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Selected clippings from Wikimedia newsletters. Things I want to follow up on or refer back to.

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 * 2022-08-27 – Time to wrangle these into some kind of order?

Wikidata weekly summary #441



 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
 * Other
 * "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
 * Value label constraint


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as . Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01.
 * Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ... rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, ... epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), ... filestore

Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
 * Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
 * Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (T263435)
 * Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (T263435)

Tech News: 2020-46
  15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested.
 * From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.

Tech News: 2020-47
  15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most 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.
 * If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed.
 * The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

Wikidata weekly summary #442



 * Events
 * Past: ELIXIR BioHackathon 2020 updates:
 * Project #13: >20 thousand PDB ligand identifiers added and new formatter URL: https://twitter.com/ESchymanski/status/1326875606177492993
 * Project #33: Using wikidata query service in the taxon_mapper in Molseq - connecting molecular (genbank) and specimen (GBIF) data app
 * Project #35: Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas with Wikidata starting at 18:00


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas
 * Video: Programming for Cultural Heritage: Using Python to retrieve data from Wikidata
 * Video: OpenStreetMap & Wikidata using Sophox - OpenStreetMap US Connect 2020
 * Video: Adding Pashas to Wikidata. 7 videos: Wikipedia to OpenRefine, Standardizing dates, Standardizing names in OpenRefine, Wikidata reconciliation, Adding additional data, Combining Arabic and English Lists, Wikidata Schema


 * Tool of the week
 * ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: dedicated heritage entity, ... for color scheme, parent (unspecified)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: use as citation in Wikimedia page [not done, but discussion mentions some ways to find entity usage on other wikis], ... given name identical to this family name [opposed by several because inverse property], ... inscription image [I voted support for this one], ...


 * Query examples:
 * Rivers and canals in the United Kingdom.
 * Map of images taken for the Wicipics photography campaign in Wales (Source)
 * Living 'notable' people with the given name "Karen" per 100k per country (Source)
 * Paintings in the Suter Art Gallery (Source)
 * Map of Welsh Railways (Source)
 * Connections of railways of the Netherlands (Source)
 * Distinct languages of Wikidata lexemes. Top 5 are Russian-101144, English-69066, Latin-32106, Hebrew-28286 and Basque-22904.(Source)


 * Development
 * Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (T266638)
 * Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
 * Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
 * Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (T191831)
 * Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (T266496)
 * Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (T267553) and prototype test workflow (T267554)

Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:15, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 41
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 41, September – October 2020 
 * New partnership: Taxmann
 * WikiCite
 * 1Lib1Ref 2021

Read the full newsletter Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:48, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48


Recent changes
 * Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page.

 17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #443



 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata. Blogpost by Jan Ainali (in Swedish)
 * WikiPathways: connecting communities: research article outlining, among other things, how Wikidata is used and integrated
 * Using SPARQL to combine Wikidata and OSM triples
 * ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
 * TU Dresden lecture on Knowledge Graphs (replay)
 * Wikidata introduction - YouTube
 * Content model of Wikidata - YouTube
 * How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The proposals phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until November 30th. You can submit wishes in various categories, like Wikidata.
 * The note-taking app Kanopi got first pieces of Wikidata integration.
 * The Listeria Evolution: Listeria has got an update


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: epithet, attraction to, hairstyle, poverty incidence


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: vénéré à, ... ID pattern, lunar coordinates, adjacent to, date posted, ... National Library at Kolkata romanization, complementary property, ... fait l'objet d'une vénération à


 * Query examples:
 * Map of Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 participant's institutions (federated query) (Source)
 * Philosophers born between 0 and 500 grouped by the decade where they lived (Source)
 * Video games from ?country (template) (Source)


 * Development
 * Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
 * Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (T261275)
 * Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (T267502)
 * Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (T267023)
 * Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (T266936)
 * Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (T264538)

Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:21, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #444



 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Linking OpenStreetMap with knowledge graphs — Link discovery for schema-agnostic volunteered geographic information (the KGs referred to are Wikidata & DBPedia)
 * Video: Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph by Roderic Page
 * Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
 * ORCID for Wikidata: A workflow for matching author and publication items in Wikidata
 * id.loc.gov and Wikidata, one year later


 * Tool of the week
 * osm2kg is a tool to facilitate matching Wikidata entries to OSM nodes.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24th, and will end on December 7th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
 * Wikidata descriptions changes will be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist on Wikimedia wikis


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: facial hair, ... complementary property, ...
 * External identifiers: ... Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, ...


