User talk:Qwerfjkl/Archive 11

Bot request
Hello Qwerfjkl, I wanted to ask you a question regarding my bot request for the removal of an undue weight statement form around 3,000 Poland related articles. At this point I'm not seeing that it's being picked up by any of the bot editors, thus can you advise if the reason for it is that this is not the correct venue for such a request or perhaps that I'm missing certain steps in the request process? --E-960 (talk) 22:34, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * @E-960: The only issue is consensus, really. I do think there's enough consensus for these edits, so I'll file a BRFA as soon as I finish Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 8 (in under a week, probably). &#8213; Qwerfjkl  talk  22:49, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, I see, thank you for the clarification. --E-960 (talk) 16:18, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for the ping on the BRFA. --E-960 (talk) 15:52, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello again Qwerfjkl, I just had a quick look on the bot request page and it looks like the final approval was granted following the test run, so things should be good to go. --E-960 (talk) 11:22, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * E-960, Yes, I know (I was notified below). Unfortunately, I've been busy lately, and unable to complete the bot task. All the statements have.been removed now.  Qwerfjkl talk  16:01, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * That is now very outragous.. There were multiple discussions about that, and there was no consensus (especially because there is nothing wrong about that correct sentence).. And now I see DESPITE ALL THIS E-960 still tries to erase this sentence, he willfully just ignored all this and waited some time and now he's doing the same even with a bot.. E-960 is obviously trying to vandalize Wikipedia long time and now he is doing it with the support of bots.. after he failed multiple times to try it manually. Besides that, some accounts got blocked for erasing that from many articles. This should stop right away. --Jonny84 (talk) 19:39, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Jonny84, You are the only user who has objected, with no clear reason (several editors supported). That does not constitute no consensus. In addition, you did not object to the BRFA, even after I linked to it in the discussion. There was also a week left after the trial for any objections, yet there were none. Whilst there is indeed nothing wrong about that correct sentence, it has undue weight. You make a serious claim that @E-960 has been trying to vandalize Wikipedia for a long time. Could you please give any other cases/examples, or explain why you have not taken this to WP:ANI (although I don't recommend you do)? You say some accounts got blocked for erasing that from many articles - which accounts? Please try to remain civil and assume good faith.  Qwerfjkl talk  20:04, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Qwerfjkl, sounds good, thanks. Btw, I noticed that on some articles such as this on Mokre, Goleniów County, the phrase is still there, perhaps there is a punctuation variation or something that threw off the bot criteria. --E-960 (talk) 20:55, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm just a human and I'm just occasionally here and I'm not contributing often here, so I can't observe every edit in here.. Also I'm not following every single edit by E-960.. I just realised today, that some pages on my watchlist got changed by bots. 1) There was also a bot or an author who put this information in before, so somebody thought this is important to the history and the articles. 2) Nobody had a problem with that for over 15 years besides some already blocked accounts and besides them only E-960.. So there was a consensus with that.. 3) There was also no Poland from 1795 till 1918... So missing this information, brings also a big undue weight to Wikipedia articles.. So I'm wishing there would be a mention of that fact to be put in. If we start with argumenting about undue weight, then we should go further and not just pick some selected passages. Erasing the mention of Germany, to places which belonged for centuries to Germany, brings also an even bigger undue weight to this articles, for me it's even faking history. 4) This discussions were just in March: ... Other users suggested to expand the articles for example. He didn't accepted the advice and didn't even tried to expand any of this articles.. He just did, what he tried before, to erase it, just on another wikipedia page. So how could there be a consensus? Also I'm related with the German minority of Poland, I'm still remembering how he tried to erase data about them once, so this current actions also have a very bad taste to me.. --Jonny84 (talk) 20:58, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd like to point out, that here was no "Germany" before 1871. Pls see German Reich and Legal status of Germany articles, when German actually became a nation state. Also, Pomerania was Polish, Danish and Swedish, before becoming Prussian and subsequently "German". So, please stop with the one-sided claims about eternal German lands. --E-960 (talk) 21:09, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @E-960, I'll finish this tomorrow (I missed ). @Jonny84, this has already been discussed in the previous discussion. While, yes, expanding the articles would be preferable, it would take a while to do to over 5000 articles. As other users have said, the statement on its own is WP:UNDUE. I don't think further argument is productive or helpful. &#8213;  Qwerfjkl  talk  21:11, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It's a fact, that Silesia, East Prussia and Pomerania were part of the German Empire from 1871 till 1945, so erasing this sentence is just simple POV-pushing, which isn't wanted on Wikipedia. So this actions are just against Wikipedia policies. BTW. before 1871 there was the North German Confederation and the German Confederation. You can ignore that, but then this is just POV-pushing. With the same argument, there was also no Poland before 1918.. --Jonny84 (talk) 21:21, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Notice to admins
My bot recently created a few categories with G7 templates, due to an error in its code. This should now be fixed. &#8213;  Qwerfjkl talk  09:52, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) 9
Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 9 has been approved. Happy editing! -- The SandDoctor Talk 20:05, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * On this note, could you please limit it to mainspace to prevent the edit warring it's doing at Bot requests? Thanks. Tol  (talk &#124; contribs) @ 15:09, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Tol, sorry! I don't normally use JWB for bot editing, and forgot its generator isn't restricted to mainspace. The bot task is now complete, so should be fine now. (I did notice a discussion from ~12 years ago at Talk:Wielbark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, however.) Happy editing!  Qwerfjkl talk  15:18, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries; thanks! Tol  (talk &#124; contribs) @ 15:22, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from Scranley (19:04, 15 April 2022)
Conflict of interest when edited my own page? --Scranley (talk) 19:04, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Scranley, you have declared a COI with Seamus Cranley (game designer) - a page that does not exist. If you plan to make a draft of this, that's fine, but there's no COI if the page doesn't exist. Do you have a specific question (or could you phrase it more clearly)?  Qwerfjkl talk  20:11, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * User talk:Qwerfjkl, Thank you, I thought it was an error and realized the page edit worked.. I am now creating the draft page.. Seamus Cranley (game designer). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scranley (talk • contribs) 20:17, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of ISO 639 talk:xghu
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Speedy deletion nomination of ISO 639-6 talk:xghu
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Yee no  (talk) 23:47, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like this and the above were a glitch in User:Enterprisey/AFCRHS.js. I've moved the pages to the correct locations without redirect. I think the issue is with L658; there should be a check in there as to whether the colon delineates a real namespace.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:56, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from AbuUbada on User:AbuUbada (02:25, 17 April 2022)
‌ --AbuUbada (talk) 02:25, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
 * AbuUbada, do you have a question?  Qwerfjkl talk  06:38, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #516
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
 * AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time: Martin Schibel will be speaking on Entitree. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time Agenda
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
 * LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US (time zone converter). Where: Registration Link
 * Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software. Conference date: April 22
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * WeDigBio Transcription workflow "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
 * More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard
 * Videos
 * Transfer bibliographic data from Zotero to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Art+Feminism community Hours: Add your event data to Wikidata! - YouTube (En, Fr)
 * other:
 * Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?


