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Tech News: 2023-32
 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
 * Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "" in your settings and use the "" button in the "" menu.

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

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Firefangledfeathers
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AlisonW · Amberrock · Closedmouth · Scottywong

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Novem Linguae

Technical news
 * The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools.
 * Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist.

Arbitration
 * The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
 * The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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This Month in GLAM: July 2023
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 07:16, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #589
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
 * WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
 * New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
 * Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
 * Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux
 * The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project
 * Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more
 * Papers
 * Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph
 * The World Literature Knowledge Graph
 * Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap
 * Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata
 * FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts
 * SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON
 * Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2
 * Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)
 * KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach
 * Notebooks
 * SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity (paper)
 * Movie settings and population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
 * Wikidata study day
 * SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup
 * Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia, Egon Willighagen et al.


 * Tool of the week
 * Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
 * WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Steam Deck compatibility rating ( official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not )
 * name version for other gender ( use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes )
 * Curator of ( has curated a collection or (art) exhibition )
 * Philippine middle name
 * External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors (source)
 * Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release (source)
 * Objects in Dresden with significant event (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
 * WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (T339363, T340006)
 * EntitySchemas:
 * We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
 * We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (T343333, T343118)
 * IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (T328454)

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) 11:27, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2023
This Month in Education

 Volume 12 • Issue 7 • July 2023

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In This Issue
 * Wikimedia Kaduna Connect Campaign
 * Wikimedia Serbia published a paper Promoting Equity in Access to Open Knowledge: An Example of the Wikipedia Educational Program
 * Wikimedia and Education Kailali Multiple campus
 * WikiCamp in Istog, Kosovo: Promoting Knowledge and Nature Appreciation
 * Wiki at the Brazilian National History Symposium
 * US & Canada program reaches 100M words added
 * Renewed Community Wikiconference brought together experienced Wikipedians and newcomers
 * Kusaal Wikipedia Workshop at Ajumako Campus, University of Education, Winneba
 * Join us to celebrate the Kiwix4Schools Africa Mentorship Program Graduation Ceremony
 * Activities that took place during the presentation of the WikiEducation book. Educational practices and experiences in Mexico with Wikipedia and other open resources in Xalala, Veracruz from the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
 * 62+ Participants Graduates from the Kiwix4Schools Africa Mentorship Program
 * “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” course launched in Ukraine
 * OFWA and Goethe Institute Host Wiki Skills For Librarians Workshop-Ghana

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Tech News: 2023-33
 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 Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still 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).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

Future changes
 * A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:58, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 August 2023
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August thanks
Thank you for improving articles in August! - Today, my focus is on Renata Scotto, after days of updating. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:43, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #590
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #106, Sleep
 * Past:
 * Wikimania happened over the weekend. You can find a playlist of the events on YouTube here
 * Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #105, Wikimania Singapore


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners. Congratulations Tofeiku and Siobhan Leachman for your dedication to Wikidata \o/
 * Videos
 * Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap (relation (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Promoting GLAM Institution in Indonesia through OSM-Wikidata Mapping - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * appears before phonological feature ( this lexeme form appears only when another lexeme form with this phonological feature comes after it )
 * appears after phonological feature ( this lexeme form appears only when it comes after another lexeme form with this phonological feature )
 * appears before lexeme form ( this lexeme form appears only when this other specific lexeme form comes after it )
 * appears after lexeme form ( this lexeme form appears only when it comes after this other specific lexeme form )
 * Gottstein code ( code representing a variant of the cuneiform sign according to the Gottstein system )
 * tournament type ( significance or status of a sports competition for a league, tour, association, etc. )
 * External identifiers: Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, UMLS Semantic Network ID, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, Moroccan geographic code (2015), BHL item ID, TVING ID, Google Scholar organization ID, Rumble channel, GSA player ID, Roku Channel Store ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Antenna Structure Registration Number, Korean Tour player ID, Kastelenlexicon ID, NFDI4Culture ID, Pouët group ID, Pouët group member ID, Pouët demo ID, Steam curator ID, Podbay ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, Diamond Catalogue work ID, Diamond Catalogue edition ID, Frankfurt University Library Digital Collection ID, Nurnet ID, DUMAS thesis ID, Syok podcast ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * patron deity
 * WHO Aware Classification ( The World Health Organization currently classifies 258 antibiotics into "Access", "Watch", and "Reserve" based partly on the risk of resistance developing as a result of such use and critical nature of the antibiotic in question. )
 * nombre de niveaux ( number of levels in a video game or number of stages in a particular sport )
 * URL du plan du jeu vidéo ( URL of the video game detailed map in subject provided by the site CPC-Power )
 * Positioning ( A list of all the satellite navigation system (ex. GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NavIC etc. ) a mobile device, or a smartphone supports. List of all the Satellite Navigation System. )
 * place on the route ( object, station, facility, city, natural formation or other place on a road, track, route, line, watercourse, utility line or other linear route )
 * simule ( the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real )
 * External identifiers: ANPI person ID (2), J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, ID ve Slovníku české literatury po roce 1945, Vazhaju Word ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, Visiongame.cz game ID, Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Numeric ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Anikore anime ID, wiki.gg wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Count of items with an article on fr.wikivoyage.org by country (source)
 * Count of items with an article on fr.wikiquote.org by instance of (source)
 * Count of items that have X amount of statements. A simple showcase of Blazegraph optimizations.
 * Week 33, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (T341969)
 * Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (T328149)
 * Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (T338330, T340832)

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 Abdulai (WMDE) 14:55, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-34
<section begin="technews-2023-W34"/> 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 GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons.
 * From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
 * Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
 * a Wiktionary in Pa'O
 * a Wikisource in Sundanese
 * To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
 * Wikifunctions
 * a Wiktionary in Mandailing
 * a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin
 * a Wikinews in Gungbe
 * a Wiktionary in Kabardian
 * a Wikipedia in Fante

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 an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2023-W34"/>

15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

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Wikimedia apps newsletter-August 2023
Presenting the Third Edition of the Wikipedia Mobile Apps Newsletter!

