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Wikidata weekly summary #362
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: BRPever


 * Events
 * Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
 * Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
 * Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
 * Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
 * The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
 * Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
 * New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
 * External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
 * External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoordinates%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%20%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcoordinates%20%3Fline%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FconnectLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fcode%20%3Frgb%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoordinates%29%20AS%20%3Fcoordinates%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20%28sample%28%3Flat1%29%20as%20%3Flat1%29%20%28sample%28%3Flon1%29%20as%20%3Flon1%29%20%28sample%28%3Fcode%29%20as%20%3Fcode%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2175765.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ8678.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates%20%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5696%20%3Fcode%20%7D.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%7D%20AS%20%25stations%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fnextstation%20%28sample%28%3Flat2%29%20as%20%3Flat2%29%20%28sample%28%3Flon2%29%20as%20%3Flon2%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2175765%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ8678%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fnextstation%0A%7D%20AS%20%25nextstations%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fline%20%3Fconnect%20%28%229B0058%22%20as%20%3Frgb%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stations%20.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25nextstations%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP197%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fnextstation%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20pq%3AP81%20%3Fconnect%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STR%28%3Fitem%29%20%3C%20STR%28%3Fnextstation%29%29%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25lines%20%0A%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25stations%20%7D%20%20UNION%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25lines%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cpt%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network]
 * Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
 * Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
 * Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
 * Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)


 * Development
 * Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (T220122)
 * Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (T172937)
 * Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (T218229)
 * Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (T210293)
 * Align RTL languages in glosses to right (T203081)
 * Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo)
 * Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (T199409)
 * Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
 * More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

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
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Necrothesp
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

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

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Primefac

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news
 * XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration
 * In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically.  All current administrators have been notified of this change.
 * Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous
 * A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
 * A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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Wikidata weekly summary #363
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
 * Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
 * Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
 * Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
 * Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
 * An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
 * New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
 * External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
 * External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater


 * Query examples:
 * Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Commons%20categories%20for%20a%20set%20of%20books%2C%20that%20have%20categories%20for%20people%20other%20than%0A%23%20those%20%27explained%27%20by%20statements%20on%20Wikidata%20for%20author%2C%20contributor%2C%20etc.%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fbook%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3Fauth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP195%20wd%3AQ53764729%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP767%20%3Fauth%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25pairs%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fauth%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3ASubQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%20%23%20we%20have%20to%20disable%20the%20optimizer%20for%20this%20subquery%20because%20it%20gets%20confused%20by%20the%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%20part%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fauth%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRLANG%28CONCAT%28%22Category%3A%22%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement%29%2C%20%22en%22%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%20schema%3Aname%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fauth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28STR%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3A%22%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25authsWithCommonsCategories%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3ASubQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%20%23%20we%20have%20to%20disable%20the%20optimizer%20for%20this%20subquery%20because%20it%20gets%20confused%20by%20the%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%20part%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRLANG%28CONCAT%28%22Category%3A%22%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement%29%2C%20%22en%22%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%20schema%3Aname%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fbook%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28STR%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3A%22%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3FcommonsCategoryBook%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3Fauth%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25authsWithCommonsCategories.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25pairCats%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fcategories%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20mediawiki%3AisInCategory%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20mediawiki%3AisInCategory%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3APeople_by_name%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairCats%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20 Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc.] (source)
 * Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
 * Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)


 * Development
 * Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (T220772)
 * Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (T222182, T222133, T222129)
 * Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (T221942)
 * Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (T210598)
 * Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (T220977)
 * Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (T217000)
 * Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (T218690)
 * Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (T215951)

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
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:30, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #364
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
 * Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
 * Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
 * Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
 * New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
 * External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
 * External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Street signs in Rennes (source)
 * Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
 * Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
 * Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
 * Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata


 * Development
 * Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
 * Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (T221638)
 * Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (T221612)
 * Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (T222181)
 * More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on T221764)
 * More work on mobile termbox
 * Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (T203337)
 * Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

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
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:08, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #365
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2


