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Wikidata weekly summary #581
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention)
 * TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open.
 * The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page.
 * The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
 * Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register
 * GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open. Deadline is June 30, 2023.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Using Wikidata Lexemes and Items to Generate Text from Abstract Representations
 * The Wikipedia Republic of Literary Characters
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube
 * Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube
 * Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata, How to Create a Wikidata Item, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items
 * Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube
 * Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube
 * Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube
 * Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities?, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases
 * OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube
 * Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube
 * Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube
 * KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube
 * SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Analysing the profile of people invited to France Inter's Matinale using Wikidata
 * Wikidata Queries
 * Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article
 * Charleroi Streets Gender Inequality
 * Citation Factory
 * Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement  with Natural History Collections


 * Tool of the week
 * Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series
 * Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * satellite view ( image of the subject taken from outer space )
 * External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID, KPU Plant Database ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID, documenta archiv ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Israel Composers' League composer ID, Alabama Authors ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * HyperTextAPI
 * Gottstein code ( Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant )
 * altesdresden.de object ( altesdresden.de object )
 * Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي
 * Moroccan administrative geographical coding
 * External identifiers: COSL profile ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, NBC Olympics Athlete ID, European Bridge League ID, research.com ID, ComingSoon.it TV IDs, Team France profile ID, FIGC player ID, Theapolis theater ID, Theapolis actor ID, AVP player ID, Volleyball Canada ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, Korean Tour player ID, Austadiums ID, DEL player ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID


 * Query examples:
 * Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? (source)
 * Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann (source)
 * List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID (source)
 * British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions (source)
 * Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account (source)
 * [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge
 * [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of March 5, 1902?


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
 * We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
 * EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
 * mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (T329644, T338302, T329655, T316767)
 * Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (T327510)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:24, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #582
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th.
 * WikiIndaba 2023 Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Dude, where are my pictures?
 * BiCIKL is linking people unambiguously and efficiently to their work
 * Understanding Knowledge Graphs: A Beginner’s Guide
 * Videos
 * re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube
 * Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
 * Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
 * Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
 * Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube
 * From authority control to identity management - YouTube
 * DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube
 * Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube
 * Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
 * KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
 * Surveys
 * Results of the WMDE survey on ontology issues reusers are facing
 * Notebooks
 * Explore people having notable parents


 * Tool of the week


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), Professor at Cologne univ. ID, Numista ruling authority ID, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * 諱
 * Date of declaration as a town ( The date when a settlement is declared a town )
 * Loss of town status ( Date of loss of town rank )
 * External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Alienor.org ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, XWord Info author ID, WKF ranking ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, etymologiebank.nl ID


 * Query examples:
 * Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) (source)
 * List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page
 * (history) Where were the borders crossing between and  ?
 * Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject University of Washington Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community.
 * WikiProject New York Public Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (T338383)
 * EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
 * Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
 * mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (T329644, T338302, T339103, T329655, T329655)
 * Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (T327510)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:33, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Top Bar Follow up
Hi Nthep, you had helped me add my contributions and wathlist to the topbar and sticky header and was wondering if you could help me with something similar. What would be the code to add my sandbox and to-do list page (User:Aza24/To do list) there as well? Best –  Aza24  (talk)   06:53, 29 June 2023 (UTC)


 * responded at own talk page. Nthep (talk) 21:12, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

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



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 * 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.

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 * 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.

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 * 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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Wikidata weekly summary #583
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)

Scholarship applications are now open]].
 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023. [[m:WWC2023/Scholarship|
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour July 7, 2023: Let's collaborate to upgrade our community infrastructure! We'll transfer notes and content from Google Docs to our WikiProject subpages.  We'll be practicing our Wiki markup skills and learning to manage Wikidata Project pages Event page
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #99, Breast milk (Challenge started on 2023-07-03 12:01:21)
 * Past: The “Games & Literature” conference took place June 28th-30th at German Literature Archive Marbach (Q1205813), several sessions mentioned Wikidata (see for example Why we thought it was a good idea to build a DACH games database).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * EduWiki 2023 Wikidata for Education - YouTube
 * EduWiki 2023 Wikidata in Secondary School Classrooms - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Visualizing all Tour de France's yellow jersey wearers. See also, all notebooks about the Tour de France.


