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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Descriptive edit summary
You are making countless edits with the rather deceptive edit summary "Update date format tag", while the most important thing you do in these edits is adding "authority control". It is very debatable if any of the changes you make (the dmy tag date, replacing templates no one has a problem with (like refimprove) with the ones you rae trying to impose for years now ("more citations needed"), and adding the empty authority control tag) is actually needed, but the last one is the only one that could have an impact on the actual article, and thus the only one that actually needed to be in the edit summary. Please (preferably) stop with these edits, or (at the very least) make sure that the edit summary indicates the actual, impactful edit, and not the superfluous one.

Note that you are also adding authority control to localities, which is very often a bad idea as it links too often to pages about different subjects or to 404 error pages (e.g. for Worldcat), if anything is found at all. For example Saint-Josse-ten-Noode now has some links to pages repeating that yes, it is a municipality of Brussels, and some about a museum in the municipality, not the municipality itself. An "authority control" which is about more than one subject is not an authority control. Sall (a village in Denmark) has this Worldcat identity, this VIAF, and this Library of Congress link All three are wrong.

I don't know if there is any consensus that adding authority control to all articles, no matter the subject, is wanted. A quick check shows you adding it to tv shows, movies, train services, mobile phones, ...Fram (talk) 15:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * One of the principles I try to operate under, is to reduce the number of edits for the same benefit. As you know there are many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of edits that simply add Authority control.  For this reason it seems a good idea to add the template whenever editing an article for some other reason.  Mentioning this in the edit summary might well be a good idea in principle, but it seems a minor thing.
 * I'm not sure why you are annoyed with being replaced with, this template was moved to its present name in 2018, by User:Timrollpickering after a requested move by User:SMcCandlish, supported by User:BD2412 and User:Galobtter.  The move was reviewed by User:SkyWarrior, and upheld.  The template move was promptly reflected in the AWB list by User:JJMC89.  It is not as you claim, something I have been trying to impose, though it does seem a good idea worth supporting.
 * After a relatively short period, around half the usages are at the new name. I would expect in another five years 7/8 will be there, without anyone having to make any special effort at all.  This is a system that works well in my book.
 * You refer to difficulties with the template itself.  I have fixed the template to resolve the 404 issue you mention.
 * You further refer to issues in the authority control fields for Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and Sall.
 * For the first I have suppressed the VIAF/WorldCat entities, and have contacted VIAF about the confusion in their authority file (as well as contacting the Wikidata community). The authority control record itself is an authority control record, it simply has incorrect links to other perfectly valid records.  This is the identical problem that we used to have with interwiki links on the Wikipedias.
 * For the second I have removed the VIAF/WorldCat/LCCN links from Wikidata, as they plainly link the Wikidata item to the wrong records.
 * All these resolutions are within the grasp of any Wikipedian, with the possible exception of the template fix.
 * Authority control records cover a wide variety of matter. While people and places are prominent, organisations and publications are also important.  Sachbegriff or headwords can include any item which a publication can be "about".
 * Hope that helps clarify the matters you raised, stay safe.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 00:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC).
 * Authority control records cover a wide variety of matter. While people and places are prominent, organisations and publications are also important.  Sachbegriff or headwords can include any item which a publication can be "about".
 * Hope that helps clarify the matters you raised, stay safe.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 00:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC).
 * Hope that helps clarify the matters you raised, stay safe.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 00:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC).
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 00:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC).