 * Events
 * Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
 * Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
 * Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
 * Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
 * Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
 * Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
 * Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
 * QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
 * Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
 * Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
 * BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
 * Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
 * Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
 * Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
 * GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
 * Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
 * Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
 * Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
 * Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
 * Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
 * AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
 * ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
 * Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
 * All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
 * Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
 * External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
 * External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Most%20common%20properties%20for%20maps%2C%20with%20top%205%20values%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3FpropLabel%20%20%3Fprop_items%20%3Fprop_stmts%20%3Fval%20%3FvalLabel%20%3Fval_count%20%3Fsamp%20%3FsampLabel%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fprop%20%3Fstmt%20%3Fval%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ4006%20%5Ewdt%3AP279%2a%2F%5Ewdt%3AP31%20%3Fitem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ17146139%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20%3Fp%20%3Fstmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fprop%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ19847637%7D%20%20%23%20Wikidata%20property%20representing%20a%20unique%20identifier%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fprop%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ18614948%7D%20%20%23%20Wikidata%20property%20for%20authority%20control%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20%3Fps%20%3Fval%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%23LIMIT%202000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25maps_props_vals%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fitem%29%29%20AS%20%3Fprop_items%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fstmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Fprop_stmts%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25maps_props_vals%20%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_stats%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20%20%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fitem%29%29%20AS%20%3Fval_count%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsamp%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25maps_props_vals%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%0A%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fval_count%20%3E%203%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_val_counts%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%3Fsamp%20%3Fval_count%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fval1%29%29%20AS%20%3Fval_rank%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_counts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28%3Fval%20AS%20%3Fval1%29%20%28%3Fval_count%20AS%20%3Fval1_count%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_counts%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fval1_count%20%3E%3D%20%3Fval_count%29%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%3Fval_count%20%3Fsamp%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_val_ranks%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_stats%20.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_ranks%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fval_rank%20%3C%206%29%20.%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fprop_items%29%20DESC%28%3Fprop_stmts%29%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval_rank%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20 Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values] (source)
 * Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
 * Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
 * Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)


 * Development
 * Added  of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
 * Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (T203366)
 * Imrpove logging in on mobile (T215913)
 * More work on mobile termbox
 * Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

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
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #366
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
 * Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
 * Published in WWW 2019
 * Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
 * QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
 * Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
 * Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
 * Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
 * Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
 * External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier


 * Query examples:
 * European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
 * Map of meteor impact craters (source)
 * Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
 * Number of riots per country (source)
 * European country having the most female politicians (source)


 * Development
 * Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
 * Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (T220609)
 * Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (T217245)
 * Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (T223995)
 * Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (T221774)
 * Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (T214557)
 * More work to get termbox ready for deployment
 * Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (T221831)

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
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #367
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
 * Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada


 * Press, articles, blog posts


 * Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
 * Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
 * At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
 * Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
 * Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
 * External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
 * External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gay parades in Italy in 2019
 * Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
 * Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
 * Dunes in Wikidata (source)
 * Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
 * Map of archives in the world (source)
 * Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain


 * Development
 * Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (T216842)
 * Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223300)
 * Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (T223311)
 * More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (T223270)
 * Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (T221774)
 * Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (T223995)
 * Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (T203366)
 * Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (T217994)
 * WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (T217994, T214586, T217997)
 * Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (T221965)
 * More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
 * Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (T221831)
 * Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (T221833)

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.

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

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
 * An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
 * An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news
 * The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion.  You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
 * Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution!  The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
 * The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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Wikidata weekly summary #368
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
 * Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
 * Robustifying Scholia &mdash; Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
 * External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
 * External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#PREFIX%20jps%3A%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fjpsearch.go.jp%2Fterm%2Fproperty%23%3E%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fname%20%3Fwork_link%20%3Fwork%20%3FcreatorLabel%20%3Fdate%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcreator%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fcitizenship%20%7Bwd%3AQ145%20wd%3AQ174193%7D%20.%20%23%20UK%2C%20Britain%20%26%20Ireland%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcreator%20wdt%3AP6698%20%5B%5D%3B%20%20%20%23%20Only%20get%20things%20with%20a%20Japan%20Search%20ID%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcitizenship%3B%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ1281618%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20sculptors%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20AS%20%25creators%0AWHERE%20%7B%0Ainclude%20%25creators%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fjpsearch.go.jp%2Frdf%2Fsparql%2F%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fjps_creator%20owl%3AsameAs%20%3Fcreator%20.%20%23%20convert%20Wikidata%20ID%20to%20Japan%20Search%20ID%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20schema%3Acreator%20%3Fjps_creator%20.%20%20%23%20Works%20by%20this%20artist%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwork%20schema%3Aname%20%3Fname%20%7D%20%20%20%23%20This%20will%20return%20separate%20names%20in%20English%20and%20Japanese%20names%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwork%20schema%3AdateCreated%20%3Fdate%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0AFILTER%20(lang(%3Fname)%3D%22en%22)%20%20%23%20Show%20only%20the%20English%20name%0ABIND(URI(%20REPLACE(STR(%3Fwork)%2C%20%22%2Fdata%2F%22%2C%20%22%2Fitem%2F%22)%20)%20AS%20%3Fwork_link)%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search)] (source)
 * Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20compare%20lat%2Flong%20of%20Parliament%20and%20Wikidata%20constituency%20records%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fline%22%5D%7D%0APREFIX%20parliament%3A%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fid.parliament.uk%2Fschema%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fconstituency%20%3Fparlcoord%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fwdcoord%20%3Fdist%20%3Fline%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fapi.parliament.uk%2Fsparql%3E%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fconstituency%20parliament%3AconstituencyGroupHasConstituencyArea%20%3Farea%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farea%20parliament%3Alatitude%20%3Flat%20.%20%3Farea%20parliament%3Alongitude%20%3Flong%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bind%28SUBSTR%28str%28%3Fconstituency%29%2C26%29%20as%20%3Fparlid%29%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28concat%28%22Point%28%22%2Cstr%28%3Flong%29%2C%22%20%22%2Cstr%28%3Flat%29%2C%22%29%22%29%20as%20%3Fparlcoord%29%20%0A%20%20%23%20get%20constituencies%20from%20Parliament%20with%20coordinates%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP6213%20%3Fparlid%20.%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ27971968%20.%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fwdcoord%20.%20%0A%20%20%23%20now%20get%20them%20from%20Wikidata%20with%20coordinates%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fparlcoord%2C%20%3Fwdcoord%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20.%20filter%20%28%3Fdist%20%3E%3D%2010%29%0A%20%20%23%20now%20find%20out%20the%20distance%20%28in%20kms%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%3Fstatementnode.%20%3Fstatementnode%20psv%3AP625%20%3Fvaluenode.%0A%20%20%3Fvaluenode%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fwikilat%20.%20%3Fvaluenode%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fwikilon.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fwikilon%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fwikilat%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flong%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20%0A%7D%0A Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies] (source)


