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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #411
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9, April 19
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion
 * Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
 * Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
 * Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
 * Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope


 * Tool of the week
 * COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
 * You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
 * The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch
 * ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
 * For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
 * ListeriaBot blocked pending review on English Wikipedia.
 * A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German
 * Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: donations, network bands, bus, recommended unit of measurement, CSS color keyword
 * External identifiers: BDSP ID, CAB ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, ScreenScraper group ID, The Cover Project game ID, FHF establishment ID, FHF hospital group ID, elibrary.ru person ID, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, WBIS ID, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Visit Tuscany ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, Curran Index contributor ID, ODMP person ID, GameTDB game ID, Elephind.com ID, EZB ID, GameReactor game ID, Archival Resource Key, EcuRed article, Geneastar person ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, I-Revues ID, JournalTOCs ID, MUSE article ID, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE, Paperity article ID, Paperity journal ID, SAN archive producer ID, SOCAN work number, Papers Past ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, COTREX trail ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ACUM work ID, appendix, Wikisource index page, Unicode character, Arlington Cemetery person ID, Eigentümerhistorie, quantification instruction, language level, Included in curricula, Order number, ShEx available at URL, dialect of (computer language), file page offset, station service succession
 * External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number, Wikiparques ID, NKAA ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Provenio ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, RPPS ID, South African Company Registration Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, SNCF station identifier, Benerail station identifier, Indian Railways train number, Soccerdonna coach ID, DLL Catalog IDs, MDN, Psocodea Species File ID, Slovak Registration ID, Swedish Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, CPAN person, FactGrid item ID, FactGrid property ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID


 * Query examples:
 * Names of countries without letter "a" (source)
 * Infectious diseases and their number of cases (source)
 * Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria (source)
 * Schema examples: pandemic (E184), preprint (E185), Macromolecular complex (E186), hospital (E187), 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188), clinical trial (E189), Lockdown (E190), lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191), virus taxon (E192), Preprint server (E193), Complex Portal entity (E194), contact tracing app (E195)


 * Development
 * Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (T248592)
 * Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (T249596)
 * Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (T249595)
 * More work on Automated finding references
 * More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
 * Bridge: improve the generic error screen (T241126) and on save (T248087)

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) 13:23, 14 April 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #412
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to model curricula and link them to educational resources?, Need comment on English item label and foreign language proper noun, Merging 2 items
 * Ongoing CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Schemas, 21 April. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #10, April 26
 * Past Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiproject COVID-19 (video in English)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (Wikidata being also mentioned as a source for the research)
 * Videos:
 * Commons image uploading and Wikidata: YouTube
 * A call to action directed at the audience of the Weekly Debrief to edit Wikidata YouTube
 * Propose new identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
 * The Map of Libraries on Wikidata (in Spanish) YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function
 * The tool wikidata-filter was renamed wikibase-dump-filter, to better reflect that it can be used with dumps from any Wikibase instance
 * LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
 * The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
 * New tool: Anagram generator based on Wikidata names


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: eligible award recipient
 * External identifiers: Wikiparques ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, FooDB compound ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, HASC


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IDU general item ID, CONI honoured ID, parliament seats, electoral system, same transportation stop on the other side of the road, string instrument handedness, Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID, defines curriculum, clinitalregister.eu
 * External identifiers: Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, DPVweb ID, IDU theatre ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, ROKPS ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, Diels-Kranz ID, IDU theatre name ID (2), Oregon Historic Sites Database ID, Infames Romani ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Heritage Gateway ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, identifiant monument MémorialGenWeb, Extratime.ie player ID, DGHS facility code, WikiTrek ID, Itch.io developper profile


 * Deleted properties: P134 (has dialect), P1432 (B-side)
 * Query examples:
 * Women with cats in paintings (Source)
 * Films by Peter Mettler available free on VOD (Source)
 * Films broadcast on VOD by artfilm.ch sorted by Director and Date (Source)
 * Swiss films listed by date and duration per minutes (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fosm%20%3Fceremonial%20%3FceremonialLabel%20%3FceremonialDescription%20%3Fceremonialosm%20%3Fadministrative%20%3FadministrativeLabel%20%3FadministrativeDescription%20%3Fadministrativeosm%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1138494.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1889%20%3Fceremonial.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonial%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ180673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonial%20p%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialstatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonialstatement%20ps%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialosmid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonialstatement%20pq%3AP518%20wd%3AQ180673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fceremonialosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fceremonialosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fceremonial%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fceremonialosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fceremonialosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1889%20%3Fadministrative.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrative%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ643815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrative%20p%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativestatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrativestatement%20ps%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativeosmid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrativestatement%20pq%3AP518%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ643815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fadministrativeosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fadministrativeosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fadministrative%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativeosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fadministrativeosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fadministrativeosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%28%3FitemLabel%29%0ALIMIT%2049 Counties in England] (Source)
 * Programming Languages, Year of creation and Image of inventor(Source)
 * Map of Antonine Wall items on Wikidata (Source)
 * Map of Hospitals in Buenos Aires on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
 * Map of Michelin starred restaurants in Switzerland (Source)
 * English civil parishes on Wikidata with OSM relation ID (Source)
 * Collections in Louvre with an image on Wikimedia Commons (Source)
 * Chief Mousers(Source)
 * Books about Semantics (Source)
 * Danish COVID-19 research projects(Source)
 * Newest database reports: Lincoln (disambiguation page)


 * Development
 * Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
 * try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
 * allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
 * investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
 * com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
 * identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
 * create design system components to continue improving consistency

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) 15:14, 20 April 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: 2020-17
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Recent changes
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 * Octicons-tools.svg Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.  is now  .   is now  .   is now  . This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.

Changes later this week
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 * The font in the diffs will change.
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