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Wikidata weekly summary #622


'' Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-15. Translations are available.''



 Discussions 
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
 * DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID (P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID (P227), IdRef ID (P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) or Library of Congress authority ID (P244)

 Events 
 * The next Wikidata Bug triage hour is happening on April 15th at 16UTC. It will focus on mobile editing of statements.
 * Telegram Office Hour - 04-10-2024 log - if you missed all the exciting updates, you can see them all here on the Archived log.
 * The Leveling Up Days 2024 was concluded, you can watch the videos available on the program page and contribute to the captions on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 16, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is, amazingly, 5 years old this month, and we are planning a very Zoomy celebration befitting our virtual community. We are hoping you can join and share some reflections. Feel free to sign our anniversary card and update your Zoom background to something festive! Agenda
 * Documenting Nigeria's Supreme Court Cases - this online event is a contest to enrich and connect the verdicts and sitting Judges of Nigerian Supreme Court cases. Points will be awarded for contributions. Event ends: 28 April 00:00 UTC.
 * Edit-A-Thon of the LOD user group: Midwest Collaborative Library Services - registration is now open for this online event, taking place 22 - 26 April.
 * II International Convention on GLAM Wikiverse and Gender - June 5, Aula Rubió, Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona (UB), 9:30-1:30 p.m.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Working towards a Brazilian History Knowledge Graph - Mike Young describes the progress towards building a KG on Brazilian history and how Wikidata supported this endeavour, especially for linking poiticians, movements, constitutions, laws and events that may not be notable for individual Wikipedia articles.
 * Reimagining cultural heritage data - this article by Jason Evans documents the efforts of the Llyfgrell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) to open their archives and datasets to Wikidata and the creation of their Wikibase-powered SNARC Tool (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru).
 * Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata how to remove the mismatches between Wikidata and Openstreetmap for villages of a district in Andhra Pradesh (India)
 * Andhra Pradesh/Notes/Arjunaraoc/Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata
 * Presentations
 * Wikidata: your friendly (University's) knowledge graph - Christian Erlinger on behalf of the University of Innsbruck has produced this slidedeck showing how Wikidata can be used for science and research communication.
 * Workshop: Making the Colombian public domain visible on Wikidata (in Spanish) - Fundación Conector with the support of Wikimedia Colombia presented this workshop to create items in Wikidata about Colombian authors. This is part of the directory of Colombian authors in Public domain
 * Papers: Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies - analyze the ontologies of Wikidata and the taxonomy of Wikipedia. Centelles, M. and Ferran-Ferrer, N. (2024)
 * Videos
 * Wikidata per la ricerca (Wikidata for research): online conference, organized on 9 April 2024 by Wikimedia Italia, by Epìdosis (in Italian: slides and video)
 * Demonstration of the XML-TEI Wikidata Geocoder Tool (French) - This tool from PhilippGam will showcase how the Wikidata Geocoder tool can extract information such as PersName, PlaceName, geographic coordinates and images from XML-TEI files. Try it here.
 * Live Wikidata Editing #113 with User:Abbe98 and User:Ainali explain the thought process behind how they edit whilst looking at biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists, during the Leveling Up Days 2024 event.
 * WikiConference NA 2023
 * Open scholarly communication with Wikidata - Daniel Mietchen talks about the benefits of Wikidata and the Wikimedia platforms to enhance researcher and collaborative workflows.
 * Wikidata for open museum data sharing - Rhonda Yearwood explains how Wikidata can facilitate and provide a platform for the open sharing of Museum and Gallery datasets.
 * Wikidata's usefulness for university knowledge sharing- Will (Wiki Ed) hosts workshops on Wikidata and advocates Wikidata as a way for Universities to share general reference knowledge.
 * FOSSGIS 2024 Modelling with 'Fuzziness' / 'Wobbliness' in Geodata (German) - Florian Thiery presents a paper on data-driven use cases for modeling vague or uncertain georeference data, to adhere to FAIR principles as closely as possible.
 * Notebooks: Medias by country

