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Wikidata weekly summary #404
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
 * Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)


 * Events
 * Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
 * When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
 * Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
 * “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
 * Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul


 * Tool of the week
 * Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
 * soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
 * Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
 * External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
 * External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID


 * Query examples:
 * Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
 * SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
 * countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
 * places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
 * Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)


 * Development
 * Provide better redirect for statement nodes (T203397)
 * Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (T239421, T243192)
 * making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (T238662)
 * research how to do reference rendering (T244987)
 * showing the loading bar while saving (T237433)
 * More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
 * Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
 * Fixing various issues causing errors in production
 * Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (T196165)
 * Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (T242769)

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) 16:30, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09
 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 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes
 * There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  21:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 March 2020
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Money emoji
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Athaenara • DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
 * A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news
 * Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present.  You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
 * The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Wikidata weekly summary #405
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Kostas20142


 * Events
 * March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
 * July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
 * Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
 * Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
 * About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
 * Explainer video with a beginner-level introduction about Structured Data on Commons
 * Connecting the work of three generations of decorative artists, with structured data, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Structured Data on Commons and GLAM: open questions and fresh challenges, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
 * External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
 * External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID


 * Query examples:
 * Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
 * British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
 * Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
 * People with profiles on the Washington Post website


 * Development
 * Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
 * Bridge: more style adjustments
 * Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (T244987)
 * Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (T245637)

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) 16:29, 2 March 2020 (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: 2020-10
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.

Changes later this week
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
 * When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
 * On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
 * 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
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback.
 * There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #406
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
 * New request for comments: Restrictions on making items


 * Events
 * WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
 * Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
 * The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson


 * Tool of the week
 * wikibase-cli (Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a batch mode, and EditGroups support (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for feedback!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
 * EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at
 * External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID


 * Query examples:
 * Subjects and panelists of the BBC radio programme In Our Time (source)
 * People affected by COVID-19
 * Map of hillforts in the UK (source)
 * Images for language items (source)


 * Development
 * Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
 * Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
 * Fixing various production errors
 * Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
 * Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (T196165)

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) 16:34, 9 March 2020 (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!

Arbitration case opened
In 2018, you offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has now accepted that request for arbitration, and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 23, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

All content, links, and diffs from the original ARC and the latest ARC are being read into the evidence for this case.

The secondary mailing list is in use for this case: arbcom-en-b@wikimedia.org

For the Arbitration Committee,  C Thomas3   (talk) 17:08, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new search word called . You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2020-W11"/> 17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)