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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello ,

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
 * Backlog

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
 * Coordinator

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
 * This month's refresher course

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
 * Deletion tags

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
 * Paid editing


 * Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
 * Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent  enhancements to  the New Pages Feed and  features in the Curation  tool, and there are still more to  come. Due to the wealth  of information  now displayed by  ORES, reviewers are strongly  encouraged to  use the system now rather than Twinkle; it  will  also  correctly  populate the logs.
 * Not English
 * A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
 * Tools

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

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Wikidata weekly summary #382
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
 * Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
 * Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
 * Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
 * Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen et al.


 * Tool of the week
 * Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
 * External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
 * External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created
 * Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database
 * same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
 * Twins with different places of birth (source)
 * Places in Scottish local government areas (source)
 * Libraries in Austria (source)
 * Schema examples:
 * space probe
 * Tsunami
 * Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark


 * Development
 * Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
 * Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (T226999)
 * Show the label for the Property instead of the id (T227759)
 * Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (T230399)

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:25, 16 September 2019 (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!

You're missed
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Wikidata weekly summary #383
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
 * Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
 * Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)


 * Tool of the week
 * Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
 * Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
 * Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
 * WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
 * Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September (grafana)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
 * External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
 * External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Library systems in California
 * Waterfalls without a drainage basin yet
 * Works of art depicting kisses (source)
 * Longest English word without a repeated letter (source)
 * Longest alphabetically sorted words in English (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (T227003)
 * Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (T228259)
 * More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
 * More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
 * Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (T232728)

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 23 September 2019 (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!

October Events from Women in Red
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Wikidata weekly summary #384
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Catherine Laurence


 * Events
 * Past: Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM during Dublin Core 2019
 * Upcoming: WikiCon, meeting of the German speaking Community from 4th to 6th of October 2019 in Wuppertal (Germany)
 * Upcoming: #5 Wikidata tea party/第5回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 18 Oct 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Scottish witches in the press and on TV
 * Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
 * Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
 * GeneDB and Wikidata, by Magnus Manske


 * Tool of the week
 * This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
 * Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd (announcement, ticket)
 * You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: regnal ordinal, peer review URL
 * External identifiers: GCF Reference, Wi-Fi Certification ID, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata film ID, sixpackfilmdata person ID, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power farm ID, IGNrando' ID, Fossiilid.info ID, Kivid.info ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: bus, mwnf, Maximum number of playable characters, FIDAL team ID, candidate name string, IP range start, code (image), name in hiero markup, disputed by, name (image), style of karate
 * External identifiers: NTS Radio artist ID, Gazetteer for Scotland ID, Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, DC Books author ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, UEFA team ID, UEFA coach ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, FAIMER school ID, China Martyrs ID, JournalBase ID, PCEngine Catalog Project ID, PubPeer article ID, memoriademadrid publication ID, doujinshi.org author ID, Beatport label ID, Knesset Law Id, caves.4at.info ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Amazon Music album ID 2, Qobuz album ID, Plus Music album ID, eska.pl release ID, iHeartRadio album ID, Three Decks people ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, Empik e-book or album ID, identificador GENavarra, Oricon News artist ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Fortuna liga player ID


 * Deleted properties: P5130 (island of location)
 * Query examples:
 * Civil parishes of Scotland, revealed through their listed buildings (source)
 * Scottish civil parishes by county and present-day council area (source)
 * [https://tora.entryscape.net/snorql/?query=PREFIX+wd%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+wdt%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0D%0ASELECT+DISTINCT+%3Finstance+%3FTORA_label+%3FTORA_province_name+%3FwdLabel+%3FwdAdminLabel++%3FTORA_parishcode+%3FTORA_wd+%3FTORA_wd+%3FWD+%3FWDsame+%3Fitem+%3FWiki%0D%0AWHERE+%7B+%3Finstance+a+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fdata.riksarkivet.se%2Ftora%2Fschema%2FModernParish%3E.%0D%0A%3Finstance+skos%3AprefLabel+%3FTORA_label+.%0D%0AOPTIONAL+%7B%3Finstance+tora%3Aprovince_name+%3FTORA_province_name%7D%0D%0A%3Finstance+tora%3Aparishcode+%3FTORA_parishcode+.%0D%0A%3Finstance++rdfs%3AseeAlso+%3FTORA_wduri+.%0D%0ABIND+%28REPLACE%28str%28%3FTORA_wduri%29%2C%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2F%22%2C%22%22%29+AS+%3FTORA_wd%29.%0D%0ABIND+%28REPLACE%28str%28%3Fitem%29%2C%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%22%2C%22%22%29+AS+%3FWD%29.%0D%0A++BIND%28%0D%0A+++IF%28%3FWD+%3D+%3FTORA_wd%2C+%22Y%22%2C++%22N%22%29%0D%0A++++AS+%3FWDsame%29.%0D%0ASERVICE+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E+%7B+%0D%0A++++%3Fitem+wdt%3AP31+wd%3AQ1523821%3B+wdt%3AP777+%3FTORA_parishcode+.+%0D%0A%09OPTIONAL+%7B%0D%0A%09%09%3Fitem+rdfs%3Alabel+%3FwdLabel.%0D%0A%09%09FILTER%28LANG%28%3FwdLabel%29+%3D+%22sv%22%29.%0D%0A%09%7D%0D%0A+++++++OPTIONAL+%7B+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++%3Fitem+wdt%3AP131+%3FWDAdmin.%0D%0A+++++++++++++++%3FWDAdmin+wdt%3AP31+wd%3AQ193556.%0D%0A%09%09%3FWDAdmin+rdfs%3Alabel+%3FwdAdminLabel.%0D%0A%09%09FILTER%28LANG%28%3FwdAdminLabel%29+%3D+%22sv%22%29.%0D%0A%09%7D%0D%0A%7D%0D%0AFILTER+%28%28+STRSTARTS%28str%28%3FTORA_wduri%29%2C+%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2F%22%29%29+%26%26+%3FWDsame+%3D+%22N%22+%29%0D%0A%7D+order+by++%3FTORA_label Federated SPARQL query] from the Swedish National Archive TORA project to Wikidata
 * Librairies in Africa (source)
 * Most recently dissolved enterprises that were over 200 years old (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Red pandas


 * Development
 * More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
 * Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (T227003)
 * Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (T228259)
 * research regarding permissions/protection (T231209)
 * More preparation work for improving references

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
 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-40
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