 * Development
 * When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
 * More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
 * Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (T221835)
 * Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (T221831)
 * Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (T221833)
 * Add EntitySchema in the license footer (T224536)
 * Several improvements to shex simple tools (T221604, T221606)
 * Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (T223372)
 * Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (T224593)
 * Improved tests and fixed failing tests

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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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Wikidata weekly summary #369
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles


 * Events
 * Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
 * Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
 * Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
 * Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
 * On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
 * New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
 * External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
 * External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
 * Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
 * Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
 * Péniches in Lyon
 * Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
 * Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
 * Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
 * Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism


 * Development
 * Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (T216835)
 * Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (T224545)
 * Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (T222621)
 * Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (T207235)
 * Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (T221835)
 * More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (T217997)
 * Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

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Wikidata weekly summary #370
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items


 * Events
 * Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
 * Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
 * Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
 * WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
 * Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
 * Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
 * Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
 * Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
 * Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
 * ''Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
 * From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
 * Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
 * Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
 * Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
 * The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
 * CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
 * External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
 * External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Ftotal%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fdepicts_classLabel%20%3Fprop%20%3FpropLabel%20%3Fsamp%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%23%20LIMIT%20100000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25stmts%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_stmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftotal%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stmts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20%3Fqual%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fqual%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25totals%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_stmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsamp%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stmts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts_val%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_val%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20%3Fdepicts_class%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20%3Fqual%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fqual%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%0A%20%20LIMIT%205000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25data%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_class1%29%29%20AS%20%3Frank%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fdepicts_class%20AS%20%3Fdepicts_class1%29%20%3Fprop%20%28%3Fcount%20AS%20%3Fcount1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fcount1%20%3E%3D%20%3Fcount%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25ranks%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25ranks%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25totals%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Frank%20%3C%2011%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Ftotal%29%20%3Fprop%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on] (source)
 * Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
 * Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
 * French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
 * Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard


 * Development
 * Beginning of wb_terms migration (T221764)
 * Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (T226083)
 * Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223303)
 * Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (T223270)
 * Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (T223372)
 * Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (T224495)
 * Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (T224010)
 * Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
 * Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
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 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #371
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
 * Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
 * State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
 * Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
 * Published in ArXiv:
 * DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
 * ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
 * Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
 * External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
 * External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID


 * Query examples:
 * Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language (source)
 * Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (source)
 * Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
 * Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre (source)
 * Newest database reports: education by country

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 * Development
 * More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
 * Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (T225935)
 * Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (T224832)
 * Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (T218282)
 * Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (T225603) according to the migration plan (T221765)
 * Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (T205045)
 * Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223305)
 * Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (T225500)
 * Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (T222193)
 * Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (T226672)


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

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019). Administrator changes
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 * 1 's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
 * 2 's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.
 * In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.
 * The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
 * The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
 * A request for comment seeks to determine whether Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous
 * In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop . This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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Wikidata weekly summary #372
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: ZI Jony


