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Nomination for deletion of Template:QRpedia article
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Wikidata weekly summary #596
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC))
 * New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928))

Ongoing This Week
 * Events
 * November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
 * January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023
 * Papers
 * Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study - Zhang et al, 2023
 * Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
 * Videos
 * Intro about WikiPathways< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
 * Wikidata for Better Health (in French) - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
 * Notebooks
 * Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article
 * Artist selection (in French)


 * Tool of the week
 * Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program.
 * The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * demo of ( video game or software that this trial version is based on )
 * External identifiers: ‎Codeberg username, ADVN ID, ‎MiMoText ID, BookBrainz series ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, ‎National Library of Albania ID, AARoads Wiki article ID, BAN ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * self-identified name ( the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself )
 * non-self-identified name ( name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts )
 * exception to constraint (lexeme) ( lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302 )
 * External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID, DBIL ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Gematsu game ID, Matilda paper ID, Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, Pinakes IDs, WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors (source)
 * University's museum in France (source)
 * 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
 * WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
 * We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
 * You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (T342857)
 * We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
 * Lexicographical data:
 * We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (T322683)
 * If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (T343979)
 * We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (T286239)
 * Mismatch Finder:
 * Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (T335864)
 * We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (T313467)
 * The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (T343344)

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.

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 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * 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!

Tech News: 2023-40
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new user preference for "". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget definitions now have a new " contentModels " option. The option takes a list of page content models, like  or  . Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

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 The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki.

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Hey man im josh
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Alex Bakharev · CorbieVreccan · Cyphoidbomb · Davodd · Hog Farm · JamesR · KnightLago · Mark Ironie · Nosebagbear (deceased) · Rschen7754 · Tamzin · TonyBallioni



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DatGuy
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ferret · RickinBaltimore
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni · Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg RickinBaltimore
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni · Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news
 * Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
 * Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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The Bugle: Issue 210, October 2023
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Tech News: 2023-41
 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
 * One new wiki has been created: a in Fon

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.
 * At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature.
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID  will be replaced with  . This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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Wikidata weekly summary #597
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Saroj! (see the closed request)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Tildebot (Task: Upload about 16,000 AARoads Wiki article ID statements based on reconciliation in OpenRefine)
 * GamerProfilesBot (Task: Regularly update existing video games with the GamerProfiles game ID sourced from GamerProfiles.com)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 13, 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 fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
 * Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
 * New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here.
 * Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata by Chris Hanretty
 * Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate by Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds
 * These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT, by Hannah Murdock
 * COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022 < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore
 * Papers
 * Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard
 * Press
 * Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.")
 * Videos
 * Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham
 * Linking cultural heritage data in practice < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata.
 * Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University
 * Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond.
 * Proposal and creation of properties (in French) by VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata.
 * Wikidata: first pragmatic approach - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.


 * Tool of the week
 * https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: BAN ID, Metacritic game ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, ‎Gematsu game ID, Encyclociné ID, DBIL ID, Pinakes country ID, Pinakes city ID, Pinakes institution ID, Pinakes fonds ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux object ID, Aparat channel ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * self-identified name ( the name by which a group of humans refers to itself )
 * non-self-identified name ( name used to identify a group of humans against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts )
 * fonds
 * External identifiers: WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID, SBL player ID, identificador Qué series ver, Steam Workshop file ID, Find my School ID, Fichier des ecclésiastiques ID, Walmart product ID, Open Library publisher ID, kihondōshi handbook ID, OzBargain tag, OzBargain brand, ELSST Thesaurus ID, Gematsu company ID, Valve Developer Community article ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, Illinois State Parks ID, Flixy.dk emne ID


 * Query examples:
 * Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting(source)
 * Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow (source)
 * List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list (source)
 * Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases (source: @espejolento)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions (T342982, T337371, T337371, T348150)
 * We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (T344362)
 * We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (343998, T343999)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (T313467)

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) 16:33, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2023
This Month in Education

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In This Issue <div style="margin-top:10px; text-align: center; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 05:01, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Inauguration of the Kent Wiki Club at the Wikimania 2023 Conference
 * Letter Magic: Supercharging Your WikiEducation Programs
 * Réseau @pprendre (Learning Network) : The Initiative for Educational Change in Francophone West Africa
 * WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique closes its 5th edition with 13 winning schools
 * WikiConecta: connecting Brazilian university professors and Wikimedia
 * Wikimedia Germany launches interactive event series Open Source AI in Education

This Month in GLAM: September 2023
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 15:02, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of List of police stations in the West Midlands for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of police stations in the West Midlands is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/List of police stations in the West Midlands until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 18:25, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Spiranthes spiralis
Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Spiranthes spiralis, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows: Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:Qwerfjkl/Botpreload&editintro=User:Qwerfjkl/boteditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:Qwerfjkl&preloadtitle=Qwerfjkl%20(bot)%20–%20Pigsonthewing&section=new&preloadparams%5b%5d=&preloadparams%5b%5d=1180301284 report it to my operator]. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 19:47, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
 * A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiranthes_spiralis&action=edit&minor=minor&summary=Fixing+reference+error+raised+by+%5B%5BUser%3AQwerfjkl%20(bot)%7CQwerfjkl%20(bot)%5D%5D Fix] | [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&preload=User:Qwerfjkl%20(bot)/helpform&preloadtitle=Referencing%20errors%20on%20%5B%5BSpecial%3ADiff%2F1180301284%7CSpiranthes%20spiralis%5D%5D Ask for help])

CiteQ issue with chapters
Kia ora Andy, I'm Marty based at the Auckland Museum. I've been having an issue with chapter citations with Cite Q, and Siobhan Leachman recommended I get in touch. A few months ago I created articles that citing a book, and within that book there was an important chapter by a different author, so I created a Wikidata item for both the book and the chapter. This worked fine until fairly recently, when the chapter citations started giving an error e.g. citation number 5 on this page. Do you know if this is something I could fix up (e.g. if I did something wrong with book citations in Wikidata)? --Prosperosity (talk) 00:52, 15 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, I see you already asked at Template talk:Cite Q and the answer there is correct; I will add the functionality to the wishlist for future development. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:28, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Wonderful, thank you so much! So I see that it's less the tool broke, and more that the tool mysteriously worked in the past - I wonder why. --Prosperosity (talk) 22:44, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Twenty Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Twenty Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for twenty years or more. Though I'm not a member myself, of course, I thought I might as well invite you.

