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Wikidata weekly summary #467
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 *  Events 
 * Ongoing
 * Wikidata contest for International Museum from May 3-18 2021
 * Upcoming
 * OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
 * Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 11 at 18:00 CEST
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #62, May 16
 * Wikidata Bug triage hour about constraints, May 17
 * COSCUP 2021 Call For Papers now open
 * Wikimedia Taiwan x NCKUHis Digital humanities Wikidata Workshop National Cheng Kung University (Q706708), 2021-05-29 ~ 2021-05-31


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * WBStack setting changes, Federated properties, Wikidata entity mapping & more (covering some of the recent UI and setting changes that happened on WBStack in the past months by Addshore
 * Academic ancestor graphs from Wikidata
 * Papers
 * Roderic D. M. Page, Wikidata and the Bibliography of Life, doi:10.1101/2021.05.04.442638
 * Friederike Ehrhart, et al. Aresource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes (Q106708178), doi:10.1038/S41597-021-00905-Y
 * Videos
 * SPARQL #Wikidata​ retour aux bases #3 - YouTube
 * Wikidata, Linked Data… all the data! Knowledge representation for everybody - YouTube
 * Wikidata Nigeria tutorials on YouTube - How to contribute to Wikidata, add statements for streets named after a person
 * SPARQL Wikidata tutorial (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook


 *  Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
 * May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
 * Template:Generic queries for filmmakers is a new wikidata template which defines generic SPARQL queries specific for filmmakers.
 * Template:Generic queries for occupations is a new wikidata template with generic queries for items of items such as occupations or professions
 * Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
 *  Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Digital Atlas of Idaho URL, identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription
 * External identifiers: MyBIS species ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, NBM authority ID, MileSplit ID, Mixcloud ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, am.hayazg.info ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, The Draft Review ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, IUCN Green List ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Senate of Romania person ID, Chamber of Deputies of Romania person ID, LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway Club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official podcast, Danish redlist ID, Velocity Relative to Earth, athletics program, North Carolina session law
 * External identifiers: vedidk ID, MyBIS protected area ID, COG ID, Badok ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity person ID, DTB-Gerätturner-ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, University of Washington Campus Map ID, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - diplomatic mission IDs, SOUNZ work ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, Repositório da Produção USP Person ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, SOSBrutalism ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, OSDN project, SOR bird ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number, ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of French firms without SIREN id (P1616) ordered by number of sitelinks with search links in annuaire-entreprises‧data‧gouv.fr : the query makes it easy to find the SIREN number (P1616)   (source Property talk P1616)
 * Number of works per year by researchers supervised by Lars Kai Hansen (source)
 * Count of sitelinks of Nigerians on Wikidata (Source)
 * 30 largest cities with female mayor (Source)
 * Recent locations of boundary stones in Upper Lusatia (see pictures by clicking on the dots) (Source)
 * Types of items in Australia that don't have identifier properties (Source)


 *  Development
 * Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (T265296)
 * Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (T257494)
 * Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (T170401)
 * Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (T241422)
 * Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (T280627)
 * Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (T280779)

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) 13:22, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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

Future changes
 * You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:09, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2021
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 04:54, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

"Lunchtime O'Boulez" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Lunchtime O&. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 12 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:52, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Category:Refugees by name has been nominated for merging
Category:Refugees by name has been nominated for merging. 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. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:47, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

following ...
... my post here, but a bit of a tangent. Do you know of a script that adds a link to a corresponding wikidata entry when viewing (or editing) the wikipedia article? — Ched (talk) 13:04, 17 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure that I follow your meaning. If an article has an associated Wikidata entry, the link to that will always appear, automatically, in the left-hand navigation (on desktop view). Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:23, 17 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Well "duh" on me. In the "tools" box.  Not sure how I missed that, other than me being blind and stupid.  TY Andy, sorry to have bothered you. — Ched (talk) 13:31, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
 * Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from  to.
 * Octicons-tools.svg An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be renamed  . The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
 * 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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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #468
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata
 * IP Masking Engagement
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion). Outcome --> no change to WD:N
 * Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties. Outcome --> constraints were removed