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
 * Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
 * The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
 * Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
 * Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
 * You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (T227063)
 * Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (T226153)
 * Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to User-Agent policy.
 * New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
 * External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
 * External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage


 * Query examples:
 * 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fgeoshape%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%2C%22%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%22%5D%2C%22layer%22%3A%22%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%22%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%0A%3Farea%20%3FareaLabel%0A%3F2011%0A%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%0A%3Fgeoshape%20%0A%3Frgb%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%3Farea%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fgeoshape%20.%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%222001%3A%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Population%2C%20%22%20%3B%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Speakers%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Percent%29%20as%20%3F2011%29%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_Population%20%3F2011_Speakers%20%3F2011_Percent%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22Population%3A%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3F2011_population%29%29%20as%20%3F2011_Population%29%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22Welsh%20speakers%3A%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3F2011_speakers%29%29%20as%20%3F2011_Speakers%29%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22%28%22%2C%20SUBSTR%28STR%28%3F2011_percent%29%2C0%2C5%29%2C%20%22%25%29.%22%29%20as%20%3F2011_Percent%29%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_speakers%20%3F2011_population%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28100%20%2a%20%3F2011_speakers%20%2F%20%3F2011_population%20AS%20%3F2011_percent%29%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_speakers%20%3F2011_population%20WHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Farea%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15979307%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2936%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1082%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20%3Fpq_qual%20%3Fpq_obj%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fqual%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fpq_qual%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20pq%3AP585%20%222011-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1098%20%3F2011_speakers%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20%3Fpq_qual%20%3Fpq_obj%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fqual%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fpq_qual%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20pq%3AP585%20%222011-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP1082%20%3F2011_population%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2010%2C%20%220-10%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2020%2C%20%2210-20%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2030%2C%20%2220-30%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2040%2C%20%2230-40%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2050%2C%20%2240-50%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2060%2C%20%2250-60%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2070%2C%20%2260-70%25%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%2270%25%2B%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20AS%20%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%29.%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2010%2C%20%22ffe6e6%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2020%2C%20%22ffb3b3%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2030%2C%20%22ff8080%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2040%2C%20%22ff4d4d%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2050%2C%20%22ff1a1a%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2060%2C%20%22e60000%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2070%2C%20%22b30000%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%22800000%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales] (source)
 * Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
 * Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
 * World map of sign languages by country (source)
 * Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3FsiteLabel%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20%3FunescoUrl%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3Fplace%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20%3FunescoUrl%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP463%20wd%3AQ7809%3Bwdt%3AP30%20wd%3AQ46%20.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ1191549%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15304003%20%7D%7D%7D%0A%7BSELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3Fprotection%20%3Fcountry%20%28group_concat%28DISTINCT%20%3FsiteType%29%20AS%20%3FsiteType%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP1435%20%3FprotectionStatement%20%3Bwdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP527%20%3Fsite%20.%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP1435%20%3Fprotection%20%7D%0A%3FprotectionStatement%20ps%3AP1435%20%3Fprotection%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FprotectionStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0AVALUES%20%3Fprotection%20%7B%20wd%3AQ9259%20wd%3AQ17278671%20wd%3AQ52683530%20wd%3AQ16617071%20wd%3AQ52683527%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP2614%20%3Fcriteria%20.%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%28%3Fcriteria%20in%20%28wd%3AQ23038972%2C%20wd%3AQ23038976%2C%20wd%3AQ23038977%2C%20wd%3AQ23038978%2C%20wd%3AQ23038979%2C%20wd%3AQ23038980%29%29%2C%20%22Cultural%22%2C%20%22Natural%22%29%20AS%20%3FsiteType%29%0A%7D%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fsite%20%3Fprotection%20%3Fcountry%0A%7D%0A%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP757%20%3FidStatement%20.%0A%3FidStatement%20ps%3AP757%20%3Fid%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FidStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0Awd%3AP757%20p%3AP1630%20%3FformatterUrlStatement%20.%0A%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP4171%20%3FidStatement%20.%0A%3FidStatement%20ps%3AP4171%20%3Fid%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FidStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0Awd%3AP4171%20p%3AP1630%20%3FformatterUrlStatement%20.%0A%7D%0A%3FformatterUrlStatement%20ps%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20%3B%0Apq%3AP407%20wd%3AQ1860%20.%0ABIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3FunescoUrl%29.%0A%7B%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP527%2B%20%3Fplace%20.%0A%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP527%20%3Fx%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%3Fprotection%20%3D%20wd%3AQ17278671%2C%20%22Tentative%20list%22%2C%20%22World%20heritage%22%29%20AS%20%3FsiteProtection%29%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%3FsiteType%20%21%3D%20%22%22%2C%20CONCAT%28%3FsiteProtection%2C%20%22%20-%20%22%2C%20IF%20%28%3FsiteType%20%3D%20%22Cultural%20Natural%22%20%7C%7C%20%3FsiteType%20%3D%20%22Natural%20Cultural%22%2C%20%22Mixed%22%2C%20%3FsiteType%29%29%2C%20%3FsiteProtection%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%7D%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flayer%29%20%3FsiteLabel%20%3FplaceLabel Map of World Heritage places in Europe] (source)
 * Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
 * Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery


