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Wikidata weekly summary #473
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
 * 24/06 (17:30 UTC): Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for tainacan with Ederporto and Dalton Lopes Martins (https://tainacan.org/en/ Tainacan) (in English), on YouTube
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #68, June 27
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 26 at 18:00 UTC


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Beyond VIAF. Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries (with detailed statistics on VIAF and Wikidata)
 * Videos
 * Using OpenRefine and creating wikidata schema - YouTube
 * Query SPARQL Wikidata around genealogy (in French) - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:PositionHolderHistory displays the full list of position holders for a given position.
 * Template:Generic queries for positions new template with generic queries for positions.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. T275958
 * User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
 * The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
 * Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and T284276 determine turn-around times. T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: not found in, named place on map
 * External identifiers: Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, Memobase ID, Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging ID, Skipsrevyen ID, EBAF authority ID, LdiF person ID, Musica Baltica person ID, EGID, RBF event ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: named after lexeme, replacement value, Qualis rank, role of component, table of contents available at URL, DICOM modality page, Flemish Heritage Themes ID
 * External identifiers: OlympicsIL ID, EBIDAT ID, Crosscut author ID, identifier BNM, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID, Handzone player ID, BES-Net user ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Research Resource Identifier, VK artist ID, MonumentalTrees.com, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, E-Flora BC species ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of public bookcases
 * SPARQL Jupyter notebook to explore generic queries for positions (using PAWS)
 * Biographies that can be linked in different Wikipedias (apart from deWP) (Source)
 * Vulnerable, endangered or extinct languages with number of lexemes in Wikidata (Source)
 * Articles in English Wikipedia about women that have the good article badge but do not have an article written in Spanish (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Outdoor Gyms


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (T284854)
 * Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (284219)
 * Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (T284820)
 * Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
 * Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
 * Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
 * Testing infrastructure investigation and decision
 * Investigation: How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:23, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  group name is now  . This could affect abuse filters.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC.

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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This Month in Education: June 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #474
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)


 * Events
 * Past:
 * log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24
 * Upcoming:
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.;, June 29th.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
 * Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
 * Papers
 * Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools)
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, for the #ArcticKnot.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot.
 * Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube
 * Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube
 * Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items
 * Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
 * Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact for the Wikibase Community User Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page before 2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC), after which voting will commence.
 * Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale.
 * Wikidata Vertical Analysis by AKhatun (WMF)
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns
 * A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: date of resignation, curid, consequence of text
 * External identifiers: RBF event ID, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID, ZKM person ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, Fotodok ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Vindskyddskartan.se ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: delta of, Astrological sign, announced at, contact point (2)
 * External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID, Classical Archives composer ID, UFC ID, Tapology ID, Bellator ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, Ethereum token address, Legie 100 legionary ID, PsycNET ID, Index Theologicus ID, MK ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, African Film Database ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID, HockeyLive player ID, eishockey.info player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Street names in Alsatian (source)
 * What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? (Source)
 * UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata (Source)
 * Count of statements by property for theatrical plays (Source)
 * Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
 * Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (T176312)
 * Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (T275958)
 * Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (T200689)
 * Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (T284219)
 * Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (T285131)
 * Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (T284538)
 * Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (T219215)
 * Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (T281669)
 * Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (T283040)
 * Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (T262922, T252198, T283364, T265297)
 * The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (T240350, T281702)
 * Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script,  German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (T282512, T279557)
 * It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
 * Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (T230786)
 * A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (T245927)
 * "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (T283149).
 * There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (T212313)

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


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

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Tech News: 2021-26
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Recent changes
 * Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page.
 * Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add  to your common.css page.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

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
 * ,  and   can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
 * A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users.

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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
 * Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Trialpears
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ragesoss



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AGK • DGG

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AGK

Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
 * An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news
 * IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration
 * The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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Wikidata weekly summary #475
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship:
 * Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)


 * Events
 * Past:
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
 * Upcoming:
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Schema explorers and how they can help guide adoption of common standards
 * Tackling Technical Debt, big and small, in Wikidata and Wikibase
 * Papers
 * A Study of the Quality of Wikidata
 * Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries
 * Videos
 * (workshop) Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians - YouTube
 * Adding descriptions and statements to Wikidata using Quickstatements - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata (in German) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: voted on by, Qualis rank, author given names, author last name, delta of
 * External identifiers: Gutenberg Biographics ID, Idaho Species ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, Classical Archives composer ID, Crosscut author ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, E-Flora BC species ID, LexM ID, BES-Net user ID, VK artist ID, Legie 100 legionary ID, Buzer.de law identification, Games@Mail.ru ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, FOIH themes ID, African Film Database ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: code name, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, Impact factor, dependency grammar relations, biological target, URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state
 * External identifiers: fotoCH photographer ID, Raakvlak inventory number, cultural broadcasting archive station ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, MANTO ID, e-Rad researcher ID, WMO code


 * Query examples:
 * List of pairs of senses on the same lexeme that have the same gloss in at least one language (Source)
 * Which British Monarch saw most US Presidents; which US President saw most British Monarchs? (graph view) (dimensions view) (Source)
 * All paintings (Q3305213) that depict (P180) a painting (Source)
 * Count of qualifiers used in performer (P175) statements (Source)
 * Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (Source)
 * Latin American female mathematicians who are not on spanish Wikipedia but have an article in another language (Source)
 * US Governors and their religion, if listed (Source)
 * Living soccer players whose birthday is on January 1st (Source)
 * Museums nearby Cēsis (Q107582) (Source)
 * Distribution of public toilets per administrative units in Wales (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
 * Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (T237920)
 * Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (T97577)
 * Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (T285076)
 * A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (T231748)
 * A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (T155419)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:08, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-27
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes
 * AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON.  has moved to   and  .   has moved to  . The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.

Problems
 * InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from  to.

Changes later this week
 * The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.

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Wikidata weekly summary #476
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship:
 * Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
 * -akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship:
 * Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)


 * Events
 * Past:
 * LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
 * SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
 * SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.;, July 13th.
 * Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
 * A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
 * Papers
 * , by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
 * Videos
 * Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
 * Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
 * Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
 * The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
 * OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
 * Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
 * Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
 * For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
 * External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
 * External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID


 * Query examples:
 * Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
 * Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
 * Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
 * Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (project/view/5422)
 * Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (T285849)
 * We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (T97577).
 * We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (T286193)
 * Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
 * Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (T170401)
 * Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (T285102)
 * Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here

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


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

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:14, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> 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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word  on pages that should not be listed on the special page.

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

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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