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Wikidata weekly summary #447
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
 * Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
 * Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
 * Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall knowledge base of the Internet
 * Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
 * Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Complex constraint about labels' language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
 * External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
 * External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID


 * Deleted properties: street address (P969)
 * Query examples:
 * Tex-Mex singers (Source)
 * Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales) (Source)
 * Vito Russo Test in Wikidata
 * Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes (Source)
 * Patronage of rapid-transit transportation (Source)
 * People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they played
 * Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
 * Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names


 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
 * Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (T267023)
 * Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (T266638)
 * Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (T267502)
 * Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (T250550)

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
 * Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
 * 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:50, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52
 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 11 January 2021.

Recent changes
 * The  template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.

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

Future changes
 * You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
 * Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a  tag that can convert a piece of text on a page.
 * Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Discussion on Growth team "add an image" idea
Hello ! I'm Marshall Miller; I'm the product manager for the WMF's Growth team, which works on features to help retain new editors. Lately, we have been working on this set of ideas called "structured tasks", which break down editing workflows into steps that make sense for newcomers and make sense on mobile devices. We're currently thinking about an idea for a workflow in which newcomers would be recommended images from Commons that might be a good fit for unillustrated Wikipedia articles. One of my colleagues recommended you as someone who has a particularly strong grasp on the usage of images in articles. Since this project is in its beginning phases, we really depend on community members to help us think through the feasibility, opportunities, and pitfalls. If you have time, it would be really helpful to us if you could check out the project page and weigh in on the discussion. Thank you! -- MMiller (WMF) (talk) 23:54, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Dog & Bull
Compliments of the season. I just dashed off a quick stub to satisfy an issue I noticed on my watchlist. But I'm puzzled about its map pin behaviour. When I preview the page, I see a blue map pin marking the spot in the infobox mapframe. But after it has been saved, I no longer see the pin. Can you explain or help, please? No rush, of course. Cheers! Andrew🐉(talk) 12:27, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I remember pubs. The pin is visible for me; maybe a caching issue? Merry Christmas! Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:15, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:25, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #448
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for CheckUser: 997kB
 * There's a discussion about what the best label for required qualifier constraint happens to be.


 * Events
 * Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:TP administrative area is a new template designed for all items which are instance of administrative territorial entity. It defines useful queries for those items. For example, links to this page. Feedback and contributions are welcome.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: small logo or icon, lunar coordinates
 * External identifiers: CINE21 person ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, Cinémathèque québécoise person ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, SAPA ID, Manus Online author ID, Lichess username, CITWF person ID, DBLP publication ID, DataTrek ID, KANTO ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: abstract, thesis committee chair, character type, Calificación de videojuegos, Regente, Nação (candomblé), Liderança, Bharati Braille, number of walks, number of hits, doubles hit, triples hit, Through point
 * External identifiers: TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, World Rowing ID, MNBAQ ID, Libsyn show ID, PodBean show ID, BG School ID, JAD ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, BHCL UUID, Podtail show ID, Provenio UUID, AbandonSocios ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, International Encyclopedia of the First World War ID, SFLI ID, Game UI Database ID, DiVo person ID, e-GEDSH ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, Calaméo ID, Lumières Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey Player ID, IFF player ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, AV Production person ID, Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon ID, Studium Parisiense ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, A*dS Encyclopedia, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, The Podcast App show ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID, Play:Right video game ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, TheCocktailDB ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands


 * Query examples:
 * Check Corona vaccine progress using Wikidata SPARQL to get metadata about the countries see notebook - SPARQL query

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

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 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!

A New Year With Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Hope for 2021
Thank you for improving article quality in December, and good wishes for a time of transition. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:30, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Have a good new year 2021! Success seems to be under your wings looking at the opera templates ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:25, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations on the No. 1 hook of 2020!
The 2020 totals are now complete, and your hook for Captain Tom generated more total DYK views (179,256) and more DYK views per hour (14,938) than any other hook during the year. A list of the 25 most viewed hooks of 2020 can be viewed at "Top hooks of 2020". Congratulations on being at the top of the list, and keep up the good work! Cbl62 (talk) 08:49, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Notice of updates to Alex Chinneck page
Hi Andy, Happy New Year. I've resolved to start contributing more to Wikipedia this year and I'm thinking of updating one of the pages started by you (regarding the artist Alex Chinneck), so I thought I'd flag my intention. I'm planning to cover his work from 2016 - 2020 (currently absent) and expand the intro a bit. Cheers. Tim Culverdene (talk) 19:11, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello
Hello Andy, have a nice day. --Lyrasx (talk) 15:59, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello.
Hello Andy

This has been a very useful training session. --Mojo2021 (talk) 15:59, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #449
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
 * Should we rename place of burial (P119) to place of mortal remains?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 5 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #26 - YouTube, Facebook, 9 January
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #44, January 10
 * Past: Wikidata sessions at rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) (replay)
 * Introduction to Wikidata
 * Wikidata for datajournalists
 * Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
 * Wikidata one year in Taiwan, what is our results and what is our future plan
 * Challenges of GLAM Taiwan


