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Wikidata weekly summary #534
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship:
 * Estopedist1 (successful)
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French
 * Alternate disclosure policy


 * Events
 * Past events:
 * Clutch sprint August 2022


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Automatic word relatedness evaluation
 * Videos
 * Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
 * Highlights from Wikimania 2022
 * Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation By Mahir Morshed
 * Partner Up for Wikidata!
 * Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities
 * Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project
 * Tutorial
 * Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks


 * Tool of the week
 * List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
 * Template:Documented queries skeleton
 * Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
 * OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
 * External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
 * External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23title%3A%20Map%20of%20Coast%20Tram%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%20%3Flayer%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fsearch%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1510414%20%20%20%20%20%20%23light%20rail%20system%20search%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsearch%20wdt%3AP527%7Cwdt%3AP121%20%3Flignes.%23what%20are%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%3F%0A%20%20%3Flignes%20wdt%3AP559%20%3Ftermini.%23what%20are%20the%20termini%20of%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ548662%3B%20%20%23any%20type%20of%20service%20station%20%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23That%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP16%20%3Fsearch%3B%23That%20are%20part%20of%20the%20searched%20light%20rail%20network%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP197%20%3Fpred.%0A%20%20%3Fpred%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords_pred%3Bwdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23Neighbours%20that%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine_pred.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP197%20_%3Ab1.%0A%20%20_%3Ab1%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fpred%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP5051%20%3Ftowards%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP81%7Cpq%3AP1192%20%3Fline_pq.%0A%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238.%23Lines%20that%20are%20running%0Aoptional%7B%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP1671%20%3Fline_number.%7D%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine_pred%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%23take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20correspondance%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%20%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Fline_pq%29%23Take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20next%20station%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3Ftowards%20%3D%20%3Ftermini%29%20%0A%20%3Fpred%20%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_pred%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_station.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22LINESTRING%28%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%20%22%2C%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%22%29%22%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%0A%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpred%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpredLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FstationLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Frgb%20%3FpredLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%0AORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fline_number%29%20%3Fline_number%20%3FsubwayLine Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops] [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23title%3A%20Map%20of%20Coast%20Tram%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%20%3Flayer%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fsearch%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1510414%20%20%20%20%20%20%23light%20rail%20system%20search%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsearch%20wdt%3AP527%7Cwdt%3AP121%20%3Flignes.%23what%20are%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%3F%0A%20%20%3Flignes%20wdt%3AP559%20%3Ftermini.%23what%20are%20the%20termini%20of%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ548662%3B%20%20%23any%20type%20of%20service%20station%20%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23That%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP16%20%3Fsearch%3B%23That%20are%20part%20of%20the%20searched%20light%20rail%20network%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP197%20%3Fpred.%0A%20%20%3Fpred%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords_pred%3Bwdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23Neighbours%20that%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine_pred.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP197%20_%3Ab1.%0A%20%20_%3Ab1%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fpred%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP5051%20%3Ftowards%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP81%7Cpq%3AP1192%20%3Fline_pq.%0A%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238.%23Lines%20that%20are%20running%0Aoptional%7B%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP1671%20%3Fline_number.%7D%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine_pred%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%23take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20correspondance%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%20%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Fline_pq%29%23Take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20next%20station%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3Ftowards%20%3D%20%3Ftermini%29%20%0A%20%3Fpred%20%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_pred%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_station.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22LINESTRING%28%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%20%22%2C%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%22%29%22%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%0A%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpred%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpredLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FstationLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Frgb%20%3FpredLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%0AORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fline_number%29%20%3Fline_number%20%3FsubwayLine Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)]1
 * Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL" (source)
 * Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China (Source)
 * Journals with the most retractions (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
 * REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
 * Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-34
 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
 * Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins.

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).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear.

Future changes
 * The new [] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere.  You can turn it off in your preferences.