 * So you will continue making pointless edits because you prefer to have it your way, got it. As usual, you don't check the results of your edits, and only when someone else spotchecks some of them may you consider acting on these spotchecks, without checking whether other edits had similar problems. This is a pattern going back more than ten years, but little seems to have changed in the meantime. That a template is renamed doesn't mean that all instances of that template have to be renamed, and that many have been renamed since is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The end result of your edits was still nothing substantial added, and the potentially problematic part of the edit not included in the edit summary, making it less likely that others would check what these many changes on their catchlist actually did. Fram (talk) 08:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I notice for example that you are still changing e.g. 20th century to twentieth century, a change for which there is no consensus at all but which you have been pushing in your mass edits for years. You are still trying to impose your preferred style through your mass editing, even though it has been pointed out to you on many occasions (and by many people) that this is not allowed in many cases. Fram (talk) 08:35, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * For example you most recent edit, : you change a perfectly working and acceptable template to one that has the exact same result (and this change is not included in AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects), and you change "TV" to "television" even though this goes against WP:MOSABB. It looks as if you are just trying to skirt the older restrictions you have had for years, and the new one imposed in January (which you dramatically claimed would be a "ban from editing", without actually adressing the underlying issues, i.e. that you should stop making these edits which do nothing to actually improve the article but just continue the same needless meddling with pages to get them closer to your preferred vision of what MOS, templates, spelling, everyone should use. Fram (talk) 08:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * You do the same, with a false edit summary, here. And here you change the official name of a machine to one without caps, in your zeal to erase all erroneous capitalization. Basically, you are again, as way too often happened before, making mostly inconsequential edits where the end result is just as likely to be an error or an improvement. And when you do make a substantial edit, like in creating Mohammad Ali Younes, you violate basic policies and create an article which is simply not acceptable for the mainspace: a BLP (very recent death) with allegations of murder sourced solely to an opinion piece? I moved the article to draft space, to get it improved (the sourcing is just the most major problem) or deleted. Fram (talk) 09:21, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I spent a considerable effort on replying to your initial screed, in the forlorn hope that you would engage collegially.  Once again you reply with personal attacks and negativity.
 * Please think about the people you are engaging with, who are not automata.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 15:26, 10 April 2020 (UTC).


 * I have learned not to judge you by your passive agressive civility, but by your actions. Your edits are those of an automaton in way too many cases, and have been condemned as such by many people over many years. Ignoring the actual issues raised here because of some perceived personal attack is not surprising, but if you continue to edit in this vein, with hidden scripts causing many problems (like the multiple different short descriptions you added to articles but, on a positive note, self-reverted some days later), then you will again end up at ANI and probably face another editing restriction. Fram (talk) 16:28, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I agree that more descriptive edit summaries (especially to identify the more important aspects of an edit) are better. On the other hand, I think it's silly to complain about replacing old template redirects with links to the actual templates unless (per WP:MEATBOT, WP:NOTBROKE) it is the  change being made in the edit.  Not going to wade through all the rest of that back-'n'-forth up there.  This is all a WP:Common sense matter: don't sweat the small stuff or obsess over trivia, but also do not mislead other editors, either intentionally or through error of omission.  We almost all have a lot of extra time on our hands and extra stress (especially those of us under financial hardship due to this F'ing virus), so let's go out of our way to avoid irritating each other. :-)   — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:01, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Current COVID
Template:Current COVID has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:10, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #410
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
 * Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
 * Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
 * Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
 * ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
 * SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
 * Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
 * Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron


 * Tool of the week
 * Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
 * Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
 * New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
 * schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
 * Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
 * wb_terms table will be emptied today
 * Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
 * External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
 * External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20target%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2FQ84263196%3E%20%23%20Replace%20Q84263196%20%28COVID-19%29with%20Wikidata%20ID%20of%20your%20concept%20of%20interest%2C%20e.g.%20Q202864%20%28Zika%20virus%29%20%0A%0A%23%20%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fcited_countryLabel%20%3Fcited_flag%20%3Fciting_country%20%3Fciting_countryLabel%20%3Fciting_flag%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fciting_country%20%28COUNT%28%3Fciting_country%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fciting_author%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP921%20target%3A%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20wdt%3AP921%20target%3A%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited_work%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcited_author%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fciting_work%20%21%3D%20%3Fcited_work%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited_work%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_author%20%28wdt%3AP108%7Cwdt%3AP1416%29%20%3Fciting_organization%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_author%20%28wdt%3AP108%7Cwdt%3AP1416%29%20%3Fcited_organization%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_organization%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcited_country.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_organization%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fciting_country.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fciting_country%20%21%3D%20%3Fcited_country%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fciting_country%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20LIMIT%2030%20%23%20Adjust%20number%20of%20connections%20to%20display%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results%0A%20%20%3Fcited_country%20wdt%3AP163%20%2F%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fcited_flag%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fciting_country%20wdt%3AP163%20%2F%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fciting_flag%20.%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%7D%0A Country-level citation graph for #COVID19] (source)
 * Movies from artfilm.ch in free access (source)
 * Topic co-occurrence graph in the SARS-CoV-2 & #COVID19 literature (source)
 * Fibulas in Musée Saint-Raymond with date, material, location of discovery


 * Development
 * Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
 * Bridge: improve rendering of references (T238661)
 * Only send incremental changes through the API (T230343)
 * Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (T240333)
 * Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (T228857)

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) 15:30, 6 April 2020 (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!

