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Question from Cockatielaa (06:31, 24 March 2023)
Hey, I've just wanted to update a page for Bernard Ashwin regarding his achievements. I'm not familiar with him but he does appear as the first scout leader of the Cambridge scout group in New Zealand Waikato Cambridge. I have a photo from when I visited there recently where it states that "A Mr Bernard Ashwin was appointed the first Patrol Leader in these early years. Mr Ashwin became Sir Bernard Ashwin in 1956 when he received a K.B.E in that years Queens Birthday Honours.

I was hoping that you could suggest how I could incorporate it into his already existing page and create a page for the Cambridge Scout Group and the New Lynn Sea Scout Group. --Cockatielaa (talk) 06:31, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Cockatielaa, I'm afraid that would count as original research. Can you find any other source supporting this? — Qwerfjkl  talk  07:03, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I actually have a photo of the piece of paper that its all written on. Not sure if this would count. https://imgur.com/a/oVzgpu4 Cockatielaa (talk) 07:26, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Cockatielaa, unfortunately, that's not a reliable source - anyone could write some text on a piece of paper. Do you know where the information on the paper came from? — Qwerfjkl  talk  14:50, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Its from inside their new den at Cambridge. I was there during October last year. Cockatielaa (talk) 19:49, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Cockatielaa, unfortunately, if you can't find another source for it then it shouldn't be added to the article. — Qwerfjkl  talk  20:26, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah okay, all goods then. Cockatielaa (talk) 20:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #565
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
 * WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
 * Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
 * Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
 * Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
 * Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
 * How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
 * Notebooks
 * Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.


 * Tool of the week
 * Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * ISCED Attainment ( ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label. )
 * first performance by ( performer or performing group for the first performance of a work )
 * External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit (source)
 * Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)
 * Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
 * Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (T323173)

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:56, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * 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: 2023-13
 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 AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000.
 * Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects.
 * Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the link in the  menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion.

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
 * You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity.

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Deletion review for Category:Recipients of the Order pro Merito Melitensi
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Recipients of the Order pro Merito Melitensi. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Baronnet (talk) 14:43, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of "Draft:Maija The Goblin"
Draft:Maija The Goblin, a page you created, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is vandalism.

You are welcome to contribute content that complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content, or remove the speedy deletion tag from the page. You can contest the deletion by clicking the "Contest this speedy deletion" button inside the speedy deletion tag. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.

Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 09:01, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Adakiko, I presume this is a bug in Huggle, as my bot didn't create that page (I moved this notice from my bot's talk page). — Qwerfjkl  talk  09:13, 30 March 2023 (UTC)


 * A Huggle bug is probably the case. Thanks for the notice, I added a notice to the page creator's talk page. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 09:37, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * A hugglebug - is this a new dance craze? -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 20:56, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Re-parenting
This edit was logical in terms of parenting, but it also removed all the key figures from the former parent! I have just copied them back into it. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:14, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Restaurants in Karachi
Thanks for closing WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 March 20. I'm not familiar with the closing process, so where do we go from here? Should it be added to WP:Categories for discussion/Working? Certes (talk) 14:47, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Qwerfjkl records them at WT:CFDW, and an admin (often me) processes them from there. This one is now done. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:30, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #25
Welcome to the twenty-fifth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Celebrations
Leveling up release


 * We released Leveling up features to our pilot wikis on March 22 for an initial A/B test.
 * In this test, we use post-edit dialogs (pop-ups shown after publishing an edit) and notifications to encourage new editors to try new types of newcomer-friendly suggested edits.
 * We are closely monitoring the short term impact of this feature as well as the longer term effect on newcomer productivity and retention. If the experiment shows positive results, we will release this feature to more wikis.

5,000+ images added via the newcomer task in February


 * In February 2023, 5,035 images were added via the newcomer “add an image” feature (on all wikis where available); 155 were reverted.
 * Since the feature “add an image” was launched: 36,803 images have been added; 2,957 images were reverted.

