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


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:06, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features.
 * A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

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

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner.
 * You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.
 * The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally,  can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special  mode has been added to show a program's output.

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15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #486
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:14, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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

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

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The  parameter has been renamed to  . API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0.

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

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18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 46
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

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 * Library design improvements deployed
 * New collections available in English and German
 * Wikimania presentation

Read the full newsletter Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:15, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #487
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021 14:36 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #55 (with OpenRefine) - YouTube, Facebook, October 2 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #81, October 3
 * COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard, 30 Sep 2021, Time: 13.00-14.00 WIB (join details)
 * Past:
 * Data Quality Days: You can find slides, videos and notes for many of the sessions on the event page.
 * Wiki Movimento Brasil. The universe of libraries:
 * Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies (in Portuguese)
 * Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge powers (in Portuguese)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #54 - YouTube, Facebook


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Connecting Cell Ontology and Wikidata via Mix’n’match
 * Papers
 * WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides, source code, Short Video)
 * Videos
 * How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Demo: create Wikidata lexemes from Goethe's "Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" - YouTube
 * Demo of adding a string to Wikidata as a lexeme and linking it to the corresponding Wikidata item - YouTube
 * Wikidata Query Service assistance (in French) - YouTube
 * Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical Subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
 * Other
 * Chirpanalytica: "Give me your Twitter name and I'll tell you which party you choose". "What if you could automatically determine the political orientation of a person using just a Twitter account? This is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years".
 * That Wikidata Buzz - Siobhan Leachman talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia podcast.
 * That Wikidata Buzz - Siobhan Leachman talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia podcast.


 * Tool of the week
 * User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon community awards.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL
 * External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID
 * External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS)


 * Query examples:
 * Given name "Filaret" ranked within similar names (source: talk page of item)
 * Start time of open access journals known to Wikidata (Source)
 * Mouths of rivers flowing into the Arctic (Source)
 * What chocolate mousse is called in different languages (Source)
 * Women in Wikidata whose husbands are economists with articles on the English Wikipedia, but they themselves lack articles (adapted from Source)
 * Same with husbands (adapted from Source)
 * People employed by the ZDF with an image on Commons and a link to the German language Wikipedia (Source)
 * Coordinates of the birth places of people named Antoine (Source)
 * Place of birth of people named Antoine, Tony, Antonio, etc
 * UK MPs who had the most identified descendants who were themselves MPs (Source)
 * Newest database reports: top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (works again)


 * Development
 * Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (T104750)
 * Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (T289473)
 * Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (T291377)
 * Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
 * Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects

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!

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:45, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39
<section begin="technews-2021-W39"/> 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
 * iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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 GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October.
 * A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
 * You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes
 * The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis.

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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-40
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> property will no longer say an entry is <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response.
 * A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes
 * You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The JavaScript variables <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will soon be removed from <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The JavaScript variables <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> from the "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">mediawiki.cookie " module.

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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #488
<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 adminship: BrokenSegue. Welcome onboard \o/


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-10-04, Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Stephanie Sapienza and Emily Frazier on Unlocking the airwaves, a digital archive project that compiles early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). Agenda with call link, October 5.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French, by Vigneron, October 5 at 18:00 CEST
 * Ongoing:
 * New Wikidata Lexemes Challenge! Help to improve lexicographical data on Wikidata. This week's theme: Seasons.
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live session logs (September 2021)
 * LD4 - video presentation start 05:00 Keepin 'N Sync... with wikidata ... and ORCID...and GBIF - slides by David Shorthouse
 * The Magnus list that was mentioned at 27:00 (please update list)
 * Ticket created related to problem mentioned with WD objects getting deleted - T291659
 * 2021-09-30, Talk "COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard" at Seminar Pekanan IR-NLP &mdash; slides in English, video in Indonesian (source)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * What can querying Wikidata do for me?
 * https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/01/synchronising-wikidata-and-wikipedia-an-outreachy-project/
 * Papers: Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: The case of Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Introduction to Wikidata for beginners Part. 1 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube
 * How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * ItemSubjector is Python console tool that helps add main subject (P921) to groups of items in a semi-automatic way.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
 * You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
 * Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL, number of evacuated, template populates category, number of tries marked, madhhab
 * External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru person ID, Kallías ID, Convict Records of Australia ID, Croatian Language Portal identifier, Issuu ID, Flipboard ID, Umění pro město ID, BBC Food ID, Baijiahao ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts institution ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts object ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Zenodo communities ID, XXI Secolo ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Postimees topic ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID, original description, Bowers acronym, mul label property, stylized name
 * External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS), IRIS Sapienza author ID, AFNIL publisher ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, TMOK ID, Kastra ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Österreichischer Fußball-Bund ID, MYmovies-Personenkennung, IGI Global Dictionary ID, L'Unificazione ID, EMBO member ID


 * Query examples:
 * Women born in Nigeria with an article in Basque for Listeria (Source)
 * Still life paintings by women (Source)
 * Map of cemeteries in New Zealand (Source)
 * Right Livelihood Award laureates (Source)
 * Chelsea FC players, with English Wikipedia article, Commons image, etc (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks: P22 (father) (works again)


 * Development
 * Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (T291377)
 * Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
 * Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (T289473)
 * Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.

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

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

Tech News: 2021-41
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 * 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 "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #489
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 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
 * Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #83, October 17
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #11, Perception and Senses


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata in African Language Communities
 * Media art on Wikipedia wants to make collections and metadata more accessible (in Dutch)
 * Papers
 * Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
 * Videos
 * Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Scripts and gadgets in Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Coupling Wikipedia Categories with Wikidata Statements for Better Semantics - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Neguess is a Wikidata entity guessing game with negative clues. (demo video)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
 * You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
 * Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
 * Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!
 * The WMF Search team will begin data transfer for the new Streaming Updater today (11 Oct 2021).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: dissertation program, date of probate
 * External identifiers: Densho Encyclopedia ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, DWDS lemma ID, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID, Database of Czech Amateur Theater person ID, WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: registration number, present in non-fictional work, NIK (Nomor Induk Kependudukan), reports to, excitation energy, merger, split-off, choreography for
 * External identifiers: AllSides ID, Apple maps id, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, NLI archive ID, CANTIC ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Chi era Costui - Plaque ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, Apple Music track ID


 * Query examples:
 * Share of women for each Nobel prize (source)
 * Nobel Prize statistics on number of recipients for award wrt. gender (interactive plot) (source)
 * Share of women among Nobel prize winners by decade
 * Notable books on linked data, semantic technologies, and semantic knowledge graphs (source)
 * Benelux railway stations connected from Brussels-South railway station (Q800587) (source)
 * Date of opening and closing of railway stations in Denmark (Source)
 * Map or Talaiotic archeological culture sites located in the Menorca island in Spain (source)
 * Location of all the meteorological stations in Navarre (source)
 * Photos of participants in the Pandora Papers (source)
 * Diameter, size and mass of balls (source)
 * French departments with their shape
 * Longest rivers located in France and which did not gave their name to a department (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fheight%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FheightStatement%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Ftype%20.%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Ftype%20%7B%20wd%3AQ1779653%20wd%3AQ179700%20wd%3AQ1051606%20wd%3AQ29168169%20wd%3AQ3476533%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ21745157%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5816%20wd%3AQ56556915%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2048%20%3FheightStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3FheightStatement%20pq%3AP518%20wd%3AQ179700%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FheightStatement%20pq%3AP518%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25i%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25i%20.%0A%20%20%3FheightStatement%20psv%3AP2048%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseHeight%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitHeight%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11573%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20%3FbaseHeight%20%2a%20%3FunitHeight%20AS%20%3Fheight%20%29%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Fheight%20%3E%3D%2030%20%29%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP921%20%3Fsubject%20%7D%0A%20%20%23SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fheight%29%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20 Statues measuring more than 30 m in height (excluding the pedestal)] (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
 * Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (T289473)
 * Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (T285758)
 * Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (T292203)
 * Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (T289417)
 * Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.

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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Wikidata weekly summary #490
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments
 * Frequency of YouTube follower count data
 * Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh)., Oct 19th.
 * WikiProject Govdirectory Collab Hour, October 22
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook, October 23 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84, October 24
 * IT Festival Without Borders from 21 to 23 October 2021 in Rovereto - There will be a Wikidata for SPARQL queries workshop for high school and university students.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #12, Health professions
 * #12MonthsofOSM, mapping historical features


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Introduction to Observablehq.com for Wikidata users in French (Introduction à Observable pour les utilisateurs de Wikidata)
 * Learning to edit Wikidata is challenging; we aim to make it easier with this interactive course
 * Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art? by Martin Poulter
 * Digital scholarship in archives: A data case study
 * Papers
 * Accepted papers for the Wikidata Workshop at ISWC have been published: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/
 * Detecting Cross-Language Plagiarism using Open Knowledge Graphs
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Scripts and gadgets (in French) - YouTube
 * Import RDF data from Wikidata (part 11) - YouTube
 * New introductory working hour on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Building Wikidata - Queries with Wikidata Query Service (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Building Wikidata - Databases and Open Refine (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * How to retrieve the list of works by Canadian authors available on Wikisource? (in French) - YouTube
 * Other:
 * Research project: How can museums improve the usability of collection APIs?


 * Tool of the week
 * Snowman is a static site generator for SPARQL backend (source)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
 * Sina Ahmadi has released a SPARQL query generator for lexicographical data
 * Wikidata reached the 10000th numbered property, with the creation of P10000 Research Vocabularies Australia. (There are currently 9285 pages in the Property namespace.)
 * Wikidata now has over 600,000 Lexemes!
 * Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
 * The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, predicate for, has thematic relation, illustrative content, ITU radio emission designation, isotopically modified form of, stylized name, record number, excitation energy
 * External identifiers: WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (Web version), RAWG game ID, TMOK ID, Vokrug sveta article, copyright registration, Eneström Number, NRK TV ID, NLI Archive (bibliographic) ID, L'Unificazione ID, IGI Global Dictionary ID, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, CANTIC ID, EMBO member ID, NDL earlier law ID, AbandonSocios ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: merger, split-off, choreography for, classification, compartmentalisation, or information category for this document, Hotel rating, NatureScot Sitelink ID, pole positions, podium finishes, StopGame ID, fastest laps, Amends, heading, Conway polyhedron notation
 * External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Apple Music track ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Nynorskordboka-ID, Birdata ID, IRIS Superior Graduate Schools IDs, Australian Trade Mark Number, Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, FFCAM ID, TVSA ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID, NSW Parliament Member ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID, KPU Calon 2019, Monaco Nature Encyclopedia ID, Refuges.info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, Norgeshistorie ID, AHPRA registration number, PubCRIS product number, Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, SNSF person ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of written works authored by recent Nobel laureate Joshua Angrist (via d:Template:Item documentation on d:Talk:Q921499)
 * Books by Canadian authors with a Wikisource page (Source)
 * Repetitive taxon names (Source)
 * Count of sitelinks of museums/tourist attractions in the US (Source)
 * Map of French communes that are >30 characters long (Source)
 * Lexemes in Swedish that are missing in Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (Q1935308) (Source)
 * Attendance at the Bargoin, Roger-Quilliot and Henri-Lecoq museums per year (Source)
 * Present and past members of Czech Chamber of Deputies who are relatives (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
 * In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-42
<section begin="technews-2021-W42"/> 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
 * Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

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 developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
 * 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
 * Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #491
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * WikidataCon is happening this week! Don’t forget to register if you want to attend!
 * ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (register on meetup)
 * WikidataCon Bioblitz (During WikidataCon)
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #13, Death
 * Past:
 * Wikidata+Wikibase office hour log (2021-10-20)
 * Wikiarabia Algeria 2021: Wikibase Presentation - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Georgina Burnett
 * Talk at Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Mathematics In Wikidata
 * LibreOffice Conference 2021 - Enhancing a spellcheck dictionary by Wikidata Lexemes
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network: Wikipedia podcast section #152 - Wikidata + Wikipedia: fact templates (in Swedish)
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The Buggregator
 * AutoDesc Reloaded by Magnus Manske
 * Awesome Wikidata notebooks
 * Close to the Edge - Graph Databases through 1970s Prog Rock
 * Videos
 * How to upload Australian Faunal Directory IDs to Wikidata using OpenRefine. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
 * PhysWikiQuiz - a Physics Formula Question Generation and Test Engine using Wikidata in Education - YouTube
 * Timelapse of churches in the Americas (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
 * UseAsRef 2.0 - adding references using external IDs and other statements on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Addressing the gender gap - Wikidata and SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
 * Understanding Wikidata: a free and open knowledge base (in French) - YouTube
 * WikidataTutorial: Learn how to edit / create items on Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
 * Linked Data and Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
 * The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: stylized name, record number, excitation energy
 * External identifiers: Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, AllSides ID, Birdata ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, IRIS GSSI author ID, IRIS IUSS author ID, SISSA Digital Library author ID, NSW Parliament member ID, SNSF person ID, FFCAM ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Conway polyhedron notation, Nombre de voies routières, Museu da Pessoa Story, Official forum, Properties for legislation, Stack Exchange user ID
 * External identifiers: Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, Meetup group id, UAE ID, Tennis Abstract player ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, SoccerPunter player ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, pfl.uz player ID, ua-football.com player ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Snob.ru author ID, TASS Encyclopedia ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, DFIH financier ID, DFIH business ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, IndexCat ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Penza Encyclopedia ID, SEKO-ID, Musées Nationaux Récupération ID, Women in the Legislature ID, Dissernet person ID, Dissernet institution ID, Dissernet journal ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Vokrug.tv show ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of mosques (Source)
 * Documents from the Boyer collection by decades, subjects most represented (Source)
 * Pronouns of people in different languages (Source)
 * Twitter accounts of libraries in Switzerland (Source)
 * Images of cell types in Wikidata (Source)
 * Map of the place of death of people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
 * Graph of NFDI consortia with their fields of work, the map of (co-)applicants, (Source)
 * Places where people in South-America work who published on Wikidata (Source)
 * Rail link between Narvik and Singapore (Source)


 * Development
 * The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
 * Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
 * Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
 * Preparing for WikidataCon.

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-43
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Recent changes
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

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
 * Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax.
 * The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.

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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #492
<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: handling of data objects for pages in the project namespace


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Sam Oyeyele will join us to discuss the AfroCine project. doc, Nov. 2nd.
 * Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—November 3rd, 2021. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 09:00-10:00 PDT / 12:00-13:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #14, COP26
 * Past:
 * WikidataCon 2021 happened \o/
 * Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
 * Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
 * List of birthday presents
 * WikidataComplete gadget by Dhairya3124
 * Wikidata Subgraph Analysis by Aisha Khatun
 * UseAsRef 2.0 by Epìdosis
 * KGTK project by Pedro Szekely
 * Wikidata Map (series of updates of the all-coordinates-on-wikidata, made available at Wikidata map) by Addshore
 * Special episode of Wikipediapodden with an interview with Denny about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions by Ainali
 * Lua access for Lexemes on beta by LydiaPintscher
 * Editathon documentation page by bunch of lovely glam professionals
 * Learn wikidata course by Clifford Anderson and co
 * Wikxhibit by Tarfah Alrashed
 * Integraality updates by Jean-Frédéric
 * iNaturalist BioBlitz by Pigsonthewing


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog post
 * Challenge A to Z 2021 (in French)
 * Papers
 * Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers about the <> Wikidata connection
 * (fr) Les libellés francophones genrés dans Wikidata (notebook Observablehq)
 * Videos
 * Working hour on preferences and common.js Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Semantic web tutorial # 3 | What is Wikidata? (in French) - YouTube
 * SPARQL queries around Boyer collection of the Clermont Auvergne Métropole heritage library (in French) - YouTube
 * New Item creation (in Japanese) - YouTube
 * Research projects
 * Creating and evolving knowledge graphs at scale for explainable AI


 * Tool of the week
 * Cemeteries.wiki by Yamen is a project to display Dataviz and statistics about cemeteries all over the world. (2021-11-01)
 * ... and remember you can propose a new tool or gadget!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: term in higher taxon, official forum
 * External identifiers: NatureScot Sitelink ID, Refuges.info ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, George Eastman Museum people ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, UAE University Libraries ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, Toolhub ID, Research Data Australia ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: date of recording, Candidate position, MTBdata
 * External identifiers: Vokrug.tv person ID, Standing Waters Database ID, State Duma person ID, Federation Council person ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, FRACS profile ID, NER portfolio ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, SEEK company ID, Levels.fyi company ID, romaq.org ID, NWT Species ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Douyin User ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, ACE Repertory writer ID, Indonesian Hospital ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of French bridges and tunnels carrying an high-speed railway line
 * List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in French (ie using the generic as male form) (source)
 * List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in English (ie using the generic as male form)(source)
 * consorts of Selim III (source)
 * Coordinates of the birthplaces of people with family name Autrique (Source)
 * Coordinates of battles (Source)
 * Geographical distribution of votive boats historic monuments in France (Source)
 * Relationship among accepted NFDI consortia (Source)
 * Newest database reports: top missing property by number of identifiers: spouse (P26)


 * Development
 * WikidataCon! \o/
 * Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
 * Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
 * Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
 * Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-44
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Recent changes
 * There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse.

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).

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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #493
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, November 9 at 18:00 CET
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #61 - YouTube, Facebook, November 13 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #86, November 14 at 13.00 UTC
 * Wikidata webinar at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Greek). Nov 8, 2021 17:00 UTC+1
 * Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour! Monday 15 November 2021, 3PM - 4PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration: Zoom registration link
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #15, COP26 (2/2)
 * Past
 * Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
 * Wikidata SPARQL tutorial around the Saint-Brieuc museum (in French)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Media
 * User:Theklan at : Wikidata: una base de datos editable, multilingüe, libre y con datos de todo conocimiento (Spanish)
 * Blogs
 * TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1, Part 2
 * With help of their prof, U of T students go from being Wikidata novices to international conference presenters
 * Crowdsourcing the Scene at the Boston Rock City Edit-a-Thon
 * Videos
 * Basic tutorial on how to improve Wikidata items (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Metadata of cultural institutes: import strategies on Wikidata in the case of the Tuscany Region (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB - YouTube
 * Using Wikidata entities and properties in schema.org markup and linked data - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * are occupation labels gender neutral? a tool to explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages.
 * RAWGraphs, a dataviz tool which allows SPARQL queries (source)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
 * OpenRefine 3.5.0 was released


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Museu da Pessoa History, Conway polyhedron notation
 * External identifiers: Tennis Abstract player ID, Women in the Legislature ID, StopGame ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Biografija.ru ID, Derrieux agency person ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, Penza Encyclopedia ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, Musées Nationaux Recuperation ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Nynorskordboka-ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Indonesian parliament candidate ID 2019, Trove work ID, Vokrug.tv show ID, Apple maps ID, Federation Council person ID, Meetup group id, Glitchwave genre ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: original catalog description, Kanobu ID, Yandex.Question person ID, 発車メロディ
 * External identifiers: Listen Notes podcast ID, WhatsApp number, CNKI Journal ID, Baidu Scholar Journal ID, AllHomes research location ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Coles Online product ID, Woolworths product ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, NVE Bre ID, Databáze-her.cz ID, FederalPress Encyclopedia ID, babesdirectory, DHAC ID, Naver TV ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, live.ijf competition ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, The-Sports.org competition ID, StarHit ID, Nasha Versia ID, LocalWiki ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Comparably company ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Chemical ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of virtual twins (pair with the same dates of birth and death) in Wikidata (source)
 * People recently buried in a cemetery nearby without an image of the grave (P1442) on Wikidata (source)
 * List of lexemes in French associated with occupation items (source)
 * Towns with less than 1000 people that have a cathedral (Source)
 * Musical works based on literary works (Source)
 * Main surnames of people born in the Puy-de-Dôme, France (Source)
 * Members of the Ukrainian national sports team (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
 * We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (T275251)
 * We have put a version of WBStack on wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the coming weeks.

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-45
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Recent changes
 * Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour.

Changes later this week
 * Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 47
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 47, September – October 2021 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
 * Search tool deployed
 * New My Library design improvements

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This Month in GLAM: October 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #494
<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: Create massive changes in one property for spesific categories/properties?


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Bug Triage Hour on API issues. Monday 15th November at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones) (Etherpad)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Éder Porto will be discussing adding journal articles to Wikidata Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project/Chapter 17. doc, Nov. 16th.
 * Open Source Publishing Tools in Wikidata, 16 November 2021. Part of the Open Publishing Fest.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #62 - YouTube, Facebook, November 20 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #87, November 21 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #16, Books
 * Past
 * Introduction to Wikidata: GWMAB con IAML Italia replay (in Italian)
 * WikiData4Education_Aligning the sum of all knowledge with school curricula, WikiIndaba (replay)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
 * Own metadata for own blog posts - science communication and bibliographies with open data and Wikidata
 * How we're tracking elections in symbiosis with Wikidata
 * Recent updates and improvements to Wikidata Query Service
 * How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow
 * The trouble with triples
 * Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF
 * Videos
 * Fuzheado and T Cells to demonstrate how to discover, track and work with sets of Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata Introduction course (in German) - 1, 2, 3, 4
 * Wikidata in Educational Institutions / Academic research at Wikimedia Polska / Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
 * Podcasts
 * Siobhan Leachman - Wikimedia Editor and Citizen Scientist


 * Tool of the week
 * Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
 * New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
 * What kind of articles have you created? an Observable notebook which use Wikidata API to get the value of P31 for the list of articles created by a user.
 * OpenRefine is hiring a part-time Project director (paid position).
 * Hewell public beta app: is a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your hometown.
 * Full Fact is using the MediaWiki Action API in their workflow to help add some Wikidata identifiers to their mark-up.
 * Magnus replaced some live SPARQL queries in Mix’n’match with a database cache. Main page now loads faster.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, Standing Waters Database ID, Vokrug.tv person ID, Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Philosophica ID, Castforward ID, Baidu Scholar journal ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Tabakalera ID, mathematical symbol, included as part, specific impulse by weight, Newgrounds username
 * External identifiers: 7 Days person ID, DBLP event ID, Osmose Agency person ID, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, IRIS Umbria IDs, biografiA ID, Global Geoparks Network ID (new), identifiant Numelyo


 * Query examples:
 * List of properties which have instances or subclass of humans as possible value with male and female form in French (source)
 * Different people with same label / birthday / occupation in a specified year
 * Narrative locations of the book Itinerary from Paris to Mont-d'Or (Source)
 * Maps of tombs of unknown soldiers (Source)
 * Most common first names (> 5) among people with a Wikidata item and born in Auvergne (Source)
 * Student-Teacher relationship based on entries in 'Das Geistige Berlin' (1897) (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#select%20%3Fdec%20%28%28%3Fcount%2F%3Ftotal%29%2a100%20as%20%3Fpercent%29%20%3FcauseLabel%20%20where%20%0A%7B%20%0A%20%20%7B%20select%20%28str%28%3Fdecade%29%20as%20%3Fdec%29%20%28count%28distinct%20%3Fps%29%20as%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fcause%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fterm%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fpend%20.%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps2%20.%20%3Fps2%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fps2%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fpend%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%23%20not%20new%20term%20starting%20same%20day%20-%20ie%20left%20Parliament%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20%3Fcause%20.%20%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ741182%20%7D%20%23%20not%20dissolution%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ7649223%20%7D%20%23%20not%20suspension%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35855188%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ36345696%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ30580660%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ52084147%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35867887%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20bind%28year%28%3Fpend%29%20as%20%3Fyear%29%20.%20filter%28%3Fyear%20%3E%3D%201870%29%20.%20bind%28%28floor%28%3Fyear%2F10%29%2a10%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%20.%0A%7D%20group%20by%20%3Fcause%20%3Fdecade%20%7D%20%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20select%20%28str%28%3Fdecade%29%20as%20%3Fdec%29%20%28count%28distinct%20%3Fps%29%20as%20%3Ftotal%29%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fterm%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fpend%20.%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps2%20.%20%3Fps2%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fps2%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fpend%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%23%20not%20new%20term%20starting%20same%20day%20-%20ie%20left%20Parliament%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20%3Fcause%20.%20%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ741182%20%7D%20%23%20not%20dissolution%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ7649223%20%7D%20%23%20not%20suspension%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35855188%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ36345696%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ30580660%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ52084147%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35867887%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20bind%28year%28%3Fpend%29%20as%20%3Fyear%29%20.%20filter%28%3Fyear%20%3E%3D%201870%29%20.%20bind%28%28floor%28%3Fyear%2F10%29%2a10%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%20.%0A%7D%20group%20by%20%3Fdecade%20%7D%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23defaultView%3ABarChart Relative frequency of reasons MPs' terms end, since 1870] (Source)
 * Newest database reports: recently ended TV series


 * Development
 * The language codes  (Aghem, T288335) and   (Massa, T293884) are now supported.
 * Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
 * Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
 * Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (T232557)
 * Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (T295560)

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-46
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Recent changes
 * Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> " or "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> " have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems
 * Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation.
 * There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error.

