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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg John M Wolfson
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ragesoss
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Yunshui

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Anarchyte
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Yunshui

Guideline and policy news
 * Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news
 * Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
 * Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
 * Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration
 * The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
 * The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous
 * A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Tech News: 2020-45
 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
 * You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the  parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g.  . Note that   is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
 * Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter).
 * The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information.

Future changes
 * A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of  when it is given a negative argument.
 * In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #440
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
 * Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
 * Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
 * Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
 * Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
 * Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
 * SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons, by Zbyszko Papierski
 * Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to query wikidata with SPARQL, by Lianna D'amato
 * CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
 * Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
 * Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
 * Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
 * Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
 * All videos from the WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference are now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.
 * This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.
 * 1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.


 * Tool of the week
 * reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
 * All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia Commons (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
 * Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
 * Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
 * Happy Birthday from Semantic MediaWiki
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms  feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit
 * Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
 * Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
 * Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
 * Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
 * Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
 * Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
 * User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
 * The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a distributed format. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
 * The Election Tracker, uses Wikidata to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
 * Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11 are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
 * witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for accused witches in Scotland.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
 * External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
 * External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki


 * Query examples:
 * Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
 * Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
 * Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
 * Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
 * Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
 * Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
 * Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
 * Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
 * Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
 * Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
 * Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
 * Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
 * Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
 * Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography


 * Development
 * Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (T263435)
 * Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (T264883)
 * Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (T266673)
 * The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

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) 16:47, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #441
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
 * Other
 * "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
 * Value label constraint


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
 * Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
 * Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
 * Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. by Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
 * Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as . Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01.
 * Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
 * External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
 * External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID


 * Query examples:
 * Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
 * POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
 * Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
 * People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
 * Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
 * Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
 * Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
 * List of longest Cars (Source)


 * Development
 * Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
 * Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
 * Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
 * Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (T264538)
 * Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (T266673)
 * Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (T263435)

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) 14:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46
 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
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested.
 * From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)