi bot has created a new wikidata page Electoral results for the district of Gough (Q104901950) to connect to Electoral results for the district of Gough, despite there being an existing wikidata page Electoral results for the district of Gough (Q99441926). Similarly 1892 East Macquarie colonial by-election where Pi bot created Q104855060 despite Q98908622. In both cases, all that was missing was the connection. --Find bruce (talk) 20:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for finding and merging them! This will happen occasionally, the bot now creates new items for pages that haven't been linked within 14 days of their creation so there isn't a big backlog of unlinked pages without matches, but sometimes that will cause duplicates. They are easy to merge when that happens, though, and easy to avoid by linking the article earlier. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:01, 21 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks Mike - any suggestions on how to find pages without wikidata links? From my perspective creating duplicate wikidata pages makes the data problems worse rather than better. --Find bruce (talk) 22:24, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Here there is Category:Articles without Wikidata item (but only for some types of articles) and Special:UnconnectedPages (all articles and more). There are also some tools: duplicity give lists, there is also a game ('Match new articles to items'), but I'm not sure if that's regularly updated. It's definitely better to avoid duplicates as much as possible, but it's also important to import new articles/concepts into Wikidata regularly, there's a balance point between the two that I'm trying to meet with Pi bot. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:09, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

William Swinden Barber
Forgive me, but removing all those commons category links from the above article is a disaster. Most people whom I direct to any of the articles created by me, to help the research of others, cannot find the commonscat link at the bottom of the article, even when I direct them over the phone. I don't know why they can't find it, because on my pc it is quite clear. I am wondering whether it does not show up on other devices. That is why I put the specific commonscat links below each of his buildings, and that seems to work for them. Some serious institutions have used that article, including National Heritage, which have used it when they agreed to my applications to list two of the buildings. I accept that you are responding to a general WP rule here, but WP also requires that common sense be used when applying those rules. Having those specific commonscats where researchers can easily find them makes all the difference. Please reconsider? I cannot yet write a separate article on all of them at the moment due to lockdown, and to do that job requires travel and photography - no chance a the moment. So for now we must make do with those paragraphs. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 21:18, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I've double-checked through the links I removed, and commons:Category:Stainland Cross wasn't in commons:Category:William Swinden Barber, so I've added that now. The Commons link is also in the left-hand sidebar, which might be easier for others to find? I think the article is improved by the removal of the links, since it's easier to read, although it would definitely be better if there were separate articles on each building. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:29, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Benjamin Burstall
Please stop doing this? I have explained the problem above. The way I have created this type of article, often a great deal of research is in the commonscats, and researchers need to be able to find them easily. Please don't do any more without discussion? Thank you. Storye book (talk) 21:23, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll double-check tomorrow, but I think you're linking to Commons incorrectly, it's better to gather the categories for the buildings under the architect's category, rather than linking to each building in the architect's article. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:27, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Mike Peel: I think you are seriously interfering with editorial work. I agree with User:Storye book that having individual links to Commons categories for each building instead of just one at the bottom of the article to the architect is much more helpful to readers. This is not an infrequent technique in articles that consist of a list of subjects, like composition cycles, lists of streets, and similar. I suggest you revert your edits at both the above articles. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:44, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I've double-checked, and all the categories are in commons:Category:Benjamin Burstall (in a subcategory though). As with the article above, I think it's better not to have all of the inline links. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:33, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comment, you are quite right. Another thing that seriously worries me is that innocent errors or other interference on Commons can easily disassociate the list of buildings categories from the architect category. For example, currently we have an editor there who likes to put categories in alphabetical order, which is harmless enough, but they often accidentally lose some of the categories and sometimes they even lose the licence from the image filepage. Having uploaded thousands of images to commons myself, I am aware that when correcting a file page I too have been known to accidentally remove material from a filepage. Bots alert us to missing sources and licences, but not to lost categories. The commons links on articles like Benjamin Burstall and William Swinden Barber are really important. Those articles are really all we have on those subjects. You won't find it elsewhere, unless you count the mirror sites, and of course, sadly, those sites mirror the removal of commons category links too. There is another problem with compromising articles on Victorian architecture by removing image links, and that is the parlous safety-position of Victorian architecture in the UK. It is protected far less than architecture built up to 1800, and the more reliable information that we can contribute to WP, the better-educated the public will be on that subject. You have to know about it to protect it. Frankly, pictures do the best job. When I can visit a building at all, I take between 100 and 250 pictures of the structure and its architectural carving, and upload it to Commons. It is only reasonable that this should be easily available to the public. No casual reader, and (in my experience) few researchers even notice the media link at the bottom of the article page, and they will not think of searching Commons.
 * . Please would you kindly tell us how your edits are improving ease of research via Wikipedia? How are you making information more accessible to researchers? Storye book (talk) 10:50, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * And yet 99.9% of articles here cope fine without trying to duplicate the list of subcategories from Commons? BTW, if you restore the other one, double-check the links as some of the categories have been renamed. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:32, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Right. So because you are clearly not going to change your mind, I have reverted your edits on Benjamine Burstall so that I can see what I'm doing, then I've replaced the commonscats with notes, and finally removed the commonscates from the text. That was only seven commonscats, and it took me ages, because the copy and paste facility on this pc is delayed, and saving is delayed due to slow broadband in my village. Next I have to do William Swinden Barber, which has 40 deleted commonscats, which I must replace with notes. This will take me more than one day, I'm guessing, so I'm asking for your patience while I do that. It will be impossible for me to do without reverting your edits, because I have a small monitor and will need to be able to see what I'm doing. I'm seriously worried and distressed by this, because if you diminish any more of these articles, which I originally created, then some of the others have even longer lists of sections with commonscats. I am worried that the computer will break down and I won't get it repaired during lockdown. I'm worried that my tendency to break brittle bones will prevent me from doing it all promptly. So I'm asking you please if you do any more of these articles which I created, in this way, please would you kindly replace each commons category with a note in the way that I have done on Benjamin Burstall article. I shall of course be working through the rest of "my" articles to replace commonscats with notes, but with the best intentions and best conditions it will take me a long time. If as you say you have good intentions, then I think that you should do that. Destruction is easy because it's so quick. Repairs take longer. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 11:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