 Tool of the week 
 * Missing biographies, a companion tool which helps identifies people without a biography in a given Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
 * Only 6 more days to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 
 * General datatypes:
 * nanopublication identifier ( RDF-based publication, with references and history )
 * media modality ( which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * derived from base unit ( the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * ‎API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * follows spelling paradigm ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * EBITDA
 * Authorised capital
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * image decay ( image decay suffered by an old photograph )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * risk group ( Risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party / candidate for use on ballots )
 * tartan image ( image of the item's tartan )
 * tartan ( subject's tartan )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, az.lib.ru author ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, HCERES organisation ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, Duden Sense ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Algerian trademark number, YList ID, WDF players ID, GovTrack person, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, pressball.by football manager ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, Delisted Games ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, Kritikanstvo IDs, case number (mainland China), myabandonware.com game id, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples: Map of river names in german coloured by gender
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
 * Albums - A WikiProject about music album releases
 * Algeria - Aims to collaborate on Algeria-related topics
 * Showcase Items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) - Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
 * Showcase Lexemes: kone (L6888) - Finish noun, translate to "machine"

 Development 
 * mul langauge code: We are finishing the polishing for the first proper release coming soon.
 * EntitySchema: We are continuing the work on the new datatype that will make it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * REST API:
 * We continued work on creating an Item via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * We continued work on modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (T347394)

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.

 Weekly Tasks  · Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 13:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Misc (2/n)
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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: 2024-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now 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).
 * Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
 * A new variable  will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.

Future changes
 * Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the  and  tables. Some queries might need to be updated.

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Wikidata weekly summary #624


'' Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-22. Translations are available.''



 Discussions 
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
 * IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back

 Events 
 * It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs: Wikimedia begins mapping of Anambra MDAs, streets, markets on Wikidata - The Wikimedia Anambra Network and the Anambra State ICT Agency are collaborating on a project to map ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), streets, and markets in Anambra State on Wikidata.
 * Papers
 * Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata
 * Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata + AI audio abstract

 Tool of the week 
 * Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
 * There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * General datatypes:
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * derived from base unit ( the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * ‎API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * leaf morphology ( characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves )
 * ‎creative director ( person who makes high-level creative decisions )
 * beneficial owner ( natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation )
 * official server list URL ( website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software )
 * EBITDA ( accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted )
 * date popularized ( point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots )
 * authorised capital ( maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * follows spelling pattern ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID, ‎WildTangent Games ID, HCERES organisation ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Hanslick Online person ID, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, mosff.ru staff ID, PeerTube channel address, WDF player ID, ‎The Spriters Resource game ID, ‎Cemu Wiki article ID, ‎Génération Nintendo game ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, Zillow zpid, Aragonario ID (6th version), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, Algerian trademark number ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, ‎Delisted Games ID, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, pressball.by football manager ID, Duden sense ID, GovTrack person ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Kritikanstvo game ID, Kritikanstvo publication ID, Kritikanstvo critic ID, myabandonware.com game ID, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * image decay ( image decay suffered by an old photograph )
 * risk group ( risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual )
 * tartan image ( image of the item's tartan )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * hasFeldpostNumber ( Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars. )
 * total deposits ( total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution )
 * Total loans ( total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution )
 * source of transfer & destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender] )
 * type of deterioration ( to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc. )
 * rythme narratif ( video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions )
 * event role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * Patent Abstract ( Abstract of the patent )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, YList ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, case number (mainland China), English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID, Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID, Pitchbook Company Profile, Cbonds Company Profile, Sonic Retro article ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID, identifiant Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego, Algerian district ID, The Spriters Resource platform ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID, PEGI game ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Flora Croatica Database taxon ID, Algerian province ID, more kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, World Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Gentoo Guru ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * World map of subway maps
 * View of the associative network of artists to societies (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now source
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject NZThesisProject Wikidata library training Christchurch 2024 - The aim is to organize an event to show participants how adding New Zealand collections to Wikidata can be useful, and to train participants to improve Wikidata Items so that tools such as Scholia, which builds academic profiles, will be demonstrated.
 * WikiProject Islam - Aims to collaborate on Islam-related topics
 * WikiProject Algerian History - The goal of this project is to ensure the completeness of the history of Algeria (Q473761) during its historic period to modern time in Wikidata.
 * WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject India/General Elections 2024 task force - is an initiative to create and up-to-date information related to general election (Q1076105) in India (Q668).
 * Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same sitelink name
 * Showcase Items: Bertus Aafjes (Q353003) - Dutch poet and writer (1914–1993)
 * Showcase Lexemes: dismesso (L1200000) - "discontinued/disused" in Italian

 Development 
 * mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
 * REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
 * Create an Item via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (T347394)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.

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.

 Weekly Tasks  · Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)  11:07, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Other objects and tools
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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: 2024-17
 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
 * Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention.
 * You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

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
 * This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of /vector.js to /vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.