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ... cites work string, ... Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, ... Mailing List, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data
 * External identifiers: ... National Gallery of Australia ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, ... Auckland Art Gallery ID, ...


 * Development
 * Development on the Query Builder is continuing. You can follow along at https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org
 * Fixed an issue where language fallback indicators were still shown when falling back from a variant of the language (T267502)
 * Fixed an issue on Lexeme pages where language and lexical category fields turn red on unfocus even though no changes were made (T266936)
 * Working on improving what happens to sitelinks when an article is moved to a unsupported namespace (T261275))
 * Investigating a significant increase in skipped Item IDs (T268625)
 * Addressing the feedback for the draft of the REST API spec

Tech News: 2020-49
  17:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test.
 * [change of architecture, no more cross-database JOINs for Quarry or PAWS]... News/Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign.

Growth team updates #16
Welcome to the sixteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Growth features show impact
Newcomer task experiments results

The team recently published our analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We are happy to announce that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers.

In November 2019, the Growth team added the "newcomer tasks" feature to the newcomer homepage. After six months, we collected data from Arabic, Vietnamese, Czech, and Korean Wikipedias. We analyzed the overall impact of the Growth features, including newcomer tasks.

This analysis finds that the Growth features lead to increases in: We also find that the quality of their edits, as measured by revert rate, is comparable to that of a control group.
 * the probability that newcomers make their first article edit (+11.6%)
 * the probability that they are retained as editors
 * the number of edits they make during their first couple of weeks on the wiki (+22%)

Because of these results, we think all Wikipedias should consider implementing these features. Learn more about how to get them.

You can find more details about this experiment on the report page. Please post any feedback or questions on the talk page

General metrics

As of November 2020, across all wikis where the features have been deployed:
 * more than 5,000 newcomers have made more than 40,000 edits using Newcomer tasks.
 * more than 14,000 questions have been sent to volunteer mentors by more than 11,000 users.
 * more than 2,000 questions have been asked on help desks by more than 1,500 users.

Learn more about Growth results here, and please post any feedback or questions on the talk page.

Variants C and D
Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We deployed them in October. After six weeks of these variants being deployed, we can see that they have led to increased interactions with newcomer tasks. Next, we will determine which variant is best and use that for all newcomers.

News for mentors
A separate list for workshops hosts

During workshops organized by education programs through the communities, workshops hosts like to mentor people they train on wiki. Several wikis requested to have a way to claim their mentees without having other newcomers being randomly being assigned to them. To address this need, a separate list can be created on wiki, for mentors that wish to claim mentees, but prefer not to have random mentees being assigned to them. Learn more about this feature.

Claiming multiple mentees at once

Mentors can use to claim a newcomer as their mentee. The feature now allows mentors to claim multiple newcomers at once.

Community news
The help panel allows people to post a message to the local help desk while editing. Previously, the tool always posted messages to the bottom of help desks. Wikis are now able to configure it to display new messages at the top of the help desk page. T261714

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Tech News: 2020-50
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 * You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function.
 * Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki.
 * You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

Wikidata weekly summary #445
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 * Discussions
 * Comment on a proposal for proposed deletion system


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia, presented in English by Mike Peel (Wiki Movimento Brasil). The event is supported by a WikiCite e-scholarship. December 8th 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT), via YouTube.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade. The Washington Post writes about enslaved.org, a Wikibase instance run at Michigan State University, that collects and creates Linked Open Data about the transatlantic slave trade. (Source)
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata by and with Alicia Fagerving from Wikipedia Day 2020
 * Video: How to use Wikidata Mix'n'match tool - YouTube
 * Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
 * Linking K10plus library union catalog with Wikidata
 * Building Wikidata One Branch of Knowledge at a Time


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have a central repository for wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, ... complementary property, ... road name formatter, ... kunya, religion or world view
 * External identifiers: ... Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, ... Auckland Art Gallery artwork ID, CINE21 film ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, ...