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).

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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #495
<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:
 * Requests for comment/How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ?


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
 * Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
 * ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
 * Past
 * Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Using Wikidata to promote epistemic equity
 * How Penn's Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better
 * Videos
 * How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
 * Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
 * ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase team.
 * Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
 * This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
 * A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
 * The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
 * [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
 * New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: train melody
 * External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
 * External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
 * Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
 * Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
 * UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
 * Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
 * Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
 * Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
 * Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)


 * Development
 * Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (T232557)
 * Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
 * The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (T275251)
 * Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (T294465)

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-47
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Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #496
<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
 * Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
 * Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live session log, month of November 2021
 * Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata (in Swedish)
 * Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
 * (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
 * Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
 * Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
 * New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
 * External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
 * External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
 * Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
 * Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
 * List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
 * Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
 * List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
 * Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
 * List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
 * Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
 * Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
 * Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
 * List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
 * Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
 * Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (T294465)
 * Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (T232557)
 * More research and discussion on mul language code (T285156)
 * Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-48
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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).

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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #497
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #90, December 12 at 13.00 UTC
 * Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, December 7 at 18:00 CET


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in the English Wikipedia
 * Bringing together journalists, the public, and Wikidata to understand our world
 * Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in Wikipedia in French
 * Reflection on filling a new Wikidata item by Addshore
 * Papers
 * "Knowledge Based Multilingual Language Model" Using the Wikidata to build the language models that not only memorize the factual knowledge but also learn useful logical patterns. (Liu et al, 2021)
 * Videos
 * Summary of Transbordados, the pre-WikidataCon conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese)


 * Tool of the week
 * Weaviate big graph (source) is a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
 * Wikibase Installation Survey
 * Wikibase Software Updating Survey
 * The new Wikimedia Research Fund is live now. It can fund research projects related to Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: specific impulse by weight
 * External identifiers: FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, OùVoir.Ça ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub ID, SensCritique work ID, Snob.ru author ID, IRIS POLIBA author ID, Re.Public@Polimi author ID, PORTO@Iris author ID, IRIS UNIVPM author ID, Sceneweb organization ID, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, Apple Music track ID, AbeBooks ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista, Numista coin ID, lieu de disparition
 * External identifiers: Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Lingua Libre ID, Express Gazeta person ID, bards.ru person ID, PGM author ID, Deutsches Zeitungsportal ID, Index of Middle English Verse ID, ICCROM authority ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, ThENC@ thesis ID, Baidu Baike LemmaID, Indonesian College Code, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Museum of the Great Patriotic War encyclopedia ID, iTunes genre, CYT, Folketinget actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Ruskino actor ID, Pandora album ID, Pandora track ID, Swiss National Library ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, Athens Academy authority ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of laureates of the women's Ballon d'or (source)
 * List of people born in Cook Islands (source)
 * Wordcloud articles without statements of MyLang Wikipedia (switch to "Table" view to list, at left border of screen)
 * Artworks picturing snow (source)
 * Graph of football players who died per year (source)
 * Things depicted in art works of the Khalili Collections (source)
 * People represented on the painting "Le Sacre de Napoléon" from 1804 by Jacques-Louis David (source)
 * German cities whose names are also verbs (using Lexemes) (source)
 * Railway stations in the Baltics (source, see the full thread for more queries)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: Continued polishing for the first version. Improving the texts and adding loading state. Incorporating feedback from testing.
 * Continued migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (T294465)
 * Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (T232557)
 * Finished work on small tool to show Items recently edited by several accounts to surface current events.

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

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

Tech News: 2021-49
<section begin="technews-2021-W49"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

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).
 * At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module.
 * Octicons-tools.svg An old ResourceLoader module, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> instead.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #498
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 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking (schema.org/ Full Fact)
 * Most liked Wikidata tweets (addshore)
 * Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021 (addshore)
 * Papers
 * Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
 * "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool


 * Tool of the week
 * Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL
 * embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Blazegraph failure playbook now available
 * Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries
 * When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol, protective marking, recording date
 * External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID, Indonesian Hospital ID, Music of Armenia ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, World of Shakespeare ID, AllHomes research location ID, Australian Trade Mark Number, Harvard Art Museums ID, BookDepository publisher ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, German Newspaper Portal ID, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Dissernet journal ID, Dissernet person ID, centrasia.org person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, Pandora track ID, Nintendo64EVER ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: alphabetical index, International Standard Content Number ISCN, Number of likes, homophone form, Roovet Sound
 * External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID, Famitsu game ID, JSTOR artwork ID, NYPL Copyright Entries, Kinomania.ru film ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), Irish Times Profile ID, All About Birds ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, f6s id, IRIS Marche IDs, Viber group ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, AAGM Artwork ID, Muz-TV ID, MTV Russia ID


 * Query examples:
 * French departments with more population than all their neighbour departements (source)
 * Map of places names after horses (source)
 * Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
 * Map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Cities


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
 * Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (T294637, T294159)
 * Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (T296202)

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

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

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 * There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will go to the local language default for the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process.

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).

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Affiliations Committee (AffCom) Call for candidates - January 2022
Translations are available.

The Affiliations Committee – the committee responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is looking for new members!

The main role of the AffCom is to guide groups of volunteers that are interested in forming Wikimedia affiliates. We review applications from new groups, answer questions and provide advice about the different Wikimedia affiliation models and processes, review affiliate bylaws for compliance with requirements and best practices, and update the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees as well as advise them on issues connected to chapters, thematic organizations and Wikimedia user groups.

The committee consists of five to fifteen members, selected at least once every year, to serve two-year terms.

Being a part of the AffCom requires communication with volunteers all over the world, negotiating skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to understand legal texts. We look for a mix of different skill sets in our members.


 * Responsibilities


 * Availability of up to 5-8 hours per month


 * Participate in monthly one and two-hour voice/video meetings


 * Commitment to carry out assigned tasks in a given time.


 * Facilitate and support communications


 * Affiliate Support and growth

Strong interpersonal relationship among members of the committee and also with the Wikimedia community members. Across all committee members, there are additional relevant skills as well as requirements which help to support the committee and its sustainability which include both required and relevant general skills Given the expectations for maintaining the course in 2022 and preparing for potential 2022 transitions as part of the Movement Strategy implementation process, it is important that we are also clear about two different skill sets critical to committee support at this time. The first skillset is oriented to understanding affiliate dynamics and organizational development patterns to successfully process affiliate applications for recognition; the other is oriented to conflict prevention and intervention support for affiliates in conflict. Do you have relevant skills and interest to support movement affiliates?
 * Required and Recommended Abilities, Skills, Knowledge for Affiliations Committee Members
 * Required
 * Fluency in English
 * Availability of up to 5 hours per week, and the time to participate in a monthly one and two-hour voice/video meetings.
 * Willingness to use one's real name in committee activities (including contacts with current and potential affiliates) when appropriate.
 * Strong track record of effective collaboration
 * International orientation
 * Relevant for all members
 * Public Communications (English writing and speaking skills)
 * Skills in other languages are a major plus.
 * Understanding of the structure and work of affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * Documentation practices
 * Interviewing experience
 * Experience with, or in, an active affiliate is a major plus.
 * Teamwork: Project and people management skills to coordinate and collaborate with different parties on a shared plan and see it through to completion.
 * Problem-Solving: Ability to evaluate various solutions, consider multiple interests and points of view, revisit unresolved issues, seek compromise and work and communicate across languages and cultures.
 * Relevant to Affiliate Recognitions
 * Administration & Attention to detail
 * Readiness to participate in political discussions on the role and future of affiliates, models of affiliation, and similar topics.
 * Awareness of the affiliates ecosystem and models and understanding of community building, organizational development, and group dynamics
 * Relevant to Conflict Prevention & Intervention
 * Communication skills for active listening, clear instruction and turn-taking.
 * Stress Management skills for maintaining patience and positivity
 * Emotional intelligence to maintain awareness of emotions of oneself and others to practice empathy, impartiality, and mutual respect.
 * Facilitation, negotiation, and mediation skills to guide diverse individuals and groups toward cooperation.
 * Ability to work within a team

We are looking for people who are excited by the challenge of empowering volunteers to get organized and form communities that further our mission around the world. In exchange, committee members will gain the experience of supporting their world-wide colleagues to develop their communities as well as personal development in guiding organizational development, facilitating affiliate partnerships, and professional communications.


 * Selection process

As a reflection of our commitment to openness, transparency, and bilateral engagement with the Wikimedia community, the 2022 member selection process will include a public review and comment period and a self-assessment survey for candidates to share their skills and their experience. This self-assessment information will help the committee to identify the skill sets relevant and supportive to our affiliate support processes. We invite you to apply for membership to the committee and join us in supporting the affiliates. The data shared in the self-assessment will only be made available to the committee and the relevant staff support. The nomination, candidate Q&A, and endorsements will still take place posted on Meta for public review at January 2022 page. Here the global community is welcome to provide comments and feedback about each candidate.

Once the nomination window closes 31 January 2022, the sitting members who are not candidates for re-election in this cycle will deliberate and then vote, taking into account all inputs from the meta page, self-assessment, advisors, Wikimedia Foundation staff and board liaisons, and committee member discussion.

A final decision will be made in late-February 2022, with new members to be notified for onboarding in February.


 * How to apply

If you are interested in joining the committee, please:

Step 1. Post your application on the nomination page by 31 January 2022. Your application must include the following information:
 * 1) Your full name and Wikimedia username
 * 2) A statement describing your relevant education, experience, abilities, skills, knowledge, availability, and motivation for joining the committee.

Step 2. Complete the self-assessment survey between January 1, 2021 and January 31, 2021.


 * The privacy statement that applies to the survey can be found here.
 * NOTE: The survey will take 15 mins. Please do not close your browser. If you need a break, you are advised to keep the browser open. In case of losing the link, please reach out to mkaur-ctr@undefinedwikimedia.org
 * This survey must be completed before Steps 3 & 4, as it will provide more background as to the type of work and expectations of members of AffCom.

Step 3. Answers the following questions:


 * NOTE: Questions 1-3 are required for all candidates.


 * Question 4 & 5 should be answered by those interested in joining the Recognitions subcommittee.
 * Question 6 & 7 should be answered by those interested in joining the Conflicts Intervention subcommittee.
 * If you are willing to nominate yourself for both subcommittees, answer all questions.


 * 1) What roles have you served across any Wikimedia projects and affiliates that you think have prepared you for this role?
 * 2) AffCom members need to manage time, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and diverse situations across the global movement. How do you envision managing these?
 * 3) Members of AffCom serve on one of two subcommittees: Recognitions OR Conflicts Intervention. Which one of these are you most interested in serving on?
 * 4) If you are interested in serving on the Recognitions subcommittee, what do you think makes a group of Wikimedians ready to function together as an affiliate?
 * 5) If you are interested in serving on the Recognitions subcommittee, what do you think are the benefits and responsibilities of functioning as formal affiliates?
 * 6) If you are interested in serving on the Conflicts Intervention subcommittee, please describe your experience working with conflicts resolution.
 * 7) If you are interested in serving on the Conflicts Intervention subcommittee, please describe how you have helped build consensus and support diversity.

Step 4. Once you have completed the above, send an email announcing your application to affcom@undefinedwikimedia.org before the application deadline.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me and/or the committee as a whole. We are happy to chat or have a webinar call with anyone about our work if this helps them decide to apply. Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are interested!

On behalf of the committee,

--FULBERT (talk) 13:18, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Affiliations Committee (AffCom) Call for advisors - January 2022
Translations are available.

The Affiliations Committee – the committee responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is looking for advisors!

The main role of the Affiliations Committee is to guide groups of volunteers that are interested in forming Wikimedia affiliates. We review applications from new groups, answer questions and provide advice about the different Wikimedia affiliation models and processes, review affiliate bylaws for compliance with requirements and best practices, and advise the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on issues connected to chapters, thematic organizations and Wikimedia user groups.

We are looking for advisors who are excited by the challenge of empowering volunteers to get organized and form communities that further our mission around the world. In exchange, committee advisors selected will gain the experience of supporting their world-wide colleagues to develop their communities as well as personal development in guiding organizational development, facilitating affiliate partnerships, and professional communications.

AffCom advisors can engage with the committee in a variety of capacities: Individuals with extensive movement experience can be engaged as Consultants for specific cases or initiatives by AffCom. Individuals with specific expertise may be engaged for short-term projects for training AffCom or Affiliates. They might also lead the Capacity Building initiatives for AffCom or affiliates. AffCom can request specific or all advisors to act as an observer in different cases to ensure neutrality & compliance with guidelines. Development of Policies: While advisors cannot create legally binding policies for the committee, they can help create policies that provide direction and support for the committee.
 * Consultant
 * Trainer
 * Observer
 * AffCom Support

Planning and Implementing Community Relations: The advisors are long-term wikimedians & also include influential community leaders who can be effective at spreading the word about initiatives and services.

Supporting Subcommittees: The advisors can support subcommittees that have assigned tasks in specific areas.

Other Tasks: Advisors can be engaged to address a specific need. Such engagements are usually short-lived and are disbanded as soon as their specific goals are met.


 * Key skills

We look for a healthy mix of different skill sets in our advisors, including the following key skills and experience:
 * 1) Strong understanding of the structure and work of Wikimedia affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * 2) Readiness to participate in political discussions on the role and future of affiliates, models of affiliation, and similar topics.
 * 3) Availability of up to 2 hours per week, and the time to participate in a monthly two-hour voice/video meeting
 * 4) International orientation and ability to work and communicate with other languages and cultures.
 * 5) Knowledge of different legal systems and experience in community building and organizing are a plus.
 * 6) Fluency in English is required; skills in other languages are a major plus.
 * 7) Experience with or in an active Wikimedia affiliate is a major plus.
 * 8) Strong track record of effective collaboration (such as evidenced skills at facilitation, mediation, negotiation, and so forth) is a major plus.
 * 9) Willingness to use one's real name in committee activities (including contacts with current and potential affiliates) when appropriate.


 * Selection process

As a reflection of our commitment to openness, transparency, and bilateral engagement with the Wikimedia community, the 2022 advisors selection process will include a public review and comment period. All applications must be posted on Meta between January 01 and January 31, 2022 at the nomination page, and the community will be invited to provide comments and feedback about each candidate. At the end of the nomination period, the applications will be voted on by the members of the committee, taking into account comments put forward by the committee's members, advisors, Wikimedia Foundation staff and board liaisons, and the community. A final decision will be made in February 2022, with new advisors expected to begin later that month.


 * How to apply

If you are interested in advising the committee, please submit your candidacy on the nomination page between January 01 to January 31, 2022. Your application must include the following information:
 * 1) Your full name and Wikimedia username
 * 2) A statement describing your relevant experience, skills, and motivation for joining the committee as an advisor.
 * 3) The advisor role you would like to serve
 * 4) Answers to the following three questions:
 * 5) How do you think affiliates work best together to partner on effective projects and initiatives?
 * 6) What do you see as the role of affiliates in the Wikimedia movement in the next three years?
 * 7) What do you feel you will bring as an advisor to the committee that makes you a uniquely qualified candidate?

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the committee. We are happy to chat or have a phone call with anyone about our work if this helps them decide to apply. Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are interested!

On behalf of the committee,

--FULBERT (talk) 13:17, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #499
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories
 * Other:
 * SPARQL query service (SDC) mandatory authentication considered harmful


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
 * Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #21, Celebration
 * Past:
 * EduWiki Live on the theme of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization. (replay)
 * Wikidata workshop (in Italian) (replay)
 * Semantic Web in Libraries: SWIB21 (replay)
 * From string to thing: Wikidata based query expansion
 * Representing the Luxembourg Shared Authority File based on CIDOC-CRM in Wikibase


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata user and project talk page connection graph
 * Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia
 * Integrating the PM20 companies archive: part 3 of the data donation to Wikidata
 * Parliamentary debates are made more transparent and accessible with Wikidata
 * A parliamentary document says more than a thousand words (in Swedish)
 * The Longest Serving MP in Sweden
 * With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon. "To help overcome this challenge, researchers use several sources of commonplace knowledge like Wikidata to obtain a “reasoned” AI response."
 * Papers
 * A botanical demonstration of the potential of linking data using unique identifiers for people
 * Survey on English Entity Linking on Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Tutorial for Wikidata Mix'n'Match tool for database pairing (in Czech) - YouTube
 * SPARQL queries on Wikidata - basic level (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Presentation about the Wikidata community (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Advanced Course (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - YouTube
 * Introduction
 * Concept of Linked Open Data
 * SPARQL-Queries
 * Automatic data import
 * Querying Wikidata: Museums, Volcanoes (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Fundamentals (in French) by CAPACOA - YouTube
 * Triplets, licenses
 * Item, references and qualifiers, history tab
 * Creation of a user account. Creation of a new items
 * Wikidata Workshop: The basics by CAPACOA - YouTube
 * Wikimedia Foundation licenses, item, semantic triples
 * User creation
 * Searching and editing an item
 * Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate - YouTube
 * Creating items on Wikidata using OpenRefine (without sound — subtitles only) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * NoclaimsBot adds the first statements on items without claims based on templates used on the linked Wikipedia article.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
 * Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), currently in beta, will soon be in production with a planned General Availability date of 1 Feb 2022. See the Upcoming General Availability release discussion page for more details.
 * Seth started an essay to summarize the multiple data-related projects going on between Wikimedia Projects at the moment: User:Lectrician1/The grand mess of data on Wikimedia.
 * When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” by using “!Sxx” instead of “Sxx” syntax to start a new reference group.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
 * Wikibase Installation Survey
 * Wikibase Software Updating Survey
 * Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
 * Engineering Director
 * Full-Stack Developer


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: iTunes genre
 * External identifiers: Pandora album ID, Indonesian College Code, Institute of History of Ukraine ID, Academy of Athens authority ID, ThENC@ ID, CDAEM person ID, Famitsu game ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, Levels.fyi company ID, U-PAD author ID, CAMPUS author ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, iTunes genre ID, Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Category for work of subject, Honorary citizens category of entity, Kanobu numeric ID, cadastral district, official shop URL, website, documented files
 * External identifiers: street number in Austria, EU Whoiswho ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Österreichische Schulkennzahl, iCSO ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, Lur Encyclopedia ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, KSH code (historical), Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, WikiStrinda ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Film.ru film ID, Film.ru actor ID, Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID


 * Query examples:
 * Shijian (SJ 实践) experimental satellites (source)
 * Age of living Hawthorn FC players (source)
 * People died on their 50th birthday (Source)
 * Relationship between London School of Economics doctoral advisors and students (source)
 * Map of twinned towns (or partners) of municipalities of Puy-de-Dôme (source)
 * Map of the places named in reference the horse (source)
 * Map of bridges in Kaliningrad (source)
 * Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
 * Wikidata items which are the most linked by lexemes using the property “item for this sense” (source)
 * Actors in Christmas movies: by frequency, with film titles and sample film item (source)
 * Filming locations of Christmas movies, with film titles and sample film item (source)
 * Recent Christmas movies lacking filming location (source)


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-51
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Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes
 * Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.

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

Future changes
 * The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #500
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 * Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
 * Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
 * “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
 * Q207742 is about the natural number 500
 * Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
 * The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
 * Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500
 * Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
 * Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
 * Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year
 * Past:
 * Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
 * WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
 * Wikidata talks:
 * Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.
 * A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.
 * Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development
 * How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander
 * Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations
 * Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons
 * IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria
 * Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula
 * Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism
 * Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations
 * Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia
 * Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language
 * Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata
 * Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world
 * Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry
 * A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org
 * Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata
 * Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration
 * From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata
 * Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion
 * From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience
 * Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages
 * IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field
 * A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
 * Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America
 * Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern
 * Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education
 * Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata
 * Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata
 * Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata
 * The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention
 * Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata
 * Measuring and monitoring data quality
 * Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel
 * Integrating Wikidata into education
 * Integrating Wikidata into education
 * Wikidata in Australia showcase
 * Wikidata and R: a perfect pair
 * Writing schemas for Wikidata
 * Overview of ontology issues
 * Wikidata and OCCRP
 * Wikibase talks:
 * Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session
 * How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?
 * Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph
 * "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph
 * Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session
 * How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase
 * Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup
 * Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud
 * Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture
 * Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session
 * Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in
 * Papers
 * Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features
 * Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
 * Videos
 * SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - YouTube
 * How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu - YouTube
 * Alias names in Wikidata - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 now available.
 * If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in T275251.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
 * Wikibase Installation Survey
 * Wikibase Software Updating Survey
 * Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
 * Engineering Director
 * Full-Stack Developer


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: type host, CSS code
 * External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
 * External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon, (ordered by country) (source)
 * Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
 * UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP (source)
 * Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages (source)


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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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Wikidata weekly summary #501
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
 * Past:
 * Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ?
 * Videos
 * Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
 * Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
 * Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
 * External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
 * External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016


 * Query examples:
 * Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
 * Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
 * Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
 * Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
 * People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
 * Average height of people named Joe (Source)
 * Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)


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

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


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #502
<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 adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
 * New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
 * Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. |convert to local time!
 * Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
 * The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
 * Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * An introduction to Observable for Wikidata users
 * 10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
 * Videos
 * Introduction to the interwiki links between Wikidata and Wikipedia (in French) - YouTube
 * Exploring Wikipedia infobox from Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
 * WIkimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
 * Implementing Wikidata in Educational Institutions — CEE Challenges and Opportunities - YouTube
 * Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
 * Wikidata automatization and integration with web resources - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
 * The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
 * if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
 * if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
 * New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
 * Product Manager Wikibase Suite
 * Working student in International Software Collaboration
 * Post WikidataCon 2021
 * Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
 * Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
 * Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
 * External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
 * External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID


 * Query examples:
 * Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
 * Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
 * Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
 * Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
 * Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
 * Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
 * Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
 * World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
 * Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)


 * Development
 * Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
 * Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (T298001)
 * Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (T232557)
 * Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (T233520)

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.


 * Looking back at 2021
 * Developments rolled out in 2021:
 * New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
 * Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
 * Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
 * Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
 * Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
 * Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
 * Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
 * New entities in 2021:
 * Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
 * Properties P9003 to P10223
 * Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164


 * 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: 2022-02
<section begin="technews-2022-W02"/> 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 A <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.
 * Octicons-tools.svg At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees.
 * The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed.
 * Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows.
 * The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

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).

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 18:00 UTC to  18:00 UTC. Learn more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2022-W02"/>

01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2021
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This Month in GLAM: December 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #503
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 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 present 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.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
 * #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
 * Past:
 * Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
 * Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
 * Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
 * Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
 * Videos
 * Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -YouTube
 * Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
 * GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
 * External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
 * External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Things that turned 20 years old today (source)
 * Irish artists and their relationships (source)
 * Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius) (source)
 * Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (T233520)
 * Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
 * Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
 * Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable

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: 2022-03
<section begin="technews-2022-W03"/> 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
 * When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
 * You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies.  This is available at most wikis.  Go to your Preferences and turn on "".
 * When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

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).

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 18:00 UTC to  18:00 UTC. Learn more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2022-W03"/>

19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #504
<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 adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube, Facebook, January 29 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
 * Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
 * #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
 * Past:
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack featured on Hacker News
 * Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
 * Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates
 * Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history (in Spanish)
 * 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
 * Papers
 * Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
 * Wikidata for Digital Preservationists: New DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note now available on general release
 * Videos
 * [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Lexemes forms:
 * Now supports the Odia language
 * Substantially expanded template for Spanish verbs
 * How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
 * External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
 * External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of tramways in France
 * Map of categories for honorary citizens (source)
 * Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date (source)
 * Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location (source)
 * Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) (source)
 * Birthplace of Rabbis (source)
 * Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80 (source)
 * Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article (source)
 * Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages (source)


 * Development
 * Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (T296383, T296382, T296384)
 * Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (T297393)
 * Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
 * Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.