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Growth News, April 2024


The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.

If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.

Community Configuration
Growth features are currently configurable at. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.

An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.

In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.

Experiment Results
Add a Image experiment analysis results

The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:


 * The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
 * The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
 * The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
 * A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).

Personalized praise experiment results

This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)

English donors encouraged to try editing

As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)

Future work
Annual Plan

The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV


 * News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law


 * WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap


 * WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)


 * Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users


 * Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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Wikidata weekly summary #625
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 Events   Press, articles, blog posts, videos   Tool of the week   Other Noteworthy Stuff   Newest properties and property proposals to review 
 * Nubuke Wikidata Workshop - Sat. 27 April 1100 - 1400 GMT at the Nubuke Foundation, Lome Close Accra, Ghana.
 * There's still time for nominating your favorite tool in the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners unveiled at Wikimania 2024
 * Coordinate Me 2024 - an international Wikidata competition around content with geodata. The competition starts on 1 May 2024 and ends on 31 May 2024.
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is just around the corner, taking place in Tallinn, Estonia from 02 - 06 May. We hope there will be lots of Wikidata hacking projects worked on.
 * Blogs
 * Diff Blog: Museums around the world, according to Wikidata - Wikimedia's own blog, Diff, has this interesting graphic showing museums around the world. To explore further, check the Wikidata Query.
 * Papers
 * Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata - This paper documents the experiences mapping PanglaoDB's free text cell types and genes i Wikidata to improve reusability and fairness. By Tiago Lubiana & João Vitor F. Cavalcante.
 * Exploring Wikidata for Social Science Research (Portugese) - Highlights the relevance of open resources such as Wikidata for the Social Sciences, providing access to information that facilitates research in the social, economic and cultural areas. By Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado.
 * Integrating Wikidata with Data Sleuthing Techniques For Enhanced Knowledge Discovery of Hidden Figures - this is a training resource to find and enrich Items on Natural History collector's.
 * Videos
 * The Data Mine: Wikimedia Content Quality 2024 - a short video on how to find mismatched data between Wikidata on other data sources.
 * MWCon Spring 2024 (Day 3) - This session of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference explores the different extensions you can use with Wikibase. See the rest of the program here
 * Getting Started with OpenRefine - Introducing OpenRefine, importing data, filtering and faceting and bulk editing, as well as how to connect to other data sources for reconciling your data. By Margaret Heller & Diana Rusch.
 * A Decade of Scholarly Research on Open Knowledge Graphs - Houcemeddine Turki host this presentation of the LREC-COLING 2024's findings. You can read the full paper here.
 * Beyond Wikidata: building a universal knowledge graph with MediaWiki and Wikibase - James Hare explores Wikibase as a focused alternative to creating a knowledge graph around a specific theme or project.
 * Antvaset's Wikidata Ontology explorer - explore Wikidata's Ontology in this top-down tree explorer. By Anton Vasetenkov.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland closed their Call for Software Contributions! Discover the project proposals submitted and share your feedback.
 * Release of Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.7WMDE .18 - minor security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.7
 * OpenRefine 3.8.0 was released


