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Wikidata weekly summary #454
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay)
 * Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Add to calendar). You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49, February 14
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook, February 14
 * Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata
 * Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group - (YouTube)
 * Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
 * Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January
 * 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.
 * Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder, your feedback is welcome
 * 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)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of vaccinations, Commons media contributed by
 * External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Erudit article ID, Holocaust.cz person ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, SISSCO ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Patrinum ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, BVFE author ID, Family Video Game Database ID, LexML Brazil ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Debian Package Tracker ID, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IPHAE ID, FLOSS policy URL, Digest, subsidy, fingerprint
 * External identifiers: TlF Artist ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, GTDB taxon, Joods Monument ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID, AllMusic IDs, Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID, Astro Awani topic ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Can I use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur


 * Query examples:
 * directors of episodes of The Mentalist (source)
 * Articles from The Wētā entomology journal (Source)
 * Town halls of the municipalities that surround Nantes (Source)
 * Caves containing prehistoric art (Source)
 * Endemic birds in a place located in France (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Brazilian Laws


 * 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)
 * Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (T272032)
 * Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (T273830)
 * Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (T265783)
 * 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)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:44, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2021
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 07:37, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

FAR
I have nominated The Million Dollar Homepage for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:05, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #455
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Other: Tool ideas/ImproveWikidata


 * Events
 * Past: Linked Open Storytelling - Winter School 2021 - Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen (in German) (reply on YouTube)
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 16 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook, February 20
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #50, February 21


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog post: The promise of Wikidata: How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source, by Monika Sengul-Jones
 * Blog post: Data donation to Wikidata, part 2: country/subject dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archives (by Joachim Neubert, ZBW Labs)
 * Blog post: Bibliography and Citations of Hausa Folklore by Anasskoko
 * Video: Querying Linked (Wiki)data with SPARQL ✨ (presentation by Lucas Werkmeister at rC3, 90 minutes)
 * Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Abstract Wikipedia presents prototypes of two tools that could help people to visualize, exemplify, and better guide our understanding of the coverage of lexicographic data in Wikidata.
 * Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
 * Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
 * Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
 * Guidelines and compensation for UX research lead by Wikimedia Germany (announcement)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: service status information URL, first family name in Portuguese name, time played, coordinates of depicted place
 * External identifiers: CompositionToday composers showcase ID, Royal Museums Greenwich artwork ID, Saint Louis Art Museum artwork ID, AZLyrics.com song ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, WreckSite ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Doktori.hu ID, Portal da Literatura ID, IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, letterer, set during recurring event, number of references, sensors, Applying institution
 * External identifiers: Lexikon Literatur in Tirol, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, Baidu Baike ID (2), Kickstarter username, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, Curling.fi player ID, RILM ID, Swiss vote ID, svoyak.info player ID, Germanistenverzeichnis, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, CinemaRx title ID, Sinemalar title ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Armenian Book ID, identifiant inventaire Occitanie, AaRC title ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, BFS ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID


 * Query examples:
 * Spanish Wikipedia articles about women astronauts (Source)
 * Websites related to works in the Women's & Gender History DH list (Source)
 * List of states with more than one official language (Source)
 * Location of the organizations in the Name Assigning Authority Number (NAAN) registry (Source)
 * List of locations named after the planned language Esperanto or its founder, L. L. Zamenhof
 * Use the MediaWiki API to get the content of a Wikipedia category into a query
 * Number of scholarly articles sharing their datasets (Source)
 * Most specific taxon that includes two given species (Source)


 * Development
 * Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (T272887)
 * Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
 * Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (T272242)
 * Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (T272712)
 * Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (T272032)
 * Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (T265783)
 * Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (T273830)
 * Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (T204031)
 * Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (T138332)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned.
 * Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.

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.  17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Templates calling Infobox station


A tag has been placed on Category:Templates calling Infobox station requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:32, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Reply and thank you to your message
Andy,

Thank you for the welcome and helpful pointers like the 4 tildes. I am just getting started and there is a learning curve. I'm not certain, for example, whether this response is in the right place.

I see that you have contributed a lot to Wikipedia. Thank you for your work!

Wikipedia has been a key help to me and my company in our efforts to develop clean energy. I have been contributing financially to Wikipedia for a number of years, and decided that I should do at least a little bit on the intellectual contribution side as well.

Sincerely,

Miles

RM2001ASO (talk) 14:15, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #456
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber - RfP scheduled to end after 24 February 2021 14:19 (UTC)
 * New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes. Notes available here
 * Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #51, February 28


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogpost: Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2020 edition
 * Video: Basic tutorial on how to annotate an article with Wikidata tags for the ANN project - YouTube
 * Video: The Wikidata community: tools to communicate, ask for help, exchange ideas and opinions (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: REfB (Reference Bot): Adding new references to WikiData statements by Houcemeddine Turki - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Knowledge graphs lecture - RDF, Wikidata, SHACL, ShEx (in Russian) - YouTube
 * Podcast: Adam Shorland talks about Wikidata and Wikibase on Between The Brackets Mediawiki podcast.