 * Tool of the week
 * m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
 * Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
 * Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * first performance by ( performer or performing group for the first performance of a work )
 * record of ( signal over time this object is a physical representation of )
 * orchestration ( the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement described using score notation )
 * type of document(s) held ( used to specify the type of document(s) contained in an archival collection or documentation file )
 * External identifiers: French sports venue number, Challenges billionaire ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, mosff.ru player ID, Austadiums ID, Akadem organization ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia.com ID, QLIT ID, Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Kartvelologists of Georgia ID, Politique pappers identifier, altesdresden.de object ID, BFM.ru person ID, beachsoccer.com player ID, National Science Foundation award, BIBFRAME Hub ID, elibrary.ru article ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris work ID, Radiomuseum company ID, BSDB player ID, NBC Olympics athlete ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * elected on ( Date when a person was elected to a, in difference to (= ).  cannot always be applied. )
 * collage combines images ( collage composed of images )
 * Nigerian registered company (RC) id ( RC number (Registration Number), identifier assigned to a business by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria )
 * Cent cols ( A property to link Wikidata entries to the dedicated pages of each pass by the Cent Cols )
 * Phonographic copyright ( identifier for phonographic copyright )
 * External identifiers: myjewishitaly.it ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Lemmy community identifier, Mythoskop ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara settlement ID, LFG player ID, Flashpoint database ID, Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, Wikibase World identifier, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, National Library of Colombia authority ID, CNR ExploRA author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Subject areas of journals that have published papers about the replication crisis (by User:Zeromonk and User:MartinPoulter)
 * Count of games published in ROM format per platform per year, 1995-1997 (source)
 * Countries with similar populations
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Conflation aims to identify and untangle conflated items.
 * WikiProject Scotland's Accused Witches aims at producing structured data documenting witchhunts, and prosecuted Scotland's accused witches on Wikidata using the University of Edinburgh's landmark Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736).


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (T338141, T338138)
 * We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (T339356), T338383)
 * Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
 * mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Foul (basketball)
"Harry rerok" is back editing here. Same Edit Summary as an edit you reverted and expunged; can't tell whether the edit itself is the same. Spike-from-NH (talk) 20:09, 7 July 2023 (UTC)


 * @Spike-from-NH no apparent copyvio. No comment on the suitability of the content changes as basketball is not a sport that interests me. Nthep (talk) 20:23, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #584
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * LD4 conference (YouTube)
 * Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog- Tuesday, July 11, 2:30pm EST
 * Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas - Tuesday, July 11, 11:30am EST
 * Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) - Tuesday, July 11, 11am EST
 * WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration - Wednesday, July 12, 11:00 am - 11:30 am
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
 * How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base Wednesday, July 12, 10:00 am - 10:30 am ET
 * Ongoing
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #100, Ants (Challenge started on 2023-07-10 12:01:24)
 * Past
 * Sailesh Patnaik presents Wikidata for Education at the July session of the Network of Open Orgs - YouTube
 * Wikidata Online Course - Cohort 1 graduation - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * A volunteer-based initiative is flourishing in Arabic Wikipedia: Reliability enhanced with +10k citations added
 * Wikidata Map in 2023
 * Videos
 * How to create a Wikidata Lexeme with ease - Beginner's Guide (in Twi and English) YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
 * HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Overview of potential solutions regarding survey on ontology issues reusers are facing have been published. Are there important pieces missing? Is there something you disagree with? Generally sounds sensible? Do add your thoughts.
 * Wikidata development plan for Q3 has been updated. Wikidata:Development_plan


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * excavated by ( person who has conducted an archaeological excavation of a historic site )
 * verdict ( decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury )
 * Founder of
 * underlying structure ( an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost )
 * timetable
 * External identifiers: Antenna Structure Registration Number, BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, Gameswelt ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID


 * Query examples:
 * Week 26, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Portraits of queer men people
 * World Universities on Mastodon (source)


 * Development
 * Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions and are looking for input on them now.
 * mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (T316767)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (T339356, T338383)
 * Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (T327510)
 * WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (T321967)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:06, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Big Jim McLain page hubbub
Greetings User Nthep. As you are an administrator, and the one who took the most recent action at the above page, can you please help me understand what's going on there. I have no idea what a "cd-revdel" is (and never heard of the thing, but for the lecture handed out by User Mako). All I know is that no version of the page's history is "active" beyond the first four or five entries. The rest all have lines through their dates and such, and cannot be accessed, even to view what changes the edits had made.