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * ‎API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * leaf morphology ( characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves )
 * ‎creative director ( person who makes high-level creative decisions )
 * beneficial owner ( natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation )
 * official server list URL ( website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software )
 * EBITDA ( accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted )
 * date popularized ( point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots )
 * authorised capital ( maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * follows spelling pattern ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * risk group ( risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual )
 * timetable/schedule URL ( link to the timetable or the schedule (in PDF, HTML, image format) for the given service or the event schedule. The current timetable/schedule should have preferred rank. )
 * deterioration ( to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc. )
 * External identifiers: Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID, ‎WildTangent Games ID, HCERES organisation ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Hanslick Online person ID, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, mosff.ru staff ID, PeerTube channel address, WDF player ID, ‎The Spriters Resource game ID, ‎Cemu Wiki article ID, ‎Génération Nintendo game ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, Zillow zpid, Aragonario ID (6th version), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, Algerian trademark number ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, ‎Delisted Games ID, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, pressball.by football manager ID, Duden sense ID, GovTrack person ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Kritikanstvo game ID, Kritikanstvo publication ID, Kritikanstvo critic ID, myabandonware.com game ID, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID, NICE Paintings ID, Sonic Retro article ID, Algerian district ID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, The Spriters Resource platform ID, Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego ID, Cerist.dz CCDZ ID, Flora Croatica Database taxon ID, Quadrinhopédia artist ID, SPV profile ID, CPV profile ID, Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID, Hindawi Foundation book ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Pennsylvania State Senate ID, Vanhan kirjasuomen sanakirja ID, Suomi–ruotsi-suursanakirja ID, ‎FilmVandaag ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * hasFeldpostNumber ( Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars. )
 * total deposits ( total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution )
 * Total loans ( total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution )
 * source of transfer & destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender] )
 * rythme narratif ( video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions )
 * event role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * Patent Abstract ( Abstract of the patent )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * founder of ( Organization, religion, or place that was founded or co-founded by subject. Inverse of P112. )
 * writing technique ( technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support )
 * identifiant Inventaire du patrimoine immobilier culturel
 * External identifiers: TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, YList ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, case number (mainland China), AccessAble venue ID, Pitchbook Company Profile, Cbonds Company Profile, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID, PEGI game ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Algerian province ID, World Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Gentoo Guru ID, Oxford University Press ID, FilmVandaag ID, FBW-Kennung, Duden node ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Taylor & Francis book ID, AbeBooks book ID, COBISS ID, Dhliz person ID, LGD Block Code, Edinburgh University Press ID, BD Gest' work ID, Gentoo Wiki ID, Barnes & Noble ID, Vanguard Books ID, Douban Personage ID, De Gruyter ID, Thriftbooks ID, eBay item, numéro d'établissement d'une ICPE, Columbia University Press ID, Kōmako id

You can comment on all open property proposals!
 * Deleted properties:

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 * Query examples:
 * Two or more statements on a certain property - generates a list of all elements where there are two or more statements on a certain property (without deprecated statements).
 * Explore data about Tabakalera participants - find biographical information of film director's that have participate din the San Sebastian Film Festival Tabalakera cultural centre.
 * Mothers on Wikidata - explore the mother and child relationships of Wikidata items.
 * Presidents of French Universities - curious about which individuals have presided at French Universities and Higher education institutions? This query explores that!
 * Showcase Items: Jerzy Spława-Neyman - A polish Statistician, the first to introduce a confidence interval to statistical hypothesis testing.
 * Showcase Lexemes: Pfeil (DE) - Arrow, part of the Weekly Lexeme Challenge.
 * 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.
 * 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: 2024-18
<section begin="technews-2024-W18"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes


 * The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: . These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences (""). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
 * Seven new wikis have been created:
 * a in Betawi
 * a in Kusaal
 * a in Igala
 * a in Karakalpak
 * a in Burmese
 * a in Malay
 * a in Georgian
 * You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
 * Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems
 * Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. 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).

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Tech News: 2024-19
<section begin="technews-2024-W19"/> 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 appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences (""). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the . More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.

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).
 * When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".

Future changes
 * A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
 * Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally.

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Wikidata weekly summary #626
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 Discussions 
 * Reminder: the period for feedback on the Wikidata Query Service graph split ruleset closes on 15-May-2024. More information here!

 Events 
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 took place in Tallinn, Estonia. Wikimedians from all over came together to hack on a huge variety of topics, including Wikidata and Wikibase topics. See the entire Program
 * International Museum Day 2024 on Wikimedia: Take part in the translation, media, and data challenges!
 * Registration for Wiki Workshop 2024 is now open! The event will be virtually held on *June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC
 * Coordinate Me 2024 is an international Wikidata competition taking place over the month of May. This year, the focus is on enriching or creating Wikidata items with the Property: Coordinate Location (P625). To participate, |first enroll on the dashboard to ensure your edits are tracked.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Papers: MisgenderMender - A community-informed approach to interventions of misgendering.
 * Videos
 * Intro to Wikidata Query Service - hosted by User:Gnoeee, this comprehensive video will equip newcomers to Wikidata with the skills to effectively start querying Wikidata.
 * Siobhan Leachman, NZ Citizen Scientist and Wikipedian - CitSciOz23 Keynote Speaker, this prolific editor discusses her passions and workflows for contributing and enriching Wikidata on topics as diverse as women scientists, scientific illustrators, artworks and citation data, moths and more.
 * WikiSearch from Wikibase Data - Wout Geveart shows how the WikiSearch extension is using Wikibase data to explore and visualise the data in new ways.
 * WikimediaAPIs: a WM Technology Training Session - Mr. Neechalkaran of the WM Indic MediaWiki Developers Usergroup introduces the function and utility of WM projects APIs, including the REST AOI, the Wikidata API and more.
 * Accessing Wikidata's Data: An Introduction to the Wikidata REST API (Zoom recording). A WikiMentor Africa session by Eugene Egbe.