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: 2022-04
<section begin="technews-2022-W04"/> 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).
 * The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
 * You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page.

Events
 * You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
 * You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on.

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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Affiliations Committee (AffCom) Member & Advisor Elections - Final Reminder for January 2022
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This is a friendly reminder that the Affiliations Committee – which is responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing and sustaining Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is seeking new members and advisors! The deadline to post your application on the Member nomination page and Advisor nomination is 31 January 2022.

If you know somebody you think may be interested, please share and encourage them to consider applying. If you have any questions please email affcom@wikimedia.org before the application deadline or reach out to any of the current members. Good luck to all the candidates!

On behalf of the committee, FULBERT (talk) 17:32, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #505
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * GretaHeng18bot
 * Pi bot 24
 * SchoolBot
 * companyBot


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Talk to the Search Platform Team about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! February 2nd, 2022. Etherpad.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube, Facebook, February 5 at 19:00 UTC
 * Wikimedia Research February Office Hours Wednesday, 2022-02-02 at 00:00-1:00 UTC (16:00 PT 02-01 /19:00 ET 02-01 / 1:00 CET 02-02).
 * Data Reuse Days will take place on March 14-24, highlighing applications and tools using Wikidata's data. You can already propose a session.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #27, Numbers (1/n)
 * Past:
 * Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron
 * Wikibase Live Session (2022.01.27)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Press
 * "Massive open index of scholarly papers launches" - called OpenAlex, it draws its data from sources including Wikidata
 * Blogs
 * OpenSanctions is integrating persons of interest from Wikidata
 * Celebrating the 2,000 featured articles milestone in Wikipedia in French: Using the Wikipedia Categorymembers API through a SPARQL query to get all articles featured in category "Article de qualité" and compute statistics.
 * Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Using Linked Open Data to Connect Smithsonian Information
 * The origin of the gender gap
 * Videos
 * Wikidata as a Modality for Accessible Clinical Research
 * Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase


 * Tool of the week
 * Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS scaling update for Jan 2022 available here. We will be trying to do monthly updates starting this month.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast logo URL, hotel rating, dpi for original size, director of publication, official jobs URL
 * External identifiers: TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, Muz-TV ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, Tretyakov Gallery work ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania encyclopedia ID, Amazon podcast ID, Habr company ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, German Lobbyregister ID, Film.ru actor ID, Film.ru film ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID, StarHit ID, North Data ID, CYT/CCS, LKI ID, Unified book number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: has member, register in Germany, dailytelefrag.ru ID, time in the pouch, semantic gender, Game World Navigator ID
 * External identifiers: Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, CHY Number, OpenSanctions ID, identifiant Les Archives du spectacle (organisme), Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, histrf.ru person ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, Chgk person ID, Latvijas ūdenstilpju klasifikatora kods, RCN (Irish Registered Charity Number), RBC company ID, OpenStates ID, NetEase Music Artist ID, QQ Music Singer ID, Euro NCAP ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2


 * Query examples:
 * US states with the most punk bands (source)
 * List of Ghanaian scientists by citation count (source)
 * Actresses who have played Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, with type of production (source)
 * MPs with identified mythical ancestors
 * Items with "language of work or name = Toki Pona" as qualifier
 * Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline (source)
 * Water boards in the Netherlands (source)
 * Birthplaces of US Presidents, Russian emperors, Roman emperors (source)
 * Age of the actress when she played "Elizabeth Bennet" (source)
 * People with dates of birth and death on January 1st (day precision dates) (source)
 * More than 500 lexemes in Breton now have at least one sense (source)


 * Development
 * Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (T297393)
 * Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (T296383, T296382, T296384)
 * Continuing work on fixing a bug where Wikidata changes do not get sent to Wikipedia and co for the first sitelink adding leading to missing information in the page_props table (T233520)
 * Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (T296202)
 * Mismatch Finder: Debugging some issues with the first files we got with mismatches that we can load into the Mismatch Finder

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: 2022-05
<section begin="technews-2022-W05"/> 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 If a gadget should support the new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> in the gadget definition (documentation).

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
 * A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
 * The user group  will be renamed  . This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events
 * You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 48
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 * 1Lib1Ref 2022
 * Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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Wikidata weekly summary #506
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: MystBot
 * Other: Discussion about replacing values with a new format or scheme for "SBN author ID" (P396), an identifier for National Library Service (SBN) of Italy


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
 * Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, Computer
 * Past:
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube
 * Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government - Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
 * Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data, by Envlh
 * Profiling a Wikibase item creation on test.wikidata.org by Addshore
 * Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase
 * Papers
 * XAlign: Cross-lingual Fact-to-Text Alignment and Generation for Low-Resource Languages
 * Videos
 * Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - YouTube
 * Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in Wikipedia) - YouTube
 * Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - 1, 2 & 3 (YouTube)
 * Wikidata Tutorial (in German): create a user account on Wikidata, add an institution's website to Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata edit map by Denny puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * January 1st as date
 * Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing, time in the pouch, semantic gender
 * External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Artland fair ID, Artland gallery ID, Douban book series ID, Douban book works ID, Les Archives du spectacle organization ID, Urban Electric Transit city ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, Ezeri.lv lake ID, Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Bugs! music video ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, New York Flora Atlas ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: HSK ID, sports in region, Computational complexity, YouTube video
 * External identifiers: Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2, podchaser episode ID, IFPI UPC/EAN, Weltfussball-Spiel-ID, GoodGame.ru ID, USgamer ID, Riot Pixels game ID, HaBima Archive play id, HaBima Archive person id, NLI topic id, 100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id, Old-Games.RU ID, iXBT Games ID, Students of Turin University ID, Tagoo video game ID, AusGamers ID, GameGuru ID, LMHL author ID, VGTimes ID, ULI id, GameMAG ID, SBN new authority IDs, Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, Gesher Theater Archive person id, Gesher Theater Archive play id, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID, A9VG game ID, Qichaha firm ID, Chinese School Identifier, GoHa.ru ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, CiteSeerX ID of a person, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2


 * Deleted properties:
 * "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
 * "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
 * "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
 * "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
 * Query examples:
 * Events by number of video games announced (source)
 * Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef (source)
 * Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times they are used (source)
 * Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages (source)
 * Team and positions played by National Women's Football League players (source)
 * Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges) (source)
 * Location of statues of women in Italy (source)
 * Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages (source)
 * Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR (source)
 * Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types (source)
 * Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Archaeology


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
 * Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

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: 2022-06
<section begin="technews-2022-W06"/> 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
 * English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
 * Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month.

Problems
 * A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> should be updated to also check for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . A code-snippet, global search, and example 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).

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #507
<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: EnvlhBot 2
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
 * New request for comments: Population data model


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata February 17, 5:00 PM
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube, Facebook, February 19 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
 * Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration
 * Wikidata in Stardog
 * Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France.
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers, coordinates & address
 * PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
 * OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - YouTube
 * Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
 * Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022
 * Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!
 * Wikidata ESR is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
 * External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
 * External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID


 * Query examples:
 * Tram bridges in France
 * Polish Righteous Among the Nations
 * Launch date, logo of social media services (source)
 * Oscar winners from 1929 (source)
 * Images of biologists by height (source)
 * Biggest coins outside the U.S. (source)


 * Development
 * Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
 * Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (T301247)

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: 2022-07
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Recent changes
 * Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, the  function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of   with   wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #508
<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:
 * ChineseWikiClubBot, 1
 * Auto Prod Bot


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th February 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: Huda Khan and Astrid Usong on their Linked Data for Production 3 (LD4P3) grant work to use Wikidata in knowledge panels in Cornell’s library catalog Agenda - 2022-02-22 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
 * Hands-on introduction to Wikidata with The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library's Edit-a-Thon! Theme: Boston public art and artists. February 23, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern time
 * OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup - Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your timezone).
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 22 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #30, Trains
 * Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #71 #MelFest - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Plans Become Projects
 * Papers: "COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System" using Wikidata
 * Videos: Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata:Tools/asseeibot - is a tool made by User:So9q to improve the scientific articles in Wikidata. Source code on GitHub under GPLv3+
 * Coinherbarium.com - coins depicting plants; powered by Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of lanes, computational complexity
 * External identifiers: UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID, Gardens Navigator ID, Tagoo video game ID, Lingua Libre ID, Labyrinth database ID, A9VG game ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, RCN, CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date, quality has state, beforehand-afterward owned by, Number of units, created during, award recipient, medical indication
 * External identifiers: KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, YouTube Topic channel ID, YouTube Official Artist Channel ID, GoFood restaurant ID, traveloka restaurant ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, HiSCoD, Databazeknih.cz Book ID, Databazeknih.cz Author ID, Renacyt ID, CBDB.cz Book ID, CBDB.cz Author ID, Gab ID, Drammen byleksikon ID, NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, MakeMyTrip Hotel ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID


 * Query examples:
 * Frequency of letters in five-letter words in Wikidata lexeme forms (source)
 * Visualization of the Prime/Ulam Spiral using natural numbers and primes stored in Wikidata (source)
 * Monuments that are named after somebody without being connected to them by any other property (source)
 * Places named after Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine) (source)
 * Gold medal winners in the Olympic Games by age (source)
 * Top 20 languages in number of lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of lexemes with at least one external id (source)
 * Count of PropertyLabels for lakes in the UK (source)
 * Moons of solar system planets and what they are names for (source)
 * Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID (source)


 * Development
 * We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
 * We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

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: 2022-08
<section begin="technews-2022-W08"/> 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
 * Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown ) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change.
 * You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . For example,.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also 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).

Future changes
 * The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech.
 * Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #509
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Ikkingjinnammebetinke (RfP scheduled to end after 7 March 2022 13:33 UTC)
 * New request for comments: Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items
 * Other: Qualifiers for given names and surnames


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - YouTube, Facebook, March 5th at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, War
 * Past:
 * Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study
 * Videos
 * Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
 * Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried
 * Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data
 * Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example
 * Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example
 * Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework (in Italian)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
 * February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
 * Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. Apply here!
 * Job opening: is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: computational complexity
 * External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
 * External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of edits by user on French lexemes (source)
 * Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO (source)
 * Successful coups and attempts in Africa (source)
 * New York Times journalists that are alive (source)
 * Ukrainian coins and banknotes (source)
 * Types of quartz (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
 * Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
 * REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
 * Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
 * Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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: 2022-09
<section begin="technews-2022-W09"/> 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
 * When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The user group  was renamed  . This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems
 * The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed.

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
 * Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
 * If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: ), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #510
<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: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the 35 presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - YouTube, Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC
 * LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Presentation and discussion: "Introduction to Linked Open Data Strategy with Lea Voget, Head, Product Management WMDE". Lea is not only the team lead of product, project and program managers at WMDE, she is also one of the main thinkers behind the Linked Open Data strategy. When: 11 March 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter). Registration: Registration link
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Associate Librarian Stacy Allison-Cassin and her students on Wikidata in the classroom. Agenda
 * Art+Feminism editathon at the University Library Center of the University of Salerno. 8 March 2022
 * Wikidata workshop, held in collaboration with IPTC and explores the use of Wikidata concepts when dealing with metadata in media applications. Timing: from 10:00 to 18:00 CET. With presentations from: Yle, RAI, France TV, IPTC, Gruppo RES, Media Press, Perfect Memory, New York Times, NTB, Imatrics.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Ukraine
 * Past:
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #73 #opendataday - YouTube
 * NFDI InfraTalk: Wikibase - knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture - YouTube (March 7, 4:00 PM CEST)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube: 1, 2, 3.


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (T300255). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
 * Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
 * Job openings:
 * The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
 * The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
 * is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: created during, Ghana Place Names URL, trained by
 * External identifiers: Old-Games.RU ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, SBN work ID, SBN place ID, Kanobu numeric game ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, CBDB.cz author ID, CBDB.cz book ID, ULI ID, NLC Bibliography ID, LMHL author ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Latvia water body classification code, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, QQ Music singer ID, PubCRIS product number, PKULaw CLI Code, NVE glacier ID, iXBT Games ID, TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Агрегатируется с, Observer
 * External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, tiket to-do ID, TEIS ID, OBD Memorial ID, Hrono.ru article ID, db.narb.by ID, Shopee Shop ID, Grab Food ID, US trademark serial number, Scottish Built Ships ID, trivago hotel ID, skyscanner hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, pravo.gov.ru ID, NGO Darpan ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID


 * Query examples:
 * Use of free software license for describing software (source)
 * Count of latest available Twitter follower count for different programming languages (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages and their paradigms (source)
 * Most popular programming language on Wikipedia with multilingual articles (source)
 * Russian TV channels from and about Russia (source)
 * Places of birth of people named "Désirée" (source)
 * People in the Père-Lachaise cemetery who were born in a city that is or was in Ukraine (source)
 * Properties linking between a church and its saint (source)


 * Development
 * Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
 * Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
 * REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

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: 2022-10
<section begin="technews-2022-W10"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers.

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).

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #511
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. You can also look at a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #75 - YouTube, Facebook, March 19th at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #100(!), March 20th at 13.00 UTC
 * Bug Triage Hour focused on data reuse, March 23rd
 * Wikidata 101 workshop (in Albanian language) March 15th at 10 o'clock at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
 * Ontotext Webinar - GraphDB as Company Data Central - "How GraphDB can help you create a graph model of your data and enrich it with reference data". March 17th
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Furniture


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * History of the Tour de France: a notebook to explore the history of the tour de France in three charts.
 * A dataset of scholarly journals in wikidata : (selected) external identifiers
 * Getting all the government agencies of the world structured in Wikidata
 * Papers
 * ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus (built using Wikidata)
 * Videos
 * Breton Lexicographic data SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata SPARQL session (in French) - YouTube
 * moreIdentifiers UseAsRef gadget (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata working hour - QuickStatements (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Graph data formats: Common RDF vocabularies (in Czech) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/LexemeTranslations.js is a userscript that shows translations for a lexeme. The translations are inferred from statements on senses, such as item for this sense (P5137).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Ghana Place Names URL, trained by, KLADR ID, identifies
 * External identifiers: TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, Change.org decision maker ID, Podchaser episode ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, Dansk Navneleksikon ID, CiteSeerX person ID, CNKI author ID, naturkartan.se ID, HaBima Archive play ID, HaBima Archive person ID, Vedomosti company ID, Grab Food restaurant ID, Chinese School Identifier, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, svpressa.ru person ID, GameMAG ID, ICQ user ID, Scottish Built Ships ID, histrf.ru person ID, symogih.org ID, Mapping Manuscript Migrations manuscript ID, US trademark serial number, NLC Bibliography ID (foreign-language), GoFood restaurant ID, Official Internet Portal of Legal Information ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (building ensemble), skyscanner hotel ID, NGO Darpan ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Observer, identifiant spectacle Les Archives du spectacle, Supports qualifier 2, franchisor, Exhibited Creator, colocated with
 * External identifiers: trivago hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), MovieMeter TV season ID, MangaDex title ID, 1905.com film ID, 1905.com star ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Italian Women Writers ID, Championat.com ID, Arachne entity ID, IRIS Friuli-Venezia Giulia IDs, Sport24.ru team ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Virginia Burgesses and Delegates Database ID, Arizona Legislators Then and Now ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, ubereats store ID, FamousFix topic ID, FAOTERM ID, RSPA Ancient authors ID, RSPA Modern authors ID, ImagesDéfense ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, ILO code, Culture.ru institutes ID, Proza.ru author ID, Stihi.ru author ID, TV Maze season ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, Boobpedia ID, Leafsnap ID, neftegaz.ru person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Properties describing Art UK artworks (source)
 * Timeline of victims of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * Population of countries that share a border with Russia (source)
 * Audio pronunciation of places in Wales (source)
 * Things with a national gallery of Scotland ID where the artist was or is a woman (source)
 * Software with gender information of developer, designer and the person named after source


 * Development
 * Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
 * Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
 * Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
 * REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint

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: 2022-11
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Recent changes
 * In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
 * There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then.

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).
 * When using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "".
 * Octicons-tools.svg Access to has been expanded to include users who have   and   rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the   right could access this special page.
 * On the pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
 * The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages.

Events
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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Wikidata weekly summary #512
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
 * AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project. Agenda with call link, March 22.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry
 * Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
 * a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
 * speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
 * all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers by Lucas Werkmeister
 * Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source
 * Videos
 * Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
 * Lightning talks
 * Wikidata for performing and visual arts
 * Wikxhibit
 * How to retrieve Wikidata’s data?
 * Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data
 * Building a simple web app using Wikidata data
 * Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method
 * GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator
 * Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube
 * Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
 * Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
 * Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc.
 * Andrew put together a guide to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries
 * The proposed config change to remove the  right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID
 * External identifiers: LDT @ Library Name Authority ID, LDT @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, LDT @ Library Classification Authority ID, USP Production Repository ID, Transilien ID, United Russia member ID, MovieMeter TV season ID, Joshua Project people group ID, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, vc.ru company ID, Repetti on-line ID, Cybersport.ru ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Discover Moscow ID, ArTS author ID, IRIS UNIUD author ID, Game Informer ID, Ligue 2 player ID, Femiwiki ID, Arachne entity ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Bhashakosha pp., local education level, hours per week, education level, time allocation, grading system, grade, ISCED-ALevel, ISCED category orientation, ISCED Broad Field, ISCED Narrow Field, ISCED Detailed Field, competency, sessions per week, applies to work, rack system, maintains consistent linking to
 * External identifiers: Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, USA Track & Field (www.usatf.org) athlete ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, DACS ID (2022), marriott hotel ID, identifiant Epigraphie, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, CPNI ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, eSbírky institution ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria cultural place ID, Zotero ID, World of Waterfalls ID


 * Query examples:
 * Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth! (source)
 * Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement (source)
 * Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline (source)
 * Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC)
 * Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names) (source)
 * Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan)
 * Map of institutions where "where people who studied there" have created written works whose main subject is knowledge graph (Q33002955), knowledge base (Q515701) and (Q33002955)
 * Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
 * Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
 * REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

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: 2022-12
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New code release schedule for this week
 * There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes
 * You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface.

Future changes
 * Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English.

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 49
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

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 * New library collections
 * Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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Wikidata weekly summary #513
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
 * Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
 * The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
 * Ongoing:
 * Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
 * Past:
 * Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
 * Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
 * a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
 * speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
 * all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
 * Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
 * Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
 * Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
 * Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
 * Presentations
 * LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the Spring 2022 meeting
 * Papers
 * "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
 * Videos
 * DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
 * A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
 * FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
 * Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
 * A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
 * WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!
 * Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
 * The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
 * 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: documentation files at
 * External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
 * External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
 * Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
 * UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
 * List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
 * Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries


 * Development
 * [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
 * Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
 * Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (T104344)
 * Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
 * REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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: 2022-13
<section begin="technews-2022-W13"/> 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
 * There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

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).
 * Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on  at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #514
<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: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. Agenda with call link, April 5.
 * Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
 * Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions, April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English on May 4.
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
 * Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
 * Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata?
 * UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..."
 * Highlighting linked data projects. "...Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources".
 * Videos
 * The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - YouTube
 * Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
 * Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges
 * Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
 * Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts de la scène (in French)
 * Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata
 * Other
 * FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata"
 * OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to help translate the survey to their language? It will take around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier if you want to help!


 * Tool of the week
 * Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
 * QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022 is now available.
 * WDQS backend alternatives paper with shortlist of options have been published.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
 * External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
 * External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID


 * Query examples:
 * Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata (source)
 * Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
 * REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
 * Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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: 2022-14
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Problems
 * For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the feed. This bug has been fixed.

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).
 * 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 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes
 * Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be  anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities.
 * Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #515
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Stang (RfP scheduled to end after 14 April 2022 12:18 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Botcrux 10. Task/s: Change publication date (P577) of scientific articles from "1 January YYYY" to just "YYYY".
 * Pi bot 25. Task/s: Wikidata:Properties for deletion maintenance


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #104, April 17th at 12.00 UTC
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 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.
 * April 26, Ghent, Belgium: public OpenRefine data cleaning workshop and meet&greet with the OpenRefine team, including preview of Structured Data on Commons functionalities. Physical event, free, sign up via this link.
 * Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open! The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC
 * April 22nd - 24th, from Wiki Mentor Africa, A three days workshop on Linking biodiversity data through wikidata using Webaps and jupyter notebooks to attend, | register here
 * May 5th: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour, open discussion. Come with your favorite Phabricator task and we will improve its description together.
 * DigAMus goes Wikidata workshop: make digital projects in museums visible and findable. April 29, 3-5 p.m. TIB Open Science Lab. Register here.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #37, Numbers


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Chinese Ancestor Portrait Project
 * Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer
 * Papers
 * A formalization of one of the main claims of “Cortex reorganization of Xenopus laevis eggs in strong static magnetic fields” by Mietchen et al. 2005 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
 * A formalization of one of the main claims of “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information” by Hagedorn et al. 2011 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Query Service Tutorial in Tunisian by Houcemeddine Turki (WikiConference RU 2021 - Part 1, Part 2)
 * Live Coding - PyORCIDAtor, integrating ORCID with Wikidata - YouTube
 * How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbani) - YouTube
 * Bundestag + Wikidata = Open Parliament TV (in German) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
 * Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata MOOC (online course) has been developed by Wikimedia France, involving several French-speaking Wikidata editors. The first version of the course will start on April 26 (in French only - registration here)
 * OpenRefine is running a short survey to learn about user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed. If you upload files to Wikimedia Commons and/or edit structured data there, please help by filling in the survey!
 * Wikibase cloud update (April): the closed beta of Wikibase.cloud is planned to start in mid-April. If you want to apply for closed beta access, please register with this form.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: APE code, maintains linking to, academic calendar type, taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, P10604, notable role
 * External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID, Speleologi del passato ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Intesa Sanpaolo Historical Archive Map ID, Monoskop article ID, IDU foreign theatre ID, IDU theatre building ID, IDU theatrical ensemble ID, Cameroun COG, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, SRSLY person ID, FAOTERM ID, Catalogue of Life ID, Trovo ID, IFPI GTIN, MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: является автором художественной выставки, shoe color, government debt-to-GDP ratio, National Historical Museums of Sweden object ID, class of property value, has group, name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID
 * External identifiers: HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, bebyggelseområdeskod i Sverige, Israeli Opera site person id, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Identifier, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, IRIS Piedmont IDs, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most popular Chess openings (by number of sitelinks) (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fsitelinks%0AWITH%0A%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fsitelinks%0A%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23Minimum%20sitelinks%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks.%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3ArangeSafe%20true.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fsitelinks%20%3E%2020%20%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23Random%20stuff%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20BIND%28RAND%28%29%20AS%20%3Frandom%29%20.%20%23%20Using%20this%20makes%20it%20not%20random%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28SHA512%28CONCAT%28STR%28RAND%28%29%29%2C%20STR%28%3Fitem%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Frandom%29%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Frandom%0A%20%20LIMIT%201000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25subquery1%0AWITH%0A%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fsitelinks%0A%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25subquery1%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%23Filters%20to%20remove%20undesired%20entries%20%28templates%2C%20categories%2C%20...%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11266439%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ97950663%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4167836%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ59541917%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14204246%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ19842659%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategory%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP301%20%3FcategoryMainTopic%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15184295%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1423%20%3FtemplateHasTopic%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP910%20%3FtopicMainCategory%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ20010800%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP360%20%3FisAListOf%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ108783631%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11753321%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4224%20%3FcategoryContains%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP971%20%3FcategoryCombinesTopics%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ97303168%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ59259626%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ110010043%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1474116%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15647814%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ19887878%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ107344376%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ36330215%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14296%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ42032%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2370%20%3FconversionToSIUnit%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4167410%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3Aaaa%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20LIMIT%20100%0A%7D%20AS%20%25subquery2%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25subquery2%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D Random set of popular ("having more than 20 site links") items] (source)
 * Wikimedia affiliates on social media (source)
 * Listed viaducts in the UK (source)
 * Pages linked to the University of Clermont according to the number of articles on Wikimedia projects (source)
 * Which languages share a word for the same thing (visualized as a tree map). e.g. planet (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
 * REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

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: 2022-15
<section begin="technews-2022-W15"/> 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
 * There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net . This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
 * On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

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).