"Pafnuti Chebychev" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Pafnuti Chebychev. Since you had some involvement with the Pafnuti Chebychev redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:13, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

"Kelvin Moore (footballer) (disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Kelvin Moore (footballer) (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Kelvin Moore (footballer) (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Regards, SONIC  678  04:45, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

"Hiram (given name) (disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hiram (given name) (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Hiram (given name) (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Regards, SONIC  678  20:34, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing restriction...
This edit does not appear to change anything on the rendered page. Are you not still under an editing restriction that prevents you making such edits? See Editing restrictions. --Ealdgyth (talk) 18:34, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, it changes the category Category:Use dmy dates from September 2010 to Category:Use dmy dates from April 2020, it has been established that this constitutes a change to the rendered page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 18:41, 13 April 2020 (UTC).


 * There's another applicable restriction. From ANI 3 months ago: Rich Farmbrough is not permitted to make any mass changes to articles, broadly construed, and regardless of editing method, cosmetic or not, without a demonstrable consensus from the community that he is explicitly permitted to do so (Special:Diff/935340986). Is there such a consensus for these edits? Mdaniels5757 (talk) 19:20, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * It gets worse. In this edit, updated the date in the template without actually verifying that all dates in the article complied with the format. I think that these useless – and in this case actually harmful in a minor way – edits should stop. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I’ve gone ahead and blocked you for two weeks per the above sanction cited by as there doesn’t appear to be any explicit consensus for you to make them anywhere in your editing history. I’m also issuing final warning that should violate one of your sanctions again, you may be indefinitely blocked without further warning, as your block log shows these are issues dating back years. If you wish to appeal, you may follow the advice in WP:GAB. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:08, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I am curious to know whether Mdaniels5757 and TonyBallioni regularly follow my talk page, since I believe Tony has only come here (twice) to block me, and I have never interacted with either editor outside this.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 21:50, 15 April 2020 (UTC).


 * , Hi. No, I don't regularly follow your talk page. This came to my attention via my watching of another user's talk. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 22:24, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks, appreciate your prompt response. As Oscar Wild said "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Where (on wiki) am I being talked about?  All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 22:31, 15 April 2020 (UTC).


 * Here. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 22:49, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I saw it both here and on 's talk. I typically watchlist the talk page of user's I've blocked. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Funnily enough I just saw it at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Iridescent#And_we_wonder_why_folks_throw_their_hands_up_and_quit... myself.

I was pinged in another discussion, along with Iridescent and the mouse-over of his talk page piqued my interest.

So it's good to see WP:CANVAS no longer applies.

The level of despair these kinds of shenanigans bring about is far more than just making people want to throw up their hands and quit. The implication that I don't care about other users is a supreme irony.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 18:12, 16 April 2020 (UTC).

But you have to laugh, or at least grin wryly:

So there is plotting and tag teaming - and a bunch of advice, on which particular piece of quasi-legislation to use to ... well what was the purpose exactly? And Ealdgyth is the one suffering?

It is, as some of our more poorly worded articles would say "interesting to note" that the ER which the cabal picked as their weapon of choice was proposed by someone who was apparently ignorant of this injunction by ArbCom, which stood at the head of my talk page for some time:

But heigh-ho a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, so add to my strait jacket with leaden weights, and you just make me more determined not to stumble into the torrent. And if I do and am swept away, no-one will really notice, there will just be one less person dedicated to making the project good, rather than editing for their own amusement.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 19:37, 16 April 2020 (UTC).


