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Wikidata weekly summary #489
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:36, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2021
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 22:33, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #490
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


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


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:50, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

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

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

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #491
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:31, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXV, October 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) 12:52, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: October 2021
About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 15:40, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Help with The Pritzker Military Museum & Library article
Can you help update the article on PMML? Relevant details have been added to the talk page. TeriEmbrey (talk) 21:23, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

October thanks
Thank you for improving articles in October! - Today: see yourself, read about a hymn praying to not be on earth in vain, about a comics artist whose characters have character (another collaboration of the "perennial gang", broken by one of us banned), and in memory of the last prima donna assoluta, Edita Gruberová. I had to go to two grave sites last week, one who died now, one who died 10 years ago, so standing upright and in black seems appropriate. More colours - but subdued - can be had on hikes, - click on songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:25, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Today: memories in friendship --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Boji
Please disregard this message. The issue is fixed.

Hi, I just removed mention and link to a YouTube video posted that is not a video of Boji, but another dog. I tried to remove the reference number 7 both in the article and delete in the reference list but this option does not seem to available...can you please delete this reference? Thanks! Kate GansKategans (talk) 20:46, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

The Dark Tower
Hi Andy, I've messaged you on Commons about the illustration. It is by Eric Fraser. DuncanHill (talk) 22:27, 30 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Oh that's frustrating, but thank you. I looked for a signature, but missed that small monogram. I've removed the image from the article and tagged it for speedy deletion on Commons. It can be undeleted in 2054! Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:51, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I missed the "ef" at first too, but as soon as Fraser was mentioned at the RefDesk I thought "yes of course". A fine artist, his Radio Times work was excellent. It is a shame we can't use it. DuncanHill (talk) 14:12, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

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