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #516
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
 * AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time: Martin Schibel will be speaking on Entitree. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time Agenda
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 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.
 * LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US (time zone converter). Where: Registration Link
 * Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software. Conference date: April 22
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * WeDigBio Transcription workflow "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
 * More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard
 * Videos
 * Transfer bibliographic data from Zotero to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Art+Feminism community Hours: Add your event data to Wikidata! - YouTube (En, Fr)
 * other:
 * Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?


 * Tool of the week
 * Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
 * Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2).
 * There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated.
 * Wikidata metrics are now easily accessible on the Dashboard. Here's an example Dashboard including a blog post above detailing the process.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
 * External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
 * External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID


 * Query examples:
 * Birthplace of rappers (source)
 * Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont (source)
 * List of corporate archives, location, and address where available (source)
 * French adventure video games (source)
 * Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia (source)
 * Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
 * REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.

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: 2022-16
<section begin="technews-2022-W16"/> 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).
 * Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes:,  ,  . The styles for those classes and   will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes
 * Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2022-W16"/>

23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #517
<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 adminship:
 * Pi admin bot (successful)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
 * Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
 * Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
 * Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
 * How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
 * The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
 * Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
 * From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
 * 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#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
 * Past:
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow (diff version)
 * Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics
 * Papers
 * Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations (closed access)
 * Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License
 * WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1, 2, 3, 4]
 * Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
 * Creating subsets of Wikidata
 * Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks
 * Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata
 * Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
 * User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
 * Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
 * Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
 * External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
 * External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
 * Query examples:
 * Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons (source)
 * Scottish river drainage basins (source)
 * The earliest road accident victims (source)
 * Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities (source)
 * Count of Wikidata property types (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
 * REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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: 2022-17
<section begin="technews-2022-W17"/> 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
 * On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

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).
 * Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older.

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #518
<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. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
 * TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
 * Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
 * Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
 * Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
 * May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.”
 * Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
 * Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
 * Papers
 * Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
 * Videos
 * Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
 * Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
 * Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
 * EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
 * The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
 * Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
 * Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
 * External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
 * External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID


 * Query examples:
 * Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank) (source)
 * Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment (source)
 * Countries which are named after a person (source)
 * Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)


 * Development
 * The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
 * Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
 * REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single 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
 * 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: 2022-18
<section begin="technews-2022-W18"/> 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
 * On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

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 developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
 * Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode.
 * If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include,   and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19
<section begin="technews-2022-W19"/> 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
<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 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #520
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * 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!

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Tech News: 2022-20
<section begin="technews-2022-W20"/> 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)

Wikidata weekly summary #521
<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: 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!

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Tech News: 2022-21
<section begin="technews-2022-W21"/> 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.

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * 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)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABarChart%0A%23Percentage%20of%20films%20passing%20the%20Bechdel%20test%20by%20genre.%20Including%20films%20that%20pass%20dubiously%2C%20rarely%20or%20contentiously%0A%23Some%20items%20have%20more%20than%20one%20test%20result%20%28e.g.%20in%20contentious%20cases%29%0A%23To%20pass%20the%20Bechdel%20test%20a%20film%20must%20fulfill%20all%20of%20three%20criteria%3A%201%29%20feature%20two%20women%202%29%20who%20talk%20to%20each%20other%203%29%20about%20something%20else%20than%20a%20man%0ASELECT%20%3FgenreLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%2F%20%3Fitem_count%20AS%20%3Fshare%29%20%28xsd%3Astring%28%3Fitem_count%29%20AS%20%3Fnumber_of_films_with_test_data%29%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3Fitem%20%3Fbechdel_result%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fgenre%20%7Bwd%3AQ1762165%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21802675%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ40831%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5937792%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21010853%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ132311%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1196408%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ16575965%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ842256%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ6585139%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ19765983%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ24925%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ182015%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ111956902%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21590660%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20ps%3AP5021%20wd%3AQ4165246%3B%20pq%3AP9259%20%3Fbechdel_result.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP5021%20%3Fst%3B%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fgenre%3B%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fitem_count%29%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AWHERE%20%7B%0AINCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AINCLUDE%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AFILTER%28%3Fbechdel_result%20IN%20%28wd%3AQ105773168%29%29%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Fitem_count%0A 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)

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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Tech News: 2022-22
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 * 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.

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 * 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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Books & Bytes – Issue 50
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 * New library partner - SPIE
 * 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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Wikidata weekly summary #523
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * 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
 * 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: 2022-24
<section begin="technews-2022-W24"/> 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
 * 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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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

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)

Wikidata weekly summary #426
<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 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
<section begin="technews-2022-W26"/> 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 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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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522
<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:
 * 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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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #528
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * 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
<section begin="technews-2022-W30"/> 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 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)

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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Books & Bytes – Issue 51
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 51, May – June 2022 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New library partners
 * SAGE Journals
 * Elsevier ScienceDirect
 * University of Chicago Press
 * Information Processing Society of Japan
 * Feedback requested on this newsletter
 * 1Lib1Ref May 2022

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Tech News: 2022-31
<section begin="technews-2022-W31"/> 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
 * Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

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 Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

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

Future meetings
 * This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #532
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Pi bot 26 Task/s: Auto-correct coordinates set to the wrong globe
 * Pi bot 27 Task/s: Auto-copy coordinate globe to located on astronomical body (P376) (except for Q2)
 * William Avery Bot 9 Task/s: Remove tracking parameters from reference URLs, as suggested at Wikidata:Bot requests § Tracking parameters in reference URLs. I would like to run this as a recurring task, after clearing the c. 2800 current instances.
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 8 (approved) 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 WD:RBOT § Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
 * The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
 * Ongoing
 * Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
 * Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
 * Past
 * First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Books
 * Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship
 * Blogs
 * Most notable person, everywhere in the world
 * Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!
 * Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata - User:MargaretRDonald
 * Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes
 * Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists in historical Newspaper and Journals
 * Papers
 * Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians Online - Tweet
 * Videos
 * New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022 - User:DrThneed
 * Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia (in French) by VIGNERON and Jsamwrites
 * Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Presentations:
 * KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group
 * KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group


 * Tool of the week
 * Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata's 10th birthday: you can contribute to the collaborative celebration video by sending a "happy birthday video" before September 18th, more information here


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: recordist, spoken by, foliage type
 * External identifiers: 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, Super Basketball League ID, Sport24.ru team ID, P. League+ ID, Paleobiology Database ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Theatrical Index person ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Zhihu question ID, counts instances of, holds diplomatic passport of, Identifier of Czechoslovak books
 * External identifiers: Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Baidu Tieba name, 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, identifiant BD oubliées d'un auteur, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, Onestop ID, Federation Council reference ID, athletics.by person ID, AFC player ID, izsambo.ru person ID, Rugby Union of Russia athlete ID, Online Torwali Dictionary ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, USK ID, BiatlonMag profile ID, motocross.ru profile ID, Football 24 article ID, abART book series ID, Turkish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933–1945 ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of death (P570)
 * Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists (source)
 * Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal (source)
 * Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo (source)
 * Places named after Lenin (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. T312292, T313113, T313466)
 * We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
 * Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (T278962)
 * REST API:
 * Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
 * Looking into feedback from first testing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help out, 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: 2022-32
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Recent changes
 * GUS2Wiki copies the information from to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates.

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) and on  at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings
 * The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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Wikidata weekly summary #533
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship:
 * Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
 * Ongoing:
 * Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
 * Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, Fire


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Turns out most famous people aren’t that famous at all
 * An introduction to Wikidata: How worlds of Wikimedia link
 * Papers
 * An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph
 * The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement
 * Videos
 * Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
 * Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata
 * Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata - Overtime Discussion
 * Wikimania Hackathon: Let us play with PubMed to enrich Wikidata with medical information
 * When Quechua meets Wikibase - QICHWABASE
 * Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
 * Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script
 * Some reflections on wikidata and color biology
 * Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements
 * Wikidata tutorials:
 * Add the official street address of an institution
 * Add visitor numbers to an institution
 * Wikidata tutorials (in French):
 * Adding an institution's official website
 * Create a Wikimedia Account
 * Adding a webpage


 * Tool of the week
 * KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project? OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
 * Wikimedia integration in OpenRefine: looking for developers


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
 * External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
 * External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most common numbers of statements per item (source)
 * [https://commons-query.wikimedia.org/#%23%20defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ffile%20%3Ftitle%20%3Fimage%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fd%29%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%27%20%2F%20%27%29%20AS%20%3Fdepicts_list%29%20%3Fcoords%20%3Flayer%0AWITH%0A%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Ffile%20%3Ftitle%0A%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Generator%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikimedia.org%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agcmtitle%20%22Category%3AMosques%20in%20Dubai%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agenerator%20%22categorymembers%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agcmtype%20%22file%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agcmlimit%20%22max%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftitle%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atitle%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fpageid%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20%22%40pageid%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%27https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fentity%2FM%27%2C%20%3Fpageid%29%29%20AS%20%3Ffile%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25get_files%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ffile%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25get_files%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ32815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%27M%27%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25layer%0A%20%20%20%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25get_files%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fdepicts_label%20.%20FILTER%20%28lang%28%3Fdepicts_label%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fdepicts_label%2C%20%3Fdepicts%29%20AS%20%3Fd%29%20.%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25layer%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP1259%20%3Fcoords%7D%20.%20%20%23%20coords%20of%20POV%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP9149%20%3Fcoords%7D%20.%20%20%23%20fallback%3A%20coords%20of%20depicted%20place%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20schema%3Aurl%20%3Fimage.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20%20FILTER%28bound%28%3Fcoords%29%29%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7BBIND%28%27-%27%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%7D%20.%0A%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ffile%20%3Ftitle%20%3Fimage%20%3Fcoords%20%3Flayer%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ftitle Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category] Mosques in Dubai (source)
 * Art people who died in Nazi camps (source)
 * Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item (source)
 * Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article (source)
 * Longest natural watercourses in France (source)
 * Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement
 * Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet


 * Development
 * Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
 * Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (T278962)
 * Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
 * REST API:
 * Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (T314790)
 * Doing research around PATCH and JSON Patch

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: 2022-33
<section begin="technews-2022-W33"/> 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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now 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 Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

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

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2022-W33"/>

21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #534
<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 adminship:
 * Estopedist1 (successful)
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French
 * Alternate disclosure policy


 * Events
 * Past events:
 * Clutch sprint August 2022


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Automatic word relatedness evaluation
 * Videos
 * Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
 * Highlights from Wikimania 2022
 * Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation By Mahir Morshed
 * Partner Up for Wikidata!
 * Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities
 * Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project
 * Tutorial
 * Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks


 * Tool of the week
 * List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
 * Template:Documented queries skeleton
 * Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
 * OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
 * External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
 * External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23title%3A%20Map%20of%20Coast%20Tram%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%20%3Flayer%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fsearch%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1510414%20%20%20%20%20%20%23light%20rail%20system%20search%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsearch%20wdt%3AP527%7Cwdt%3AP121%20%3Flignes.%23what%20are%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%3F%0A%20%20%3Flignes%20wdt%3AP559%20%3Ftermini.%23what%20are%20the%20termini%20of%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ548662%3B%20%20%23any%20type%20of%20service%20station%20%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23That%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP16%20%3Fsearch%3B%23That%20are%20part%20of%20the%20searched%20light%20rail%20network%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP197%20%3Fpred.%0A%20%20%3Fpred%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords_pred%3Bwdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23Neighbours%20that%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine_pred.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP197%20_%3Ab1.%0A%20%20_%3Ab1%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fpred%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP5051%20%3Ftowards%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP81%7Cpq%3AP1192%20%3Fline_pq.%0A%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238.%23Lines%20that%20are%20running%0Aoptional%7B%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP1671%20%3Fline_number.%7D%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine_pred%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%23take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20correspondance%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%20%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Fline_pq%29%23Take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20next%20station%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3Ftowards%20%3D%20%3Ftermini%29%20%0A%20%3Fpred%20%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_pred%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_station.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22LINESTRING%28%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%20%22%2C%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%22%29%22%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%0A%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpred%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpredLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FstationLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Frgb%20%3FpredLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%0AORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fline_number%29%20%3Fline_number%20%3FsubwayLine Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops] [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23title%3A%20Map%20of%20Coast%20Tram%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%20%3Flayer%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fsearch%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1510414%20%20%20%20%20%20%23light%20rail%20system%20search%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsearch%20wdt%3AP527%7Cwdt%3AP121%20%3Flignes.%23what%20are%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%3F%0A%20%20%3Flignes%20wdt%3AP559%20%3Ftermini.%23what%20are%20the%20termini%20of%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ548662%3B%20%20%23any%20type%20of%20service%20station%20%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23That%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP16%20%3Fsearch%3B%23That%20are%20part%20of%20the%20searched%20light%20rail%20network%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP197%20%3Fpred.%0A%20%20%3Fpred%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords_pred%3Bwdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23Neighbours%20that%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine_pred.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP197%20_%3Ab1.%0A%20%20_%3Ab1%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fpred%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP5051%20%3Ftowards%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP81%7Cpq%3AP1192%20%3Fline_pq.%0A%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238.%23Lines%20that%20are%20running%0Aoptional%7B%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP1671%20%3Fline_number.%7D%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine_pred%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%23take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20correspondance%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%20%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Fline_pq%29%23Take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20next%20station%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3Ftowards%20%3D%20%3Ftermini%29%20%0A%20%3Fpred%20%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_pred%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_station.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22LINESTRING%28%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%20%22%2C%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%22%29%22%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%0A%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpred%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpredLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FstationLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Frgb%20%3FpredLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%0AORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fline_number%29%20%3Fline_number%20%3FsubwayLine Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)]1
 * Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL" (source)
 * Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China (Source)
 * Journals with the most retractions (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
 * REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
 * Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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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Recent changes
 * Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins.

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).
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 * The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear.

Future changes
 * The new [] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere.  You can turn it off in your preferences.

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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #535
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Small wiki toolkits/Workshops#Writing Wikidata queries using the WDQS tool
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
 * Past:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
 * Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
 * Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
 * Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
 * Papers
 * DrNote: An open medical annotation service
 * Videos
 * [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
 * Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
 * Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
 * Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)


 * Tool of the week
 * SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
 * The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
 * The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
 * Open vacancy:
 * Wikimedia Indonesia - Technology internships in the GLAM and Wikidata fields


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
 * External identifiers: IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
 * External identifiers: Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID


 * Query examples:
 * Occupations as classified by ISCO/ESCO (source)
 * Occupation of people in the New Zealand Thesis Project (source)
 * Average weights and heights of sportsmen (source)
 * Letters by numbers of alphabet where they are found (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (T306934)
 * Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of T307866)

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: 2022-35
<section begin="technews-2022-W35"/> 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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems
 * In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed.

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).

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #536
<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:
 * MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
 * DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
 * Papers
 * Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction
 * Videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
 * Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
 * Find museums without official website on Wikidata
 * Add coordinates of an institution
 * Different ways to display SPARQL queries
 * How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
 * External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
 * External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
 * Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
 * Education of French prefects (source)
 * Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
 * Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
 * Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (T306934)
 * We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (T316523)
 * For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
 * Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (T314064, T312633, T312652)
 * Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (T278962)

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: 2022-36
<section begin="technews-2022-W36"/> 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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> should be updated to use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, the new id for this row. Examples are available.

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23:20, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #537
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 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
 * Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Introducing Knowledge Graphs featuring Elena Simperl - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #89 - YouTube
 * Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
 * Adding the address of an institution (in French) - YouTube
 * Dataviz
 * All Tour de France's stage winners from 1903 to today
 * All Vuelta's stage winners by country of citizenship


 * Tool of the week
 * View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
 * Job opening:
 * Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
 * External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID


 * Query examples:
 * Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
 * Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
 * Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
 * Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
 * Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
 * Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (T306934)
 * Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (T307866)
 * Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (T278962)
 * Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

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: 2022-37
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Recent changes
 * The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator.

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).
 * Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category.

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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #538
<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:
 * بوٹ دا عثمان
 * Task/s:
 * Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
 * Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
 * The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Vue le vue, by Magnus Manske
 * Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board election
 * Papers
 * Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
 * Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
 * WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
 * Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
 * Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
 * Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
 * Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
 * Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
 * ContribuLing 2021
 * Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
 * Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
 * Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by "Report an issue" method
 * Dataviz
 * A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
 * Presentation
 * New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022


 * Tool of the week
 * WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
 * External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
 * External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
 * Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
 * List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
 * Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
 * People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
 * French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
 * Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
 * World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
 * Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
 * Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
 * Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
 * Cause of death of US presidents by party


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * Finished the endpoint for editing statements (T306934)
 * Working on automated edit summaries (T312811)
 * Making small modifications to the response format for statements (T317866)
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (T312853)
 * Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (T313599)
 * Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (T317863)
 * Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
 * Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
 * Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
 * Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (T306932)

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: 2022-38
<section begin="technews-2022-W38"/> 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 Two database fields in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> table are now being dropped: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables.

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).
 * In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts.

Future changes
 * In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #539
<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:
 * JhsBot 6
 * Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.


 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * 2022 September status on Danish lexemes in Wikidata
 * Papers
 * The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research
 * Videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #91 - YouTube
 * How donations to Wikidata work (in English with French subtitles) - YouTube
 * BridgeDB & Wikidata. A powerful combination that generates interoperable open research (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Presentations
 * Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.


 * ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
 * The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
 * External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID


 * Query examples:
 * Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
 * Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
 * Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
 * Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
 * Song titles that match female given names (source)
 * Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
 * Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
 * Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
 * People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
 * Software license, by year (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Hiking trails


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
 * Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (T300770)
 * Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (T317863)
 * REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (T312811)

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: 2022-39
<section begin="technews-2022-W39"/> 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 Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

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).
 * Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias.
 * Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information.
 * In the     namespace, pages ending with will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the      and      namespaces.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:28, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 52
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 52, July – August 2022 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New instant-access collections:
 * SpringerLink and Springer Nature
 * Project MUSE
 * Taylor & Francis
 * ASHA
 * Loeb
 * Feedback requested on this newsletter

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Tech News: 2022-40
<section begin="technews-2022-W40"/> 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
 * Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines.
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

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).
 * Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed)
 * Octicons-tools.svg The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
 * The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:22, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #540
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * 🧵Discussions
 * Open request for adminship:
 * Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * EuropeanCommissionBot 1
 * Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
 * William Avery Bot 10
 * Task/s: Fix instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143)-->Minor Planet Center (Q522039) to stated in (P248)-->Minor Planet Center Database (Q106600690) as requested at Request to fix certain instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143) (2022-09-25)


 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
 * October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
 * Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
 * The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
 * Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
 * Ongoing
 * Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney
 * Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata
 * Wiki Loves…. Wikidata!
 * More Picasso paintings in one year than all the Vermeer paintings? (Answering an art history question SPARQL).
 * Papers
 * LOD4Culture: Easy Exploration of Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data
 * Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
 * 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
 * Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.


 * ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
 * The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
 * Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
 * View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by | submitting translations.
 * 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
 * It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
 * Job openings
 * Open call for a WiR at The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
 * Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Senior Software Engineer (Wikibase.Cloud)
 * Software Engineer (Wikibase Suite)


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: won sets
 * External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
 * External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID


 * Query examples:
 * UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0A%23title%3A%20British%20Monarchs%20vs.%20Prime%20Ministers%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fpm%20%3FpmLabel%20%3FpmImage%20%3Fmonarch%20%3FmonarchLabel%20%3FmonarchImage%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%23%20not%20sure%20if%20there%20is%20a%20more%20straightforward%20way%20to%20access%20British%20monarchs%20%28this%20query%20runs%20second%29%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmonarch%20%3Fmonarch_start%20%3Fmonarch_end%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25start_UK%20.%0A%20%20VALUES%20%24MONARCH%20%20%7B%20wd%3AQ110324075%20wd%3AQ9134365%20wd%3AQ111722535%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fmonarch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%3Fmonarch%20p%3AP39%20%3Fph%20.%0A%20%20%3Fph%20ps%3AP39%20%24MONARCH%20.%0A%20%20%3Fph%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fmonarch_start%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fph%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fmonarch_end%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fmonarch_start%20%3E%3D%20%3Fstart_UK%20%7C%7C%20%3Fmonarch_end%20%3E%3D%20%3Fstart_UK%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20NOW%28%29%20AS%20%3Ftoday%20%29%20%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fmonarch_end%2C%20%3Ftoday%29%20as%20%3Fmonarch_end%29%20%23%20handle%20missing%20end%20dates%2C%20hopefully%20it%27s%20just%20the%20current%20monarch%0A%7D%20%7D%20AS%20%25monarchs%0A%0A%23%20Find%20the%20start%20date%20of%20the%20first%20Prime%20Minister%20so%20we%20can%20filter%20monarchs%20that%20reigned%20after%20this%20point%20%28this%20query%20runs%20first%29%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fstart_UK%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fpm%20p%3AP39%20%3Fpmph_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%3Fpmph_stmt%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ14211%20.%0A%20%20%3Fpmph_stmt%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fstart_UK%20.%0A%7D%20%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fstart_UK%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25start_UK%0A%0A%23%20this%20query%20runs%20last%20and%20uses%20the%20select%20in%20line%202%3B%20it%20produces%20the%20visualisation%20specified%20in%20line%201%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25monarchs%0A%20%20%3Fpm%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fpm%20p%3AP39%20%3Fnode%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ14211%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fnode%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fpm_start%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fnode%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fpm_end%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20NOW%28%29%20AS%20%3Ftoday%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fpm_end%2C%20%3Ftoday%29%20as%20%3Fpm_end%29%20%23%20handle%20missing%20end%20dates%2C%20hopefully%20it%27s%20just%20the%20current%20president%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20%28%3Fmonarch_start%20%3E%3D%20%3Fpm_start%20%26%26%20%3Fmonarch_start%20%3C%3D%20%3Fpm_end%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3Fmonarch_end%20%3E%3D%20%3Fpm_start%20%26%26%20%3Fmonarch_end%20%3C%3D%20%3Fpm_end%20%29%20%7C%7C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28%3Fpm_start%20%3E%3D%20%3Fmonarch_start%20%26%26%20%3Fpm_start%20%3C%3D%20%3Fmonarch_end%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3Fpm_end%20%3E%3D%20%3Fmonarch_start%20%26%26%20%3Fpm_end%20%3C%3D%20%3Fmonarch_end%20%29%29%0A%23%20get%20images%2C%20use%20a%20default%20image%20if%20none%20found%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fmonarch%20wdt%3AP18%20%3FmonarchImage%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmonarchImage%2C%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2FImage_needed%2C_please_upload_to_commons.wikimedia.org.jpg%3E%29%20as%20%3FmonarchImage%29%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpm%20wdt%3AP18%20%3FpmImage%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FpmImage%2C%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2FImage_needed%2C_please_upload_to_commons.wikimedia.org.jpg%3E%29%20as%20%3FpmImaage%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0A%23title%3A%20British%20Monarchs%20vs.%20US%20Presidents%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fpresident%20%3FpresidentLabel%20%3FpresidentImage%20%3Fmonarch%20%3FmonarchLabel%20%3FmonarchImage%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%23%20not%20sure%20if%20there%20is%20a%20more%20straightforward%20way%20to%20access%20British%20monarchs%20%28this%20query%20runs%20second%29%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmonarch%20%3Fmonarch_start%20%3Fmonarch_end%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25start_US%20.%0A%20%20VALUES%20%24MONARCH%20%20%7B%20wd%3AQ9134365%20wd%3AQ111722535%20wd%3AQ110324075%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fmonarch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%3Fmonarch%20p%3AP39%20%3Fph%20.%0A%20%20%3Fph%20ps%3AP39%20%24MONARCH%20.%0A%20%20%3Fph%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fmonarch_start%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fph%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fmonarch_end%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fmonarch_start%20%3E%3D%20%3Fstart_US%20%7C%7C%20%3Fmonarch_end%20%3E%3D%20%3Fstart_US%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20NOW%28%29%20AS%20%3Ftoday%20%29%20%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fmonarch_end%2C%20%3Ftoday%29%20as%20%3Fmonarch_end%29%20%23%20handle%20missing%20end%20dates%2C%20hopefully%20it%27s%20just%20the%20current%20monarch%0A%7D%20%7D%20AS%20%25monarchs%0A%0A%23%20Find%20the%20start%20date%20of%20the%20first%20US%20President%20so%20we%20can%20filter%20monarchs%20that%20reigned%20after%20this%20point%20%28this%20query%20runs%20first%29%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fstart_US%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%3Fx%20p%3AP39%20%3Fph%20.%0A%20%20%3Fph%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ11696%20.%0A%20%20%3Fph%20pq%3AP1545%20%3Fnumber%20.%0A%20%20%3Fph%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fstart_US%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fnumber%20%3D%20%221%22%29%0A%7D%20%7D%20AS%20%25start_US%0A%0A%23%20this%20query%20runs%20last%20and%20uses%20the%20select%20in%20line%202%3B%20it%20produces%20the%20visualisation%20specified%20in%20line%201%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25monarchs%0A%20%20%3Fpresident%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fpresident%20p%3AP39%20%3Fnode%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ11696%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fnode%20pq%3AP1545%20%3Fnumber%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fnode%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fpresident_start%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fnode%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fpresident_end%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20NOW%28%29%20AS%20%3Ftoday%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fpresident_end%2C%20%3Ftoday%29%20as%20%3Fpresident_end%29%20%23%20handle%20missing%20end%20dates%2C%20hopefully%20it%27s%20just%20the%20current%20president%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20%28%3Fmonarch_start%20%3E%3D%20%3Fpresident_start%20%26%26%20%3Fmonarch_start%20%3C%3D%20%3Fpresident_end%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3Fmonarch_end%20%3E%3D%20%3Fpresident_start%20%26%26%20%3Fmonarch_end%20%3C%3D%20%3Fpresident_end%20%29%20%7C%7C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28%3Fpresident_start%20%3E%3D%20%3Fmonarch_start%20%26%26%20%3Fpresident_start%20%3C%3D%20%3Fmonarch_end%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3Fpresident_end%20%3E%3D%20%3Fmonarch_start%20%26%26%20%3Fpresident_end%20%3C%3D%20%3Fmonarch_end%20%29%29%0A%23%20get%20images%2C%20use%20a%20default%20image%20if%20none%20found%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fmonarch%20wdt%3AP18%20%3FmonarchImage%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmonarchImage%2C%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2FImage_needed%2C_please_upload_to_commons.wikimedia.org.jpg%3E%29%20as%20%3FmonarchImage%29%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpresident%20wdt%3AP18%20%3FpresidentImage%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FpresidentImage%2C%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2FImage_needed%2C_please_upload_to_commons.wikimedia.org.jpg%3E%29%20as%20%3FpresidentImage%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D British Monarchs vs. US Presidents] (source)
 * Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
 * Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
 * Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Flocation%22%2C%20%20%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Flocation%20%3Frgb%20%3Fimage%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%24COUNTRY%20%3Fnorth%20%3Feast%20%3Fsouth%20%3Fwest%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%24COUNTRY%20%7B%20wd%3AQ212%20%7D%0A%20%20%24COUNTRY%20p%3AP1332%20%5Bpsv%3AP1332%20%5Bwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fnorth%5D%5D.%0A%20%20%24COUNTRY%20p%3AP1334%20%5Bpsv%3AP1334%20%5Bwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Feast%5D%5D.%0A%20%20%24COUNTRY%20p%3AP1333%20%5Bpsv%3AP1333%20%5Bwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fsouth%5D%5D.%0A%20%20%24COUNTRY%20p%3AP1335%20%5Bpsv%3AP1335%20%5Bwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fwest%5D%5D.%0A%7D%20%7D%20AS%20%25data%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%24COUNTRY%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP625%20%3Flocation%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flongitude%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%20%3Flatitude%3B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Flatitude%20%3C%3D%20%3Fnorth%20%26%26%20%3Flatitude%20%3E%3D%20%3Fsouth%20%26%26%20%3Flongitude%20%3E%3D%20%3Fwest%20%26%26%20%3Flongitude%20%3C%3D%20%3Feast%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20%28%3Fnorth%20%2B%20%3Fsouth%29%20%2F%202%20AS%20%3Fcentre%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20COALESCE%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Flatitude%20%3E%3D%20%3Fcentre%2C%20%220057b7%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%22ffd700%22%0A%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%20%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%2010000%20%23%20try%20to%20increase%20the%20limit%20but%20might%20timeout%20or%20cause%20browser%20to%20hang%20when%20rendering%20the%20map Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine] (source)
 * Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
 * People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
 * Films with "it" in the title (source)
 * Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
 * Emblems depicting birds! (source)
 * Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * Improved handling of localized language names (T261851/T275781)
 * REST API:
 * Continued work on automated edit summaries (T312811)
 * We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (T318151)
 * Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (T318221)
 * Continued work on the mul language code (T285156)
 * Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (T313477)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #541
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
 * UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
 * Ongoing
 * DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
 * Past
 * The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
 * 10 Years of Wikidata Part 1 (en, de)
 * 10 Years of Wikidata Part 2 (en, de)
 * The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #93
 * DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
 * Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
 * Dataviz
 * All Nobel laureates by year and gender
 * Tribute to Annie Ernaux, Literature Nobel lauréate in 2022