Can you please shed some light on what has happened, and when the page will return to normal and be editable again? Thank you. ~

(Sorry, can't sign this post. Some new feature crept up on my computer today determined to volunteer how to end any word I begin to type, which I can most certainly live without, and which is preventing me from typing four tildes in a row; instead, it volunteers them in groups of like 20.  No thanks.) 2601:196:180:DC0:DE0:B9E6:6D56:9050 (talk) 19:09, 8 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Back in 2013 someone added a whole load of copyrighted text. Wikipedia policy on flagrant copyright violations is that as well as the offending text being removed, all the revisions that contained the text (i.e. all those between it being added and removed) need to be hidden from public view - that's revdel, short for WP:Revision deletion.  The article can be edited normally except you can't see what specific changes were made by each of the hidden edits. That's an unwanted but unavoidable side effect of a copyright violation not being noticed for 10 years. Nthep (talk) 20:04, 8 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Why that is completely insane. And exponential overkill.  In fact, everything User Mako did (and requested) was, including starting out with an offensive mass revert (rather than identifying any specific issues he had and dealing with them individually).  He correctly identified the Production section as a defacto trivia section.  Fine, delete anything unwarranted, and the obvious direct cribs from IMDb (which is what I did, flag the cribs).  Everything that happened after that is a nightmare.


 * The best thing you can do as an administrator is restore this page prior to Mako's edits, then delete the obvious/identifed IMDb cribs. If Mako then has anything he'd like to address, he can - individually, not with any repeat mass revert.  Let's see if we can't get this page back on track.  Thank you. ~ (Same problem, seemingly the browser - Edge - won't let me insert four consecutive tildes.  Just one, or blocks of 20.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:196:180:DC0:B832:7834:9DFB:2E13 (talk) 10:50, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The copyright issues have been dealt with per policy. If you and Mako have a content dispute over various sections, the start a discussion at the article talk page, Talk:Big Jim McLain.  If needs be put your entire proposed content there -as long as it doesn't contain verbatim copy from IMDB - and then have the discussion. Nthep (talk) 11:48, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Jeepers creepers, this just keeps getting more Orwellian. I'm the one who flagged the problem content, not generated it.  This whole thing has completely spun out of control since.  This is all wild overkill, from mass reverts to putting an entire page and wonking chunk of its history in permanent quarantine.  Can't you see that?  "Policies".  You need to be able to see the bigger picture - you're an administrator.  Neutron-bombing the thing should be a last resort, not first, requested by some over-avid WP user or not. ~  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:196:180:DC0:B832:7834:9DFB:2E13 (talk) 15:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I apologise for suggesting you introduced any copyvio. Just re-edit the article. This is the text of the amendments you made to the plot
 * The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) fails once again to get convictions of known American Communists, who stand behind the Fifth Amendment during their Congressional testimonies to avoid self-incrimination.
 * Investigators Jim McLain (Wayne) and Mal Baxter (Arness) are sent to Hawaii to track Party activities, with hopes of gaining enough hard evidence against members there to earn convictions. They become interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel and plans to have local unions go on strike to prevent the loading and unloading of ships on the Honolulu docks.
 * After receiving useful information from reporter Phil Briggs (Vernon "Red" McQueen), the agents begin searching for Willie Nomaka, a former party treasurer, who is being treated by psychiatrist Dr. Gelster (Gayne Whitman). The doctor's secretary, Nancy Vallon (Nancy Olson), is helpful, as well. McLain asks her on a date and a romance develops.
 * Nokama disappears...ostensibly being treated for an (induced) nervous breakdown by Gelster.
 * Nomaka's landlady, the man-hungry Madge (Veda Ann Borg), assists in the investigation, while flirting with McLain. Nomaka's ex-wife (Madame Soo Yong) is willing, but unable to help McLain. Nomaka is eventually found under another name in a sanitorium, heavily drugged and unable to speak. Party leader Sturak (Alan Napier) gives orders to Dr. Gelster to get rid of him, but before Gelster can McLain rescues Nomaka and takes him to safety. Still, he proves of no value to their investigation. Meanwhile, two of the communists kidnap Baxter, and Gelster accidentally kills him by giving him an injection of Sodium Pentothal truth serum seeking to learn how much he had discovered.
 * In spite of the trauma to McLain this causes, his campaign to wed the also enamored Nancy is undaunted.
 * Sturak orders the members of the communist cell to attend a meeting. He orders Gelster to confess his party membership to the authorities and identify several nonessential members of the "cell" so the government will believe that the cell has been destroyed and the others can continue their work. Those fingered, including Gelster, are unenthusiastic of being arrested and sacrificing themselves to the Party. The meeting is interrupted by McLain, who seeks out Gelster and punches him for killing Baxter. Vastly outnumbered, McLain is losing the brawl that follows, but the police arrive and place the communists under arrest. The men responsible for Baxter's death are convicted of murder, but ultimately McLain and Nancy see the others plead the Fifth Amendment and go free.
 * as per the revision of 12:55 on 8 July 2023.
 * Re-insert this into the text, if you wish, then anything that happens subsequently to that is a content dispute between you and whoever and there is no complication due to copyvios being dealt with at the same time. Nthep (talk) 16:05, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for offering at least a partial common sense solution to sorting out the impacted page. Obviously, I had no reason to make any copy of the edits I'd made to the plot section, and am grateful for the chance to restore them intact (less some small modifications I noticed).