Recent changes

 * Add a link
 * Community Ambassadors completed an initial evaluation that confirmed that prioritizing underlinked articles resulted in better article suggestions. We then evaluated the change on Growth pilot wikis, and results suggest that more newcomers are successfully completing the task and experiencing fewer reverts. We have now deployed the new prioritization model to all wikis with "add a link" enabled.
 * We continue the deployment of "add a link" to more wikis. These changes are regularly announced in Tech News. To know if newcomers at your wiki have access to this feature, please visit your Homepage.
 * The Impact module was deployed on our pilot wikis, where we conducted an A/B test. We published initial findings, and a data scientist is now completing experiment analysis.
 * Donor Thank you page experiment – Donors land on a “thank you” page after donation, and that landing page now includes a call to action to try editing: Example Thank you page in French. This promising feature is tested at several Wikipedias.
 * Growth features are now the default experience on both test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org. You can test our features there.

Upcoming work

 * Add an image – We plan to offer section-level image suggestions as a structured task for newcomers.
 * We are starting design work.
 * Growth team Ambassadors helped with an initial evaluation of these section-level image suggestions.
 * We will start a community consultation in which we share initial ideas and designs soon.
 * IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation – We will support this project for all Growth Team maintained products and extensions that may be affected by IP Masking.

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Question from Temmyspecial on Help:Contents (22:46, 1 April 2023)
Hello Please, how will i start learning --Temmyspecial (talk) 22:46, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Temmyspecial, you may find Help:Introduction useful. — Qwerfjkl  talk  07:31, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #566
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 *  Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
 * IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
 * MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))


 *  Events
 * Past
 * Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
 * WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, Bones)
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
 * Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base
 * Papers
 * In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
 * Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
 * A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
 * Can you trust Wikidata?
 * Videos
 * Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
 * Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
 * WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
 * A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
 * Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
 * Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Statistics on Wikidata property scopes


 *  Tool of the week
 * User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects


 *  Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * student retention rate ( Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year )
 * External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Authors from Latin America born today (source)
 * Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain (source)


 *  Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)
 * Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (T321543)
 * REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (T323813)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:25, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Contentious CFD
Hi, thanks for continuing to close CFDs including some that are contentious, but please note that WP:C2D is not a valid rationale for closing a contentious case. C2D explicitly only applies where a name is uncontroversial. I therefore advise you to reopen this CFD before it gets challenged – or give a longer rationale as to why certain arguments outweigh others. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:46, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Fayenatic london, thanks, I've relisted it. — Qwerfjkl  talk  16:36, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 April 2023
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Tech News: 2023-14
 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 system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories.

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).
 * Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deprecated <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide.
 * Some of the links in will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account.
 * You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> magic word. There will also be a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page.

Future changes
 * The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Aoidh
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg KillerChihuahua



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ferret

Guideline and policy news
 * A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11.
 * The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
 * A link to the user's page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on . This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration
 * The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
 * A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Alexander Averbukh (disambiguation)


A tag has been placed on Alexander Averbukh (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.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Dsuke1998AEOS (talk) 00:51, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-15
<section begin="technews-2023-W15"/> 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 In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-gift.svg You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #567
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
 * BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
 * Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata
 * How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
 * Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
 * Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items
 * The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
 * Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins
 * Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections
 * Papers
 * Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
 * Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube
 * SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube
 * Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube
 * [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * information sign ( property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board )
 * location URL match pattern ( regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against )
 * External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * orchestration ( the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form )
 * part of other combined lexeme ( qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme )
 * External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs

<b>* </b> Newest WikiProjects:
 * Query examples:
 * Superheroes with a degree in the humanities (source)
 * Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate0%20%3Fdate1%20%3Fprec%20%3Fdiff%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdate0%20%3Fdate1%20%3Fprec%20%3Fdiff%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%2811%20%20AS%20%3Fminimum_precision%29%20%23%20minimum%20precision%3B%207%20%3D%20century%2C%208%20%3D%20decade%2C%209%20%3D%20year%2C%2010%20%3D%20month%2C%2011%20%3D%20day%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP570%20%3Fstatement0%2C%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement0%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank0%20%3D%20%3Frank1%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank0%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement0%20psv%3AP570%20%3Fvalue0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20psv%3AP570%20%3Fvalue1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue0%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue1%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fprecision0%20%3C%20%3Fprecision1%2C%20%3Fprecision0%2C%20%3Fprecision1%29%20AS%20%3Fprec%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fprec%20%3E%3D%20%3Fminimum_precision%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue0%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue1%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdate0%20%3C%20%3Fdate1%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%207%20%2C%201%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%208%20%2C%2010%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%209%20%2C%20100%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%2010%20%2C%201000%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3E%3D%2011%2C%2010000%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%200%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20AS%20%3Fprecision_adj%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%28%3Fdate1%20-%20%3Fdate0%29%20%2a%20%3Fprecision_adj%20AS%20%3Fdiff%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2010000%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Fdiff%29 People with far apart reported death dates] (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles (source)
 * WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T332139)
 * Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (T328148)
 * REST API:
 * We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (T323813)
 * The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en