 * Development
 * Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
 * Fixed JSON dump issue (T226601)
 * Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (T227207)
 * Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (T224495)
 * Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (T207893)
 * Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (T224362)
 * Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (T223999)
 * Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

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
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the page Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
 * A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration
 * Editors may now use the template Ds/aware to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous
 * Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
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The Signpost: 30 August 2019
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Floquenbeam • Lectonar
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

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 * Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
 * The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news
 * As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration
 * The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
 * The arbitration case regarding was closed.  While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

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Interface administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
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 * A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration
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CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
 * A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
 * Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration
 * The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
 * Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , , , , ,.

Miscellaneous
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Partial blocks.
 * The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news
 * Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating.  There is currently one template: uw-pblock.
 * When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.

Arbitration
 * Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
 * A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news
 * Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present.  You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
 * The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT
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Bureaucrat changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news
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Technical news
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
 * Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

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 * created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous
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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration
 * A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg John • TheCoffee • Tim!
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news
 * Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
 * The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news
 * There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
 * Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
 * Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
 * There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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CheckUser changes
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 * A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
 * A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
 * An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Jackmcbarn
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news
 * The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (T261630).

Arbitration
 * The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
 * Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous
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 * Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui

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

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Yunshui

Oversight changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Yunshui

Guideline and policy news
 * Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news
 * Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
 * Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
 * Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration
 * The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
 * The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous
 * A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020). Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
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Technical news
 * Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

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

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

CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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 * 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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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

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Arbitration
 * By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
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 * After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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Arbitration
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Technical news
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Arbitration
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 * 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.

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Arbitration
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 * 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
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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
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Arbitration
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 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

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 * 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
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 * 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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Guideline and policy news
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Technical news
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 * 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
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 * 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
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Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
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 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

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 * An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news
 * Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the  and   rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators.
 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
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 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
 * A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
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 * Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news
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 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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

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

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

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

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Arbitration
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Miscellaneous
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
 * An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news
 * The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
 * Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous
 * You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
 * Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
 * Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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 * A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
 * An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news
 * The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
 * The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration
 * An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
 * The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous
 * The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
 * Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
 * Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
 * Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news
 * The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
 * A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
 * The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous
 * An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
 * Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
 * You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
 * An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
 * Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
 * An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
 * The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections.  and  are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
 * You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
 * Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like or.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
 * The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
 * An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news
 * A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget.

Arbitration
 * Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
 * The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
 * The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
 * A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous
 * Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add  to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

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Oversighter changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Guerillero · SilkTork

Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.
 * The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous
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 * Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
 * Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news
 * The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration Miscellaneous
 * The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
 * In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
 * Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
 * Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
 * Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
 * A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news
 * The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
 * The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
 * A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
 * Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
 * The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11.
 * The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
 * A link to the user's page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on . This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration
 * The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
 * A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ale jrb · Dbachmann · DGG (deceased) · Jimbo Wales



CheckUser changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news
 * Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration
 * The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous
 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ddstretch · Prodego · Resolute



CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
 * As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news
 * Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous
 * Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).



Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deckiller · Electionworld · MBisanz · Penwhale · Raul654 · Roadrunner · Viridae · Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news
 * Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration
 * Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).



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Guideline and policy news
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Technical news
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Arbitration
 * The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

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Arbitration
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 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
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 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
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Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
 * The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
 * Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Arbitration
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 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
 * The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

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Guideline and policy news
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Technical news
 * Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.

Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
 * Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
 * Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
 * The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with Unreferenced. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

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Guideline and policy news
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 * Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news
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Miscellaneous
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 * Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news
 * Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous
 * This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
 * A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news
 * The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
 * The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).



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Technical news
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Miscellaneous
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