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


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
 * Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (T267656)
 * Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (T268456)
 * Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (T265783)
 * Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
 * Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
 * Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (T267627)
 * Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (T270133)
 * Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (T271194)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Boyhood (1951 film)
Hi, could you/your Bot tag this article as Wikidata item as you've done with some previous of my new articles? There are no foreign language entries for this. Please note that the Japanese entry for Shonenki is for the book this film is based on, not the film itself which my article is about. Thanks Robert Kerber (talk) 15:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It looks like it is, there's a Japanese article for it, which seems to cover the mix of the book, film, and TV series. The Wikidata item is focused on the film, though, so matches enwp, and it's now linked. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:14, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks Robert Kerber (talk) 16:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #453
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 * Events
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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

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Arbitration
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Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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ArchiveSent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:09, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

I'm wondering
Hi Mike, how are you? I hope you're feeling good. Anyway, I want to talk to you about structured commons, specifically in this file. If you see the categories, you can see that they are mentioning many "Edifícios", or "buildings" in English. in the structured data tab, depicts could (and I'm going to) mention each of them by their QID, since they are depicted in the image. What I want to ask, though, is if there is any bot that checks the categories of a image and, based on those categories, use them to add structured data to a file on Wikimedia Commons. If so, how we can improve it? Cheers, User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 17:59, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * At the moment there is no bot that does that. I've thought about creating one, but I haven't done so yet. The risk is that files in a category might not actually depict the topic of the category (e.g., views from an object)... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:04, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there's this risk. But at least for the file I mentioned, there aren't QIDs for "Views from an object" of "Views from X", so I'd say we are safe. Alternatively, the bot could be selective, that is, it could specifically look for, in a string, the word "building" of "edifício", etc. This could be a bit more complicated since I'm sure this exists to buildings in other languages. But it's an idea :) Anyway, thanks for the speedy answer and cheers, User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 18:08, 6 February 2021 (UTC)