 * , I don't know others' motivations, and will not speculate as to them. They told me to do nothing (and, although they did link to a diff, their evidence was only a start, not sufficient to support any action).
 * A brief look at your contributions page was plenty for me to confirm their accusation. I think the evidence that I cited above speaks for itself (100 edits in 15 minutes with the same edit summary sounds like a "mass change" to me), but if you believe that the evidence does not establish that you breached your editing restriction, an unblock appeal is the way to go.
 * One last note: there is no cabal. There is no conspiracy against you. None of those above (or myself) are not "dedicated to making the project good". A couple of editors stumbled upon something that looked fishy, looked around for a minute, and acted appropriately. If you wish to appeal your block, I doubt that the reviewing admin will look favorably upon unfounded accusations and ad hominem attacks.
 * Best, Mdaniels5757 (talk) 23:16, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Of course all references to a cabal are meant to be humorous.
 * It's pretty clear that Ealdgyth's original message refers to "unrendered changes" - not the recent ER. She says on Iridescent's page "I meant all of them" but that's not what she said.
 * It is unpleasant, to say the least, that a discussion was going on about how to get me blocked, without even the courtesy of a ping.
 * Appealing the block is a waste of time. Even if it is successful, the damage is done.  If I had been found guilty of manslaughter at the time of my first block I'd be out by now.  But that block is still held against me.  Even the arbcom restriction that was eventually rescinded is brought up as if I had been found guilty of some crime against humanity.  Mud sticks.
 * In fact successful appeals make the block log look longer.
 * I don't fault you for coming here and pointing something out. I don't particularly fault anyone, they are all doing right according to their lights.
 * However I have a different perspective which I think is valid. And that is talk about things and resolve problems instead of blocking.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 10:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #411
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9, April 19
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion
 * Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
 * Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
 * Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
 * Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope


 * Tool of the week
 * COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
 * You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
 * The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch
 * ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
 * For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
 * ListeriaBot blocked pending review on English Wikipedia.
 * A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German
 * Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: donations, network bands, bus, recommended unit of measurement, CSS color keyword
 * External identifiers: BDSP ID, CAB ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, ScreenScraper group ID, The Cover Project game ID, FHF establishment ID, FHF hospital group ID, elibrary.ru person ID, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, WBIS ID, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Visit Tuscany ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, Curran Index contributor ID, ODMP person ID, GameTDB game ID, Elephind.com ID, EZB ID, GameReactor game ID, Archival Resource Key, EcuRed article, Geneastar person ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, I-Revues ID, JournalTOCs ID, MUSE article ID, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE, Paperity article ID, Paperity journal ID, SAN archive producer ID, SOCAN work number, Papers Past ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, COTREX trail ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ACUM work ID, appendix, Wikisource index page, Unicode character, Arlington Cemetery person ID, Eigentümerhistorie, quantification instruction, language level, Included in curricula, Order number, ShEx available at URL, dialect of (computer language), file page offset, station service succession
 * External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number, Wikiparques ID, NKAA ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Provenio ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, RPPS ID, South African Company Registration Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, SNCF station identifier, Benerail station identifier, Indian Railways train number, Soccerdonna coach ID, DLL Catalog IDs, MDN, Psocodea Species File ID, Slovak Registration ID, Swedish Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, CPAN person, FactGrid item ID, FactGrid property ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID


 * Query examples:
 * Names of countries without letter "a" (source)
 * Infectious diseases and their number of cases (source)
 * Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria (source)
 * Schema examples: pandemic (E184), preprint (E185), Macromolecular complex (E186), hospital (E187), 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188), clinical trial (E189), Lockdown (E190), lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191), virus taxon (E192), Preprint server (E193), Complex Portal entity (E194), contact tracing app (E195)


 * Development
 * Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (T248592)
 * Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (T249596)
 * Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (T249595)
 * More work on Automated finding references
 * More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
 * Bridge: improve the generic error screen (T241126) and on save (T248087)

You bhsee 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!

"Catholic Encylopaedia" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Catholic Encylopaedia. Since you had some involvement with the Catholic Encylopaedia redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Regards, SONIC  678  15:15, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * User:Sonic678 Please see item 4 in below. All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 21:54, 15 April 2020 (UTC).

Your draft article, Draft:2022 in public domain


Hello, Rich Farmbrough. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "2022 in public domain".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:33, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, User:UnitedStatesian! I would appreciate it if you would do me the courtesy of notifying me before you nominate anything for deletion.  The majority of the time I will either  the offending item, or provide a reasonably compelling argument for it's retention.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 22:33, 15 April 2020 (UTC).


 * please refund this article. All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 22:35, 15 April 2020 (UTC).