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: cites work string, ... Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Mailing List, curid, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data, archaeological site of, does not have cause, ... reason for normal rank, value is one of, ... has surface, ...
 * External identifiers: U.S. Masters Swimming ID, ... The Galileo Project ID, ... Basic Formal Ontology ID, Fichier des décès ID


 * Query examples:
 * Russian cuisine
 * Belgian artists that rise to the public domain in 2021 (Source)
 * Asian food made from noodles (Source)
 * Bubble diagram by wiki page numbers in each language on objects kept at the Bardo National Museum (note: Commons is counted as English) (Source)


 * Development
 * Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
 * Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (T269102)
 * Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (T191831)
 * Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (T263258)
 * Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (T268625)
 * Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs: Docker Image Repository, Tarball Repository

Wikidata weekly summary #446
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube
 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
 * Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
 * Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
 * Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
 * Tool of the week
 * is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
 * The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
 * External identifiers: ...The Galileo Project ID, ...
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, ... applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), ... subdivision monétaire
 * Query examples:
 * (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
 * Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects)
 * Development
 * We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.

Tech News: 2020-51
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Wikipedia app for KaiOS
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 * There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too.

Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
The Reply tool  is available at most other Wikipedias.


 * The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
 * It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:


 * As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
 * There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.
 * The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month. Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
 * Венов_дијаграм.svg A large A/B test will start soon. This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone.  During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool
The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself. You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 42


The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes Issue 42, November – December 2020


 * New EBSCO collections now available
 * 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
 * Library Card input requested
 * Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

Read the full newsletter

Wikidata weekly summary #452
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 * Events
 * Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
 * Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog: Adding New Literature Sources to the Wikidata Integrator, by Charles Tapley Hoyt
 * Creating subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
 * Creating subsets from Wikidata - YouTube


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: character type, derived from organism type, applicable “stated in” value, ...
 * External identifiers: ... StrategyWiki page, Australian Fungi ID, ...
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: onscreen participant, ... Imagehash perceptual hash
 * External identifiers: ... Malpedia ID, ... PeriodO ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, Pantone color ID, ...
 * Query examples:
 * Common ingredients to prepare a sandwich (Source)
 * Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)
 * Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)


 * Development
 * Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
 * Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (T267656)
 * Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (T268456)
 * Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
 * Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
 * Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (T267627)
 * Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (T270133)
 * Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (T271194)
 * Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (T271194)

Tech News: 2021-04
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Changes later this week
 * Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January.

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The Signpost: 31 January 2021
Wikipedia Signpost/2021-01-31 Volume 17, Issue 1

Wikidata weekly summary #453
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 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
 * Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
 * Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
 * Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube


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


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
 * New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
 * New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * External identifiers: ... Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, ...
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ... photographer of, reissue, ...service status information URL, unusualness, ...


 * Development
 * Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
 * Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
 * Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (T271589), and az-cyrl (T265906)
 * Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page T271402
 * Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (T267644)
 * Wikibase Release Strategy
 * Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (T271193)
 * Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (T272580)
 * Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (T272580)

Tech News: 2021-05
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Problems
 * IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
 * Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like  as well as the   syntax for IP ranges.

Future changes
 * Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more.

<section end="technews-2021-W05"/> 22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06
m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/06

<section begin="technews-2021-W06"/>

Recent changes
 * The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app.

Changes later this week
 * You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis.

Wikidata weekly summary #454

 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published. In addition, you will find here the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
 * Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page.
 * New updates to Mix'n'match:
 * Import/update function for Mix’n’match catalogs (manual) (source)
 * Refreshed the Mix’n’match dataset for potential new human Wikidata items (source)
 * Import/update function for Mix’n’match catalogs (manual) (source)
 * Refreshed the Mix’n’match dataset for potential new human Wikidata items (source)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ... Commons media contributed by
 * External identifiers: ... Pepys Encylopedia ID, ... Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, ...


 * Development
 * Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (T272694)
 * Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (T272699)
 * Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (T272712)
 * Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (T138332)
 * Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (T138332)

. . . . ..

Wikidata weekly summary #462
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Selected items from the Wikidata newsletter. <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 : "InChI and InChIKey in Wikidata and Scholia", https://zenodo.org/record/4633789
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (English), supported by WikiCite, April 13


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages "fostering development of technology for the languages of Africa with a Wikidata-derived resource of lists of 1.9M names across 28 African languages".
 * Videos
 * WikiActivate sessions introduction to Wikidata - YouTube 1, 2


 * Tool of the week
 * QRank is a tool providing a rank for Wikidata entities based on page view statistics from several Wikimedia projects.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The final version of the Wikibase Yearly Summary 2020 has been published.
 * User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Ukrainian national romanization, law digest, Unicode character name, ... placeholder text element ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: specific part, personal library at, departement, antipode, MovieMeter person ID, bicycle