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Applying linked data model for the Bogotá Digital Library (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Wikimedia Armenia - YouTube
 * Video: How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero - YouTube
 * Video: How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine - YouTube
 * Video: How to import library materials to Wikidata using MarcEdit and OpenRefine - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Linking a new Wikipedia article to a Wikidata item - YouTube
 * Video: Schema and Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Using Twinkle on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata (in Urdu) - YouTube
 * Blog post: 52 Wikidata weeks 2020
 * Blog post: Scottish nautical wrecks in wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: graph girth, category for the view of the item, ALA-LC romanization, liturgical rank
 * External identifiers: PIAC ID, CPV Supplementary, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, ISDS ID, Mapy.cz ID, World Rowing ID (UUID format), 1914-1918-Online ID, JAD ID, Game UI Database ID, Lumières.Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey player ID, IFF player ID, Magyar életrajzi lexikon ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, Literary Encyclopedia ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Stitcher show ID, Castbox show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, PodBean show ID, Podtail show ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, The Podcast App show ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries manuscript ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries work ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries person ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries place ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries organization ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: YouTube custom URL, Author last names, Author first names, Naval flag, supplements, closed WMF project sitelink, has part (string value), member, number of data sets
 * External identifiers: IFPI Danmark work ID, National Museum in Warsaw ID, Olympedia Affiliations ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Erudit article ID, Olympedia Event ID, dati.beniculturali.it ID, Barnivore product ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, Port Letter, FFF player ID (new scheme), Hungarian Film Archive ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), EuroBabeIndex ID, MFAT person ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Alpine Linux package, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, NLS place type ID, BookDepository publisher ID, National Historic People id, NFL.com ID (new scheme)


 * Query examples:
 * Works identified (via dedicated property P3893) as entering the public domain on 1/1/2021, ordered by number of articles on Wikimedia sites (Source)
 * Painters in the collections of Paris Musées which enter the public domain on January 1 (Source)
 * Map of forts related to Dutch trading companies VOC and WIC found in the Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Source)
 * Map of forts in the Cologne fortress ring (Source)
 * First-level administrative divisions in Germany
 * Population of cities in Germany corresponds to the total number of vaccinations in Germany (Source)
 * Most popular theorems according to their number of articles on Wikipedia (Source)
 * Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (Source)
 * Deaths in 2020 - date of birth, date of death, cause of death and country of nationality (Source)
 * Summary of a UK parliamentary career seat-party-start pairs(Source)
 * Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight (Source)
 * Indonesian legislation related to indigenous people (Source)
 * Which artist could be "D.K. 1964"? (source)
 * Line graph of colleges and universities in India by year of establishment (Source)
 * Graph of Indian films that are remakes of other Indian films (Source)
 * Graph of academic descendants of C. R. Rao and K. Ananda Rau (Source)
 * Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (Source)
 * Maps of different places in West Bengal according to suffix (Source)
 * Tree map of Rabindranath's poems according to the month of writing (Source)
 * Count of locations of exhibitions on Wikidata (Source)
 * Wikidata lexeme forms by language (Source)
 * Newest database reports: 2021, Greek given names


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, no deployment 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

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

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

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news
 * You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration
 * By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
 * Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , ,.

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ArchiveSent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:08, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

U.S. Tank Corps WWI Insignia.
Dear Mr. Mabbett,

Thank you for observations on the above https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First-Tank-Corps-Branch-Insignia.png

I note that you disagree with and have reversed my corrections of 2016 and 2018.

I have set out and explained at great length the sources pertaining to these corrections, but in order to obviate an edit war, I shall clarify them still further.

The original problem seems to lie with William K. Emerson in his Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996, pp 367-8). At the beginning of Chapter 39 he writes:

''In December 1917 army regulations described the first insignia for the army's newest combatant arm, the Tank Corps, as "a conventionalized tank, one inch high, with the number of the regiment attached to the bottom." Figure 39-1 is an example of this insignia without the number. No example of the insignia with a number below has ever been seen.''

''Most people did not readily understand this artistically attractive 1917 design. It showed the front view of a French tank with armor plate and large rivets, with an enclosure for three cannons and two additional cannons sticking out of the sides, all topped by a small turret. This first pattern did not last long. On the last day of February 1918, Colonel Rockenback (sic) requested General Pershing to formally approve the insignia armywide. Pershing approved this new collar device on 19 April 1918 and published the orders in May 1918. For officers it was to be a "wreath surmounted by two dragons supporting a tank, guns pointed to the front. The device is to be one inch in height."''

Unfortunately, the problem is that this is not a view of any known French tank.

It seems that "editor" Corneliusseon used this passage as a source when creating the page back in 2009 and thus perpetuated the misapprehension. As is often the case with Wikipedia, the error remained uncorrected for many years.