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50)


 * ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
 * The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: model image
 * External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
 * External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
 * Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20%E2%80%9Ccontroversies%E2%80%9D%20articles%20with%20the%20most%20sitelinks%20%28language%20versions%29%0A%23%20note%3A%20technically%2C%20this%20counts%20all%20sitelinks%2C%20not%20only%20Wikipedia%20ones%20%28e.g.%20also%20Wikimedia%20Commons%20categories%29%20%E2%80%93%0A%23%20the%20top%20results%20are%20correct%2C%20though%2C%20so%20I%20don%E2%80%99t%20think%20it%E2%80%99s%20worth%20complicating%20the%20query%20further%20to%20fix%20this%0ASELECT%20%3Fcontroversies%20%3FcontroversiesLabel%20%3Fsitelinks%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20all%20%E2%80%9Ccontroversies%E2%80%9D%20items%20using%20CirrusSearch%20%28SPARQL%20isn%E2%80%99t%20the%20right%20tool%20for%20this%20job%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22www.wikidata.org%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Search%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20note%3A%20the%20%E2%80%9Cinlabel%E2%80%9D%20keyword%20also%20searches%20aliases%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20exclude%20scholarly%20articles%20%28Q13442814%29%2C%20there%E2%80%99s%20plenty%20of%20them%20and%20we%20don%E2%80%99t%20care%20about%20them%20here%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20also%20exclude%20categories%20%28Q4167836%2C%20P4224%29%3B%20we%E2%80%99ll%20filter%20them%20out%20again%20below%2C%20but%20excluding%20some%20here%20speeds%20things%20up%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrsearch%20%22inlabel%3Acontroversies%40en%20-haswbstatement%3AP31%3DQ13442814%20-haswbstatement%3AP31%3DQ4167836%20-haswbstatement%3AP4224%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20as%20many%20search%20results%20at%20once%20as%20possible%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrlimit%20%22max%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcontroversies%20wikibase%3AapiOutputItem%20mwapi%3Atitle.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20number%20of%20sitelinks%20and%20the%20English%20label%0A%20%20%3Fcontroversies%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcontroversiesLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcontroversiesLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20categories%20%28-haswbstatement%3AP31%3DQ4167836%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20exclude%20categories%20that%20are%20instance%20of%20a%20subclass%20of%20Q4167836%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21STRSTARTS%28%3FcontroversiesLabel%2C%20%22Category%3A%22%40en%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20also%20filter%20out%20templates%20%28only%20one%20match%20at%20the%20moment%2C%20not%20worth%20adding%20this%20to%20the%20search%20string%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21STRSTARTS%28%3FcontroversiesLabel%2C%20%22Template%3A%22%40en%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20the%20item%20about%20the%20%E2%80%9Ccontroversy%E2%80%9D%20concept%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fcontroversies%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ1255828%29%0A%20%20%23%20require%20at%20least%20one%20sitelink%20%28article%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsitelinks%20%3E%200%29%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fsitelinks%29 "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions)] (source)
 * Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
 * Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
 * Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
 * Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (T311617)
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
 * Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (T317863)
 * REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
 * Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (T300770)
 * Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (T314360)
 * Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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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Guild of Copy Editors' October 2022 newsletter
 Baffle☿gab  03:07, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #542
<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:
 * DwdsBot
 * Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
 * RobertgarrigosBOT
 * Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
 * Josh404Bot 4
 * Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
 * BorkedBot 8
 * Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate


 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
 * Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
 * Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
 * Ongoing
 * Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
 * 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
 * Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
 * Papers
 * The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #94
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 10: Adding references to Wikidata items
 * Qichwabase as a Wikibase instance - Wikibase as a core technology to support a harmonization process of the Quechua language and knowledge.
 * Dataviz
 * Career of Nobel laureates in literature
 * Actress-singers and actor-singers careers in dataviz
 * Twitter threads
 * 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
 * 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
 * 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!


 * ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
 * The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
 * The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
 * Job opening
 * Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
 * External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
 * External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
 * Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
 * How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
 * Streets of Paris that meet (source)
 * Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * REST API:
 * Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
 * Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
 * Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (T302289)
 * The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
 * Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (T304943)
 * Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (T315423)
 * Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (T303103)
 * Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (T318137)
 * Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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: 2022-42
<section begin="technews-2022-W42"/> 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 recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510.
 * A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Lua module authors can use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to load data from JSON pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Lua module authors can enable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis.

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "" button will look different after this change.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #543
<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 adminship:
 * Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * AniMangaDBImportBot
 * Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.


 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 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 Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
 * October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
 * Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
 * Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
 * Ongoing
 * Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables
 * Past
 * The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
 * Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports
 * Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
 * The Impact of Wikidata and its Community – Part 1, Part 2
 * Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
 * What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
 * Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
 * Volunteers speaking Turkic languages ​​met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
 * Videos
 * Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #95
 * GND meets Wikibase
 * COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
 * Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
 * Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
 * Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
 * Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
 * Papers
 * Towards improving Wikidata reuse with emerging patterns
 * The disambiguation of people names in biological collections
 * Empirical Study of Elite Networks with Wikidata
 * Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data
 * Dataviz
 * Nobel laureates in Economics
 * Twitter threads
 * 10 awesome tools and little helpers to help you around Wikidata
 * 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
 * Presentations
 * Documenting our languages with Lexeme by Asaf Bartov


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.


 * ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata has crossed the mark of 100,000,000 items
 * The Small wiki toolkits team are looking for feedback on the ongoing workshop series around bots and scripts development.
 * Job openings
 * Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d)
 * Data Analyst Wikidata (m/f/d)


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
 * External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to (source)
 * People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin (source)
 * Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics (source)
 * Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association (source)
 * Flags containing the colors white and yellow (source)
 * AI models (source)
 * Swedes accused for churel (source)
 * Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes (source)


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (T307866)
 * Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (T314360)
 * Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (T302289)
 * REST API:
 * Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (T318681)
 * Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (T320358)

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: 2022-43
<section begin="technews-2022-W43"/> 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
 * There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
 * On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems
 * Last week, three wikis had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem.

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).
 * 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.
 * Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias.
 * Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at Unicode 11 case map migration . More information can be found at T292552.
 * The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes
 * The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #544
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
 * Past
 * Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
 * Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
 * Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
 * Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
 * Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
 * Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
 * Videos
 * Wikidata's 10th birthday collaborative video (Youtube, Commons)
 * Livestream with Jan Ainali, Abbe98, Denny Vrandečić and Sandra Fauconnier for Wikidata's birthday (Youtube)
 * Threads
 * History of Wikidata by Denny Vrandečić
 * 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
 * 10 WikiProjects you should join
 * 10 tools and helpers to help you around Wikidata
 * 10 websites and apps built on top of Wikidata
 * 10 queries that teach you something about the world
 * 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.


 * ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: embargoed until
 * External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
 * External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID


 * Query examples:
 * Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
 * Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
 * Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
 * French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
 * Graph of filmi music composers (source)
 * Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
 * Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
 * Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (T307866)
 * Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (T288511)
 * REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (T320358)

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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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
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 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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Tech News: 2022-44
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 * When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible.
 * In, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "".

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 maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts.
 * It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu.
 * It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor.
 * It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor.

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Wikidata weekly summary #545
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 * 🧵Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: MsynBot 10, Mr Robot
 * New request for comments: Create items for property proposals
 * Other discussions: State of the Wikidata, thoughts on data quality and structure (on the mailing-list)


 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
 * Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
 * Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
 * Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
 * A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Analysis of City Information on Wikidata by Jsamwrites
 * Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia by Tim Sherratt
 * Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske
 * Papers
 * Leveraging Wikidata's edit history in knowledge graph refinement tasks (Gonzalez-Hevia and Gayo-Avello)
 * Videos
 * Practical Linked Open Data for Small Archives (in English)
 * Live Wikidata editing #97 with Jan and Albin


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: collection items at
 * External identifiers: Language of Bindings ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, AUTC herritage object ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Universal Content Identifier, Léonore Web ID, BritBox ID (UK version), OMED ID, Municipal Library of Trikala ID, MMB ID, HiSCoD ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ILAMDIR ID, Cannabis Database ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, island code of Indonesia, SR-Archiv print media ID, SR-Archiv record ID, EuDML work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official demo URL, WMOOV movie ID, press information URL, contact page URL, sitemap URL, REGON, Check Digit, impressum URL, from language & to language, object identifies
 * External identifiers: Oblio author ID, Pittori Liguri ID, Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, SciSpace author ID, RomArchive person ID, Webtoon creator ID, Archives West repository ID, npm scope, Team Norway profile ID, identifiant USTC, worldofsam ID, Open Supply Hub organization ID, Kotobank ID, Weblio ID, Haymarket Books Author ID, ILNM ID, BookWalker series ID, IRIS Sicily IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Intangible cultural heritage (source)
 * Wikimedians with Mastodon accounts
 * Politicians with Mastodon accounts (source)
 * Graph of the characters of the book "We Are Here" (source)
 * Map of birth places of women mentioned in the book "Femmes de lettres en Bretagne" (source)
 * Participants in the 1955 Bandung Conference (source)


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
 * Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (T321595 and (T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
 * Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (T288511)
 * Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
 * REST API:
 * Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (T320358)
 * Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

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

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 * 🫶 Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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Tech News: 2022-45
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Recent changes
 * An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available.

Problems
 * Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

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

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This Month in GLAM: October 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #546
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 * 🧵Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * MsynBot 11
 * Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular daily
 * VojtěchDostálBot 1
 * Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * MsynBot 10
 * Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects
 * Josh404Bot 4
 * Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
 * BorkedBot 8
 * Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
 * DwdsBot
 * Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).


 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
 * Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n)
 * Past:
 * Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Awesome Wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information
 * The Wednesday index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article
 * The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria
 * Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon
 * Checking lexical forms - Abstract Wikipedia Updates
 * Papers
 * Building the European Social Innovation Database with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
 * WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark
 * Videos
 * Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube
 * Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest.
 * David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube
 * Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube
 * 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
 * Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, JioSaavn artist ID, England Hockey ID, UWIND ID, NCUA Charter ID, FDIC Certificate ID, Niconico ID, Camp Wild ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, MSVF ID, Central Library of Volos authority ID, Aerodrome identification Code, UOM ID, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, Levadia Library ID, IHF profile ID, ihg Hotel ID, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Louisiana Plant ID, WMOOV movie ID, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID, Famous Birthdays ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: subfunction, mastodon URL, unique name, user input & output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme, fruit color, headline, chapter or section
 * External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID, Wyndham Hotel ID, Hilton Hotel ID, DML-CZ publication ID, Accor Hotel ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon, Hlídač státu, Kirjasampo ID, Boksampo ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID, KOBIS people ID, RISM siglum, Infopédia ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française


 * Query examples:
 * Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata
 * Mastodon accounts of researchers (source)
 * Most annotated servers according to Wikidata (source)
 * Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address (source)
 * European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude (source)
 * Map of water bodies in France (source)
 * Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize (source)
 * Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames (source)


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * REST API:
 * Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (T320358)
 * Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
 * Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (T321459)
 * Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (T288511)
 * New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (T316093, T317682)

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: 2022-46
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Recent changes
 * At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome.
 * The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org , and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system.

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).
 * There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example.
 * Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 53
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 53, September – October 2022 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New collections:
 * Edward Elgar
 * E-Yearbook
 * Corriere della Serra
 * Wikilala
 * Collections moved to Library Bundle:
 * Ancestry
 * New feature: Outage notification
 * Spotlight: Collections indexed in EDS

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Wikidata weekly summary #547
<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:
 * Cewbot 5
 * Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
 * Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
 * Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Apple Podcasts is auto-tagging episodes with topics
 * Papers
 * Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
 * Videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
 * The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube
 * Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
 * Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
 * Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube
 * SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
 * Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: build system, tiratge, official demo URL, pinout, sitemap URL
 * External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID, Baidu Tieba name, DrugCentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID, Musicsperlacobla composer ID, Boig Sardanista sardana ID, npm scope, IRIS UNICT author ID, IRIS UNIME author ID, IRIS UNIPA author ID, IRIS UNIKORE author ID, Hlídač státu person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: has visual representation, chapter and verse in the Bible, commit hash, official server list URL, translation management URL
 * External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID, SNE publisher ID, Livres Hebdo ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, AniList staff ID, ECOF saint ID, DFK Paris person ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID


 * Query examples:
 * Finding the first revision and original creator of items with mwapi
 * Mastodon accounts (with Twitter equivalents) (source)
 * Gender balances of winners of literary awards (source)
 * Newest templates:
 * Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki


 * Development
 * REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (T321459)
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (T318310)
 * Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (T322687)
 * Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (T315161)
 * Mismatch Finder:
 * Finished work on better handling of dates (T288511)
 * Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (T313468)

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: 2022-47
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Recent changes
 * The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

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) and on  at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #548
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship:
 * ChristianKl 2 (RfP scheduled to end after 4 December 2022 17:22 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Identifier sync bot
 * Task: Add database identifiers to items, mainly journal article items.
 * BorkedBot 9
 * Task: Import values of YouTube handle based on YouTube channel ID (P2397) and vice versa.
 * Botcrux 11
 * Task/s: Replace stated in (P248) to publisher (P123) where the value is World Athletics (Q1158).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
 * Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
 * A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
 * Past:
 * Wikibase live session (November 2022) log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * When information expands, ronnabytes and quettabytes come to the rescue.
 * Understanding the Knowledge Graph: Examples, Uses and More
 * Plotting the age of parliament with Livebook
 * Programming Languages Influence Ranking
 * Papers
 * Mapping Process for the Task: Wikidata Statements to Text as Wikipedia Sentences
 * KnowGL: Knowledge Generation and Linking from Text
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #99
 * WikiMentorAfrica - Displaying Wikidata DataViz on external web pages day - YouTube (part1, part 2)
 * Wikidata Workshop (Digital Humanities on Wikipedia - Archiving of COVID-19 under debate) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Creating a Wikidata item (in Estonian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata 10th Birthday Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2022 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * The past and future of Wikidata in Taiwan
 * An Attempt to Connect Wikidata with OpenStreetMap
 * Wikidata teaching experience in National Cheng Kung University's "Integrating Wiki into History Teaching"
 * Is it composition or construction? Talking about the System Thinking of "Data Translation" Opening up in Data Dictionary
 * Other
 * Summary of the tabular style data discussion at Wikidata 10th Birthday in Utrecht, the Netherlands


 * Tool of the week
 * The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube))


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OpenCheck is a new effort to build an open community-powered identity verification system, among other things with the help of Wikidata.
 * The Digital Benin website is linking to Wikidata identifiers, making more exploration and understanding possible beyond what the site itself has: https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109380697777661025
 * Wikidata is on Mastodon: wikis.world/@wikidata. Remember to toot using the #Wikidata hashtag so people can find related topics.
 * New product managers have joined the Wikimedia Deutschland development team:
 * Arian Bozorg, Junior Product Manager for Wikidata
 * Jon Amar, Wikibase Suite Product Manager


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: ‎fedpress.ru person ID, ‎UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID, ‎OVO ID, ‎Best Western hotel ID, ‎Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, ‎New Zealand Legislation ID, ‎Travel Weekly hotel ID, ‎fruit color, ‎e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, ‎Accor hotel ID, ‎OpenCritic outlet ID, ‎Aathavanitli Gani film ID, ‎ID of část obce díl, ‎Livres Hebdo ID, ‎AniList staff ID, ‎Dictionary.com entry, ‎Golfdata ID, ‎Collins Online English Dictionary entry


 * New property proposals to review: Verbalization by lexeme, Cultural Good of Croatia ID, access via, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, image of feces, image of fauna tracks, hackage package, Packagist package, supports authentication method, package registry usernames, Go package path, Dongqiudi.com player ID, Plazi reference ID, Kanjipedia ID, kino1tv.ru ID, EuDML journal ID, Jiten Online kanji ID, lexeme of other gender, serves resource, YouTube handle, Wikimedia Phabricator project, ISFDB award ID, Trismegistos author ID, Africultures Structure-ID, African American Visual Artists Database ID, Lighthouse Directory page, UniProt Disease ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, object pertains to, negates property, GCD issue ID, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, Nîmes cemetieres person ID, LMÍ id, kód adresního místa podle RÚIAN, IdnaMapping, экологическая группа растений, International Computer Game Collection work ID, JLect entry ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Au Senate ID, manchu.work lexeme ID, Israeli Opera site (English) person id, of instances of, subclass of with uncertain existance, vazn, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Sense relationships connected to semantic roles, TV Maze episode ID


 * Query examples:
 * Translated Wikidata property labels (top 100 languages) (source)
 * Dentists who are notable footballers (source)
 * Map of obelisks over 40 m high (source)
 * Notable doctoral student/advisor pairs where at least one of them is within the Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject (source)
 * Wikimedia affiliates on Mastodon (source)


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * Finished the adjusted statement data structure (T321459)
 * Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (T321483)
 * Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (T322734)
 * Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (T322746)
 * Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
 * Mismatch Finder:
 * Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (T313468)
 * Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (T288511)
 * Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:
 * Improved the markers that indicate the field is required input (T322683)
 * Improved a help link (T315161)

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
 * Go through the list of pages with and update them either to  or remove the sitelink. We have worklists for many languages.
 * 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: 2022-48
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Recent changes
 * A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in 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).
 * 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 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018.
 * On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems.

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Wikidata weekly summary #549
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship:
 * ChristianKl 2 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * TaxonomyBot
 * New request for comments:
 * Remove watchlist summary


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
 * Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
 * Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
 * The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
 * Animals to Play H-O-R-S-E With
 * Mini hackathon in Utrecht, by Jan Ainali
 * Papers
 * Structural Quality Metrics to Evaluate Knowledge Graphs
 * Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets
 * Videos
 * How to edit a Wikidata item to appear in an Infobox on Wikipedia (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Library data on Wikidata: a case study of the National Library of Latvia - YouTube
 * Wikidata / National Archives of Australia Project with Tim Sherratt - YouTube
 * How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects - YouTube
 * 2022 edition: Timelapse of railway stations in Denmark (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 14: How To Add References To Wikidata Articles (in Dagbani) - YouTube
 * Wikidata 10th Birthday celebration events, By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
 * Wikidata Istanbul 2022
 * Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) by Asaf Bartov (Day 1: English, Turkish)
 * Modeling Our Languages ​​with Lexeme (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
 * A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata Querying with SPARQL (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
 * Wikidata and GLAM: Museums of Turkey (Day 3: Turkish, English)
 * Potential Benefits of Wikidata to the Health System, Nevit Dilmen (Day 3, Turkish)
 * Useful Wikipedia Tools, Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, Turkish)
 * Handy Wikidata Gadgets by Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, English)
 * Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and Beyond, Lydia Pintscher (Day 1: Turkish, English)
 * Structured Data Across Wikimedia by Luca Martinelli (Day 2, English)
 * Getting Inspiration from Projects Using Wikidata, Neslihan Turan (Day 1: Turkish, English)
 * Podcasts
 * WikiProject Biography, a podcast episode presenting Wikidata:WikiProject Biography
 * Thread
 * The advent of Wikiviz, 24 dataviz about Wikipedia and Wikidata until Christmas
 * Other
 * A rap battle between Wikipedia and Wikidata as envisaged by ChatGPT


 * Tool of the week
 * How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opportunities: Post-doc in Natural Language Processing (1.0 FTE), University of Groningen


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: has biological vector, EuDML journal ID, SciSpace author ID, Oblio author ID, Dams in Japan number, SNE publisher ID, KOBIS people ID, OpenML dataset ID, DFK Paris person ID, PIM publication ID, Pittori Liguri ID, USTC identifier, EPA ID, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959 ID, YouTube handle, hackage package, Observation.org place ID, Diskograf artist ID, KBR person ID, Miraheze article ID, ILNM ID, Trismegistos author ID, Packagist package, translation contribution URL, Cinemaazi people ID, Cinemaazi film ID, MAK Collection Online person ID, MAK Collection Online object ID, BookWalker series ID (JP version), list item, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, alt text


 * New property proposals to review: Amazon Browse Node, Beatport release ID, Bandcamp release ID, subject of qualifier, has part part of, property metamodelling, MangaUpdates IDs, man page, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, MyAnimeList magazine ID, OpenPlaques place ID, is a number of, source of action & destination of action, CSD Refcode, Ès lettres ID, is the change of, removed in version (2), PodLink ID, KOBIS film festival ID, KOBIS film company ID, DBpia journal ID, DBpia publisher ID, tuxDB game ID, Crunchyroll series ID, US-DMF ID, Dehkhoda ID, CocoaPods pod, Appsight app, Appsight SDK, Maven groupID and Maven artifactID, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, Game Boy hardware database ID, Bane NOR Network Statement station ID, Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID, has duplicate Wikimedia page, GBDB ID, Lygaeoidea Species File ID


 * Query examples:
 * Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
 * Researchers with a Mastodon account and a known field of work (source)
 * Count per each language of unique language codes used in lemmas for Lexemes in that language


 * Development
 * Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (T320490)
 * Made the Property namespace a content namespace (T321282)
 * Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (T315161)
 * Mismatch Finder:
 * Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (T323680)
 * Made the layout more compact (T323678)
 * Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (T323823)
 * Improved the text on a button (T323682)
 * Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (T288511)
 * Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (T323819)
 * Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (T321441)
 * Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (T324148)
 * Query Service:
 * Making the popup less intrusive that leads to the Query Builder (T296135)
 * Adding tooltips for Lexemes (T255245)
 * Unifying the way to get a link to a query (T324218)
 * mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (T323098)
 * REST API:
 * Finalized json format for sitelinks and data values (T321483, T322734)
 * Investigating rate limiting (T322746)

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: 2022-49
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki.