 * Tool of the week
 * Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
 * Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2).
 * There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated.
 * Wikidata metrics are now easily accessible on the Dashboard. Here's an example Dashboard including a blog post above detailing the process.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
 * External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
 * External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID


 * Query examples:
 * Birthplace of rappers (source)
 * Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont (source)
 * List of corporate archives, location, and address where available (source)
 * French adventure video games (source)
 * Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia (source)
 * Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
 * REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.

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: 2022-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * 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).
 * Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project.
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Future changes
 * Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated.

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Question from Johnbaxter329 on Draft:Lu Castro (01:20, 19 April 2022)
How do I add picture? --Johnbaxter329 (talk) 01:20, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @Johnbaxter329, you can add  + the file name + , with the file being from either the file nanespace, or from Commons.  Qwerfjkl  talk  06:22, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Visible anchor removal blowing away large portions of articles
Whatever tool you are using for 'Visible anchor removal' has blown away large portions of at least 3 articles: User:Essare Mazur/sandbox; Coaching stock of Ireland; Sedum. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:48, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, the article for Pueblo, Colorado appears to have had a large portion cut off as well. Jeffrey Beall (talk) 21:07, 19 April 2022 (UTC).
 * @Jeffrey Beall, @Bamyers99, I think this is a problem with JWB (@Joeytje50)  Qwerfjkl talk  06:10, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from Justbizzsisko (05:46, 21 April 2022)
Hello, good day to you. I’m an artist and am trying to create a a Wikipedia page profile for myself. How do I do that ? --Justbizzsisko (talk) 05:46, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @Justbizzsisko, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! See WP:AUTOBIO as well. Happy editing!  Qwerfjkl  talk  06:04, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Stop immediately
RedWarn is left at its current location since it is the name of the legacy script. It is also used by the current RedWarn script for default data. Do NOT move any more pages. Chlod (say hi!) 13:35, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that was an accident, my bad. I think I've reverted all the moves. Qwerfjkl  talk  13:39, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Trouted
You have been trouted ―sportzpikachu  my talk contribs  13:39, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards (disambiguation)