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikidata periodic table - Tool by User:Ricordisamoa, to browse all chemical elements available on Wikidata, with atomic number, chemical symbol, and localized label. It also includes two charts of the nuclides, with links to every isotope in Wikidata, colored by half-life or decay mode.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * A new UI mode is available for the online validator for EntitySchemas. It represents validation reports as a table rather than a very long string, and replaces most links with hyperlinks with some of the text behind them; making them easier to read. Currently being tested at https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple-improved.html, we are looking for participants to evaluate this tool. Some experience with editing Wikidata is appreciated, but no experience working with Schemas is required. If you are interested, you can sign up here. We hope to begin interviews around May 13. For more details, visit User:M.alten.tue

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * representation type ( property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items )
 * source of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity )
 * destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, The Law Dictionary entry, urban area census code, Wardah Books ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, Palula dictionary ID, CDC Stacks ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, الملف الاستنادي للمؤلفين العراقيين, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, TheLegacy ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * List of lists of ambassadors per host and sending country
 * List of current embassies per host and sending country, and their counterparts
 * Images of types of dance in the world (source)
 * Newest database reports: young mothers (source)
 * Showcase Items: Deirdre (Q1183379) - heroine in Irish mythology
 * Showcase Lexemes: 사랑하다 (L741213) - verb "to love (cherish with affection)" in Korean

 Development 
 * We attended the Wikimedia Hackathon.
 * REST API: We are finishing the route for creating an Item (T342990) and modify the data of a Property (T347394)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)

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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #627
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 Discussions 
 * Project Chat - Data model pages: Alexmar983 and User:Epìdosis have proposed updates to standardize the nomenclature in the Wikidata: Data Model pages, join the conversation. Also see this Talk page for a draft proposal for a new Navbox.
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 - Task: Infer Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of an episode from the Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of the corresponding TV series.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs: Navigating the world of Wikidata: An intro and hands-on experience. This blog entry documents the session from Yaw Tuba and Nana Yaw Botar and organised by Open Foundation West Africa in building skills for new and experienced editors alike.
 * Papers
 * Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - This paper documents a project at the MN to digitise collector metadata from museum exhibits for reuse, research and provenance. S. Mering et al.
 * Erenrich, Daniel. ‘Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata Completion Using Wikipedia’. 1 Jan. 2023 : 1 – 14.
 * Ilievski, Filip et al. ‘A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata’. 1 Jan. 2024 : 1 – 20.
 * Videos
 * using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localised Analogies - Sofia Spatharioti explains how information from Wikidata and Wikipedia can be used to provide more contextual comparisons when dealing with large numbers, dimensions or statistics.
 * Thesaurus INAPP in Wikidata (Italian) - Camillo Carlo Pellizzari shows INAPP thesaurus usage on Wikidata and how to normalise keywords assigned to publications.
 * Authors INAPP on Wikidata (Italian) - Camillo also presents how Wikidata can record biographical data and the presence of authors affiliated with INAPP.

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikidata:Projector - is a tool that shows maps and lists with Wikidata items for a specific topic, usually a location. As an example, see the Projector for Corfu
 * Wikidata Anti Pattern Analyzer companion tool to the Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata research paper

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * representation type ( property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items )
 * source of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity )
 * destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process )
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, Palula dictionary ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, Lille norske leksikon-ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, GOG product ID, Yandex.Music track ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Indigenous Performers Arts Alliance (IPAA) Members living, working or from Canada
 * Schools of magic by numbers of students
 * Schema examples: List of roles played by siblings
 * Newest database reports: Lost links - (New editor removed sitelink and did not reconnect it)
 * Showcase Items: Mister President (Q3050361) - novel written by Miguel Ángel Asturias
 * Showcase Lexemes: Ordbokredaktør - (Bokmål; a literary version of Norwegian) appropriately, for Lexicographer.

 Development  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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)  16:04, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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: 2024-20
<section begin="technews-2024-W20"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
 * If you use the user-preference "", then the template-page feature "" will now also work without reloading the page.
 * Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute. This is identical in usage to the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
 * The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.

