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Wikidata weekly summary #415
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Remote Wikimedia Hackathon, May 9-10 (see the showcase replay and the description of projects). Several Wikidata-related sessions took place:
 * Working on Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool by Lucas Werkmeister: Part 1, Part 2
 * Wikidata: Figure skating workflow, starting from scratch (installing and configuring everything on a new computer) by Harmonia Amanda: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
 * Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
 * Upcoming: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred, May 13th at 19:30 CEST


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding  tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
 * Part 1 - Meet the Archive: YouTube
 * Part 2 - The IA & Wikimedia: YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Part 1 - Wikidata - current state: YouTube
 * Part 2 - Wikibase & Lexemes: YouTube
 * Part 3 - Shape Expressions & Schemas: YouTube
 * How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
 * Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
 * Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names


 * Tool of the week
 * WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/VIAF linking to multiple items has been created: most of the items listed probably need merging - have a look!
 * New tool: universal almanac based on Wikidata by Alexander Doria
 * A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
 * V1 of Wikidata Bridge is almost ready to be tested on Catalan Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: general property-based URL formatter, hardiness of plant, hardiness zone, ex-libris, voting system, supported metadata, tabular case data, Gazette of India notification
 * External identifiers: motorsportstats.com team ID, Canadiana NCF ID, Indian Railways train number, SNCF Station Identifier, South African Company Registration Number, DART-Europe thesis ID, DoME exhibition ID, DPE school code, Epistemonikos ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, Joconde technique ID, PragerU presenter ID, regional government of Sicily ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, BeWeb cultural institution ID, ACUM work ID, Reta Vortaro ID, Mozilla Developer Network article


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: social media followers, Gobbledygook, forearm length, number of stepchildren, number of adopted children, CV, axe, banned in
 * External identifiers: NMMA built heritage ID, NMMA antiquities ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, iDAI.chronontology ID, identifiant SILL d'un logiciel, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Naturdenkmal-ID Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Bookogs credit ID, Bookogs work ID, Bookogs book ID, GMC membership number, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali author ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, ASUT ID, Niden INE


 * Query examples:
 * Films claimed to pass the Bechdel test with less than 2 female cast members in Wikidata
 * African-American librarians in Wikidata that don't have Wikipedia articles (Source)
 * Magicians with known precise birth date (Source)
 * Sheffield Shield cricket players and the number of states they have played in (Source)
 * Number of Twitter followers of scientists at Dutch universities (Source)
 * Former United Kingdom Parliament MP's still living (by first election) (Source)
 * Number of paintings in National Gallery with artist and gender (Source)
 * Nearby table tennis tables to public spaces for the Wiki Explorer Android application (Source)
 * Map of Ramsar sites in France (Source)
 * Highest software version numbers recorded on Wikidata (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Speed skating, Witches


 * Development
 * Display statements with federated properties (T246606)
 * Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (T252024)
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
 * Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (T249598)
 * Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (T247459)
 * Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (T247196)
 * More work on automated 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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:26, 11 May 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!

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Tech News: 2020-20
 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
 * Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.

Problems
 * Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via  or  . You can use   or   to check one at a time instead.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #416
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Date in Wikidata not properly translated in Wikipedia table, Disallow merging into newer entity


 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein - May 21st 1pm - 7pm (UTC). Organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group, the training will be held in English this time! Join us remotely!
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Indian scientists datathon by WikiProject India. May 22nd to 24th, IST.
 * Past: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
 * Past: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred (replay), May 13th at 19:30 CEST


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * WhatDoTheyKnow in Wikidata (blog post)
 * How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update about the Wikidata 8th birthday events regarding the COVID19 situation
 * The Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations have been published
 * Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: tilt, curriculum vitae
 * External identifiers: The Conversation author ID, SILL ID of a software, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork author ID, Bookogs work ID, Gitabitan.net ID, Arlington Cemetery person ID, CDAPNC author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: selma'o, originated from individual of taxon, media franchise, préposition, Edible parts, local time, langue fille, langue mère, langue sœur, banned in
 * External identifiers: LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet text ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, Colon Classification, Wyoming SHPO ID, norsk fangeregister person ID, K-Scholar ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, MDAH's HRI ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, RI National Register Search ID, MACRIS ID, Mod DB mod ID, GameBanana video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, BaGLAMa GID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, SNES central game ID, CTHS author ID, correspondent of, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, 500 Queer Scientists profile, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Goodreads work ID, FlashScore.com player ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, Origin game ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, LGBT Danmark dictionary ID, Book Marks ID


 * Deleted properties: P727
 * Query examples:
 * Recommended units of measurement listed in the SI Brochure (9th, concise edition) (Source)
 * Border with which all the municipalities of the Basque Country share (Source)
 * Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (Source)
 * Best snipers of the world by number of victims of killer (Source)
 * Plans and photographs of the restoration works of cathedrals in the 19th century contained in the French National Archives) (Source)
 * Map of railways stations in France (Source)
 * List of African countries with their current leaders and their ages (Source)
 * Point in time of Advisor and Student relationships for professions mathematician and computer scientist (Source)
 * Drawings with an image that depicts a ship (Source)
 * Map of National parks in Sweden (Source)
 * US States with an A (Source)


 * Development
 * In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g.,  ) can now be used more easily. (T227952)
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (T246676, T247250, T244361)
 * Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (T250785)
 * More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (T247690)
 * Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (T198703)

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; Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:30, 18 May 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: 2020-21
 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
 * 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 can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Problems
 * There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   and  . They will have to remove  . You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects ,  ,  ,   and  . They can no longer use  . You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

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I also need to request to lock these accounts because they are a soockpuppets of a serial vandal abusing from different wikis. I was going to request this from meta wiki but I got prevented from editing. So do globally lock these accounts. Thanks. 182.68.111.212 (talk) 07:36, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22
 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
 * The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)