 * ✅. Primefac (talk) 01:16, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Things that need fixing
Anyone who is kind enough to fix any of these things, please add a  by the item or items you fix. Anything left I will attempt to attend to on my return.
 * 1) Photo_51 mis-seplls Gosling as Goslin in a reference.✅
 * 2) Histone fails to mention that some viruses (polioviuses?) have histones.
 * 3) * (minor) in the caption to Core histone H2A/H2B/H3/H4, the word "complex" should probably not be capitalised
 * 4) * (minor) the heading for "linker histone H1 and H5 family" should start with a capital L
 * 5) Erich Vermehren cites de:Wikipedia as a source, less importantly
 * 6) * (minor) was making peace overtures with should be was making peace overtures to
 * 7) * (minor) External links, WARTIME ACTIVITIES OF THE GERMAN DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY SERVICES DURING WORLD WAR II should be in title case, i.e. "Wartime Activities of the German Diplomatic and Military Services During World War II". ✅ Mathglot (talk) 19:58, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 8) (minor) c. 72 mis-spelling of "encyclopedia" as "encylopedia".
 * 9) *In hand: See Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_April_15 and Wikipedia_talk:Typo_Team. Pam  D  08:09, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 10) Renewable energy in Scotland has two badly broken refs.✅
 * 11) *Details? Can see 2 bare URLs only, on quick scan. Pam  D  07:19, 16 April 2020 (UTC) Fixed them both.  Pam  D  08:07, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 12) **Thanks, these were fixed by AnomieBot, here. All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 08:54, 16 April 2020 (UTC).


 * 1) Noted Negro Women should say "is" rather than "was" in the first sentence.  –  Agreed; but I like to link policy/guideline in the ES, and I can't find the one that governs present tense here; link it please and ping me, and I'll fix it. Mathglot (talk) 08:29, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Mathglot - WP:TENSE. TYVM. RF 13:09, 18 April 2020 (UTC) ✅ Mathglot (talk) 19:23, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Grimoult of Plessis "his Castle" should be "his castle" and "Attempted Coup" should be "Attempted coup" ✅ Mathglot (talk) 08:36, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2)  "These styles are not used on Wikipedia, including for titles of pop-culture or academic works, respectively."  remove the meaningless "respectively".  – article or project page link? Mathglot (talk) 08:36, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Manual of Style/Titles. Thanks! RF 13:01, 18 April 2020 (UTC) ✅ Mathglot (talk) 19:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Viridiplantae last sentence of first para is redundant to first. ✅ Mathglot (talk) 19:36, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) Sugar Ray Seales "He was subsequently declared legally blind, and was used as a cause célèbre along with Sugar Ray Leonard during the 1980s for those pushing for a ban on boxing." better is "He was subsequently declared legally blind, and was used as a cause célèbre, along with Sugar Ray Leonard, during the 1980s by those pushing for a ban on boxing."
 * 3) Kirsten Johnson for some reason the Academy Award is italicised, no support for this in WP:ITALICS. All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 13:07, 18 April 2020 (UTC).


 * 1) Brothers Grimm "In 1837, they lost their university posts after joining in protest with the Göttingen Seven." should be "In 1837, they lost their university posts after joining the rest of the Göttingen Seven in protest." -see the linked article for details. RF 16:21, 18 April 2020 (UTC) ✅ Mathglot (talk) 19:46, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) Superyacht - This edit broke file syntax, easy fix.  – assume you are you looking for a revert here? The new image is 100px square. Mathglot (talk) 19:41, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * This has been reverted by User:HopsonRoad, to whom thanks. RF 13:55, 19 April 2020 (UTC)✅

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 21:40, 15 April 2020 (UTC).
 * 1) 2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom 'The Queen' -> 'the Queen' (x2), 'Royal Family' -> 'royal family' (x2?), 'a televised address outside or her annual Christmas message' -> 'a televised address excluding her annual Christmas messages',  'The Prince' and 'the Prince' -> Charles, 'Garden Parties' -> 'garden parties',  "'virtual'" remove single quotes and remove "due to the ongoing pandemic" as redundant.

Mitigation article challenge
User:Ealdgyth - your challenge is to write the article on Kathlyn Oliver, trades union founder and promoter of the right for women to love one another, which I had just started when the first effects of your actions took place.

Extended challenge, an article on HIP2 (hospital building scheme).

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 21:07, 16 April 2020 (UTC).

Sandy
You said: 22:18, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes it certainly can. I would think genuinely deceptive edit summaries would be enough for the community to take action though.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 22:18, 16 April 2020 (UTC).

Thanks section
'''Since I am blocked from thanking people (except when they edit this page), I am pinging some of those I wish to thank here. Hope you all don't mind.'''

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 21:56, 16 April 2020 (UTC).
 * User:AntiCompositeNumber for actually fixing things. Lots of things.
 * User:Ohconfucius a star as always.


