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WikiCup 2022 July newsletter
The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose, with 746 points, a tally built both on snooker and other sports topics, and on more general subjects.
 * Bloom6132, with 683 points, garnered mostly from "In the news" items and related DYKs.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 527, from a variety of submissions related to radio and television stations.

Between them contestants achieved 5 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 51 good articles, 149 DYK entries, 68 ITN entries, and 109 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that 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. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article nomination, 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). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. WikiCup judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #522
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. should have a wiki commons link to  since they both refer to.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
 * Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
 * Past
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
 * Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
 * Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
 * Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
 * Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
 * Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
 * Report
 * User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
 * Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
 * Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
 * External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
 * Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
 * Map of tram depots in France
 * Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
 * List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
 * French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
 * French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
 * Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
 * Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
 * We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (T307869)
 * REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
 * We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (T303317)
 * We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (T309445)

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) 14:23, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-27
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on  at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.
 * Octicons-tools.svg This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable  will be removed from  and be replaced with the variable .

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19:31, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #528
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
 * 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
 * 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day
 * Past:
 * Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
 * Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
 * Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
 * Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
 * Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
 * Papers
 * Wikidata and the bibliography of life (Q112959127)
 * Videos
 * Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
 * Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
 * User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
 * Q113000000 was created.
 * Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
 * Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: opus number
 * External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
 * External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID


 * Query examples:
 * Current list of French departments (documentation)
 * Prime ministers of Japan whose manner of death is homicide (source)
 * 1st level administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
 * List of globes and how many times they've been used


 * Development
 * Data Quality Days!
 * Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
 * Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (T303317)
 * Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (T309445)
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (T298140)
 * Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (T239208)
 * Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (T305032)
 * REST API:
 * Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
 * Started work on the API route for removing a statement from an Item

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
 * Update the description of the "of" property in your language.
 * 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) 13:30, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28
 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
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org.
 * The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikimania 2022 in South Africa
Wikimania 2022 is almost here (11-14 August 2022) and will be held entirely online this year with the exception of a number of local mini-Wikimania's for local community members. I just wanted to let you know that two local Wikimania mini-events will be happening in South Africa; one in Cape Town and one in Johannesburg. Participants will be able to attend both the international event from these local events. If you are interested, available and in the area at the time we would be delighted to have you join us. For more information please checkout the South Africa mini-event page here. Discott (talk) 11:06, 8 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, Thanks for the invite, I hope to make the Johannesburg event even though I’m currently on holiday in Cape Town. I think you should also announce thus on the Discord. TapticInfo (talk) 14:52, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * That's awesome. Thanks and thanks for filling out the form.--Discott (talk) 09:29, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #529
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
 * Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
 * Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, Lexical categories
 * Past
 * 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. (replay on YouTube)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The Barassi Line: a globally unique divider splitting Australia’s footy fans
 * Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata
 * Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia
 * My GLAMorous introduction into the Wikiverse
 * Papers
 * Enriching Wikidata with Linked Open Data
 * Videos
 * Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - YouTube
 * Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
 * The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule.
 * Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * Threads
 * OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.


 * Tool of the week
 * EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
 * User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job openings:
 * AFLIA: Wikidata Course Manager/Facilitator
 * WMF: Senior Program Officer, Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
 * There is a new Telegram group for OpenRefine users.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
 * External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of recent heatwaves (source)
 * Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata (source)
 * Cause and mode of death of ex-prime ministers (source)
 * Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants (source)
 * Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes (source)
 * People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages (source)
 * Newest database reports:
 * Albums ranked by number of sitelinks


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing
 * Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
 * REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
 * We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (T312223)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
 * EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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) 14:42, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:COVID-19 vaccination in North America


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Tech News: 2022-29
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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #530
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * PangolinBot 1. Task/s: Automatically adds author information to Wikidata scholarly articles (items where instance of (P31) = scholarly article (Q13442814)) that have missing author information. Currently works for articles with the following references: PubMed ID (P698), PMCID (P932), Dimensions Publication ID (P6179), ADS bibcode (P819). Part of Outreachy Round 24.
 * BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
 * ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
 * ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
 * New request for comments:
 * Documented and featured SPARQL queries


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
 * Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * The Lay of the Land: Data Visualizations of the Language Data and Domains of Wikidata (Q113181609)
 * Videos
 * Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - YouTube
 * Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
 * Fellowship: Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
 * T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's  script.
 * Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
 * OpenRefine 3.6.0 was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the release page for a changelog and download links.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, Delaware Division of Corporations file number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for
 * External identifiers: Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn Artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of driverless rapid transit railway lines worldwide
 * An example of finding problematic references
 * Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)
 * People born on rivers (source)
 * Humans with "native language" "German"


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (T313116)
 * Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (T313467)
 * REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
 * We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (T307869)
 * We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (T312223)

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: 2022-30
<section begin="technews-2022-W30"/> 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 www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

Problems
 * Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis).

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).
 * The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens.
 * Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "" and "" instead of just "" if the user is already blocked.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

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