A tag has been placed on 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either
 * disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
 * disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
 * is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

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Wikidata weekly summary #517
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship:
 * Pi admin bot (successful)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
 * Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
 * Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
 * Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
 * How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
 * The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
 * Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
 * From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
 * Past:
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow (diff version)
 * Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics
 * Papers
 * Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations (closed access)
 * Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License
 * WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1, 2, 3, 4]
 * Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
 * Creating subsets of Wikidata
 * Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks
 * Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata
 * Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
 * User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
 * Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
 * Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
 * External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
 * External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
 * Query examples:
 * Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons (source)
 * Scottish river drainage basins (source)
 * The earliest road accident victims (source)
 * Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities (source)
 * Count of Wikidata property types (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
 * REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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: 2022-17
<section begin="technews-2022-W17"/> 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
 * On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

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).
 * Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older.

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hello, again, Qwerfjkl,

I see you are doing some closures at CFD and that area could really use some extra help. There are some very experienced non-admin closers at CFD so if you have questions, I'm sure they could be of some assistance to you. Nice to run into your work again! Hope you are well. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 23:30, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, Liz, I had watchlisted Marcocapelle's talk page, and I noticed a discussion about CfD, so I thought I might give it a try. Happy editing! &#8213; Qwerfjkl  talk  17:56, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It can be a little tricky getting the CSD tags correct but everything looks fine. I think we have more non-admins closing CFD discussions than admins right now. We can always use more admins though, maybe a thought you can keep in the back of your mind for the future. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 22:36, 26 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Actually, there is a problem with Category:Fishing in the European Union. Categories need to be emptied before they can be deleted or else we end up with red link categories on pages which, according to WP:REDNO, must be avoided. So this one isn't ready for deletion yet. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 22:39, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Liz, thanks, I must have been tired when I closed that one. Emptied now. &#8213; Qwerfjkl  talk  06:07, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Category:Albums mastered by Vlado Meller
Hey, Qwerfjkl,

Did you mean to tag this category for deletion? I noticed that it was empty and then saw the CFD had been closed but I wanted to confirm it with you before deleting the page. Take care. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 17:41, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, I meant to tag it for deletion. Thanks for checking, Liz. &#8213; Qwerfjkl  talk  19:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC)


 * This also happened with Category:Wikipedia extended confirmed users. There is not point in closing a deletion discussion if you don't follow through and take action on the consensus decision. Do you know what to do if the decision is to merge or rename categories? Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 23:42, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Liz, sorry, I'm not sure what happened. I'm sure I tagged that category; I'll try to double-check. I think this was caused by inputting the link (in Twinkle) to the CfD with ..., and then clicking off the message warning against this. Regarding renaming categories, I can't move category pages. If the decision is merge, then all of the pages in the merged category should be moved into the category.being merged into. &#8213; Qwerfjkl  talk  06:09, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #518
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
 * TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
 * Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
 * Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
 * Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
 * May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.”
 * Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
 * Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
 * Papers
 * Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
 * Videos
 * Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
 * Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
 * Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
 * EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
 * The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
 * Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
 * Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
 * External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
 * External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID


 * Query examples:
 * Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank) (source)
 * Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment (source)
 * Countries which are named after a person (source)
 * Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)


 * Development
 * The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
 * Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
 * REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

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: 2022-18
<section begin="technews-2022-W18"/> 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
 * On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

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

Future changes
 * The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
 * Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode.
 * If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include,   and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Twinkle and Redirects
Hi, I'm having issues adding templates to redirect's with twinkle. Can you help? Maybe with some screenshots or photos.  Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  21:44, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Idoghor Melody, To use rcats with Twinkle, when on a redirect, select TW &rarr; Tag, and then select any rcats to tag the redirect with. &#8213; <span id="Qwerfjkl:1651644300605:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> Qwerfjkl  talk  06:05, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, I haven't tried that... Thank you  Comr Melody Idoghor   (talk)  11:42, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Short desc bot is doing great work!
Thanks again for helping erase the tens of thousands of "Wiki(p/m)edia list article" descriptions. I think it was such a success that we should expand the bot's scope to remaining articles not beginning with "List", and maybe even expand the strings it searches for (looking at you, "Aspect of history"). And I'm sure you noticed that there's a steady flow of editors adding back the removed descriptions. What do you think? Thrakkx (talk) 01:56, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Thrakkx, to expand the bot's scope, there first needs to be a discussion (probably at WT:SD) in support of the idea. As for editors adding back these short descriptions, it would be simple to just run the bot again on the pages. &#8213; <span id="Qwerfjkl:1651817121818:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> Qwerfjkl talk  06:05, 6 May 2022 (UTC)