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fval%20%3Ff%20%3Fformatter_since%20%20%3Ftotal_links%20%3Funique_targets%20%3F2019_link_counts_source%0A%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28URI%28%22https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FInterwiki_map%2Fdetailed_table%22%29%20as%20%3F2019_link_counts_source%29%0AVALUES%20%28%3Fval%20%3Ftotal_links%20%3Funique_targets%29%7B%20%0A%28%22appropedia%22%20333%20156%29%0A%28%22arxiv%22%208274%204712%29%0A%28%22battlestarwiki%22%20210%20135%29%0A%28%22bcnbio%22%2064810%201468%29%0A%28%22bibcode%22%201321%201168%29%0A%28%22bibliowiki%22%20323%20282%29%0A%28%22botwiki%22%20339%2061%29%0A%28%22c2%22%20519%20182%29%0A%28%22centralwikia%22%20447%20115%29%0A%28%22choralwiki%22%203336%201682%29%0A%28%22citizendium%22%20572%20395%29%0A%28%22comixpedia%22%20257%2094%29%0A%28%22creativecommons%22%209521%20173%29%0A%28%22creativecommonswiki%22%202268%2040%29%0A%28%22dcdatabase%22%20227%20137%29%0A%28%22dmoz%22%20474%20403%29%0A%28%22doi%22%2077892%2056541%29%0A%28%22donate%22%20462%20147%29%0A%28%22download%22%201515%20147%29%0A%28%22drae%22%204346%202921%29%0A%28%22ethnologue%22%204323%201928%29%0A%28%22flickruser%22%2048688%209771%29%0A%28%22foundationsite%22%205230%2076%29%0A%28%22freedomdefined%22%201205884%2059%29%0A%28%22freenode%22%205833%2068%29%0A%28%22genwiki%22%20219%20213%29%0A%28%22gutenberg%22%205948%204068%29%0A%28%22hdl%22%201468%20899%29%0A%28%22hrwiki%22%20389%20202%29%0A%28%22iarchive%22%2069676%2055171%29%0A%28%22imdbcharacter%22%20901%20735%29%0A%28%22imdbcompany%22%20282%20232%29%0A%28%22imdbname%22%2093129%2062230%29%0A%28%22imdbtitle%22%2084238%2057582%29%0A%28%22infosphere%22%20342%20170%29%0A%28%22irc%22%207322031%201062%29%0A%28%22iso639-3%22%2036309%208361%29%0A%28%22issn%22%201868%20538%29%0A%28%22karlsruhe%22%20933%20620%29%0A%28%22labsconsole%22%20442%20146%29%0A%28%22livepedia%22%20589%20277%29%0A%28%22localwiki%22%20329%20312%29%0A%28%22marveldatabase%22%20275%20156%29%0A%28%22meatball%22%203460%20318%29%0A%28%22memoryalpha%22%201148%20763%29%0A%28%22mineralienatlas%22%204380%203039%29%0A%28%22nara%22%20578%20582%29%0A%28%22nost%22%20345%20118%29%0A%28%22oeis%22%2016862%204702%29%0A%28%22openlibrary%22%20437%20313%29%0A%28%22openstreetmap%22%20756%20371%29%0A%28%22orthodoxwiki%22%20408%20260%29%0A%28%22otrswiki%22%20743%20213%29%0A%28%22planetmath%22%20474%20320%29%0A%28%22pmid%22%2020190%2016436%29%0A%28%22pyrev%22%201059%20162%29%0A%28%22quality%22%20259%20143%29%0A%28%22revo%22%202140%201906%29%0A%28%22rfc%22%203791%201570%29%0A%28%22semantic-mw%22%20446%2091%29%0A%28%22sharemap%22%20956%20267%29%0A%28%22sourceforge%22%20523%20354%29%0A%28%22stats%22%201767%20267%29%0A%28%22strategywiki%22%20648%20336%29%0A%28%22svn%22%20396%20141%29%0A%28%22tswiki%22%201878%20168%29%0A%28%22uncyclopedia%22%201654%20831%29%0A%28%22viaf%22%202067%201832%29%0A%28%22vikidia%22%201237%20868%29%0A%28%22wikia%22%2016411%206229%29%0A%28%22wikiapiary%22%204993%201979%29%0A%28%22wikiasite%22%203490%201618%29%0A%28%22wikiconference%22%20561%2089%29%0A%28%22wikifur%22%201064%20487%29%0A%28%22wikihow%22%20258%20147%29%0A%28%22wikiindex%22%20263%2099%29%0A%28%22wikilivres%22%2019945%209118%29%0A%28%22wikilivresru%22%202240%201540%29%0A%28%22wikinvest%22%20677%20343%29%0A%28%22wikiwikiweb%22%20248%20101%29%0A%28%22wookieepedia%22%20910%20612%29%0A%28%22zum%22%20263%20144%29%0A%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP6720%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fst%20ps%3AP6720%20%3Fval%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP1630%20%3Ff%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fformatter_since%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fst%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20Main%20selection%3A%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1687%20%5B%20%5D%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23no%20Wikidata%20property%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Ftotal_links%20%3E%20500%20%26%26%20%3Funique_targets%20%3E%20300%20%20%29%0A%20%20%23%20exclude%20some%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20%3Fitem%20not%20in%20%28%20wd%3AQ461%20%2C%20wd%3AQ17460%20%2C%20wd%3AQ1540899%20%2C%20wd%3AQ300885%20%2C%20wd%3AQ33133762%20%29%20%29%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%7D%0A%7D%20%20 interwiki prefixes without corresponding Wikidata property by 2019 linkcount (some filtered)] (source)
 * Botanists with image of signature and optional IPNI author ID (source)