Future changes
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Two columns of the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> database table (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> table instead (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ). In your existing SQL queries:
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 * Below that add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">
 * See T222224 for technical reasoning.

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Recent changes
 * The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.
 * New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description.

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Wikidata weekly summary #628
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 Discussions 
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Browse9ja Bot - Task: Automated data retrieval focusing on Nigerian / African-based information, integrating a chatbot, NLP API, knowledge graph, and machine learning model.
 * DhlizBot - Task: add Dhliz ID (P12696) for persons/films/TV series that exist in Dhliz (Q125594802) database.
 * AmeisenBot 2 - Task: Working on bot requests at WD:RBOT using QuickStatements.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure, by Bluerasberry. "The split will create a WikiCite graph separate from the main Wikidata graph. The main Wikidata graph will retain content of broader interest, including items for authors, journals, publishers, and anything with a page in a Wikimedia project."
 * Learnings from AI and Heritage inclusive Metadata requires more than erasing stereotyping terms - this article explores the presence of contentious terms in Wikidata labels.
 * Reconciling Shira: Wikibase Cloud and OpenRefine - as part of the Shira project to document and digitise Penn University's Jewish music collections, the author gives a step-by-step process on installing OpenRefine for Wikibase Cloud instances.
 * Papers
 * Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Storia della collaborazione tra Wikidata e le biblioteche della Rete URBE nel controllo di autorità. Abstract: "The contribution draws a history of the presence of the identifiers of the authority records of the URBE network libraries in Wikidata, and of the collaboration that has evolved since 2020 between the Wikidata community and the cataloguers of the URBE network libraries, relating to the harmonisation of these authority records with Wikidata and the improvement of the quality of the respective data. The first part of the contribution traces the main stages of collaboration in chronological order, while the second part of the contribution presents the main areas in which the collaboration materialises (or can materialise) in the daily authority work carried out by cataloguers in theme-based groupings".
 * Using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localized Analogies. Numerical analogies that translate unfamiliar measurements into familiar reference objects (e.g., “275k sq miles is roughly as large as Texas”). By "Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake M. Hofman"
 * Videos
 * ¿Cómo contribuir masivamente a Wikidata con OpenRefine? (Spanish) - As part of the Coordinate Me Campaign, this is a review of the OpenRefine tool for contributing large sets of data to Wikidata.
 * Patrimoine spolié : le projet ProvEnhance (French) - A seminae on the looted heritage project on the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. At timestamp: 55:02 onwards, Wikibase is discussed as a platform to host the Looted Heritage and Provenance research project.

 Tool of the week 
 * Wikidata GenderStats measures gender bias at the user level by computing stats on created items.
 * Created items : a list of items created by a user with labels. This not new but this has been repaired.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Project Manager Machine Learning, Wikidata. Application deadline: Apply until 26.05.2024

 Newest properties and property proposals to review 


 * Newest General datatypes:
 * population by native language ( native language population of a place )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * Newest External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, case number (mainland China), Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, ‎GOG product ID


 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * address of addressee ( address of the address e.g. on a postcard )
 * TheaterEncyclopedie ID ( An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie )
 * relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator ( relation to the SDGs )
 * taxon synonym of ( taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, Palula dictionary ID, NLR editions, glubinka.by, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, Yandex.Music track ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, Archnet authority ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, TheLegacy company ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, IAFD actor UUID, Database of Hungarian archaeology ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, Oxford Dictionary of English ID, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, LGD Subdistrict Code, PLC (Primary Location Code), Sinhala Cinema Database ID, LGD District Code, LGD Village Code, LGD State or UT Code, Slovenski etymološki slovar ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID, Jedipedia.net ID, JJM Habitation id, McDonald's US product, Justapedia, Atarimuseum ID, PNG School Code

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 * Query examples:
 * A map with locations of Pablo Picasso works - (source)
 * Descendants of King Antso III (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * MELA on Palestine - The Wiki project page for the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) work group on Palestine.
 * India Aviation - A usergroup focused on airports in India
 * Newest database reports: Complex constraint violations (list of Properties)
 * Showcase Items: 12 Angry Men (Q2345) - 1957 drama film by Sidney Lumet
 * Showcase Lexemes: panneband (L1223420) - means "headband" in Nynorsk

 Development 
 * We have completed the preparation work to migrate the Query Builder's front end from Wikit to Codex (T360096)
 * We also continued work on the EntitySchema data type and refining the CI flow for EntitySchemas (T362000)

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.

 Weekly Tasks 
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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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