Why Emerson made this mistake isn't clear. We don't know if he has/had ever seen a French tank. There is a French WWI tank, the Saint-Chamond, that might at first glance, from the front, be mistaken for the Land Cruiser/Alligator http://www.chars-francais.net/2015/index.php/engins-blindes/chars?task=view&id=61 but any serious examination would reveal the difference. Perhaps Mr. Emerson did not have that opportunity. I await a reply from his publisher to see if a) he is still alive and, if so, b) he can throw any light on the subject. I also await a reply from Corneliusseon, but he does't seem to have been active on this file since 2009 and would appear to be permanently banned from Wikipedia. I do not hold much hope of a reply. In late 2017 I asked the Institute of Heraldry, Corneliusseon's source, if they could help, and they replied that they were overworked and underfunded and didn't have the time to do research, but kindly sent me some scans of pages from Emerson's book, which was obviously no help.

In the meantime, we have a familiar Wikipedia conundrum: a reliable reference that is demonstrably wrong. The "French" tank is in fact a tank of which two might or might not have been built, in America, and which certainly never saw combat. It went by a variety of names, but was not French. I suggest that that makes this source flawed and unreliable. Wikipedia isn't here to defend the indefensible, although some "editors" appear to be. The very least we can do is remove the allegation that the tank is French.

I do hope common sense will prevail here. I enclose a source that should suffice: https://landships.activeboard.com/t60775897/us-tank-corps-badgepinbutton-solved/

I should be happy to read your views.

Hengistmate (talk) 22:37, 4 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Please us e the file's talk page, on Commons.  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:15, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Why don't you just read it? It's FYI. Hengistmate (talk) 17:22, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Category:Heroes of Kosovo has been nominated for listification
Category:Heroes of Kosovo has been nominated for listification. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 17:46, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox member of the Knesset
Template:Infobox member of the Knesset has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox officeholder. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 15:15, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02
 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 choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed.
 * You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry.
 * Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
 * The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later.
 * Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works.
 * When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the  to   will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Scribunto's file metadata now includes length.
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js.
 * Octicons-sync.svg There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #450
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful)
 * New request for comments: How should we develop and deploy documentation for items?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
 * Past: SMWCon videos are published incl. quite a few Wikidata related ones
 * Past: Wiki Workshop 2021 is accepting submissions. The deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1.
 * Past: Czech editaton finished (30.11.2020-31.12.2020). Purpose was connect NKCR AUT ID (P691) to Wikidata by hand in . Detailed info.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogpost: The nobody who could overtake Wikipedia (in German)
 * Blogpost: Documenting Software Applications on Wikidata, by John Samuel
 * Article: Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership: The case of Belgian prime minsters in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Paper: Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust - an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research making the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development.
 * Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video


 * Tool of the week
 * QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
 * You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
 * Wikidata Walkabout browsing tool has had some important recent improvements in language support, interface, etc. See a list of all comedy films directed by a vegetarian (in Spanish)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Bharati Braille, Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica's video game rating, solution to, archaeological site of
 * External identifiers: AV Production person ID, Mediafilm ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID, Libsyn show ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, SFLI ID, e-GEDSH ID, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Barnivore product ID, AVN movie ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, BG School ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, BHCL UUID, Calaméo ID, Studium Parisiense ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, DiVo person ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), Alpine Linux package, A*dS Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: minutes played, two-pointers made, two-pointers attempted, three-pointers attempted, three-pointers made, free throws made, free throws attempted, field goals made, personal fouls, Short DOI, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, number of vaccinations, category for software under a license, assessment outcome, quality for this class, Template combines topics, CCCM Museum (Macau Museum) object ID, CCCM Museum Object ID, Medium, FL number, Notable ascent
 * External identifiers: CantoDict identifiers, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, POSIX locale identifier, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, BABEL author ID, Songlexikon ID, FANZA AV actress ID, VAi Building ID, Biographies.net person ID, Literature.com book ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, TikTok music ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Conservapedia Article, NZ Museums ID, Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, WreckSite ID


 * Query examples:
 * Mathematicians born in prime number years featuring Albert Einstein, Pierre de Fermat, Georg Ohm, Carl Gauss, Évariste Galois, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, James Maxwell et al.
 * Timeline of coups d'état of the 21st century (including attempted ones) (Source)
 * Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata (Source)
 * Children of which were born with by a person, and their step child
 * Map of the shortest railway path (in terms of number of stations) between Dibrugarh and the Scottish Highlands (Source)
 * Map of place of birth of Olympique de Marseille football players (Source)
 * Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (Source)
 * Map of beaches in Mexico (Source)
 * Graph of shared borders between Indian districts (Source)
 * Descendants of Upendrakishore Roy (Source)
 * Timeline of Indian High Commissioners to Britain (Source)
 * A tree map of items for artworks depicting Mughal emperors (Source)
 * Example of documented usage of different Bengali words (Source)
 * 'Llan' place names in the UK (Source)
 * Organizations with DZI donation seal approval according to donation amount (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Russian given names


 * Development
 * Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
 * Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (T269205)
 * Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (T145712)
 * Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase ( T267893), Query Service frontend (T268025), and Query Service backend (T268022)

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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