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Tech News: 2022-19
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android.

Problems
 * Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed.
 * Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
 * The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #519
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
 * International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
 * Past:
 * Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh: video (French), slides: French, English


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Automating Values in Wikibase (new extension)
 * Papers
 * Building a Knowledge Graph of Events and Consequences Using Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Working with the Automated Values extension in Wikibase - YouTube
 * Bringing IIIF Manifests to life in Wikidata - YouTube
 * Fun with lexemes. By Mahir256 - Twitch


 * Tool of the week
 * MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
 * User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
 * External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
 * External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
 * Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
 * Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
 * Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Slovakia


 * Development
 * REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (T305988, T307087, T307088)
 * Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (T298150).
 * We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (T277836).

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) 16:12, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Colin M
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ks0stm

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
 * Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news
 * The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * 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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Wikidata weekly summary #520
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
 * 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
 * International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Regional newspaper map with datawrapper and Wikidata
 * Papers
 * CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community (Q111987319)
 * OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts (tool)
 * Videos
 * How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
 * The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
 * External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Similar web ranking
 * External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild


 * Query examples:
 * List of oldest cryptocurrencies
 * Scottish rivers that merge to make a river with a new name (source)
 * List of candidates in the French legislative elections (source)
 * List of people with Elisabeth, Élisabeth or Elizabeth as first name (source)
 * Wikimedians with a Twitch channel (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (T305988, T307087, T307088)

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) 14:39, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons.

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #521
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
 * 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
 * Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
 * External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
 * External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID


 * Query examples:
 * Relationships of Roman deities (source)
 * Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
 * Food names after a place in the UK (source)
 * French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
 * Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
 * Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
 * Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (T307087) completed.
 * First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket T303852.
 * Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).

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) 14:55, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-21
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
 * The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

Problems
 * The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all.
 * Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers.

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #522
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 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project Agenda
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names, by Tiago Lubiana
 * Papers
 * The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
 * Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
 * Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
 * Videos
 * Replay of the livestream "Even more fun with Lexemes" by Mahir256


 * Tool of the week
 * Template Item documentation is now automatically displayed in the header of each item's talk page via MediaWiki:Talkpageheader.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
 * Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: candidate position
 * External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
 * External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier


 * Query examples:
 * List of candidates for the next French legislative elections (source)
 * Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata (source)
 * 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Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre] / 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percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre]
 * Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970 (source)
 * Top 100 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata (source)
 * Biennales that aren’t biennial (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (T307087), all statements of an item (T305988), a single statement for a specific item (T307088))
 * Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (T307915, decision)
 * Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (T306008)

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Tech News: 2022-22
<section begin="technews-2022-W22"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, an   function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple   expressions joined by   into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
 * The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the   parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit.
 * A new parser function will be introduced: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates.

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Editing newsletter 2022 – #1
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Village pump (proposals). You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.

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23:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Tamzin
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 * Pictogram voting rename.png →



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ivanvector

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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Tech News: 2022-23
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 * Octicons-tools.svg A new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression.

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Wikidata weekly summary #523
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 * Events
 * June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
 * June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
 * July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
 * Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?
 * Papers
 * "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
 * Videos
 * Live Wikidata editing #82 by Ainali and Abbe98


 * Tool of the week
 * Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
 * There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
 * Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
 * A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
 * External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
 * External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query examples:
 * Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
 * Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (T290733, T30535).
 * REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (T307031, T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (T306667).

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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Wikidata weekly summary #524
<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
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
 * Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
 * William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests
 * OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
 * Past
 * 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * 50,000 video games on Wikidata by Jean-Frédéric
 * The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)
 * Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database (in Basque)
 * Papers
 * A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
 * WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph
 * Videos
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
 * Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
 * Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
 * Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
 * DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
 * How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
 * Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
 * FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
 * The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata Testimonials
 * Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA)) (in French)
 * Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) (in French)
 * Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich) (in German)


 * Tool of the week
 * ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
 * Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
 * Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
 * Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
 * Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
 * New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: orchestrator
 * External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
 * External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID


 * Query examples:
 * Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
 * Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
 * items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
 * Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
 * A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
 * Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
 * Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
 * Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
 * In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
 * Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
 * Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (T306214)
 * Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (T290733), improving error messages for the new page (T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (T307869)
 * REST API: continued work on creating statements (T306667)

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

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Tech News: 2022-24
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Recent changes
 * All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes
 * By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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June GOCE newsletter
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Wikidata weekly summary #425
<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
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Integration of POTD template
 * Closed request for comments:
 * How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
 * Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
 * Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
 * (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsi@undefinedaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
 * Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
 * Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
 * Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
 * Videos
 * Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
 * Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
 * Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
 * Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
 * Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
 * External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
 * External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID


 * Query examples:
 * Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
 * Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
 * List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
 * Cemeteries in France near churches (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
 * Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (T307869)
 * Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (T290733)
 * Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (T298146)
 * REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-25
<section begin="technews-2022-W25"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu Ic more vert 36px.svg).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations.