 * Development
 * We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (T277646) as well as querying for dates (T272697)
 * Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
 * Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (T275999)
 * Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
 * Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (T278962)

. . . ..

Growth Newsletter #18 [17 May 2021]
... The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Structured tasks


"Add a link" is now being tested in production and is nearing release on our four pilot wikis [ar, cz, vi, bn] ... final tests this week and next week, and then plan to deploy ... either during May 24 week, or May 31 week. After two weeks, we will analyze the initial data ... If things are going well after four weeks, we'll progressively deploy it to the wikis with Growth features.

News for mentors

 * We are currently working on a Mentor dashboard. ... The first iteration will include a table that shows an overview of the mentors current mentees, a module with their own settings, and a module that will allow them to store their best replies to their mentees questions.
 * We've conducted our quarterly audit on Growth's four pilot wikis to see the activity of mentors. It appears that the vast majority of mentors are active.

Community configuration


We are working on project to allow communities to manage the configuration of the Growth features on their own. In the past, communities have needed to work directly with the Growth team to set up and alter the features. We plan to put this capability in the hands of administrators, through an easy-to-use form, so that the features can be easily tailored to fit the needs of each community. While we developed it initially for Growth features, we think this approach could have uses in other features as well. We'll be trying this on our pilot wikis in the coming weeks, and then we'll bring it to all Growth wikis soon after. We hope you check out the project page and add any of your thoughts to the talk page.

Scaling

 * Growth features are now available on 35 wikis. Here is the list of the most recent ones: [...].
 * A new group of Wikipedias has been defined for the deployment of Growth features. ... contact us if you have questions ...
 * After discussion ..., the Growth features will be tested on a small percentage of new accounts. At the moment, registered users can test the features by turning them on in their preferences.

15:23, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

. . . . ..

selected Wikidata weekly summary #479
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Selected Wikidata news. <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
 * 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries
 * Issues and Challenges in optimum utilization of Linked Data in Indian libraries
 * Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project
 * Tutorial: Wikidata: Intro to the Basics
 * Tutorial: Writing Data to Wikidata Using Spreadsheets
 * Wikibase: Free, Flexible and Collaborative Linked Data
 * Rune inscriptions in Wikidata / Wikibase; Sampo Model and Portal Series on the Semantic Web
 * Wikidata In Classroom • Creating Linked Data from Books and Magazines
 * LD4 meeting: Wikidata Affinity Group
 * COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
 * Openstreetmap x Wikidata meetup 2021.08.09 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
 * COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
 * Openstreetmap x Wikidata meetup 2021.08.09 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Typed Citations in the Journal of Cheminformatics
 * What happens in Wikibase when you make a new Item?
 * Discovering new comics with Wikidata’s powerful tools
 * Two metadata directions. Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization
 * Still mapping! "Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
 * Making the Camino de Santiago visible on Wikidata