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"Archway (Disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Archway (Disambiguation) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 24 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 16:49, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Feedback on Vector (2022) conversation
Hello! As a member of WikiProject Usability, I wanted to draw your attention to a conversation currently underway on WP:VPR (see the beginning of the discussion) around adopting Vector 2022 as the new default skin.

The Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on Vector 2022 for the past three years, collaborating with the English Wikipedia community as well as other wikis to ensure that the skin performs better qualitatively and quantitatively for readers and communities than the previous Vector skin. The goal of the new skin is to create a more welcoming and easier to use experience for readers and editors across the wiki. For more details, see our new FAQ.

For the past couple of months, we have collected thoughts from the English Wikipedia community on what changes need to be made to the skin prior to it being considered ready for deployment. Our next step would be to start an RfC to assess whether the community considers Vedtor 2022 ready.

Prior to the beginning of the RfC, we wanted to draw your attention to the current conversation and encourage your feedback on the skin.

Thank you, OVasileva (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 12:27, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCVII, August 2022
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) 09:00, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Birmingham New Street Signal Box
Hey Andy, hope you're ok. I decided to write something in your neck of the woods! I feel it lacks something but most of my books only cover it in passing. Can you dig up anything better? Best, HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 21:47, 28 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Nice one - I would have assumed that an article on such a significant subject already existed. The best works are the three volumes (of four planned - sadly the final one never materialised) by Richard D. Foster. I'll see what else I can dig up. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:26, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #535
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Small wiki toolkits/Workshops#Writing Wikidata queries using the WDQS tool
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
 * Past:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
 * Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
 * Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
 * Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
 * Papers
 * DrNote: An open medical annotation service
 * Videos
 * [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
 * Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
 * Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
 * Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)


 * Tool of the week
 * SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
 * The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
 * The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
 * Open vacancy:
 * Wikimedia Indonesia - Technology internships in the GLAM and Wikidata fields


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
 * External identifiers: IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
 * External identifiers: Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID


 * Query examples:
 * Occupations as classified by ISCO/ESCO (source)
 * Occupation of people in the New Zealand Thesis Project (source)
 * Average weights and heights of sportsmen (source)
 * Letters by numbers of alphabet where they are found (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (T306934)
 * Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of T307866)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:47, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-35
 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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems
 * In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed.

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).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on  at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

August thanks
Thank you for improving articles in August! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:23, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Look at the church where I heard VOCES8. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red in September 2022
--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:37, 31 August 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 31 August 2022
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:00, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend



Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
 * An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news
 * The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
 * The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration
 * An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
 * The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

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Hi Andy. I read somewhere that you had recently been in contact with Doug. If both of you are in touch again please give him my warmest regards. I only met him a few times but I know that if I still lived in the Birmingham area, he and I would have been great friends. Thanks. Chris, (Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:57, 4 September 2022 (UTC))


 * Consider it done. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:22, 4 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks enormously, Andy. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:41, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #536
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
 * DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
 * Papers
 * Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction
 * Videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
 * Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
 * Find museums without official website on Wikidata
 * Add coordinates of an institution
 * Different ways to display SPARQL queries
 * How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
 * External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
 * External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
 * Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
 * Education of French prefects (source)
 * Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
 * Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
 * Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (T306934)
 * We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (T316523)
 * For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
 * Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (T314064, T312633, T312652)
 * Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (T278962)

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


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

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Tech News: 2022-36
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This Month in Education: August 2022
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 * Wikimania SDGs 2022: The Kwara Experience
 * An adapted Module teacher’s guide in Yoruba and English about Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom in Nigeria is now available on Commons
 * Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Kwara, Nigeria: The Trainers Experience
 * Edu Wiki Camp 2022 in Serbia: Together again
 * Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program Nigeria: The Teacher experience
 * Wiki For Senior Citizens
 * WikiLoves SDGs Nigeria Tours Kwara State University Malete
 * Wikiteka project in Poland - summertime

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