 * Events
 * Ongoing:
 * Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to info@undefinedberd-bw.de
 * Upcoming
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
 * May 21-22, 2021 Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
 * OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Hiba Arnaout et al, Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata (full text link)
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #44 - YouTube
 * Link to all the Wikipedia Weekly Network/Live Wikidata Editing sessions by Ainali and Abbe98
 * Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons und Wikipedia bearbeiten 2021/001 (in German) - YouTube
 * SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #4 - YouTube
 * How to use Wikidata to list nearby tourist places on a web page (in French) - YouTube
 * How to add lexemes to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * How to edit library data in Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Editing the drawings in the Gambara Bovardi collection at the Levi Foundation in Venice on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js is a user script that replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT when editing hyphenation snaks.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 20k+ DOIs of Chinese language scientific journal articles have now been added to WD, thanks to scraping->validation->matching->quickstatements workflow built by Stevenliuyi (via a WikiCite eScholarship)
 * Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
 * Template:Item documentation displays Template:Generic queries for occupations for items of class occupation (Q12737077) and Template:Generic queries for filmmakers for items with occupation (P106) filmmaker (Q2526255)
 * Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription, counterpart position, earned run average, official podcast, diel cycle, intended background color, scope note
 * External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Memento Vienna person ID, universal equine life number, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Apple Music label ID (US version), bio.se movie theater ID, MyBIS protected area ID, Dialnet thesis ID, hPSCreg cell line ID, Michigan State University Library Comic Art Collection Record Number, LTit person ID, JECFA number, Badok ID, Sigla ID, DCinemaToday company ID, CEV coach ID, CEV team ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity ID, AdServio ID, PeakVisor peak ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Anime Filler List show ID, Anime Filler List episode slug, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Danish 2010 redlist identifier, synonymer.se ID, SOUNZ work ID, vedidk ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, UNITER Award person ID, sense on DHLE


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: infects, setlist, oral history at, DIVA author ID, DIVA record ID, type of lens
 * External identifiers: ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, CDep.Ro NGO ID, causesanti.va ID, Adevărul topic ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts ID, cIMeC.Ro Museum ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Styria Museum ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Archive Alsharekh person ID, Douban series ID, RomArchive IDs, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, Scholasticon person ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, WMF lang code


 * Deleted properties: iFixit repairability score (P7478)
 * Query examples:
 * Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (Source)
 * List of Wikimedia language codes (Source)
 * Plant genera that honor women (Source)
 * Poets whose fathers are lawyers (Source)
 * Phrase-book for types of food (mapping Catalan and English) (Source)


 * Development
 * Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (T279762)
 * Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (T280779)
 * Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (T280627)
 * Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (T279945)
 * Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (T281356)
 * Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (T281587)
 * Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (T280650)

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.
 * Near 6,100 items have the Template:Item documentation in their talk page. Help deploy this template.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:18, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Converting template:wikisource and inline to be WD-driven
Hi. Ages ago I converted template:Wikisource-author and inline to pull WD data unless the override was used. I looked at the other version and just backed away slowly as it needed the extra linking from work to version through direct interwiki, or work to edition through the has edition link and then to the interwiki. As that is now in place, do you reckon that we can update it to be automated. Then the can work can be done in removing the forced parameters whilst checking that the wikidata is right for versions or editions, and updating as required. Thanks. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:29, 19 May 2021 (UTC) :Not to worry, seems that it happened at some point. Must not be watching the right part of the nested templates where the guts of the work is done. — billinghurst  sDrewth  07:54, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I will take that back, it doesn't work unless it is a direct wikilink on the item. A Modest Proposal is a demonstration of the weaving to the English language edition not working. — billinghurst  sDrewth  08:32, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not clear what it is you are asking for; nor what you expect the 'A Modest Proposal' use-case to do that it is not already doing. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:38, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Gender unclear
Template:Gender unclear has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. ExoticViolet (talk) 15:39, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Coventrypedia session #6
I didn't get a ticket for the last session and find I can't get into the zoom. I emailed a request for the link, please. It would be good to attend the wrap-up. Andrew🐉(talk) 13:30, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Just sent you an email. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:38, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 00:57, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #469
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past
 * HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube
 * Ongoing
 * #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
 * #1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th May 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
 * 27/05 (17h UTC): Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process with Ederporto, Pharos e Susannaanas (in English), on YouTube
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 25 at 18:00 CEST
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook, May 29 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #64, May 30
 * LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: The history, present and future of WBStack & WBaas (Wikibase as a service) 27 May 2021, 1PM Eastern US. Please fill in this form to register!