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia Incubator URL, symbol represents, bridge number
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Plant life-form, cabinet, title of a church
 * External identifiers: ...
 * Query examples:
 * List of all stage winners in the Tour de France with links to the list of stages won (source)
 * Map of miniature parks (Source)
 * Map of open data portals(Source)
 * Video games published before 1980, and their authors (Source)
 * Protected bridges over the Zadorra river basin (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory


 * Development
 * Added a  parameter to the   API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
 * Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
 * Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org

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!

from Wikidata weekly summary #480
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 * Events
 * July 2021 Wikidata+Wikibase office hours logs
 * July 2021 Wikibase Live sessions logs


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Mahir256/syndepgraph.js is used to make interesting SVG-based syntactic dependency graphs generated with   to appear.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the  Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
 * Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the  Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: symbol represents, bridge number, ...


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: cabinet, title of a church, Apple App Store classification, ... proposal/commentator|commentator]], FLOSS development policy URL
 * External identifiers: ... police zone ID, Tax identification number, ...
 * Query examples:
 * List of film directors who have worked with Jean-François Stevenin the most (source) Jean-François Stevenin is a French actor, dead the 27th of July
 * French municipalities containing the word "ville" (Source)
 * Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (Source)
 * Museums within 70 km of Dresden (Source)


 * Development
 * Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. Focusing on wrapping up the store part of the tool and moving on to the UI for reviewing mismatches.

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from Tech News: 2021-31
Tech News: 2021-31

<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> Selected tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg If your wiki uses markup like <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> without the required <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as  or  . You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
 * Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems
 * Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly.

Changes later this week
 * When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages.

Future changes
 * The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
 * The Beta Feature for will be updated in the coming weeks.  You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis.  You can test this now by adding   to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

<section end="tech-newsletter-content"/>

20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

selected Tech News: 2021-30
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> ...

Future changes
 * If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If  is unticked you need to also untick the new preference  . Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

<section end="tech-newsletter-content"/>

21:10, 26 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Wait, what, Monobook has a size-responsive layout? preference was generalized ... applies to all skins More at "Enable responsive MonoBook design" should be a (renamed) core skin preference. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 11:31, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

from Wikidata weekly #477
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlighted items from Wikidata weekly newsletter. <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:
 * Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Generic queries for musicians new wikidata template to explore the work of a musician.


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: edition/version, ...
 * Query examples:
 * Map of Welsh lakes and reservoirs (Source)
 * Interactive map with all Olympic Games medalists by place of birth (Source)
 * Interactive map with all Olympic Games medalists by place of birth (Source)


 * Development
 * Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (T236893)
 * Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (T176312)
 * Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (T176312)


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Help deploy Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
 * Help deploy Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.

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from Tech News 2021-3
Tech News: 2021-32

<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> Selected tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The old CSS <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The old CSS <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes
 * The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future.

<section end="tech-newsletter-content"/>

16:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 18:09, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

from Wikidata weekly summary #481
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Selected items from 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
 * Ongoing:
 * Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
 * Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion
 * Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata
 * Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q
 * Making feedback loops work for Wikidata
 * Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going?
 * Upcoming:
 * A biodiversity-themed hackathon is being organized at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium for September 20-24. Three of the ten proposed topics are Wikidata-related — biodiversity-related Wikidata lexemes, taxonomic names, and women in biodiversity research. Remote participation is possible.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
 * Books
 * SPARQL wikibook


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!
 * WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ... setlist, ...
 * External identifiers: ... Tax Identification Number (Belarus), ... Smartify artwork ID, ... Royal Ontario Museum ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ... container, remix of, insurance number (building), numéro de parcelle


 * Development
 * Cut save-time for edits in half (T288639)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
 * Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (T204031)
 * Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
 * Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (T269724)

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Tech News: 2021-33

<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> Selected tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

Recent changes
 * 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.
 * Huh?. Oh, I would have thought they'd be better off just fixing ULS, instead of doing a temporary workaround.

Changes later this week
 * A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden.
 * Aha, template:Dmbox emits a magic word that is parsed by an extension, nice.
 * I guess "add links to disambiguation pages" means "add link into a page, that has a disambiguation page as its destination", not "add links into disambiguation pages", which is how I first parsed it.
 * Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
 * This relates to the Wikimania talk, see Toolhub/Progress reports/2021-08-20. https://toolhub-demo.wmflabs.org/
 * In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page.

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19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC) ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 22:42, 20 August 2021 (UTC)