 * Tool of the week
 * LexemeForms-SearchPage adds links on the search results page for creating new lexemes using the Lexeme Forms tool based on the languages in your Babel box.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Vglist is a video game library tracking web app that is mostly based on Wikidata.
 * WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats: Meetings with the Wikidata community on Feb 24 and Mar 3.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: coordinates of depicted place, thesis committee member, number of at bats
 * External identifiers: IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, VAi building ID, Heritage Information System ID in the database of cultural heritage in Austria, Joods Monument ID, Lumni person ID, Open Tree of Life ID, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, People Australia ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands ID, EMS ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, Lexikon Literatur in Tirol ID, Curling.fi player ID, De Lakenhal artwork ID, Hauts-de-France Inventory identifier, Tree of Life contributor ID, Taiwan River Code, RILM ID, playDB artist ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, Centre-Val de Loire Inventory identifier, Occitanie Inventory identifier, playDB play ID, Biblioteca Franco Serantini ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: sensors, Applying institution, FAQ url, digital distribution platform, Bandcamp Tag, Anzahl der Staffeln, PDDikti ID, template applies category, workers represented by, alt text, demographics of topic
 * External identifiers: AaRC title ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, TaDiRAH ID (2), Oklahoma's NRHP ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, Discogs genre ID, Sauvons nos tombes person ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, CPC-PR ID, Obituaries Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Women Australia ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmitalia film ID, Filmitalia person ID, Resident Advisor Venue ID, GB1900 ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, Mixcloud ID, Labour Australia ID, Mexicana Repositorio, Science Magazine author ID, Everipedia ID, ARAE ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of vegan restaurants
 * List of food that are iconic to particular countries (Source)
 * Map of monuments in Lower Saxony, Germany (Source)
 * Map of former plantations in Surinam (Source)
 * Map of Wats in Thailand - (Source)
 * Localities in Mexico and contain 𝐒𝐚n in their name (Source)
 * Female mycologists born pre-1900, sorted by number of sitelinks (Source)
 * Women scientists who were born between the year 1500 and 1900 (Source)


 * Development
 * Fixed wrongly encoded HTML in some messages in the Wikidata Bridge (T272350)
 * Working on showing all languages in the language suggester for monolingual text Properties (T124758)
 * Fixed an issue with spaces in external identifier URLs being replaced by "+" (T271126)
 * Added a rate limit for creating Item IDs, which should help with decreasing the number of skipped Q-IDs (T272032)
 * Fixed an issue where whitespace was stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (T250550)
 * Fixing the case where you cannot easily edit negative quantities after saving (T274129)
 * Working on making it possible to query for quantity values in the Query Builder (T268942)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:05, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU.

Problems
 * Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly.

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

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2021
About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 07:33, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving articles and templates in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:11, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Today, we have a DYK about Wilhelm Knabe, who stood up for future with the striking school children when he was in his 90s, - a model, - see here. - Further down on the page, there are conversations about the current arb case request - I feel I have to stay away - in a nutshell: "... will not improve kindness, nor any article". - Yesterday, I made sure on a hike that the flowers are actually blooming ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Firearms
The list of firearms is messed up there's no list for the c you'll just have to look for your self — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.210.104.154 (talk) 05:03, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #457
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber (unsussesful)
 * New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements


 * Events
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 2 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook, March 6
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #52, March 7
 * Upcoming: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes, March 22nd
 * Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogpost: Wikidata and Correspondence Archives (Enriching basic metadata with a knowledge graph)
 * Blogpost: The promise of Wikidata - How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source (at DataJournalism.com)
 * Video: Accra Archive Wikidata and Wikipedia Workshop (GLAMS Campaign Ghana) - YouTube
 * Video: COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Identify and describe items of bibliographic interest (articles, monographs, authors) on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Visualizing the global research ecosystem via Wikidata and Scholia - YouTube
 * Video: Demo: How to upload new bibliography and create dashboards on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Reconciliation Open Refine Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * Video: Reconciling researchers to Wikidata via Google Sheets - YouTube
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
 * Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
 * User:Lucas Werkmeister/addStatementCountsToCategories.js, is a userscript that shows the number of statements of the linked item for all pages in a category.
 * Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
 * Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
 * Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. T264883
 * We found a way to improve the performance of scrolling on the Item page by changing how we move the Property labels as you scroll through the page. You should see the effect after the next deployment.
 * BBC Things includes links to Wikidata to provide a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and their audiences.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of at bats, number of hits, bases on balls, runs batted in, letterer, sensors, FAQ URL, set during recurring event, stolen bases, doubles hit, triples hit
 * External identifiers: Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID, AllMusic genre/style ID, DicoPolHiS ID, EuroBabeIndex.com ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer person ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer organization ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer family ID, BookBub author ID, TlF artist ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, teatral.ro play/theater ID, CineFAN.ro title ID, CinemaRX title ID, Sinemalar title ID, Swissvote ID, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté inventory identifier, Île-de-France inventory identifier, Normandie inventory identifier, Pays de la Loire inventory identifier, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, Swedish Literature Bank place ID, Opera Online conductor ID, Discogs genre ID, Discogs style ID, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, bashenc.online ID, Provenio UUID, JedeSchule.de ID, ARAE ID, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, DzygaMDB person ID, NLS place type ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: demographics of topic, strikeouts, district heating, number of signatories, opt-out, payer, secondary topic, grant number, Future Salaries ID, Index égalité professionnelle F/H, Commons incompatible image URL, verbal ability
 * External identifiers: Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, ANPI person ID, ANPI person numeric ID, APS author ID, EEVA author ID, Archives West finding aid ID, BiographySampo person ID, Discord server numeric ID, Discord user numeric ID, CUT ID, Amathus ID, EUC ID, UPSA ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Dark Horse contributor ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Cyprus Library ID, MyMusic artist ID, LFCHistory.net player ID, MeSH qualifier ID


 * Query examples:
 * Hungarian church buildings sorted by confessions (Source)
 * Where Czechs most died if not in their place of birth (Source)
 * Most popular tonalities (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Templates for templates in Wikidata

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
 * Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
 * Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
 * Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
 * Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (T250550)
 * Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (T124758)
 * Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (T271126)
 * Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (T272712)
 * Continuing to build out the Query Builder and focusing on input for quantity and date queries (T268942 and T272697)
 * Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.


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

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Tech News: 2021-09
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
 * Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
 * A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits.
 * Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari.

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

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19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)