As for the still neutron-bombed former Production section, I'd already done a quite diligent cull of what was and was not lifted (more or less verbatim) from IMDb. That's why I used the multiple citation needed spans to identify it (and, ideally, at least gain independent citation of the flagged content, as, honestly, there is no way of knowing which came first - the WP item or that at IMDb (which offers no means of identifying or tracking edits by date and editor); obviously the onus is on it migrating this direction (a copyright violation, it appears) rather than the other (by license not)).

In theory - and I'm not trying to open up a can of worms here - some "baby" went out with the bathwater in the blanket cd:revdel, as there were entries at WP that were not at IMDb. Which is one additional reason I objected to it (and its "overkill", seeming to use a cannon to kill a mouse. On the other hand, every page with a flytrap "trivia" section (or defacto one masquerading as "In popular culture", or "Famous people (associated with a place by getting a haircut there)") could use a good neutron bombing (or its equivalent), but don't get them.)

In fact, I have come to spend more time at IMDb seeking to clean up its trivia (and other glop there regarded as goofs, plot holes, continuity breaks, and whathaveyou), in some ways an even greater labor of Sisyphus than trying to do the same here), certainly more relatively, as there is no mechanism whatsoever there for verification, just some invisible behind-the-scenes "Oz" who either accepts an item (or edit to it) or not. (Quite a game of blind man's poker.)

Thank you for being receptive to my concerns, and offering a partial solution which is about as Solomonic as it's going to get at this point. I appreciate your amicable and professional manner througout. 2601:196:180:DC0:213B:FD85:694A:C56E (talk) 10:39, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Under the Volcano (1984 film)
Hello Nthep, Thank you very much for the action taken on the page. Yours, - MY, OH MY! (mushy yank)  21:39, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Revdel at Large Indian civet
You removed the revdel template from Large Indian civet with the edit summary Copyvio revdel completed, but the page's deletion log is empty and the revisions are still visible in the page history. Was this intentional? If so I'd be curious what your rationale is for not revdeleting since I'm new to copyright cleanup and I appreciate any feedback I can get. — SamX &#91;talk · contribs&#93; 23:09, 16 July 2023 (UTC)


 * @SamX nothing wrong with your edits and tagging. For some reason, perhaps the number of revisions, they didn't delete when I hit the delete button. I've gone back and made sure they've gone this time. Nthep (talk) 08:30, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! — SamX &#91;talk · contribs&#93; 12:27, 17 July 2023 (UTC)