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Wikidata weekly summary #562
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Mbchbot 3 (Task/s: Adding missing YouTube channel ID (P2397) statements to YouTube handle (P11245) claims that are missing that mandatory qualifier)
 * MidleadingBot 4 (Task/s: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
 * Biondibot (Task/s: Import us patent from a csv file)
 * bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 7, 2023: Lydia Pintscher and Silvan Heintze will tell us about the new Wikidata REST API and Silvan will demonstrate some of its aspects. Agenda
 * Do you want to present at Wikimania 2023? Program submissions are open now until the end of day Tuesday 28 March.
 * Wiki Workshop 2023 Call for Papers. The call is for extended abstracts (2 pages) of ongoing or completed work. The deadline is March 23.
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: Call for projects & sessions is now open! The deadline to submit sessions is April 4th. The final schedule will be made public on April 15th.
 * Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
 * Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - 8 March 2023, on YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * This app places on a world map all the places that have their Wikipedia page
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2022 edition
 * WikiData on Video Games
 * Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
 * Papers
 * Two years of explicit CiTO annotations (Q116676168), include how Wikidata and Scholia visualize citation typing annotations explain why research is cited
 * Videos
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 recorded livestreams: Day 1; Day 2
 * Wikidata for History of Science projects, by Martin Poulter - YouTube
 * How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia via categories - YouTube
 * How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia 2 - YouTube
 * LD4P3 - Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata - YouTube
 * Extracting political data & relations from Wikidata - YouTube
 * Operation of Wikidata and its centralized management of metadata linked to multiple databases (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata and higher education and research libraries (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WMDE Wikibase.Cloud team is currently seeking individuals who are interested in participating in interviews regarding the pressing issue of data modeling. Please reach out if you'd like to participate.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * Lighthouse Directory page ( group string for the item in The Lighthouse Directory )
 * colocated with ( event sharing location, facility or organization with another, typically larger event )
 * External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary ID, HAA member ID, Spotify user ID, Vintage Fashion Guild label, Biographical Dictionary of Emigrants of Georgia ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, Swiss Games Garden game ID, ERA ID, Sky News topic ID, Russian Second League player ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: FLOW ID, Electrodoc person ID, electrocd artist ID, Wattpad username, Virksomme ord ID, Identifier for an item in the norwegian database for political adresses ID, Kinoglaz film ID, DBpia article ID


 * Query examples:
 * Railway bridges in Germany and Austria (source)
 * Number of deaths in train wrecks per country (source)
 * Pairs of people who both have an English #Wikipedia article and are married to one another (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (T309021)
 * We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (T327882)
 * We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (T330252)
 * Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
 * Query Builder:
 * We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (T328764)
 * We have added support for the datatypes for Form (T329205) and Property (T329207)
 * Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (T321543)

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) 17:52, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-10
 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 Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
 * On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. 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).
 * A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon.

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023
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This Month in GLAM: February 2023
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This Month in Education: February 2023
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 * A Strategic Direction for a Massive Online Course for Educators in Brazil
 * Alliance Funding for Wikipedia as a school resource in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand
 * Call for Submissions to Wiki Workshop 2023
 * Collaboration with Charles University on the creation of Czech Wikipedia started in January
 * Open Education Week 2023 in the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
 * Wikiclubs with different schools in Albania

Wikidata weekly summary #563
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
 * Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
 * HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot:
 * bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
 * New request for comments:
 * Wikidata as fans resources


 * Events
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
 * Past
 * Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
 * The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
 * Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
 * The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity
 * Papers
 * How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter
 * Podcasts
 * WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.


 * Tool of the week
 * Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable milkmaids
 * Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany (source)
 * What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? (source)
 * World map according to shared borders (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 10, 2023) (source)


 * Development
 * Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (T328764)
 * EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
 * REST API:
 * We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (T330252)
 * We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (T327882)

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) 17:09, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-11
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55
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 * New bundle partners:
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 * Fold3
 * 1Lib1Ref January report
 * Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55
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 * New bundle partners:
 * Newspapers.com
 * Fold3
 * 1Lib1Ref January report
 * Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #564
<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: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
 * Papers
 * Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
 * Videos
 * Notebooks
 * Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.
 * Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.


 * Tool of the week
 * User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the WDQS current state and summarizes the suggestions with the most impact we’re exploring now, with a few in-progress.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: STS program ID, Electronic library encyclopedia.com.ua, Deutsche Synchronkartei person ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, Syoboi Calendar series ID, Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, Moscow University Herbarium ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, IRIS UNICAMPUS author ID, IRIS UNIECAMPUS author ID, IRISanRaf author ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, NTV program ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, Wise Music Classical work ID, IATE ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Rate Your Music work ID, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID, Epson Tour player ID, Digital Bhashakosha page number, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, Electrodoc person ID, Archivarta ID, CassiOpeA author ID, IRIS UNIROMA2 author ID, IRIS UNIROMA3 author ID, Sjøhistorie ship ID, electrocd artist ID, köztérkép ID, ForPost person ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Ivi title ID, Ivi person ID, Saint Petersburg Conservatory person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * system requirements ( system requirements for video game or software )
 * External identifiers: Brazzers ID, Universo del corpo ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Tekstowo.pl artist ID, Tekściory artist ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, BSDB player ID, The Athletic team ID, The Athletic player ID, GSAFD ID, Feminae ID, IFTTT service ID, stock keeping unit, Federiciana ID, LIBRA Unine ID


 * Query examples:
 * Lexeme with a Sense related to a geolocated Item (source)
 * Highest TV seasons numbers (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
 * Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (T214002)
 * Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
 * REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (T327882)

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.

<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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:55, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2023-12
<section begin="technews-2023-W12"/> 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
 * Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images.

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-gift.svg A link to the user's page will appear on  — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via and via the API.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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

<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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:56, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2023-13
<section begin="technews-2023-W13"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000.
 * Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects.
 * Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the link in the  menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion.

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

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:12, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #566
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


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


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


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


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


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


 *  Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

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The Signpost: 03 April 2023
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Tech News: 2023-14
<section begin="technews-2023-W14"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories.

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

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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

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



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

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

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

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

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This Month in Education: March 2023
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<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#00A7E2; font-size:1.4em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> Volume 12 • Issue 3 • March 2023

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In This Issue <div style="margin-top:10px; text-align: center; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 18:44, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Audio-seminar project of the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
 * Empowering Nigerian Female Artists: Through Art & Feminism Edith-A-Thon at KWASU Fan Club
 * Exploring How Wikipedia Works
 * Florida graduate students complete Library History edit-a-thon for credit
 * Improving hearing health content in Brazil
 * Media Literacy Portal to become a key resource for media education in Czech Libraries
 * Wikeys in the Albanian language
 * Wikimarathon is an opportunity to involve students and teachers in creating and editing articles in Wikipedia
 * Wikimedia Polska short report
 * Wikimedia Serbia participated in the State Seminar of the The Mathematical Society of Serbia

Tech News: 2023-15
<section begin="technews-2023-W15"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-gift.svg You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

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

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2023
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