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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Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment
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Broken CfDW tool
I closed 4 discussions at CfD, all on April 2, only to find that your tool for listing discussions at WT:CFDW stopped working. I have verified on both Google Chrome and Safari that clicking the button at the top of each CfD nomination does nothing. Also, the "List pages" button in the toolbar appears outside of CfD. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 20:52, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @LaundryPizza03, I'm not sure why this might have happened. Does reloading the page's cache (ctrl + f5) help?<span id="Qwerfjkl:1681332843402:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  20:54, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The List pages button appearing outside of CfD is intentional (or at least, not a bug).<span id="Qwerfjkl:1681332930419:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  20:55, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * That is not the right shortcut for macOS. On Chrome, you would use Shift+Command+R or Shift+Reload button. And that didn't do anything. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 20:57, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @LaundryPizza03, I think I know what the problem is. Can you check the browser console for any error messages (specifically "reading properties of undefined")?<span id="Qwerfjkl:1681333113395:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  20:58, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't know how to do that. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 21:16, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @LaundryPizza03, I believe I have fixed the error, which was caused by a recent edit to Cfd top, meaning the script could not recognise the result of the closure. Sorry about the slow response, it's hard to sort this out on my tablet.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1681334964608:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  21:29, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The boilerplate keeps appearing in the preloadings of listings. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 21:56, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Now I couldn't list Categories for discussion/Log/2023 April 4 at CFDW, but I could do the other CfD's I closed with no problems. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 00:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @LaundryPizza03, the first issue was due to a problem with regex concatenation which I have now fixed. The second issue is because it's missing a Nominator's rationale: which the script uses as an anchor; I've added an alert for this. I also changed the buttons to "List discussion(s)" because it makes more sense.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1681379909920:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  09:58, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Bad closure of a CfD
I've applied for a review of your closure of Category:Science fiction fans when no substantive discussion had taken place. Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  20:22, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Orangemike, please link to the DRV (in the future).<span id="Qwerfjkl:1681509003595:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  21:50, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Feedback request: Wikipedia technical issues and templates request for comment
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Wikidata weekly summary #568
<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;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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 Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
 * Papers
 * Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; English-language edition, Édition en langue française
 * Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
 * Videos
 * Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube
 * "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube
 * IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
 * Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Notebook
 * Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
 * Twitter thread
 * How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there


 * Tool of the week
 * Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon is out (announcement and details)
 * Christos started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID, Team Fortress Wiki ID, Federiciana ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Aisberg author ID, OPENBS author ID, Bicocca Open Archive author ID, IRInSubria author ID, cybersport.ru player ID, Boomplay album ID, IRIS HUNIMED author ID, IRIS UNISR author ID, PubliCatt author ID, FantLab dictor ID, Portráidí ID, Kulturenvanteri.com ID, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID, Musée Fabre ID, Musées Grand Est ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Shipbucket drawing ID


 * Query examples:
 * ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)
 * Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward
 * Newest database reports:
 * Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (T332139)
 * QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (T328764)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (T323813)

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: 2023-16
<section begin="technews-2023-W16"/> 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
 * You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed.

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

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2023-W16"/>

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Link to WP:Sandbox in bot's CS1 error message notification
I think something is not quite right in this message. The "Fix" and "Ask for help" links go to and reference WP:Sandbox instead of an appropriate page. Can you please take a look? Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:52, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Jonesey95, that is produced by User:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/middle. The code wasn't passing in the necessary parameters; I've just modifief it to do so.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1681832194579:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  15:36, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Seems to have fixed it.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1681833782907:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  16:03, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
 * That looks much better. Thanks for the quick turnaround. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:23, 18 April 2023 (UTC)