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute values, and instead use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

June songs
My song collection is especially rich, look, and the hall where I first heard DFD, Pierre Boulez and Murray Perahia. Do you find the baby deer in the meadow (last row)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #426
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
 * July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
 * The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
 * Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
 * Past:
 * 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
 * Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
 * What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
 * Videos
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
 * The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
 * Podcasts
 * Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
 * Other
 * Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here


 * Tool of the week
 * IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: inker, penciller
 * External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
 * External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID


 * Query examples:
 * "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
 * Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
 * The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
 * Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (T307869)
 * REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (T306667)
 * Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (T309445)
 * Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-26
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
 * Octicons-tools.svg All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services.
 * Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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Wikidata weekly summary #522
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. should have a wiki commons link to  since they both refer to.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
 * Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
 * Past
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
 * Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
 * Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
 * Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
 * Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
 * Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
 * Report
 * User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
 * Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
 * Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
 * External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
 * Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
 * Map of tram depots in France
 * Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
 * List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
 * French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
 * French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
 * Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
 * Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
 * We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (T307869)
 * REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
 * We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (T303317)
 * We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (T309445)

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-27
<section begin="technews-2022-W27"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on  at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.
 * Octicons-tools.svg This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will be removed from <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and be replaced with the variable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Nihiltres

Technical news
 * is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users.

Arbitration
 * An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous
 * The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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Wikidata weekly summary #528
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 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
 * 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
 * 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day
 * Past:
 * Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
 * Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
 * Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
 * Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
 * Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
 * Papers
 * Wikidata and the bibliography of life (Q112959127)
 * Videos
 * Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
 * Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
 * User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
 * Q113000000 was created.
 * Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
 * Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: opus number
 * External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
 * External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID


 * Query examples:
 * Current list of French departments (documentation)
 * Prime ministers of Japan whose manner of death is homicide (source)
 * 1st level administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
 * List of globes and how many times they've been used


 * Development
 * Data Quality Days!
 * Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
 * Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (T303317)
 * Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (T309445)
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (T298140)
 * Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (T239208)
 * Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (T305032)
 * REST API:
 * Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
 * Started work on the API route for removing a statement from an Item

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

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Tech News: 2022-28
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Recent changes
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org.
 * The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #529
<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
 * New request for comments:
 * Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
 * Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
 * Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, Lexical categories
 * Past
 * 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. (replay on YouTube)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The Barassi Line: a globally unique divider splitting Australia’s footy fans
 * Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata
 * Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia
 * My GLAMorous introduction into the Wikiverse
 * Papers
 * Enriching Wikidata with Linked Open Data
 * Videos
 * Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - YouTube
 * Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
 * The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule.
 * Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Threads
 * OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.


 * Tool of the week
 * EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
 * User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job openings:
 * AFLIA: Wikidata Course Manager/Facilitator
 * WMF: Senior Program Officer, Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
 * There is a new Telegram group for OpenRefine users.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
 * External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of recent heatwaves (source)
 * Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata (source)
 * Cause and mode of death of ex-prime ministers (source)
 * Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants (source)
 * Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes (source)
 * People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages (source)
 * Newest database reports:
 * Albums ranked by number of sitelinks


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing
 * Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
 * REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
 * We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (T312223)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
 * EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-29
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Problems
 * The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August.

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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #530
<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
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * PangolinBot 1. Task/s: Automatically adds author information to Wikidata scholarly articles (items where instance of (P31) = scholarly article (Q13442814)) that have missing author information. Currently works for articles with the following references: PubMed ID (P698), PMCID (P932), Dimensions Publication ID (P6179), ADS bibcode (P819). Part of Outreachy Round 24.
 * BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
 * ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
 * ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
 * New request for comments:
 * Documented and featured SPARQL queries


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
 * [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
 * Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * The Lay of the Land: Data Visualizations of the Language Data and Domains of Wikidata (Q113181609)
 * Videos
 * Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - YouTube
 * Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
 * Fellowship: Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
 * T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's  script.
 * Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
 * OpenRefine 3.6.0 was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the release page for a changelog and download links.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, Delaware Division of Corporations file number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for
 * External identifiers: Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn Artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of driverless rapid transit railway lines worldwide
 * An example of finding problematic references
 * Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)
 * People born on rivers (source)
 * Humans with "native language" "German"


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (T313116)
 * Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (T313467)
 * REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
 * We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (T307869)
 * We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (T312223)

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-30
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Recent changes
 * The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

Problems
 * Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis).

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens.
 * Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "" and "" instead of just "" if the user is already blocked.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCVI, July 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #531
<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
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names|Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
 * EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
 * Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, Software
 * Past:
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
 * Tour de France Femmes : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
 * Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online
 * Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data
 * Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST
 * Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship (source)
 * This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown
 * Map of notable people based on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD which is based on Wikidata. Made by Topi Tjukanov
 * Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
 * Videos
 * The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - YouTube
 * Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - YouTube
 * WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Template:Generic queries for authors has now generic queries about narrative locations (P840) of works written by an author.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: contains the statistical territorial entity, recordist, spoken by
 * External identifiers: Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met Constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Gitee username, Anghami artist ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Base Budé person ID, Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for, Matrix space, Tribe, Prisoner's camp number, field of this item, Linkinfo ID, Zhihu question ID, Baidu Tieba name
 * External identifiers: IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID, Galleria Recta author ID, Business Online ID, Real Time IDs, The Devil's Porridge Museum Worker Database, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Scinapse Author ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ID, National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID


 * Query examples:
 * Grammatical features used on forms of French lexemes (source)
 * Most notable people (by sitelinks) (source)
 * List of draughts (source)
 * Map of NZ graduates based on coordinates of employer (source)


 * Development
 * [Significant change] New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module
 * REST API:
 * You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API
 * We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
 * Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
 * Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (T313896)

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.
 * Remove the value for property . See the list and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
 * Help write the next summary!

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