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora. Wikidata was used to generate sentences to train a language model.
 * An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
 * Videos
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 - Main track - Saturday 22
 * Curating bibliographic metadata of scholarly publications: demo of Wikidata-based Scholia workflows
 * Demo of Ordia, a Wikidata tool to visualize lexicographic information from Wikidata
 * Adding references to Wikidata items, as part of #1Lib1Ref campaign (in Italian)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (screenshot)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The prefix  allows to link to a search for lexemes on any Wikimedia wiki. Sample: lexemes:describe (project chat announcement).
 * The JS module got a major update, and now makes accessible pre-generated mappings between Wikidata ids, Wikimedia language code (P424), ISO 639-1 code (P218), ISO 639-2 code (P219), ISO 639-3 code (P220), and ISO 639-6 code (P221), that can also be used by non-JS programs by fetching the desired JSON. Examples:
 * mapping of Wikimedia language codes to Wikidata ids
 * mapping of ISO 639-2 to Wikimedia language codes
 * Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
 * User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms: Portuguese modal adverb - Deployed support for Portuguese modal adverbs in the Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool
 * User:Jon Harald Søby/addSenseImage.js - User script to add images to sense statements on lexemes
 * Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#identifierInput.js - fixing a bug in IdentifierInput.js gadget for Wikidata to better handle when a property has no format restraints


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: type of lens, oral history at, official map URL
 * External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Apple TV movie ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, causesanti.va ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, North Carolina session law, #SOSBrutalism ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, Museums in Styria ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID, SOR bird ID, ToateAnimalele ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca entity ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID, OSDN project, Scholasticon person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: music for work, in sense, academic calendar type
 * External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID, Buzer.de law identification, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, Apple TV show ID, Apple TV episode ID, Australian Music Centre work ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Unified book number, GLEI ELF, RBF event ID, Poetsgate poet ID, Badkartan.se ID, Book Owners Online person ID, ifixit device ID, Price One Penny Author ID, Price One Penny Publisher ID, Price One Penny Work ID, Medical Institution Code, AlternativeTo software ID, RoBasketballFed IDs, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Enciclopedia della Matematica ID


 * Query examples:
 * Danish idioms (Source)
 * Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (Source)
 * Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title
 * 20th-century UK parliaments with count of father/mother who were MPs (Source)
 * The tallest known female politicians (Source)
 * Writing systems/characters and their year of appearance (Source)
 * Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)


 * Development
 * Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
 * Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (T281468)
 * Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (T281272)
 * Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (T280650)
 * Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (T281587)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:45, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

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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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2021
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 17:37, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Tricky composition of compositions
What would you do about an infobox for Kammermusik (Hindemith), a set of 8 individual compositions, each with different scoring, dedication, premiere date ...? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:58, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * A main box for the set and a smaller box for each piece; I've done the former and one of the latter to start you off; tweak them as you see fit. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:15, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Fine, thank you. I did the individual ones in Song cycles (Killmayer). Will do when long enough, sadly not yet. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:20, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:46, 19 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you for improving that article and others in May! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:21, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Once I'm here, two questions: something happened to the top display of coordinates, making them run into what comes next, and - seen in Missa Papae Marcelli - other templates run into the bottom.?? Another: If I don't want a map in an infobox, what do I do? Is it really different depending on which template? (I remember that I found a parameter in one of them, but forgot which one.) A small church in a small village: I don't think it needs a map once the village has it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:25, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing any coordinates on Missa Papae Marcelli. Which infobox are you suing for the chucrch? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:44, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I should have done that properly ;)
 * (Any) coordinates appear for me - noticed today - no longer properly distinguished from other content. Example: Christuskirche, Walsdorf. I see the line as an overlay to the upper border of the infobox.
 * For Missa Papae Marcelli, some templates (pointing at files) overlay the references, - I can't read both.
 * For the above-mentioned church, I used infobox religious building, no map. Not in infobox church, example St. Martin, Idstein (but there I don't mind the map). I'd prefer that for the other church also, but without map. I forgot where I saw a specific parameter saying "no map". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:56, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The coordinates issue is discussed at Template talk:Coord.
 * Christuskirche, Walsdorf already has coordinates and no map, using Infobox religious building.
 * -- Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:23, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for fixing. Ad 3: infobox church would make more sense - two churches in one town might better look similar. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:28, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for fixing. Ad 3: infobox church would make more sense - two churches in one town might better look similar. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:28, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

See my talk today, - it's rare that a person is pictured when a dream comes true, and that the picture is shown on the Main page on a meaningful day. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:36, 30 May 2021 (UTC)