 * You've been an enormous inspiration to me (and to my mentor Lightmouse, long since retired), so it's you I owe an incredible thanks to. But you're not done, at least I hope not . I have found that WP is on one hand a whimsical place, it's also incredibly forgiving, so hang on in there, and Illegitimi non carborundum. I'm looking forward to working with you again! --  Ohc  ¡digame! 16:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 22:13, 16 April 2020 (UTC).
 * User:Smallbones for Signpost, and many other things.

Digital meetups
User:Richard Nevell (WMUK), I will definitely attend. This is something I have been thinking we should do for years, or what this could evolve into. All the meetups are a trek for me, Cambridge takes about 2 1/2 hours, London 4 and Oxford 5 or 6. And the travel is not cheap. And I know many Wiki[mp]edians (among whose number I still count myself) have even less disposable income than I.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 22:51, 16 April 2020 (UTC).


 * It looks like there are enough people to make it worth trying out, and because it's not specific to one place there's the chance for people who don't usually get to go to meetups to take part. Assuming it goes ahead, we'll publicise it on the meetup pages and probably the watchlist notice I should think. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 11:28, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Mass WP:ENGVAR violation: Oxford comma
User:Eliteplus has made a large number of edits applying the Oxford comma to articles, often alone, sometimes with other changes that are more or less good. (For example - "a LP" to "an LP", good, "water craft" to "watercraft", dubious.)

While I'm sure they did this unintentionally, and will stop and be more careful in future, it will need someone to revert/rollback all the bad edits.

Volunteers?

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 22:08, 16 April 2020 (UTC).

"Necessary" commas and Oxford spelling
User:Hko2333 has been adding "necessary commas" (as well as fixing captialization errors and other, generally useful clean-ups). These are not always necessary, and perhaps it would be wise to stop this.

User:Patiodweller has been adding similar commas, and changing spelling to the Oxford style (as in "captialization" rather than "captialisation", again while also doing other clean-up at least some of which is useful. Please try not to change these spellings except where the article is already using the same spelling style, and also be very circumspect about adding commas.  Similarly Brovaz' is a perfectly valid punctuation.

I offer similar advice to User:Challenger.rebecca who is both adding and removing commas, it is not the case that a comma is required before the word "but" nor is it forbidden before the word "while". In this case the comma is parenthetical, and makes perfect sense.

User:Martinthewriter once again, commas after "In 1922" and so forth, are sometimes a good idea, but not always. Same applies to leading terms such as "Therefore".

Not sure if there are more editors making these types of changes, but good luck to you all in refining your editing.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 02:38, 18 April 2020 (UTC).

Useful stuff

 * 1) include 

char my_timestamp[26]; timestamp(my_timestamp); void timestamp(char *dest ) {   time_t ltime; ltime=time(NULL); sprintf(dest, "%s",asctime( gmtime(&ltime))); return; } All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 12:08, 17 April 2020 (UTC).

Domain name
User:Faridalam65, Wikipedia is not a place to sell domain names!

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 16:28, 17 April 2020 (UTC).

"262144" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 262144. Since you had some involvement with the 262144 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:28, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, User:1234qwer1234qwer4! I would appreciate it if you would do me the courtesy of notifying me before you nominate anything I created for deletion.  The majority of the time I will either  the offending item, or provide a reasonably compelling argument for its retention.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 14:58, 17 April 2020 (UTC).

2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom
There is a presentation problem with this page, that causes the heading shown below to fail to render properly at some window sizes, due to squeezing by the chart. You can use your browser's zoom to make the heading hide/show.

Late January 2020 – first cases
The simple solution is a before the header:

Late January 2020 – first cases
Hope someone can fix this.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 23:36, 17 April 2020 (UTC).


 * The tool wikidata-filter was renamed wikibase-dump-filter, to better reflect that it can be used with dumps from any Wikibase instance
 * LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
 * The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
 * New tool: Anagram generator based on Wikidata names


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: eligible award recipient
 * External identifiers: Wikiparques ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, FooDB compound ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, HASC


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IDU general item ID, CONI honoured ID, parliament seats, electoral system, same transportation stop on the other side of the road, string instrument handedness, Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID, defines curriculum, clinitalregister.eu
 * External identifiers: Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, DPVweb ID, IDU theatre ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, ROKPS ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, Diels-Kranz ID, IDU theatre name ID (2), Oregon Historic Sites Database ID, Infames Romani ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Heritage Gateway ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, identifiant monument MémorialGenWeb, Extratime.ie player ID, DGHS facility code, WikiTrek ID, Itch.io developper profile