Explore the freshest news, enhancements, and additions in our newsletter, keeping you in the loop for an enriched mobile Wikipedia journey. Dive into the content and make the most of your reading!

iOS
From June to August 2023
 * We released version 7.3.1 on July 12, with highlights:
 * Fixed character counter in article description editor.
 * Added Gurene, Wayuu, and Angika languages to our language list.
 * Addressed automatic theme switching bug and performed cleanup for performance fixes.
 * We're progressing on upcoming features:
 * Redesigning diff view: The "Diff View" displays changes in a Wikipedia article over time, showing additions, deletions, and edits for easy comparison between different versions helping you track content evolution and updates.
 * Coming in 7.4.0:
 * Unleash the power of "Undo" and "Rollback" with updated diff pages!They let you revert changes made to an article back to a previous version, helping you fix mistakes or unwanted edits quickly. As we move one step closer to bringing Watchlist to the iOS app we are aiming to release it in September. We've refreshed our diff pages and added the option for experienced editors to roll back destructive edits. You can check out the updated diff page by tapping "View Edit History" in any article.
 * A warm welcome to the Tachelhit language Wikipedia!
 * Connect across language variants with updated codes! When you venture into articles of different language variants, particularly Chinese and Serbian, you should find a smoother experience when using variant codes.

Remember, your feedback powers our journey. You can be a part of our quest to create the ultimate Wikipedia experience by reporting bugs, quirks, or even your magical moments. Reach out through iOS-support@wikimedia.org.

Thank you for being a vital part of our community... Happy exploring!

Android
From June to August 2023:
 * We've been finishing up our work on Image Recommendations (a new Suggested Edits task where you'll be able to add images to articles that are currently unillustrated). We plan to release the feature by September.
 * We are beginning development on Patroller Tasks (a new Suggested Edits task for patrolling recent edits for vandalism). You can read about the usability testing we’ve conducted for the feature on the project page on MediaWiki.
 * On a note of gratitude, we extend our heartfelt appreciation to the dedicated individuals who participated as graders for Machine Assisted Article Descriptions. Your invaluable contributions have significantly contributed to the advancement of our projects, and we look forward to your continued collaboration as we push the boundaries of Wikipedia's capabilities.

Community meetings
On July 30, 2023, the Wikimedia Apps Team had a fruitful meeting with the group behind the Wiki Mentor Africa Initiative. Over 100 participants joined on Zoom, with others watching the YouTube live stream. The presentation covered the Apps' history, roadmap, open questions, feature reviews, and FAQs. Valuable feedback was shared, enhancing the apps' development and user experience. These collaborative engagements are vital to building a more inclusive Wikimedia platform. I am enthusiastic about recreating this experience with other communities; please navigate to the last paragraph to know how to initiate such engagements.

On August 17, the spotlight was on the Apps Team at Wikimania as we presented "There’s an App for that: a mobile-native way to interact with the movement". We appreciate everyone who tuned in virtually to explore the future of interaction with the Wikimedia movement through our innovative mobile app. If you missed it or want to revisit the content, you can find the presentation slides at this link.

We're excited to share that Jazmin Tanner, the Apps Lead Product Manager, contributed to the session titled "Supporting Moderators at the Wikimedia Foundation." As we diligently worked on refining the patroller feature on the apps, Jazmin provided valuable insights that contributed to discussions on enhancing the experience for both moderators and users.

The next office hour
Our upcoming office hour is scheduled for October. Further information regarding the specific date and time will be provided in our forthcoming newsletter.

We are excited and willing to arrange meetings with interested community members.

You may also contact us at aramadan@wikimedia.org to arrange such gatherings.

And you can subscribe to this newsletter from this link.

ARamadan-WMF10:16, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

September 2023 at Women in Red
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Tech News: 2023-35
<section begin="technews-2023-W35"/> 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
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis.
 * Octicons-gift.svg All pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.
 * Wikisource users can now use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> tag.
 * Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "" is now shown on the "" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "" tab at some wikis. The preference "" is now also shown on the "" tab at all wikis, instead of the "" tab.

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-tools.svg New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
 * All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks.

Future changes
 * The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
 * A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:58, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #591
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
 * How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube
 * The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
 * How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube
 * Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube
 * WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikitrivia is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome!
 * Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! Project submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC.
 * Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * has heir or beneficiary ( people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title )
 * External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID, ‎research.com ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, wiki.gg article ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, ‎Visiongame.cz game ID, ‎Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, wiki.gg wiki ID, Audio+ show ID, Cent cols ID, Lift Up profile ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Dictionary of Czech literature after 1945 ID, ‎Biographical Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID, GamerProfiles game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * simule ( the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real )
 * sexe ou genre du protagoniste ( regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279) )
 * unofficial name ( name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for nicknames use P1449, for pseudonymes P742) )
 * External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022, WikiChip article ID, identifiant Demozoo d'une démo, identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Czech geological location ID, Moviefone person ID, Moviefone movie ID, Les Petits M'O ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Minerals.net mineral ID, Minerals.net gemstone ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of birthplaces of German women writers (source)
 * Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Where were people who went to space born? (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.

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
 * We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
 * We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (T328281)
 * We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (T318981)
 * We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (T325822)
 * We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (T344417)
 * We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (T338798)


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 * 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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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Pppery · Theleekycauldron
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dwheeler · G.A.S · Royalbroil · Ssd



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Bradv

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Bradv

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
 * A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news
 * Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.

Arbitration
 * The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous
 * Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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