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Wikidata weekly summary #482
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MusikBot II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Érica Azzellini and Éder Porto on MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link, August 24.
 * BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekels@undefinedplantentuinmeise.be
 * Past:
 * Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
 * Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata
 * Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects
 * Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Articles
 * 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - KB collection highlights project meme English.jpg In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
 * Blogs
 * Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher - Charles Tapley Hoyt
 * The Invisible Citation Commons - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein
 * The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries - Bob DuCharme
 * Wikidata or scraping Wikipedia - Denny Vrandečić
 * Videos
 * Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube


 * Tools of the week
 * Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed: Try it!
 * The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources from Zotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, mix or remix of
 * External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, PsycNET ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: hunting areas, number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID
 * External identifiers: TeamNL player ID, Finnish National Gallery ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, NDL earlier law ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs, KNHB ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code


 * Query examples:
 * Predicates implicated in non-scholarly-article item bloat (source)
 * Church of Scotland Synods as Geoshapes (Source)
 * Map of the origin of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts, current location (Source)
 * Current principal local authorities in England


 * Development
 * Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder
 * Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (T286775)
 * ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (T124191)
 * Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (T269724)
 * Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (T195178)

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) 14:47, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34
 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 Score extension ( notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on . This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

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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21:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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20:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2021
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TheWikiWizard-Summer 2021
Hello, StudiesWorld! Here is the Summer 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

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Wikidata weekly summary #483
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata Labs XXXI in English on the topic of Reimagining Wikidata from the margins, August 31
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook, September 4 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #77, September 5
 * Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
 * Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about data quality, September 13
 * Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021 Come with anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live session (August 26th, 2021) logs
 * RubyConfTW 2021
 * Wikidata basics (in Chinese)
 * Wikidata and Open Streetmaps (in Chinese)
 * Using the MediaWiki open data API to solve data description problems (in Chinese)
 * Moving Wikipedia's Infobox to Wikidata's Property:Taiwanese place names (in Chinese)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Why Are Citations Not Part of Discussions on Open Knowledge?
 * Mapping Diversity Puts The Gender Gap of Toponymy On Paper (in Italian)
 * Videos
 * Wikidata: Behind the Scenes of the Great Wikipedia Data Repository (in Spanish)
 * Bring data from Wikidata and any other LOD Knowledge Graph to your Roam graph
 * Notebooks
 * What are the Wikipedia articles you've created about? a notebook which show how to compute statistics about the articles you've created in Wikipedia by "instance of" (P31) property