 * Deleted properties: P134 (has dialect), P1432 (B-side)
 * Query examples:
 * Women with cats in paintings (Source)
 * Films by Peter Mettler available free on VOD (Source)
 * Films broadcast on VOD by artfilm.ch sorted by Director and Date (Source)
 * Swiss films listed by date and duration per minutes (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fosm%20%3Fceremonial%20%3FceremonialLabel%20%3FceremonialDescription%20%3Fceremonialosm%20%3Fadministrative%20%3FadministrativeLabel%20%3FadministrativeDescription%20%3Fadministrativeosm%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1138494.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1889%20%3Fceremonial.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonial%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ180673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonial%20p%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialstatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonialstatement%20ps%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialosmid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonialstatement%20pq%3AP518%20wd%3AQ180673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fceremonialosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fceremonialosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fceremonial%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fceremonialosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fceremonialosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1889%20%3Fadministrative.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrative%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ643815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrative%20p%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativestatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrativestatement%20ps%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativeosmid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrativestatement%20pq%3AP518%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ643815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fadministrativeosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fadministrativeosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fadministrative%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativeosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fadministrativeosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fadministrativeosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%28%3FitemLabel%29%0ALIMIT%2049 Counties in England] (Source)
 * Programming Languages, Year of creation and Image of inventor(Source)
 * Map of Antonine Wall items on Wikidata (Source)
 * Map of Hospitals in Buenos Aires on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
 * Map of Michelin starred restaurants in Switzerland (Source)
 * English civil parishes on Wikidata with OSM relation ID (Source)
 * Collections in Louvre with an image on Wikimedia Commons (Source)
 * Chief Mousers(Source)
 * Books about Semantics (Source)
 * Danish COVID-19 research projects(Source)
 * Newest database reports: Lincoln (disambiguation page)


 * Development
 * Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
 * try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
 * allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
 * investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
 * com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
 * identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
 * create design system components to continue improving consistency

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
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 * 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!

The Signpost: 26 April 2020
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:18, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #413
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Udder balm
 * CheckUser nomination: علاء


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #11, May 3
 * Upcoming: Live editing of Wikidata, May 2 18:00 (UTC) YouTube, Facebook


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wiki Workshop 2020: Report
 * Editing food items and querying glaciers: YouTube and Facebook
 * Interactions between VIAF and Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata now includes more than seven million people (it has doubled since July 2017), also: project chat discussion
 * Nobelprize.org has now redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) (more information)
 * The use of Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list
 * Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: tournament format, dialect of computer language, located in the statistical territorial entity
 * External identifiers: ModelSEED compound ID, UM-BBD compound ID, DLL Catalog author ID, DLL Catalog work ID, CPAN author ID, Fandango performer ID, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, IDU theatre company ID, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID, Swedish Glaciers ID, Soccerdonna coach ID, Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, Moravian Lives ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com series ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, SAR ancestor ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, Psocodea Species File ID, SkiMo Stats ID, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, re:publica speaker ID, Provenio ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: nerve origin, 法令番号, interpretation, DoME exhibition ID
 * External identifiers: dbchgk, COVIDWHO ID, History Colorado ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Epistemonikos ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, Dart thesis, DPE school code


 * Query examples:
 * Pairs of lakes named after a couple
 * The longest river that feeds into another river (Source)
 * Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (Source)
 * Map showing things in Wikidata that are located on or next to the River Thames (Source)
 * Defining formulas of physical and other quantities (Source)
 * TreeMap visualising the 12 times table (Source)
 * Map of the "Leipzig University Villages" (Source)
 * There are now more than 7 million people on Wikidata (Source)
 * Recently published works on COVID-19 (Source)
 * Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (Source)
 * Newest database reports: measures of gobbledygook


 * Development
 * More work on error screens for the Bridge
 * Use updated data for the Bridge (T240223)
 * Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (T246606)
 * Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (T249004)
 * Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (T248997)
 * Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (T249613)
 * Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (T241978)
 * Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (T203461)

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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 * 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!

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week
Hello there. This is an invitation to join the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week. £250 (c. $310) up for grabs in May, June and July with £20 worth of prizes to give away every week for most articles destubbed. Each week there is a different region of focus, though half the prize will still be rewarded for articles on any subject. Articles may be submitted for this as well as the regional Challenge you usually contribute to at the same time. Sign up if you want to contribute at least one of the weeks or support the idea! † Encyclopædius  19:37, 27 April 2020 (UTC)