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New Page Patrol December Newsletter
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It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to and  who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to, , and who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 * Year in review

has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
 * Reviewer of the Year

As a special recognition and thank you has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
 * NPP Technical Achievement Award

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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Wikidata weekly summary #446
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
 * Past: WikiConference North America/2020
 * Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
 * Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
 * Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
 * Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
 * Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
 * Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
 * Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
 * Complex constraint check for recency of value
 * The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
 * Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
 * External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
 * External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID


 * Query examples:
 * All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
 * (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
 * Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
 * Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
 * Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
 * Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
 * Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
 * Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
 * Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
 * Schema examples:
 * Schema for stumbling stones
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Agriculture


 * Development
 * We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.

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) 17:42, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51
 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
 * There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too.

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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #447
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
 * Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
 * Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
 * Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall knowledge base of the Internet
 * Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
 * Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Complex constraint about labels' language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
 * External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
 * External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID


 * Deleted properties: street address (P969)
 * Query examples:
 * Tex-Mex singers (Source)
 * Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales) (Source)
 * Vito Russo Test in Wikidata
 * Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes (Source)
 * Patronage of rapid-transit transportation (Source)
 * People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they played
 * Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
 * Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names


 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
 * Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (T267023)
 * Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (T266638)
 * Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (T267502)
 * Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (T250550)

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
 * Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
 * 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:50, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes
 * The  template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.

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

Future changes
 * You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
 * Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a  tag that can convert a piece of text on a page.
 * Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

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