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
 * Wikibase Installation & Updating survey has been published!
 * The Board of Trustees election has started. Votes will be accepted until 23:59 31 August 2021 (UTC). View candidate statements, verify your eligibility and vote now.
 * Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
 * WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, remix of, container, release of
 * External identifiers: Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username, Team Deutschland Paralympics ID, BMC ID, Kartridge game ID, ISL ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Daum Cafe ID, Freeview show ID, Unconsenting Media ID, TeamNL athlete ID, Volleybox ID, COD ID, allabolag.se person ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry ID, GSSO ID, Fontaines de France ID, KNHB ID, DC Books book ID, Igromania developer/publisher ID, Deutsche Sporthilfe ID, Finnish National Gallery artwork ID, Igromania series ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, Svenska ord ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID, uses natural resource, created for, number of triples, reprinted in, Eneström Number, літературний редактор
 * External identifiers: Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code, Government Publications Number, Food.com ID, Dewan Negara ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, BBC Food ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II author ID, IndieMag game ID, Bleus Handisport-ID, Overnia, Edizioni Ares author ID, hmmlid, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Naver Post member ID, eAmbrosia ID, DC Character ID, Postimees topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fx_coords%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fx%20%3FxLabel%20%3Fdescription%20%3Fx_coords%20%3Frgb%20%20WITH%20%7B%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fdata%20%3Fx%20%3Fx_coords%20WHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%3Fx%20p%3AP2044%2Fpsn%3AP2044%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdata%20%0A%20%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fx_coords%20.%0A%20%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ34%20.%0A%23%20%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP131%2B%20%5B%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15979307%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25data%0A%23%20determine%20the%20max%20and%20min%20values%20%28used%20to%20calculate%20the%20spread%29%0AWITH%20%7B%20%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28MAX%28%3Fdata%29%20AS%20%3Fmax_data%29%20%20%28MIN%28%3Fdata%29%20AS%20%3Fmin_data%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%7D%7D%20AS%20%25min_max%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25min_max%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fx%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FxLabel.%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FxLabel%29%20%3D%20%22sv%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28%22H%C3%B6jd%20%C3%B6ver%20havsniv%C3%A5n%20f%C3%B6r%20%22%2C%20%3FxLabel%2C%20%22%20%C3%A4r%20omkring%20%22%2C%20STR%28ROUND%28%3Fdata%29%29%2C%20%22%20meter%22%20%29%20AS%20%3Fdescription%29%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20%3Fmax_data%20-%20%3Fmin_data%20AS%20%3Fspread%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28255%20-%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%20255%20%2a%20%28%3Fdata%20-%20%3Fmin_data%29%20%2F%20%3Fspread%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen%20%29%20%23%20255%20-%3E%200%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20FLOOR%20%28%3Fgreen%20%2F%2016%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_1%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20COALESCE%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3C%2010%2C%20STR%28%3Fgreen_1%29%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2010%2C%20%22a%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2011%2C%20%22b%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2012%2C%20%22c%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2013%2C%20%22d%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2014%2C%20%22e%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_1%20%3D%2015%2C%20%22f%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%22ERROR%22%0A%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_hex1%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28FLOOR%28%3Fgreen%20-%20%2816%20%2a%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%20%3Fgreen%20%2F%2016%20%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_2%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20COALESCE%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3C%2010%2C%20STR%28%3Fgreen_2%29%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2010%2C%20%22a%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2011%2C%20%22b%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2012%2C%20%22c%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2013%2C%20%22d%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2014%2C%20%22e%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fgreen_2%20%3D%2015%2C%20%22f%22%2C%201%2F0%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%22ERROR%22%0A%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_hex2%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28STR%28%3Fgreen_hex1%29%2C%20STR%28%3Fgreen_hex2%29%29%20AS%20%3Fgreen_hex%20%29%0A%0A%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28%2200%22%2C%20STR%28%3Fgreen_hex%29%2C%20%2200%22%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%20%20%20%0A%7D Map of Items in Sweden with coordinate location and elevation above sea-level statements] (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%20%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Flon%20%3Flat%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ515%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%20%3Flat%3B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Flat%20%3E%2040%29%20%23%20filtering%20out%20British%20Oversea%20Terrroties%0A%7D%20%7D%20AS%20%25cities%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25cities%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%22Most%20easterly%22%20AS%20%3Fdesc%29%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Flon%29%20%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25easterly%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25cities%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%22Most%20westerly%22%20AS%20%3Fdesc%29%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%20%28%3Flon%29%20%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25westerly%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25cities%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%22Most%20northerly%22%20AS%20%3Fdesc%29%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Flat%29%20%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25northerly%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdesc%20%3Fcoords%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25cities%20%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%22Most%20southernly%22%20AS%20%3Fdesc%29%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%20%28%3Flat%29%20%0ALIMIT%201%20%7D%20AS%20%25southerly%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25easterly%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25westerly%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25northerly%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25southerly%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A Map of UK's most extreme cities] (Source)
 * All current principal Local Authorities in England (Source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata:Mismatch Finder development continues. We are now working on the frontend. First pieces are starting to be visible at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org (but nothing usable yet)
 * Fixed an issue with unicode characters in constraints checks (T289805)
 * Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (T277855)
 * Continued work on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (T269724)
 * Continued work on new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (T195178)

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) 12:58, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35
 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
 * Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category: on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems
 * Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator.

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

Future changes
 * You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on . This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski,  BennyOnTheLoose, 🇷🇼 Amakuru and  Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
 * A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
 * A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
 * A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news
 * The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Wikidata weekly summary #484
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 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih., Sep 7th.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * A new R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata: tidywikidatar
 * A global directory of official governmental online accounts and services, by Albin Larsson and Jan Ainali
 * Papers
 * Creating and Querying Personalized Versions of Wikidata on a Laptop
 * Type or Individual? Evidence of Large-Scale Conceptual Disarray in Wikidata
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
 * Other
 * Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
 * Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
 * Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
 * Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
 * In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
 * External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
 * Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
 * Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
 * Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)


 * Development
 * Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
 * Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (T277855)
 * Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (T269724)
 * Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (T195178)
 * Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (T280229)
 * We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.

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!
 * Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-36
<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 wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break.
 * Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing.  The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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

15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: August 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #485
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
 * Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
 * 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
 * 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
 * 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
 * Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
 * Ongoing:
 * Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
 * Past:
 * Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
 * other
 * Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Wikipedia podcast.


 * Tool of the week
 * Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
 * Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: GRAC rating
 * External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
 * External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
 * List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
 * count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
 * List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
 * People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
 * Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
 * Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)
 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
 * Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (T280229)
 * Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (T251480)
 * All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)

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: 2021-37
<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
 * 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features.
 * A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. 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).
 * Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner.
 * You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.
 * The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> mode has been added to show a program's output.

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

15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello ,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our  Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but  there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software. Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)