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).

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter
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Wikidata weekly summary #550
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * DL2204bot 2
 * Task/s: Correct messy entries for scholarly articles of Uztaro. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Q12268801) and Aldiri. Arkitektura eta abar (Q12253132) journals, add 2020-2022 articles.
 * Kalliope 7.3
 * Task/s: Update User:Kalliope 7.3/List of bots every hour.
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 2
 * Task/s: For all items that have an enwiki page that starts with, set.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 13, 2022: Wikimedia Search Platform Team will be sharing updates on Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and Blazegraph. For background, see SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update. Agenda.
 * The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel.
 * Next Wikimedia Research Showcase - December 14. "A year in review from the WMF Research team: Tying our work to the research community".
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #71, Qatar 2022
 * Past
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 7, 2022


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * MatchID enriched with Wiki links
 * Another successful Wikidata Project with UVA
 * Papers
 * The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers...Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
 * Computational Metabolomics: From Spectra to Knowledge (Dagstuhl Seminar 22181) (Q115647969), with:
 * 3.7 Wikidata: empowering metabolomics research
 * 3.14 CxSMILES: computation ready representation for compound classes (about CXSMILES (P10718))
 * Videos
 * Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers, By Daniel Mietchen - short, full talk
 * Using and Editing Wikidata - YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase for Libraries and Librarians (in Greek) - YouTube
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #100 - YouTube
 * Tutorial for adding OSM data with the Wikidata tag and adding Wikidata items (in Indonesian) - YouTube
 * BNElab, contribution and reuse in Wikidata (in Guaani) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * qualifier-constraint-usage.js: Shows what properties this qualifier is a required and allowed qualifier on at the bottom of the qualifier page


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations. Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: ‎contact page URL, ‎Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers ID, ‎press information URL, ‎changeset, ‎RomArchive person ID, ‎African American Visual Artists Database ID, ‎Bureau of Meteorology location ID, ‎Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ID, ‎Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, ‎manchu.work lexeme ID, ‎Professional Referee Organization ID, ‎CIViC gene ID, ‎Athletics Canada ID, ‎is a number of, ‎Ma'agarim ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID, ‎Tanzania Parliament member ID, ‎JCDb ID, ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (1st edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (2nd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (3rd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (4th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (5th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (6th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (7th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (8th edition), ‎man page, ‎Amazon.com browse node, ‎TV Maze episode ID, ‎International Computer Game Collection work ID, ‎Cultural Good of Croatia ID, ‎JLect entry ID, ‎Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, ‎Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Inscriptions ID


 * New property proposals to review: number of penalty kicks scored, Play:Right series ID, OWID identifiers, Wikidata property example statement ID, Mangadex IDs, WSJ article ID, maturity level, official list URL, thumbnail sharpness, Play:Right company ID, IRIS Apulia IDs, Geograph Germany image ID, Spiritains ID, Play:Right class ID, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, INKR title ID, Kitsu IDs, Game-Rave ID, Anime-Planet IDs, has value, ComicWalker content ID, STEDT ID, Middle English Dictionary ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, Adventure's Planet ID, value of property identifies, not, frame rate, Copernicus EMS ID, Sega-Saturn.net ID, PLDB ID, ArchWiki ID, has right, (not) officially recognized by, Famicom World ID, property describes


 * Query examples:
 * Person(s) after whom both a warship and a microarchitecture are named (source)
 * Institutions that have contributed to all #vBIB conferences so far (source)
 * Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
 * Mountains in Iceland with no Cebuano Wikipedia sitelink (source)
 * Universities that have an associated Mastodon account (source)
 * Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (source)


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * We would love to have some feedback on the JSON format for the REST API
 * Planning the final pieces that still need doing before the first release
 * Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (T275251)
 * Query Service:
 * Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (T324218)
 * Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (T296135)
 * Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (T302057)
 * Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (T288939)
 * Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (T316936)

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: 2022-50
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Recent changes
 * An A/B test has begun at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site will have access to the  tool and other features.
 * The character  cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software.

Events
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #551
<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:
 * Bean49Bot
 * Task/s: Update population of Hungarian municipalities.
 * BjoeBot
 * Task/s: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
 * digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
 * Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #72, Rooms 2022


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Fork of User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia
 * Reconciling a Mix’n’Match catalog to Wikidata via Google Sheets
 * Celebrating the Wikipedia and Wikidata Birthday in school
 * Papers
 * Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #101 - YouTube
 * LOD as a way of thinking in the era of digital humanities - a preliminary study on Wikidata/Wikibase practice (in Chinease) - YouTube
 * ESEAP 2022 - Wikidata workshop: Intro to Wikidata, Identifiers & Entity Explosion, OpenRefine & Biota - YouTube
 * What is the Wikidata database, how to contribute, how to write queries in SPARQL by Valerio Bozzolan (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap by Edward Betts - YouTube
 * How to create a wikidata entry for a journalist - YouTube
 * LOD is the future - Wikibase application of Rhizome, an independent digital art agency in New York (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Coolest Tool Award 2022 - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
 * Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd got an update where it now will try to predict good statements to add to Wikidata from Wikipedia articles.
 * Writing SPARQL queries can be very challenging. You can find inspiration by browsing and searching in this dataset of 2,400 queries collected from Wikidata. (source)
 * The French Wikipedia now uses a Wikidata-based list for the pages on specific dates, without relying on ListeriaBot. Who was born on a December 19th and has an article in French? You now can have the answer thanks to a Wikidata query by going to the page 1er décembre on frwiki and clicking on the infobox link " Naissances du jour ". This is a link to a Wikidata list provided by the query service. The query is generated by the template fr:Modèle:Naissances un jour du mois. This follows another such template used to find all persons with a certain surname on frwiki, used on all surnames pages and on some disambiguation pages, fr:Modèle:Liste des personnes ou_personnages par prénom. For the surname Victor (Q539581) (view with Reasonator, SQID) this generates on the page Victor_(prénom) a query such as this one.
 * Wikidata now has more than 100,000,000 items! Exactly which item was the 100 millionth is unknown as of writing, but there are some clues for anyone who wants to dig into it.
 * Survey: What are your most important Wikimedia content partnerships tools in 2022? Closes on January 8, 2023.
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January until Monday, Feb 6, 2023
 * There is a new website to collect contact information for heritage organizations in Georgia for the purpose of disaster response with the data coming from Wikidata.
 * Wikibase 1.38 release is delayed until January 2023
 * Job opportunities
 * Postdoc, PhDs, and technician opportunities related to Wikibase project at University of Groningen


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: This section is currently empty due to technical issues with the bot responsible for filling it. If you are interested in keeping track of new properties on Wikidata, you can check the property proposal page for updates.


 * New property proposals to review: RPG Site game ID,member of tribe, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Panjab Digital Library ID, Oh!FM-7 ID, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, model lexeme, format string, travel advisory category, location URL match pattern, Tabelog restaurant ID, service options, RetroAchievements ID, statut administratif, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, relative statement frequency, Mertens-Pack Number (MP3), Nintendo-Online ID, does not use, is not part of, object is, Nintendo World Report ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, ntower ID, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, digital equivalent of, property describes, Computer Science Ontology topic, BookWalker series ID (global version), Le Grenier du Mac ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Football skills! (source)
 * Concepts with more individuals having Mastodon IDs (source)
 * Mastodon follower/subscriber figures (source)
 * Lexeme senses which are described in Jaehoon Yeon and Lucien Brown's Comprehensive Grammar of Korean (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
 * Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
 * Query Service:
 * Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (T311594)
 * Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (T291695)
 * Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (T323451)
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (T312660)
 * Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (T324743)
 * mul language code:
 * Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (T323098)
 * Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (T313027)
 * Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (T324356) and Mismatch Finder (T324366)
 * Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (T272132)

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: 2022-51
<section begin="technews-2022-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes
 * On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available.
 * Octicons-tools.svg One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues.

Problems
 * Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
 * The word "" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic (" ردّ "). This makes the button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on.

Future changes
 * Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request.
 * The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
 * Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events
 * You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th.

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Wikidata weekly summary #552
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

<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:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 3
 * Task/s: Automatically adds qualifiers number of records (P4876) and point in time (P585) to claims of Mix'n'match catalog ID (P2264).
 * Dexbot 16
 * Task: Delete empty items
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * BjoeBot (approved)
 * Task: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 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.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #73, Mystery theme #2


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * How the "open world hypothesis" of knowledge graph affects model evaluation (in Chinese)
 * Papers
 * Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
 * Videos
 * Early demo of the Wikibase Export extension


 * Tool of the week
 * Fediscope (source)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 2022 proof of concept of a Wikibase "fast import" API. Outcomes of this workshop have been published, along with the recorded video.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * prior to last week's status update: ‎MyAnimeList magazine ID, ‎Online Torwali Dictionary ID, ‎Google Product Taxonomy ID, ‎IRIS UNIBA author ID, ‎IRIS UNIFG author ID, ‎IRIS LUM author ID, ‎IRIS UNISALENTO author ID, ‎tuxDB game ID, ‎GCD issue ID, ‎Geograph Deutschland image ID, ‎ResearchGate journal ID, ‎Lygaeoidea Species File ID, ‎Beatport release ID, ‎Diskograf song ID, ‎Diskograf label ID, ‎INKR title ID, ‎BRUZZ topic ID, ‎negates property, ‎Kanjipedia kanji ID
 * since last week's status update: Adventure's Planet ID, Play:Right class ID, GBDB ID, MangaUpdates publisher ID, MangaUpdates author ID, grading system, KOBIS film festival ID, Bandcamp release ID, Anime-Planet people ID, Anime-Planet character ID, ‎Czech structural object ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Anime-Planet anime ID, Anime-Planet manga ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Cinematografo.it film ID (new), Cinematografo.it name or company ID (new), identifier French basketball championship (new schema), The Israeli Opera person ID (heb), Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, OpenStates person ID, ntower ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, ‎worldofsam ID, Twitter community ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, CSO topic ID, Expertes ID, MTV Germany music video ID, CCFr document ID, Crunchyroll series ID, Game-Rave ID, Dehkhoda ID, ‎membership number, impressum URL, Parliamentary Office number in United Kingdom, Parliamentary Archives ID in United Kingdom, Mac OS creator code, 18th Century Russian Dictionary ID, Play:Right company ID, Play:Right series ID, Little Academic Dictionary ID


 * New property proposals to review: Garuda journal ID, Sinta Journal ID, pixiv comic IDs, British Music Collection score ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Autori sardi ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, UVL source ID, British Music Collection composer ID Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Concepticon ID, Image stabilitzer, Strazha ID, N-Anime ID, Pocket Gamer ID, Image processor, Minimum focusing distance, Museo Egizio in Turin ID, amstrad.es ID, superclass of, Dark Patterns Games ID, Life stage, Tribal Council number, Objective, eBookJapan books ID, VG-lista song ID, VG-lista album ID, microtransaction.zone ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, use with article, Cambridge Dictionary entry, Cambridge Dictionary entry (American English), Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, MQWW poetID, record of, Classic Adventures Solution Archive game ID, MQWW workID, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, Jeju's culture and language ID, Strong's number, World Loanword Database word ID, World Loanword Database meaning ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of nonprofit organizations / NGOs on the fediverse that Wikidata knows about (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Dec. 24th) (source)
 * Alpha-3 codes for countries in Europe (source)
 * Location of paintings in the Paintings Department of the Louvre made by women source
 * Most frequent birth places for Italian SBN authors (source)


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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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Wikidata weekly summary #553
<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:
 * RKBot. Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
 * Andriy.vBot. Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.
 * Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places.
 * New request for comments:
 * Improving the performance of retrieving labels, descriptions and aliases


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 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.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #74, Urology


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Connecting Preprints to Peer-reviewed Articles on Wikidata
 * The 10 best-known Catalans in the world
 * Papers
 * Fetching Automatic Authority Data in ILS from Wikidata via OpenRefine
 * Videos
 * Add Wikidata/Wikipedia Template to WikiTree Profile


 * Tool of the week
 * OWL Map - a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase.Cloud has a new logo!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: ‎NIP, ‎NSR doctor ID, ‎NSR stopplace ID, ‎Nintendo World Report ID, ‎Nintendo-Online ID, ‎Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, ‎Oh!FM-7 ID, ‎Olympedia venue ID, ‎Ozon person ID, ‎Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, ‎Plazi reference ID, ‎Pocket Gamer ID, ‎Programming Language Database ID, ‎RPG Site game ID, ‎RetroAchievements ID, ‎Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, ‎Sega-Saturn.net ID, ‎Strong's number, ‎Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, ‎UVL source ID, ‎UniProt Disease ID, ‎amstrad.es ID, ‎camera lens, ‎image processor, ‎image stabilitzer, ‎microtransaction.zone ID, ‎minimum focusing distance, ‎note.com user ID, ‎sampling rate, ‎service options


 * New property proposals to review: Podbay show ID, Biblissima Authority File, Walt Disney movie ID, NTV program ID, National Grid Balancing Mechanism Unit ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, United States House of Representatives ID, PR Times company ID, NPB umpire ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, ZAMP.hr ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, CiNii Research ID, Identificador del Catàleg de Patrimoni de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, SysTraitementEauxUsees, WikiRate company ID, The Numbers franchise ID, J.League referee ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, 1001Tracklists IDs, Ivi IDs, TV Maze person ID, MyAnimeList company ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Afisha person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Finnish hockey players whose child is also a hockey player (source)
 * Map of the birthplaces of Italian authors who died in 1952 (source)


 * Development
 * The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a result, no development occurred.

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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Wikidata weekly summary #554
<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:
 * Bean49Bot 2. Task/s: Adding statements to plwikisource items with no statements.
 * RPI2026F1Bot 4. Task/s: Reconstruct npm dependencies.
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * RKBot (approved). Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
 * Andriy.vBot (approved). Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 10, 2023: Egon Willighagen will be introducing us to SARS-CoV-2 queries, a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
 * The full version of View it! Tool is out! The new user script uses structured data to display related media in any Wikimedia content pages—including Wikidata items—in an on-wiki image panel or gallery view. Please join the public launch and demo of the full version of this new tool on Thursday, January 12th, 5:00 UTC via Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) to learn more and discuss forthcoming editing features.
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 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.
 * About 2 months left to register for the first digital@IANLS workshop: Learn the basics of Wikidata and how to use it in your Neo-Latin research. Event is online, free, and open to all. More info on event and registration.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #75, Tools


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up approval process for new treatments.
 * Early Demo of Wikibase Export by Renat Shigapov and Professional Wiki
 * Papers
 * "Is GPT-3 a Good Data Annotator?" with experiments based on Wikidata - guided generation of labeled data.
 * Slides
 * Elena Simperl's keynote summary on Wikidata and knowledge engineering research.


 * Tool of the week
 * Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Digital Dictionary of the German Language completed their first iteration of Lexicographical data donation to Wikidata. The number of German lexemes increased accordingly by 185000.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: travel advisory category, model lexeme, does not use
 * External identifiers: NIP, UniProt disease ID, DBpia journal ID, Garuda journal ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, DBpia publisher ID, Disused stations ID, MQWW poet ID, Nîmes cemeteries ID, REGON ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Sinta journal ID, Sinta author ID, SMA ID, Spiritains ID, Strazha ID, Tabelog restaurant ID, TV Maze person ID, utas.hu ID, VG-lista album ID, Afisha person ID, Catalogo storico ragionato degli scrittori sardi dal IV al XXI secolo ID, Macmillan Dictionary entry (British English), Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Wyndham hotel ID, VideoGameGeek series/franchise ID, Plex GUID, Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, Africultures structure ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, The Israeli Opera (English) person ID, J.League referee ID, PodLink ID, VG-lista song ID, Webtoon creator ID, WikiRate company ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Concepticon ID, Ès lettres ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, eBookJapan books ID, STEDT ID, Matrix room, British Music Collection score ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, Infopédia entry


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: change of, salary level, applies to property, protected entity, Wikidata property example for qualifiers
 * External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, A Comparative Study of Modern Chinese and Cantonese ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Sens critique contributor ID, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, The Homicide Report person ID, Film.ru serial ID, identifiant SFMTA, California Birth Index person ID, esid, The Counted person ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Roblox experience ID


 * Query examples:
 * Pairs of opposites (source)
 * Ratio of paintings at the Museum of Brittany (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (2023.01.08) (source)
 * Cheeses named after towns (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: Preparing the first release to test.wikidata.org on January 17th and to Wikidata on January 24th
 * Entity Schemas: Continuing to investigate and prototype technical approaches for version 2
 * Mismatch Finder: Working on giving mismatch providers access to the reviews of the mismatches they uploaded (T304794)
 * Investigated how to best do language switching for the Query Builder and Mismatch Finder. So far they only support it by specifying the language via a URL parameter and not yet via the UI (T324653)
 * Query Service:
 * Lexeme IDs now have tooltips so you can see the Lemma in the SPARQL code, similar as for Items and Properties (T255245)
 * Fixed a bug where the y-axis label on a graph were misaligned and hard to read (T325808)
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Statements linking to a Sense now also show the language of the Lexeme to make it easier to see for example which language a translation statement refers to (T207392)
 * Fixed a bug in the language dropdown on Special:NewLexeme (T324743)
 * The Lemma of a Lexeme is now shown in the title of the revision history of the Lexeme as well (T312660)
 * Vector 2022 theme: worked on making the search on Wikidata work in this new theme. You can test it on test.wikidata.org now and next week on Wikidata. (T316093)
 * mul language code:
 * Continued investigation around how to handle language fallbacks on mobile, which is a blocker for adding this language code (T323098)
 * Preventing the addition of descriptions for mul (T313027)
 * Constraint violations: Working on also showing them to non-logged in users (T272132)

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: 2023-02
<section begin="technews-2023-W02"/> 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 use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags.
 * Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
 * You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page.
 * A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time.
 * Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use  to create Matrix links on wiki pages.
 * You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages.

Changes later this week
 * Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
 * 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 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * 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).

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This Month in GLAM: December 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #555
<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:
 * RenmBot 2. Task/s: The bot adds/edits labels/descriptions of Wikidata items in Ukrainian. At the beginning, the bot will correct "проект" to "проєкт" in descriptions. These changes are caused by Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Q56368731) (see en:Ukrainian orthography of 2019).
 * Bean49Bot 3. Task/s: Add parent astronomical body to asteroid belt asteroids, required by multiple constraints.
 * JhsBot 7. Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places. (approved)
 * Closed request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy (implemented)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 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.
 * Wikimedia Research Showcase on January 18. Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
 * Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour on Tuesday 17th January: Update on wikibase.cloud by Evelien Zandbergen, product manager for Wikibase.cloud at Wikimedia Deutschland.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #76, Wikipedia
 * Past
 * LD4-Wikidata Group Call: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic, 10th January.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikimedia Israel and the Israel Film Archive bring Short films from Israel’s History to Wikidata
 * Deploying Wikidata to different graph databases and what works best: Blazegraph, QLever, QEndpoint, Amazon Neptune
 * Papers
 * Gender equality in library science and book history Italian journals: a focus on boards, authors and peer-reviewers
 * Videos/Audios
 * Mémoires minoritaires, mémoires LGBTI (French): Documenting Queer (LGBTIQ+) history on Wikipedia and Wikidata (Radio/Podcast) (source)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #102 - YouTube
 * Wikispore, Wikidata, and Small Wikis with Sam Wilson - YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata with Alex Lum (2022) - YouTube
 * iPres 2022 - Long Paper 153: A Digital Preservation Wikibase - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Auhority Control data to Wikidata item - helps to create Wikidata Items based on authority control records.
 * A new Wikidata distributed game that populates instance of statements using a neural network.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can apply for a scholarship for Wikimania.
 * Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 is ongoing!
 * The upcoming steward elections are open for nominations.
 * Wikibase Suite: wmde.10 (Mediawiki 1.38) compatible release updates
 * Applications are open now for Wikidata Fellowship by Wikimedia Australia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: does not use: item or concept not used by the subject but that could have been expected, member of Roman tribe: Roman tribe in which one was inscribed
 * External identifiers: Infopédia entry, 1001Tracklists track ID, 1001Tracklists DJ ID, 1001Tracklists source ID, MyAnimeList company ID, MQWW work ID, Biblissima Authority File, Kitsu manga ID, Kitsu anime ID, CiNii Research ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, United States House of Representatives ID, ComicWalker content ID, The Numbers franchise ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: heir or beneficiary: people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title, disinherited: someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary, Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System: [none], 神奇宝贝百科页面标识符: article name on 52Poké Wiki, a Pokémon encyclopedia, value contains sense: qualifier to indicate the sense of a lexeme part of a monolingual text value, form applies to sense: this form is only or mainly applicable this sense, clan: [none]
 * External identifiers: Landgate Object ID, IRIS Trentino-South Tyrol IDs, IRIS Venice IDs, Sinta affiliation ID, Knowledge portal ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, MangaSeek IDs, Dicionário Priberam ID, Michaelis ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Léxico ID, Dicio ID, GamesRadar+ ID, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, norsk fangeregister soningsinstitusjon ID, Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ozhegov) ID, Great Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, AllMovie genre ID, Artlog person ID, Artlog institution ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of sub-categories of a Commons category (source)
 * Number of sitelinks to redirects by wiki (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Airports named after poets (source)


 * Development
 * Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed
 * Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward
 * REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th
 * Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (T207392)
 * Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (T272132)
 * Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (T326082)

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: 2023-03
<section begin="technews-2023-W03"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg The URLs in "" links on page history now contain <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> in place of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change.