Best regards, Ollieisanerd  (talk • contribs) 06:19, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #598
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the online or the onsite event! You can also check the program, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
 * Wikidata Day NYC '23 Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
 * State of the Map EU 2023 has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
 * Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
 * Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October.
 * Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image". October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
 * Past Week:
 * Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs has ended. Did you contribute?
 * Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata by Vogel & Binnig.
 * Press: Indexing news with AI via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
 * Videos
 * Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
 * Drag'n'Drop Gadget <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö.
 * Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
 * Introduction & Overview of Wikidata (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it.
 * Notebooks
 * Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results (in French)
 * What's nearby, Wikidata? will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location.
 * Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) by Ambrosia10


 * Tool of the week
 * Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code, LSG code, SEC code).
 * User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * ‎WHO Aware Classification ( antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization )
 * ‎self-identified name ( name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym) )
 * non-self-identified name ( name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination )
 * External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID, MUSE book ID, ‎Game Jolt ID, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID, ‎ProductReview ID, ‎Acclaimed Music album ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, SlackBuilds package, Metacritic numeric game ID, Metacritic publication ID, Metacritic company ID, StopGame series ID, Steam Workshop mod ID, California State Park ID, ‎Find my School ID, WikiKids ID, SBL player ID, Open Library publisher ID, DBpia article ID, ‎Gematsu company ID, ‎Valve Developer Community article ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * parent form of an active substance ( parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance in the form of a salt )
 * FAO WIEWS Institution ID
 * External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT, Rahlfs Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Kinobox ID, GNU Savannah project, Indie DB company ID, Mod DB company ID, Catenae Catalogue, GameBrew ID, JLPGA player ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of lighthouses in France (source)
 * Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research? (graph) (source)
 * Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements (source)
 * People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
 * WikiProject BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
 * WikiProject Manuscripts


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (T342982, T337371)
 * Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (T342979)
 * Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (T348150)
 * Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (T344362)
 * Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (T313467)

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: 2023-42
<section begin="technews-2023-W42"/> 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 Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome.
 * Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

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
 * In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.

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Wikimedia apps newsletter – October 2023
Revealing What's Inside the Fourth Edition of the Wikipedia Mobile Apps Newsletter!

Discover the latest updates, improvements, and new content in our newsletter, ensuring you stay informed for an enhanced mobile Wikipedia experience.

iOS
From the end of August to October 2023


 * The iOS suggested edits feature, originally successful on Android, is now being developed for iOS. This expansion aligns with the Product & Technology organization's goals for the 2023–2024 fiscal year, with a specific target of increasing mobile contributions by 10% without reversion. This move responds to the growing demand for a similar content creation and maintenance tool on Apple devices.
 * The team released 7.4.1 in August, which included:
 * The ability to Undo and Rollback edits on Diff Pages!
 * The addition of Tachelhit Language Wiki.
 * We also improved language variants for Chinese and Serbian languages.
 * In October, 7.4.2 was released, which included the following:
 * Watchlist on iOS: We've heard your requests! You can now access your Watchlist through Settings → Account → Watchlist. Add new items to your Watchlist via the new overflow menu in the Article View. Take actions on edits by clicking a username on the Watchlist view, or take actions like "Thank" on the diff screen of an edit in your list.
 * Article Section Sharing: Want to send someone to a specific section in an article? Click a section in the table of contents and then click "Share" via the article overflow menu.
 * Bug Fixes to ensure you can swipe without the app freezing and that the navigation bar doesn't shrink or disappear.

Thank you for volunteering developers Serguitar, jhsoby, agray, Nikki, TiagoLubiana.dijkstra.and revolter for their contributions to this release.

Android
From the end of August to October 2023


 * The team is actively working on reinstating the nearby feature due to the high volume of requests we've received. You can find comprehensive tracking details for this effort on Phabricator T347201.
 * We have released the Image Recommendation feature to the Wikipedia Beta.
 * We have been working on developing the Patroller Tasks, and most of the screens have passed the design reviews.
 * Bug fixes and minor improvements:
 * Fixed possible crashes on Android 14 devices.
 * Fixed some view styles related to the Material Design, which includes toolbar and dialog.
 * Introduced more text-highlighted features to the search results across the app.
 * Introduced the Wikitext keyboard support to the talk page interfaces.

Community meetings
We would like to invite you to an online meeting with the mobile apps team. It will take place on the 27th of October at 5 p.m. UTC (check your zone’s exact time).

The host will be Jazmin Tanner, the product manager of the apps team, with a number of our software engineers; you can join the meeting.

Feel free to share your questions and thoughts about Wikipedia’s mobile apps on the Wikimedia Apps/Office Hours page on mediawiki.org. We would love to hear from you. The last date to add your input will be on the 24th of October at 12:00 UTC. If you'd like a one-day reminder before the meeting, simply add your username on the same link, and we'll send you one.

We will be waiting for you all!

And you can subscribe to this newsletter.

-- ARamadan-WMF 09:46, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

October thanks
Thank you for improving articles in October! - Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:46, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2023
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