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).
 * Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on  and   namespaces.  These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as  .  They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including   pages (e.g., at the Village Pump).  You can change your preferences (beta feature).
 * On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page.
 * The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes
 * The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 54
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

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 * New collections:
 * British Newspaper Archive
 * Findmypast
 * University of Michigan Press
 * ACLS
 * Duke University Press
 * 1Lib1Ref 2023
 * Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Wikidata weekly summary #556
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past
 * Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-01-18
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 24, 2023: We will be discussing plans for 2023, and requesting feedback and ideas for future programming. Based on a previous recommendation to host a discussion on advocacy for Wikidata within libraries, we will introduce and provide time to complete a short survey to foster conversation in a future Group Call. Please come ready to share your thoughts Agenda
 * Introductions to Wikidata, online meetings organized by Wikimedia Australia on January 25, 26 and 31


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Is there something better than Blazegraph for Wikidata?
 * Videos
 * [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
 * Podcasts
 * Civic Hacker Podcast: Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government


 * Tool of the week
 * Romain de Bossoreille has generated a map named Space Industry around the World using data from The Space Devs, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [WMDE Survey for Wikidata data Reusers] Help us Improve Wikidata by Sharing Your Experience on Ontology Issues and Data Reuse Impact.
 * Second round of Research Fund proposals are under review. They include Wikidata related proposals. Your input is welcome!
 * Wikimedia Foundation's Community Survey: The proposals submission and discussion phase is open until February 6th.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Jeju's culture and language ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Film.ru serial ID, IRIS UNITN author ID, IRIS FBK author ID, IRIS-OpenPub author ID, Muse Open Archive author ID, ARCA author ID, Air Iuav author ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Knowledge portal ID, MangaSeek work ID, MangaSeek magazine ID, MangaSeek award ID, Oroklini Library ID, elexiko ID, Neologismenwörterbuch ID, Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch ID, Sprichwörterbuch ID, Kommunikationsverben ID, Kleines Wörterbuch der Verlaufsformen im Deutschen ID, PR TIMES company ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: attracts (organisms attracted by this taxon), salary level (level of someone's salary), change of (property this process changes), database contains records about (indicate the types of items that the database has records about)
 * External identifiers: Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Norwegian prisoner register detentioncamps ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Glitchwave character ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), Glitchwave platform ID, Spotify user ID (Jan 2023), Livres Hebdo author ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID, TikTok place ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, identifiant SFMTA, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Tribal Council number, Aragonario ID (6th version), Rate Your Music venue ID, Rate Your Music concert ID, Dicionário inFormal ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, TOOI identifier, Fonts In Use ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, Spreaker show ID, Sjøfolk Ship ID, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry


 * Query examples:
 * Map of places that places in Rennes are named after (source)
 * Map of places named after a place in Rennes, color coded by distance of the place from Rennes (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: The new API is now available for testing on Test.Wikidata
 * Ontology issues: We finalized and published the survey to better understand which types of ontology issues are most problematic for reusers of our data.
 * Wikipedia and co: Fixing a regression where there is no entry in recent changes and watchlist when an Item is deleted that was connected to an article on that wiki (T326082)

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

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

Tech News: 2023-04
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Problems
 * Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue.

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).
 * If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity.
 * The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #557
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (uses Wikidata as a main source)
 * Papers
 * Systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects
 * Videos
 * Interoperable Europe: First workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase


 * Tool of the week
 * theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * AfLIA's online course Wikidata is open. Participation is free for all librarians, museums, archives and other information professionals in Africa. Call is open until 7th February 2023 (12 midnight GMT).
 * LetsQuiz is a new website generating quizzes using data from Wikidata.
 * from WMF Wishathon: The Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article Wish is complete and the work merged. It is available for testing in Beta, and will be deployed to users with the first train of 2023 scheduled for this week. Learn more about the gadget created at meta
 * Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
 * Status update on the 2022 Wikidata and Wikibase development plan
 * Development plan and activities for 2023 for Wikidata as a platform and the Wikibase ecosystem


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: applies to use with property (qualifier that specifies that the statement refers to usage with the property)
 * External identifiers: Dicionário Priberam ID, NPB umpire ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, addons.mozilla.org user, Packagist username, Hackage username, RubyGems username, PyPI username, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Glitchwave platform ID, Glitchwave character ID, Artlog artist ID, pixiv comic work ID, pixiv comic product ID, British Music Collection composer ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: place of resident registration at death (the place or administrative unit where the deceased person was registered as having his or her residence at the time of their death), has instance (thing(s) which this subject describes or encompasses, inverse property of P31), Norwegian media rating (In short, the Norwegian version of Denmark's Medierådet rating (P5970), an age rating system for motion pictures, video, internet and tv content), iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject), number of penalty kicks scored, precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
 * External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary entry, Professional shogi player number, Women's professional shogi player number, LPSA professional shogi player number, esid, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, authors.gr ID, GLANSIS ID, literatura.lv ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Enciclopedia dell'Italiano ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno e Avellino place ID, World Loanword Database word ID, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, Podbay show ID, Walt Disney movie ID, The Counted person ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, World Sailing sailor ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Mosfilm IDs, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID, DOSBox Compatibility ID, HAA member ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID


 * Query examples:
 * Modern descendants of the Achaemenes (Achaemenid dynasty of rulers of Persia, 7th century BCE)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
 * Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
 * Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (T326082)
 * Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (T310259)
 * Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (T230839) and getBadges (T305378)

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

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

Tech News: 2023-05
<section begin="technews-2023-W05"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage.

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 Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report
Sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-06
<section begin="technews-2023-W06"/> 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
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default.

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).
 * Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
 * Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10:19, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #558
<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:
 * BiodiversityBot 3 Task/s: TreatmentBank (Q54857867) is a CC0 resource that contains data on taxonomic treatments, treatment citations, figures, tables, material citations and bibliographic reference. It contains valuables links mapping scholarly articles, taxa and taxonomic treatments. This bot task involves linking research papers on taxa to taxa and related taxonomic treatments.
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * Bean49Bot 4 Task/s: Add Springer Nature person ID and Springer Nature article ID by moving from exact match property.
 * Cmtqwikibot Task/s: Adds country of origin (P495) Canada (Q16), with qualifier located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) Quebec (Q176) and reference stated in (P248) CineTV (Q41001657) to works in Quebec.
 * SakuraBot Task/s: interwiki maintenance
 * JhsBot 7 Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 7, 2023: We thought we'd try something different next week, in honor of Valentine's Day month: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project or just what you like to edit when you have time. We'd love to have an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so and share your screen, with no need for formal slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
 * Wiki for Refugees Editathons on the 4th and 11th of February 2023 (Wikimedia Uganda)
 * Black History Month 2023: University of Toronto (February 8th)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #79, Archaeology (see previous challenges: Random concepts #2, Spices)
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live Sessions (2023.01.26)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Diff blog: Summary of the results of a recent survey on Wikimedia content partnerships tools by WMSE. The detailed report is available on meta.wikimedia.org and as a PDF on Wikimedia Commons.
 * A Game of Data
 * 'wikishootme' Is Like a Real World Version of Pokémon Go
 * Turn the AC on, by Magnus Manske
 * Papers
 * Unsupervised Entity Linking with Guided Summarization and Multiple-Choice Selection (Uses GPT-3 and Wikidata)
 * Visibility Matters: Giving Credit Where It's Due in Natural History Collections, Siobhan Leachman, The Linnean, December 2022
 * Falcon 2.0: An Entity and Relation Linking Tool over Wikidata
 * The URW-KG: a Resource for Tackling the Underrepresentation of non-Western Writers
 * From unstructured texts to semantic story maps
 * Videos
 * Wikimentor Africa - Creating a website based on Wikidata, without development skills day two (in French) - Part1, Part 2
 * Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, FOSDEM 2023 - YouTube
 * Etymology and Wikidata on OpenStreetMap -YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing: #103, #104
 * Working with ISBNs (in Italian) - 3 part YouTube playlist
 * Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
 * Managing Wikimedia Projects through Wikidata: Geert Van Pamel- Wikimedia Belgium - YouTube
 * SEMIC Talks: Wikibase with Dennis Diefenbach - YouTube
 * observablehq
 * Garden Phylogeny - NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca
 * other
 * One way to design a system to be a good external identifier in Wikidata by Salgo60


 * Tool of the week
 * Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day.
 * User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
 * Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023, open until Fri, 17 Feb 2023.
 * Maintenance on ElasticSearch. As part of this, some Wikibase.Cloud functionality might be disrupted.
 * Reminder that the deadline for the Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Wikidata is approaching (but extended)! Get your journal papers ready for the 14.02.23
 * Wikidata surpassed 1 million Lexemes with the addition of etymologi (L1000000)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Happy Planet Index score (The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), digital equivalent of (the subject is the digital equivalent of what?)
 * External identifiers: Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Roblox experience ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), RISM siglum, N-Anime anime ID, N-Anime seiyū ID, Livres Hebdo author ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID, Artlog institution ID, Barcelona City Council Heritage Catalog identifier, TikTok place ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, AllMovie genre ID, authors.gr ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature), footnote (for use in the references section of statements: to state which footnote of the source material supports the claim in question), agent of action (thing that does the action), natural enemy (One of the causes of death of this living creatures referred to in this item, which is eaten by that creature), change of (property this process changes), object of action (thing an action is done to), variety of sense (dialect, variety or register of language that the sense applies to), bust/waist/hip measurements (chest measurement; aliases: bust measurement), usage label (list of sets of context label property (Q116547761) (language style (P6191), field of usage (P9488), has quality (P1552), variety of form (P7481), location of sense usage (P6084)). Other individual context label property (Q116547761) statement will be treated as and with this statement.), thesaurus' properties (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
 * External identifiers: Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, The Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, Iowa legislator ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Museu Paulista objects ID, Facebook numeric ID, Qobuz album ID (Feb 2023), Patreon user numeric ID, Kulturenvanteri.com, beniculturali.it place ID, Russian Second League player ID, TVer IDs, NPD field-ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of disasters by type (source)
 * Maps of museums in Malaysia (source)
 * Map with place names that gave names to places in Riga (source)
 * Area of sovereign states without a river (source)
 * Wikidata properties whose URL format matches some format (source)
 * People born in the Vatican (https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1613861217440866306 source)
 * Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (source)
 * Memes (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 4, 2023) (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: adding a new GET /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions endpoint (T327881)
 * Lua: added two Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (T230839) and getBadges (T305378) that make it easier to get this data on Wikipedia and co
 * Lexicographical data: added documentation for the WikibaseLexeme JSON structure (T201489)
 * Action API: fixed a bug that prevented the wblistentityusage API module from being used as a generator (T254334)
 * Dates: working together with Matěj Suchánek to fix date parsing issues in Czech (T221097)
 * Constraints: working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand why a constraint violation is happening and how to fix it (T219037)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #559
<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:
 * CJMbot (CJMbot lets users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside this file is then validated and processed. New items wil be created based on the data in the CSV file and existing items wil updated by adding statements and references).
 * RPI2026F1Bot 5 Task/s: Import dependency and version data from PyPi


 *  Events 
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikibase Working Hour February 13, 2023. The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase: The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, Steve will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, Steve will conclude by describing how he's used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons. Registration link
 * Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, February 22 and 24, 2023. This two-part workshop presented by CAPACOA will explain how to upload performing arts production photos to Wikimedia Commons and how to document credits in Wikidata.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #80, Work


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata: Observable notebook which explores social reproduction by occupation in France.
 * Data analytics for your list of created articles in The Signpost, February 4, 2023
 * DigAMus goes Wikidata
 * Papers
 * Transformer Based Geocoding
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #105 - YouTube
 * Demo of the Wikibase Export extension - YouTube
 * FOSDEM 2023
 * Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (Software for adding links between open data projects)
 * Public Transport Data in KDE Itinerary (Querying realtime journey data and dissecting ticket barcodes)
 * observablehq
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata
 * other
 * Wikipedias in the languages of Russia/Wikidata


 *  Tool of the week 
 * User:So9q/openalex-search-link-on-lexemes.js is a userscript that adds a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Wikidata Graph Builder released a major update, introducing new layouts and visualization ideas. You can read the full changelog here.
 * The new Service Level Objective for the Wikidata Query Service has been implemented: the current aim is to maintain a 95% uptime based on a 90 day rolling window. You can read the full announcement here.
 * Observablehq.com recently introduced a system of tags. Anyone authoring a notebook using data from Wikidata can add the #Wikidata tag: https://observablehq.com/tag/wikidata?filter=recent.
 * a.gup.pe provides group features for Mastodon. @wikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata in general. @querywikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata queries. Anyone can join those groups simply by following them in Mastodon. Anyone can share a message with all members of those groups by mentioning them in a publication in Mastodon or any other application of the Fediverse.
 * The hashtag #Wikidata can be used to tag all publications related to Wikidata in Mastodon. Anyone can find recent publications using this tag using the search feature: https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata.
 * @wikidata@wikis.world is the official Mastodon account of the Wikidata project.
 * You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata. The voting phase is open until February 24th.


 *  Did you know? 


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: said to be the same as (lexeme) (some source considers this lexeme to be the same lexeme or a spelling variant of another lexeme)
 * External identifiers: Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), federal identifier of street, DOSBox Compatibility ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Professional shogi player number, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID, Dicio ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, GLANSIS ID, Léxico ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Zoning symbol (planing zone of the municipality/region/state that applies to the subject), INEP ID, CulturaEduca ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), Manantiales y Fuentes de Andalucia (id for Springs and Fountains of Andalucía)
 * External identifiers: Hultschiner Soldaten ID, STS program ID, SACEM ID, IATE entry ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, IRIS UNIPD author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of literary works (Q7725634) by language (P407) in descending order (source)
 * Humans that have a 'relationship' with University of Leeds (source)
 * Railway stations named after literary works (source)
 * Week 6, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Free software grouped by programming language and instance of (source)


 *  Development 
 * [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing - Thank you Matej for moving this forward!
 * REST API:
 * Went over the feedback on the first release and deciding on the next routes to add
 * Added a new endpoint for getting descriptions (T327881)
 * Worked on throwing exceptions when something goes wrong (validation failed, Item not found, etc.) instead of returning an error response object (T327527)
 * Entity Schemas: Finished the technical exploration that will unblock the next steps for actual development
 * Query Service: Changed URLs with URL-encoded characters to be shown un-encoded for better line-breaks and readability (T327514)
 * Query Builder:
 * Adding support for a few additional datatypes (T328528)
 * Adding a basic language selector to make it easier to switch the language of the page (T328764)
 * Constraint checks: Working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand how to fix a violation on a statement (T219037)
 * Search: Exploring design options for how to make it easier to search for entities other than Items (T327507)

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: 2023-07
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Problems
 * On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later 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).
 * The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #560
<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:
 * Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
 * Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
 * MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
 * Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
 * If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog posts
 * New extension: Wikibase Export
 * BHL is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
 * Videos
 * Wikibase Export demo - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata using your smart phone (Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana) - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: Occupations of the parents


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/DisplayColourSwatches.js is a userscript that adds color swatches under color statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Blog Series on Wikibase Community via Tech-News
 * Freelance technologists are needed to import personal profiles for politically exposed people (PEPs) into Wikidata
 * The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on February 24. Don't forget to vote for Wikidata proposals!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * stamp perforation ( type of perforation for a series of stamps )
 * Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index ( Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) value of a country )
 * transcribed by ( person who has made a copy of a manuscript text )
 * External identifiers: Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Museu Paulista objects ID, Spreaker show ID, TVer series ID, TVer tarento ID, Padua Research Archive author ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Fonts in Use ID, Rate Your Music venue ID, beniculturali.it place ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno place ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Mosfilm movie ID, Mosfilm person ID, Adventure Game Studio game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Syoboi Calendar series ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), La grammatica italiana ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Sky News topic ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID


 * Query examples:
 * Historical timeline of WorldPride events: (2000 in Rome to 2023 in Sydney) (source)
 * Which glaciers have been named after Moby Dick characters?
 * Free software grouped by licenses (source)
 * German nouns with unparseable combines statements
 * Grammatical features used on English nouns and proper nouns


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (T325647, T327881)
 * Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (T309021)
 * Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
 * Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (T102840)
 * Query Builder:
 * Adding support for additional data types (T328528)
 * Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (T329487)
 * Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (T219037)

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: 2023-08
<section begin="technews-2023-W08"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future.

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 voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:56, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #561
<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:
 * DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
 * ScikingBot (Task/s: The bot is going to fix interwiki links for the Lombard Wikipedia)
 * fromCrossrefBot (Task/s: Importing licenses for 1.45 million CC licensed papers from the Crossref April 2022 dump.)
 * Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
 * MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 1st, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
 * Eager to discover the potential of Wikidata and Wikibase for semantics? SEMIC is organising a series of workshops that are very much hands-on. Join the first workshop online on 24 January 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Webex. Register for the first event via this link!
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 March 3rd - 4th
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #82, Restaurant
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live Session: February 2023 log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
 * CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
 * TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Inconsistencies on WDQS data - data reload on WDQS
 * Survey Results: Wikibase.Cloud user research. The goal of the research was to uncover usergroups and usecases.
 * Wikibase Suite Survey is now open! The goal is to understand what role Wikibase plays in your organization and identify what you need from Wikibase based on how you currently make use of it.
 * Wikibase.Cloud logo is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Senior Product Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Product Manager Wikibase Product Platform


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * Norwegian media rating ( age rating system for motion pictures, video and tv content used in Norway )
 * External identifiers: National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID, SACEM Museum artist ID, WSJ article ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, World Sailing sailor ID, WiKirby ID, SFMTA ID, Full Fact ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new), Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new), Rate Your Music concert ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * rebuilt ( year or date when the structure was reconstructed, rebuilt, repurposed or replaced by similar one (if the new and old structures have separate items, use P167/P1398 links instead) )
 * External identifiers: Faber Music composer ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Wise Music Classical catalogue ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, L’Équipe team ID, encyclopedia.com.ua ID, L’Équipe coach ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Flighthouse%20%3FlighthouseName%20%3FcountryLabel%20%28concat%28str%28%3Flatitude%29%2C%20%22%2C%20%22%2C%20str%28%3Flongitude%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcoordinates%29%20%3Fheight%20%3FbuiltDateLabel%20%3FfunctionalLabel%20%3FwikipediaUrl%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ39715.%20%20%20%23%20find%20all%20instances%20of%20lighthouse%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP30%20wd%3AQ18.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20all%20instances%20of%20country%20in%20South%20America%0A%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20lighthouses%20in%20South%20American%20countries%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Afloat%28STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fcoordinates%29%2C%20%22Point%28%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Flongitude%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Afloat%28STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fcoordinates%29%2C%20%22%20%22%20%29%29%20AS%20%3Flatitude%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fheight.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FbuiltDate.%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20p%3AP1433%2Fps%3AP1433%20%3FwikipediaUrl.%20%20%23%20get%20the%20English%20Wikipedia%20page%20URL%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FwikipediaUrl%29%20%3D%20%27%27%20%7C%7C%20LANG%28%3FwikipediaUrl%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20p%3AP1317%20%3FfunctionalClaim.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FfunctionalClaim%20ps%3AP1317%20%3Ffunctional.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Ffunctional%2C%20%22Operational%22%2C%20%22Not%20operational%22%29%20AS%20%3FfunctionalLabel%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlighthouseName.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FlighthouseName%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FlighthouseName.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FlighthouseName%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FlighthouseName%0A Map of lighthouses in South America] (source)
 * List of countries sorted by life expectancy (source)


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (T309021)
 * We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (T329606)
 * Query Builder:
 * We added support for additional datatypes. Lexeme (T329204), Sense (T329206) and URL (T329824) are already available now. Form (T329205) and Property (T329207) are in progress.
 * We continued the work on making it possible to switch the UI language (T329487)
 * Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (T219037)
 * We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (T102840)

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: 2023-09
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Problems
 * Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task.

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).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC.

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Wikidata weekly summary #562
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Mbchbot 3 (Task/s: Adding missing YouTube channel ID (P2397) statements to YouTube handle (P11245) claims that are missing that mandatory qualifier)
 * MidleadingBot 4 (Task/s: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
 * Biondibot (Task/s: Import us patent from a csv file)
 * bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 7, 2023: Lydia Pintscher and Silvan Heintze will tell us about the new Wikidata REST API and Silvan will demonstrate some of its aspects. Agenda
 * Do you want to present at Wikimania 2023? Program submissions are open now until the end of day Tuesday 28 March.
 * Wiki Workshop 2023 Call for Papers. The call is for extended abstracts (2 pages) of ongoing or completed work. The deadline is March 23.
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: Call for projects & sessions is now open! The deadline to submit sessions is April 4th. The final schedule will be made public on April 15th.
 * Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
 * Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - 8 March 2023, on YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * This app places on a world map all the places that have their Wikipedia page
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2022 edition
 * WikiData on Video Games
 * Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
 * Papers
 * Two years of explicit CiTO annotations (Q116676168), include how Wikidata and Scholia visualize citation typing annotations explain why research is cited
 * Videos
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 recorded livestreams: Day 1; Day 2
 * Wikidata for History of Science projects, by Martin Poulter - YouTube
 * How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia via categories - YouTube
 * How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia 2 - YouTube
 * LD4P3 - Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata - YouTube
 * Extracting political data & relations from Wikidata - YouTube
 * Operation of Wikidata and its centralized management of metadata linked to multiple databases (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata and higher education and research libraries (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WMDE Wikibase.Cloud team is currently seeking individuals who are interested in participating in interviews regarding the pressing issue of data modeling. Please reach out if you'd like to participate.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * Lighthouse Directory page ( group string for the item in The Lighthouse Directory )
 * colocated with ( event sharing location, facility or organization with another, typically larger event )
 * External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary ID, HAA member ID, Spotify user ID, Vintage Fashion Guild label, Biographical Dictionary of Emigrants of Georgia ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, Swiss Games Garden game ID, ERA ID, Sky News topic ID, Russian Second League player ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: FLOW ID, Electrodoc person ID, electrocd artist ID, Wattpad username, Virksomme ord ID, Identifier for an item in the norwegian database for political adresses ID, Kinoglaz film ID, DBpia article ID


 * Query examples:
 * Railway bridges in Germany and Austria (source)
 * Number of deaths in train wrecks per country (source)
 * Pairs of people who both have an English #Wikipedia article and are married to one another (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (T309021)
 * We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (T327882)
 * We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (T330252)
 * Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
 * Query Builder:
 * We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (T328764)
 * We have added support for the datatypes for Form (T329205) and Property (T329207)
 * Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (T321543)

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: 2023-10
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Recent changes
 * The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
 * On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed.

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).
 * A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon.

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This Month in GLAM: February 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #563
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
 * Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
 * HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
 * New request for comments:
 * Wikidata as fans resources


 * Events
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
 * Past
 * Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
 * The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
 * Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
 * The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity
 * Papers
 * How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter
 * Podcasts
 * WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.


 * Tool of the week
 * Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable milkmaids
 * Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany (source)
 * What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? (source)
 * World map according to shared borders (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 10, 2023) (source)


 * Development
 * Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (T328764)
 * EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
 * REST API:
 * We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (T330252)
 * We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (T327882)

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: 2023-11
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Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting 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.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 55
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

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 * New bundle partners:
 * Newspapers.com
 * Fold3
 * 1Lib1Ref January report
 * Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Wikidata weekly summary #564
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
 * Papers
 * Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
 * Videos
 * Notebooks
 * Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.
 * Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.


 * Tool of the week
 * User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the WDQS current state and summarizes the suggestions with the most impact we’re exploring now, with a few in-progress.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: STS program ID, Electronic library encyclopedia.com.ua, Deutsche Synchronkartei person ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, Syoboi Calendar series ID, Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, Moscow University Herbarium ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, IRIS UNICAMPUS author ID, IRIS UNIECAMPUS author ID, IRISanRaf author ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, NTV program ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, Wise Music Classical work ID, IATE ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Rate Your Music work ID, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID, Epson Tour player ID, Digital Bhashakosha page number, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, Electrodoc person ID, Archivarta ID, CassiOpeA author ID, IRIS UNIROMA2 author ID, IRIS UNIROMA3 author ID, Sjøhistorie ship ID, electrocd artist ID, köztérkép ID, ForPost person ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Ivi title ID, Ivi person ID, Saint Petersburg Conservatory person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * system requirements ( system requirements for video game or software )
 * External identifiers: Brazzers ID, Universo del corpo ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Tekstowo.pl artist ID, Tekściory artist ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, BSDB player ID, The Athletic team ID, The Athletic player ID, GSAFD ID, Feminae ID, IFTTT service ID, stock keeping unit, Federiciana ID, LIBRA Unine ID


 * Query examples:
 * Lexeme with a Sense related to a geolocated Item (source)
 * Highest TV seasons numbers (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
 * Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (T214002)
 * Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
 * REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (T327882)

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

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

Tech News: 2023-12
<section begin="technews-2023-W12"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images.

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-gift.svg A link to the user's page will appear on  — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via and via the API.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #565
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
 * WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
 * Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
 * Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
 * Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
 * Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
 * How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
 * Notebooks
 * Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.


 * Tool of the week
 * Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * ISCED Attainment ( ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label. )
 * first performance by ( performer or performing group for the first performance of a work )
 * External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit (source)
 * Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)
 * Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
 * Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (T323173)

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

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

Tech News: 2023-13
<section begin="technews-2023-W13"/> 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 AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000.
 * Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects.
 * Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the link in the  menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion.

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
 * You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:12, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #566
<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:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
 * IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
 * MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))


 *  Events
 * Past
 * Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
 * WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, Bones)
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
 * Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base
 * Papers
 * In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
 * Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
 * A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
 * Can you trust Wikidata?
 * Videos
 * Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
 * Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
 * WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
 * A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
 * Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
 * Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Statistics on Wikidata property scopes


 *  Tool of the week
 * User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects


 *  Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * student retention rate ( Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year )
 * External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Authors from Latin America born today (source)
 * Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain (source)


 *  Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)
 * Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (T321543)
 * REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (T323813)

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: 2023-14
<section begin="technews-2023-W14"/> 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 system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories.

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).
 * Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deprecated <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide.
 * Some of the links in will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account.
 * You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> magic word. There will also be a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page.

Future changes
 * The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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Tech News: 2023-15
<section begin="technews-2023-W15"/> 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-gift.svg In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-gift.svg You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed.

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

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This Month in GLAM: March 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #567
<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:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
 * BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
 * Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata
 * How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
 * Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
 * Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items
 * The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
 * Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins
 * Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections
 * Papers
 * Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
 * Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube
 * SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube
 * Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube
 * [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * information sign ( property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board )
 * location URL match pattern ( regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against )
 * External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * orchestration ( the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form )
 * part of other combined lexeme ( qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme )
 * External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Superheroes with a degree in the humanities (source)
 * Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate0%20%3Fdate1%20%3Fprec%20%3Fdiff%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdate0%20%3Fdate1%20%3Fprec%20%3Fdiff%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%2811%20%20AS%20%3Fminimum_precision%29%20%23%20minimum%20precision%3B%207%20%3D%20century%2C%208%20%3D%20decade%2C%209%20%3D%20year%2C%2010%20%3D%20month%2C%2011%20%3D%20day%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP570%20%3Fstatement0%2C%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement0%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank0%20%3D%20%3Frank1%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank0%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement0%20psv%3AP570%20%3Fvalue0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20psv%3AP570%20%3Fvalue1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue0%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue1%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fprecision0%20%3C%20%3Fprecision1%2C%20%3Fprecision0%2C%20%3Fprecision1%29%20AS%20%3Fprec%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fprec%20%3E%3D%20%3Fminimum_precision%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue0%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue1%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdate0%20%3C%20%3Fdate1%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%207%20%2C%201%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%208%20%2C%2010%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%209%20%2C%20100%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%2010%20%2C%201000%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3E%3D%2011%2C%2010000%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%200%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20AS%20%3Fprecision_adj%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%28%3Fdate1%20-%20%3Fdate0%29%20%2a%20%3Fprecision_adj%20AS%20%3Fdiff%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2010000%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Fdiff%29 People with far apart reported death dates] (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).
 * WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T332139)
 * Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (T328148)
 * REST API:
 * We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (T323813)
 * The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en

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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Wikidata weekly summary #568
<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:
 * Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
 * Papers
 * Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; English-language edition, Édition en langue française
 * Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
 * Videos
 * Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube
 * "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube
 * IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
 * Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Notebook
 * Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
 * Twitter thread
 * How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there


 * Tool of the week
 * Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon is out (announcement and details)
 * Christos started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID, Team Fortress Wiki ID, Federiciana ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Aisberg author ID, OPENBS author ID, Bicocca Open Archive author ID, IRInSubria author ID, cybersport.ru player ID, Boomplay album ID, IRIS HUNIMED author ID, IRIS UNISR author ID, PubliCatt author ID, FantLab dictor ID, Portráidí ID, Kulturenvanteri.com ID, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID, Musée Fabre ID, Musées Grand Est ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Shipbucket drawing ID


 * Query examples:
 * ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)
 * Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward
 * Newest database reports:
 * Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (T332139)
 * QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (T328764)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (T323813)

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: 2023-16
<section begin="technews-2023-W16"/> 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 nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed.

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).

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Wikidata weekly summary #569
<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:
 * AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)
 * New request for comments:
 * Creating properties which link to an archived website


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
 * Past
 * Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-04-19


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * How to put an end to best book lists once and for all
 * Papers
 * Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata (Documenting Queer History on Wikidata - French), John Samuel, Panel: Queer Data : les plateformes numériques d'archives, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris, 23 April 2023
 * Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
 * Videos
 * Using PetScan and Wikidata Terminator, Mooré Wikimedia Community (in Mooré)
 * Wikidata Atlas: Putting Wikidata on the Map
 * Notebooks
 * Probability of having notable parents by occupation and gender
 * Living with Machines: Toponym recognition and resolution — input and output exploration
 * Twitter thread
 * Average number of words in Wall Street Journal articles by author gender


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikibase newbie docs are here (to help to onboard new Wikibase users easier).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * handled, mitigated, or managed by ( approach or method that can be used to address an issue or problem )
 * holds diplomatic passport of ( country of the diplomatic passport held by the person )
 * External identifiers: Dailymotion video ID, Databáze sérií ID, Universo del corpo ID, Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, AML ID, AniList character ID, Amarkosh ID, Moly.hu author ID, Podcast Index ID, SINTA affiliation ID, Hall of Light developer ID, Hall of Light publisher ID, Hall of Light artist ID, Kinoglaz person ID, Michaelis ID, Kino1TV ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: KPU Plant Database ID, SoccerPunter team ID, HAL non-registered author ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Dizionario dei prodotti DOP e IGP ID


 * Query examples:
 * Administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
 * Rivers in France over 50 km long (source)
 * List of mental disorders (source)
 * Paintings once owned by Red Flag Names (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 16, 2023) (source)
 * Place of birth of humans with Github username (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (T323813)
 * EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (T332139)
 * Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.

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: 2023-17
<section begin="technews-2023-W17"/> 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-gift.svg The date-selection menu on pages such as will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities.
 * For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC.
 * 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 Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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Tech News: 2023-18
<section begin="technews-2023-W18"/> 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-gift.svg The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads.
 * The page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar.

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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:43, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #570
<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:
 * ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
 * BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))


 * Events
 * Upcoming events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 2, 2023: Fudie Zhao will be presenting on Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Agenda
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #90, Sewing
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live session (April 2023)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Creating Map Visualizations with Wikidata and Python, 24 April 2023, Jelle Vankerkvoorde
 * Videos
 * Open data and Wikidata: revolutionizing scientific research (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #109 - YouTube
 * Using MixandMatch gadget - YouTube
 * Back having fun with lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
 * EMWCon Spring 2023 -YouTube
 * Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content with Wikidata
 * Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so)
 * Workshops
 * Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata Workshop at
 * Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Wikimentor Africa workshop - Learn how to report bugs, make feature requests and manage your tasks


 * Tool of the week
 * Twitter Wikipedia Badge - is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (code, Tweet)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Channel One Russia Worldwide program ID, LSJ Wiki ID, Wastewater treatment plant in France ID, Musées Grand Est ID, INSPIRE-HEP literature ID, Musée Fabre ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Technic Platform modpack ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus root id


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Akadem organization ID, mosff.ru player ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Diritto on line ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, BSWW player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of where the presidents of BCALA were educated (source)
 * Number of Wikipedia sitelinks for Art Looting Investigation (source)
 * Family relationships of New Zealand MPs (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Piano Rolls


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (T214884)
 * Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like T335578 and T335581.

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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Wikidata weekly summary #571
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
 * Papers
 * Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
 * The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
 * Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
 * Tool of the week


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * character in this lexeme ( character(s) this lexeme consists of )
 * External identifiers: none


 * Query examples:
 * Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line (source)
 * Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title (source)
 * Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle (source)


 * Development
 * (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
 * (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
 * (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
 * Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
 * Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (T214002)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (T214884)
 * Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (T323813)

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: 2023-19
<section begin="technews-2023-W19"/> 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-gift.svg Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
 * Octicons-gift.svg When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as, , and , can now be replaced.
 * Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the that uses <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

Problems
 * Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph . The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review.

Future changes
 * During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames.
 * There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with   can be commented out.   can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #572
<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:
 * WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
 * TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
 * Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
 * Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube
 * ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube
 * Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch
 * Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School?


 * Tool of the week
 * tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
 * re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * iconically alludes to ( item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme )
 * External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID


 * Query examples:
 * Name of languages ​​containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
 * Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
 * Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
 * Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (T214884)
 * Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (T334450)
 * mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (T330193, T329626)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (T332739).

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: 2023-20
<section begin="technews-2023-W20"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature.

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

Future changes
 * There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget and userscript developers should replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #573
<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
 * CEUR-WS (Task: CEUR-WS Semantification bot to be used on publishing Workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org)
 * AcmiBot (Task: Sync links with ACMI API)


 * Events
 * Past: The Wikimedia Hackathon took place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. Several Wikidata-related projects were presented during the showcase (notes, replay). You can also find more documentation on this page.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Melanie Conroy, Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata; Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2023May 11, 2023.
 * Videos
 * Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project, Presentation by Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
 * Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata, Presentation by John Samuel on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
 * Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project, Presentation by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023
 * “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata, Discussion by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)


 * Tool of the week
 * CreateNewEntity.js got improved to support up to 11 languages.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is launching a laptop donation program to support Wikidata contributors with limited access to technology. If you've been actively contributing to Wikidata for at least a year, you can request a free laptop to support your work. WMDE Hardware Donation Program#Applying
 * Wikibase.Cloud data modeling research has been published. It shows user flows and pain points in the Data Modelling experience of Wikibase Cloud users in Q1/2023.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID, ‎Xbox Games Store ID (Xbox 360), Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Global Smash Roster fighter ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Qualigeo ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * population by ethnic group (Part of a larger population isolated for statistical analysis)
 * points of bonus ( point of bonus in a tournament, given according some conditions (such as minimum number of goals...) )
 * External identifiers: Israel Composers' League composer ID, Stage 32 profile ID, kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, Radiomuseum.org company ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry


 * Query example: Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked (source)


 * Development
 * We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (T332739)
 * We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
 * We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
 * We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (T337081)
 * We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.

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

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

Tech News: 2023-21
<section begin="technews-2023-W21"/> 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-gift.svg The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal.

Changes later this week
 * An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact.
 * 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).

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16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 56
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 56, March – April 2023 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New partner:
 * Perlego
 * Library access tips and tricks
 * Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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Wikidata weekly summary #578
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Mike Peel shares his experience mentoring Wikimedia projects through FOSS outreach programs


 * Tool of the week
 * TalkPageHeader.js shows the talk page header for languages other than English.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
 * The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * time of periapsis ( the time at which the orbit of an object in space, typically a planet or a satellite, goes through its periapsis )
 * matched by identifier from ( this external ID was added because the following link was presented in both the external database and the Wikidata item )
 * External identifiers: Diritto on line ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * ISCED Attainment ( (no English description proposed yet) )
 * ISCED category orientation ( International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program )
 * Learning outcome ( specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program )
 * External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, BFM.ru persons ID, Open Yearbook org id


 * Query examples:
 * Count comparison of England, Scotland and Wales items claiming to be a human settlement as well as a parish (source)
 * Twins at Eurovision (source)


 * Development
 * Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
 * Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon.

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

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

Tech News: 2023-22
<section begin="technews-2023-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
 * Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The page now has "" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed.

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).
 * VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here.

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Tech News: 2023-23
<section begin="technews-2023-W23"/> 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 RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
 * Octicons-gift.svg Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "". This has now been fixed.

Problems
 * For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed.

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).
 * Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist.

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter
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Wikidata weekly summary #579
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
 * Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.


 * Tool of the week
 * IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * alternate universe counterpart ( this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject )
 * visited by ( organisms attracted by this plant taxon and reported to visit it )
 * Mastodon instance URL ( the mastodon instance of/about the subject )
 * beforehand owned by ( person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc )
 * afterward owned by ( person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc )
 * solubility product constant ( equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution )
 * funded by grant ( title or name of the grant funding this item )
 * External identifiers: stats.fm artist ID, Zeno.org ID, World Arachnid Catalog ID, Springs and Fountains of Andalucía ID, TMDb collection ID, TMDB company ID, WGA work ID, Peacock ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Type of musical notation ( system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition )
 * External identifiers: Identifiant "Politique pappers", Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID, Holarse, wiki.ubuntuusers.de article ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Kialo ID, PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), PesticideInfo chemical ID, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage ID, Image Duplicator ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Musées Occitanie ID


 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
 * Newest database reports:
 * External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (T337720)
 * Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (334682)
 * Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (T335857)
 * EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.

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

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

This Month in GLAM: May 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #580
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
 * Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata
 * Creating Bengali Freebase Using Wikidata
 * Probability of having notable parents by country of citizenship


 * Tool of the week
 * narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * quality is the result of process ( quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces )
 * External identifiers: theCrag ID, ‎SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * ISCED field ( mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education )
 * Romanian river code ( River codes from ApeleRomâne )
 * External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID


 * Query examples:
 * Terminus stations of the Transilien railroad network (source)
 * List of children of Johann Sebastian Bach (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished work on accessing data for Properties (T337720)
 * We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (T338138)
 * You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (T171140)
 * Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (T335754)
 * EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.

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

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

Tech News: 2023-24
<section begin="technews-2023-W24"/> 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-gift.svg The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article.
 * The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software.
 * The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages.

Problems
 * For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended  (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed.
 * Currently, the "" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing  keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr" style="white-space: nowrap;"> . See an example fix.

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).
 * VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here.

Future changes
 * From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:49, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #581
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: 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!

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Tech News: 2023-25
<section begin="technews-2023-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
 * Octicons-tools.svg Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing  or pressing  . It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-26
<section begin="technews-2023-W26"/> 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 The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to all <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the  database table.

Problems
 * Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition ) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution.
 * All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary.
 * The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #582
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #583
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: 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)

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 * 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!

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Tech News: 2023-27
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file.

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).

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This Month in GLAM: June 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #584
<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 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!

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Tech News: 2023-28
<section begin="technews-2023-W28"/> 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 Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
 * Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments.
 * is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata.
 * The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

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 default protocol of and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https.
 * and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago.

Future changes
 * There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

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Wikidata weekly summary #584
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
 * MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?
 * Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
 * The humble guide to building an asset library
 * Papers
 * OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
 * "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
 * A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia
 * Videos
 * Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube
 * Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * LD4 conference (YouTube)
 * Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
 * Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
 * Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
 * WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
 * 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


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * autosuggest value ( qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject )
 * 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, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * 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
 * Canadian Archival Information Network authority record
 * External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player 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, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword


 * Query examples:
 * List of data journals at Wikidata (source)
 * Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
 * WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)


 * Development
 * Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (T327510)
 * EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (T339924)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (T328149)
 * mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (T340832)

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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Books & Bytes – Issue 57
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 57, May – June 2023 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * Suggestion improvements
 * Favorite collections tips
 * Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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Tech News: 2023-30
<section begin="technews-2023-W30"/> 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  On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.

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).

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Tech News: 2023-31
<section begin="technews-2023-W31"/> 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 The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
 * The tag filter on and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool.
 * The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work.

Problems
 * It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed.

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

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Tech News: 2023-32
<section begin="technews-2023-W32"/> 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
 * Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "" in your settings and use the "" button in the "" menu.

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

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This Month in GLAM: July 2023
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Tech News: 2023-33
<section begin="technews-2023-W33"/> 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 Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still 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).
 * 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.

Future changes
 * A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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Tech News: 2023-34
<section begin="technews-2023-W34"/> 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 GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons.
 * From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
 * Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
 * a Wiktionary in Pa'O
 * a Wikisource in Sundanese
 * To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
 * Wikifunctions
 * a Wiktionary in Mandailing
 * a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin
 * a Wikinews in Gungbe
 * a Wiktionary in Kabardian
 * a Wikipedia in Fante

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 There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems.

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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35
<section begin="technews-2023-W35"/> 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-gift.svg As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis.
 * Octicons-gift.svg All pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.
 * Wikisource users can now use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> tag.
 * Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "" is now shown on the "" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "" tab at some wikis. The preference "" is now also shown on the "" tab at all wikis, instead of the "" tab.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
 * All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks.

Future changes
 * The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
 * A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:58, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-36
<section begin="technews-2023-W36"/> 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 Problems
 * EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences.
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects.
 * There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via and via the API.
 * One new wiki has been created:
 * a in Talysh
 * The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device.

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:31, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Septermber GOCE newsletter
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-37
<section begin="technews-2023-W37"/> 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
 * ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "" and ""), please report them.
 * When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
 * The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2023
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Books & Bytes – Issue 58
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 58, July – August 2023 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
 * Tech tip: Filters
 * Wikimania presentation

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Tech News: 2023-38
<section begin="technews-2023-W38"/> 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 MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions.

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).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.
 * All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-39
<section begin="technews-2023-W39"/> 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 Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out 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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The ResourceLoader <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
 * Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes
 * New variables will be added to AbuseFilter:  and  . They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-40
<section begin="technews-2023-W40"/> 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
 * There is a new user preference for "". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget definitions now have a new " contentModels " option. The option takes a list of page content models, like  or  . Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

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 The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:25, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-41
<section begin="technews-2023-W41"/> 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
 * One new wiki has been created: a in Fon

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting 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.
 * At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature.
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will be replaced with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2023
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Tech News: 2023-42
<section begin="technews-2023-W42"/> 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 Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome.
 * Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

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
 * In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-43
<section begin="technews-2023-W43"/> 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
 * There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code.

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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:14, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-44
<section begin="technews-2023-W44"/> 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 Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
 * The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.

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).
 * Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.
 * Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months.

Future changes
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-45
<section begin="technews-2023-W45"/> 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
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content.

Problems
 * Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem.

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 Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:04, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2023
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Tech News: 2023-46
<section begin="technews-2023-W46"/> 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
 * Four new wikis have been created:
 * a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh
 * a Wikipedia in Dagaare
 * a Wikipedia in Toba Batak
 * a Wikiquote in Banjar

Problems
 * Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved.
 * Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved.

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
 * Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-47
<section begin="technews-2023-W47"/> 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
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * 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 Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more.

Future changes
 * There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 59
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 59, September – October 2023 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
 * Tech tip: Library access methods

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Tech News: 2023-48
<section begin="technews-2023-W48"/> 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). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> / syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately.
 * The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-49
<section begin="technews-2023-W49"/> 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 spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences.
 * The "" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> keywords.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date.
 * Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events
 * Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
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This Month in GLAM: November 2023
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Tech News: 2023-50
<section begin="technews-2023-W50"/> 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
 * On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons.

Problems
 * There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed.

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 The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-51
<section begin="technews-2023-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

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). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
 * Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from ). There will also be support for manual redirects.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
 * The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-02
<section begin="technews-2024-W02"/> 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
 * mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing.

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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2023
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Tech News: 2024-03
<section begin="technews-2024-W03"/> 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 Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
 * You can now thank edits made by bots.
 * An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module was deprecated and replaced with the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-04
<section begin="technews-2024-W04"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed.

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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 60
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 60, November – December 2023 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * Three new partners
 * Google Scholar integration
 * How to track partner suggestions

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Tech News: 2024-05
<section begin="technews-2024-W05"/> 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
 * Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org.
 * There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

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-gift.svg On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> option instead.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-06
<section begin="technews-2024-W06"/> 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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
 * On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks".

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).
 * Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.

Future changes
 * 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2024
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Tech News: 2024-07
<section begin="technews-2024-W07"/> 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 WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.

Problems
 * There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg As work continues on the grid engine deprecation, tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-08
<section begin="technews-2024-W08"/> 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
 * If you have the "" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
 * There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see  this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
 * Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
 * The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB.

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


 * Octicons-tools.svg Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
 * The CSS <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> property can now be used in HTML <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attributes in wikitext.

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-09
<section begin="technews-2024-W09"/> 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 mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research  shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The mw.config value  now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2024-W09"/>
 * The right to change edit tags (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

MediaWiki message delivery 19:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-10
<section begin="technews-2024-W10"/> 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 <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension.
 * Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
 * Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> namespaces and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
 * A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.

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
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
 * The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 61
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 61, January – February 2024 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
 * 1Lib1Ref results

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This Month in GLAM: February 2024
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Tech News: 2024-11
<section begin="technews-2024-W11"/> 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).
 * After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
 * The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
 * Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-12
<section begin="technews-2024-W12"/> 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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
 * Octicons-tools.svg IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
 * Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown.

Problems
 * RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.

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).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-13
<section begin="technews-2024-W13"/> 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 An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-14
<section begin="technews-2024-W14"/> 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
 * Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed.

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 Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15
<section begin="technews-2024-W15"/> 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
 * Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
 * Octicons-gift.svg A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check.
 * Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.

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).
 * New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2024
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Tech News: 2024-16
<section begin="technews-2024-W16"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.

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).
 * Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
 * A new variable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.

Future changes
 * Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> tables. Some queries might need to be updated.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:27, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Affiliations Committee News (January-March 2024)
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''You can find this newsletter translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. ''

Quarterly newsletter sharing news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.

Affiliate Recognition and Derecognition: Recognition of Cyprus, Botswana, Niger, and Telugu user groups

Affiliate Activities Report: Reports from Belgium, South African, and Ukrainian chapters

AffCom Movement Contribution: AffCom engagement with the new Affiliates Strategy and Movement Charter drafts

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:56, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17
<section begin="technews-2024-W17"/> 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
 * Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention.
 * You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

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
 * This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of /vector.js to /vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 62
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 62, March – April 2024 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * IEEE and Haaretz now available
 * Let's Connect Clinics about The Wikipedia Library
 * Spotlight and Wikipedia Library tips

Read the full newsletter Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:03, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-18
<section begin="technews-2024-W18"/> 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 appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: . These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences (""). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
 * Seven new wikis have been created:
 * a in Betawi
 * a in Kusaal
 * a in Igala
 * a in Karakalpak
 * a in Burmese
 * a in Malay
 * a in Georgian
 * You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
 * Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems
 * Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.

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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-19
<section begin="technews-2024-W19"/> 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 appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences (""). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the . More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.

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).
 * When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".

Future changes
 * A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
 * Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2024
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Tech News: 2024-20
<section begin="technews-2024-W20"/> 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
 * On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
 * If you use the user-preference "", then the template-page feature "" will now also work without reloading the page.
 * Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute. This is identical in usage to the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
 * The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.

Future changes
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Two columns of the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> database table (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> table instead (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ). In your existing SQL queries:
 * Replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> statement
 * Below that add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">
 * See T222224 for technical reasoning.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-21
<section begin="technews-2024-W21"/> 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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.
 * New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-22
<section begin="technews-2024-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
 * Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
 * Octicons-tools.svg In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

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).
 * When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-23
<section begin="technews-2024-W23"/> 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
 * It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available.
 * The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> " to "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ".
 * One new wiki has been created: a in Kadazandusun

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
 * Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2024
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Tech News: 2024-24
<section begin="technews-2024-W24"/> 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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> class, Parsoid now also adds the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available.

Problems
 * There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available.
 * On multilingual wikis that use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-25
<section begin="technews-2024-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
 * People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details.
 * The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future.
 * The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.
 * Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable.
 * Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-26
<section begin="technews-2024-W26"/> 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
 * Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage.
 * The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode.

Problems
 * You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-27
<section begin="technews-2024-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.

Recent changes
 * Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update.
 * Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis.
 * If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers.
 * Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months.
 * Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
 * One new wiki has been created: a in Mandailing

Problems
 * Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team.

Future changes
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-28
<section begin="technews-2024-W28"/> 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
 * At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
 * The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
 * Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
 * Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems
 * A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes
 * The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

Tech News survey
 * Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 1 more week. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2024
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Affiliations Committee News (April-June 2024)
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Quarterly newsletter sharing news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.

Affiliates Strategy Updates: Adoption of a new affiliate health criteria and changes to User Groups recognition process

Affiliate Recognition and Derecognition: Recognition of Madagascar, Senegal, Republic of Congo, and Namibia user groups

Affiliate Activities and Compliance Report: Activities reports around the world

AffCom Conflict Intervention: Six active conflicts, no new reports for Q4

AffCom Movement Contribution: AffCom engagement at Wikimedia Summit and ESEAP Conference

AffCom Administration: Officers elections and departing members

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:30, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-29
<section begin="technews-2024-W29"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News survey
 * Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
 * Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
 * Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week
 * This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
 * Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 63
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

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 * Spotlight: References check