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Tech News: 2023-28
 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
 * The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
 * Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments.
 * is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata.
 * The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * The default protocol of and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https.
 * and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago.

Future changes
 * There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:52, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 July 2023
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:02, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #584
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
 * MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?
 * Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
 * The humble guide to building an asset library
 * Papers
 * OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
 * "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
 * A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia
 * Videos
 * Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube
 * Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * LD4 conference (YouTube)
 * Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
 * Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
 * Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
 * WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
 * How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * autosuggest value ( qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject )
 * External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * verdict ( decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury )
 * Founder of
 * underlying structure ( an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost )
 * timetable
 * Canadian Archival Information Network authority record
 * External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword


 * Query examples:
 * List of data journals at Wikidata (source)
 * Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
 * WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)


 * Development
 * Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (T327510)
 * EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (T339924)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (T328149)
 * mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (T340832)

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!

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Tech News: 2023-29
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create  and  subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the  API now.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:07, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 57
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 57, May – June 2023 
 * Suggestion improvements
 * Favorite collections tips
 * Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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Wikidata weekly summary #585
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
 * Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
 * Ongoing
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation
 * Wikibase and reconciliation, by Adshore
 * Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology
 * Papers
 * Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - YouTube
 * WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - YouTube
 * WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - YouTube
 * Dataviz
 * Wikicommunes (See also the thread on Mastodon)


 * Tool of the week
 * Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * median household income ( median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country )
 * login URL ( URL of a webpage used to log into a service )
 * registration page URL ( URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service )
 * External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Threads username, Dutch word ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Top scorer ( This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: ; ; (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ). )
 * External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs, IbsenStage ID, TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme (source)
 * Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs (source)
 * People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors" (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Henrik Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661).
 * WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library at the Getty Research Institute (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (T214885).
 * mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (T340644)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (T328149)
 * Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
 * Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
 * Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
 * You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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!

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat(WMDE) 15:42, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-30
<section begin="technews-2023-W30"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg  On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.

Changes later this week
 * 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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:19, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #587
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Welcome to our new admin Yahya! (see the closed request)


 * Events
 * The deadline for submitting your proposals for WikidataCon 2023 is July 31st (23:59) anywhere in the world. Submit your proposals at https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata, Elisavet Koutsiana et. al.


 * Tool of the week
 * osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * median household income ( median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country )
 * login URL ( URL of a webpage used to log into a service )
 * registration page URL ( URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service )
 * shortcode ( string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:) )
 * verdict ( decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury )
 * External identifiers: Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, Spotlight PIN ID, myjewishitaly.it ID, Minerba One Data Indonesia ID, Wikibase World ID, Open Yearbook org id, ProQuest publication ID, Friedländer ID, FIGC player ID, hitparade.ch song ID, Theapolis theatre ID, IbsenStage ID, IMDb keyword


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Top scorer ( This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: ; ; (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ). )
 * Project partner ( property to list the partners of a project or an event, when different from the organizing body. )
 * External identifiers: TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID, BHL item ID, GamerProfiles Game ID, identifiant Pouët d'un groupe de démo, identifiant Pouët d'une démo, identifiant Pouët d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Kastelenlexicon ID, SEVIS school ID, Xiaohongshu User ID, Musée d'Arts de Nantes ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of people in the NZThesisProject with no assigned gender (source)
 * Cultural institutions having a Mastodon handle (source)
 * Maps of places in Rennes with an article on French Wikipedia, color-coded by number of pages on the Wikimedia Projects (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
 * GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (T339356) (new route)
 * GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (T338383) (new route)
 * GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
 * We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (T340006)
 * EntitySchemas:
 * We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
 * We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (T339924)
 * Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (T328149)
 * mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (T340832, T338330)

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.

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:44, 31 July 2023 (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: 2023-31
<section begin="technews-2023-W31"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
 * The tag filter on and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool.
 * The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work.

Problems
 * It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:53, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 August 2023
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:39, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #588
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Submit your proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023. Deadline has been extended to August 20, 23:59 anywhere in the world.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog: Creating Interactive Map Visualizations of Settlements with Wikidata and Python
 * Videos: Wiki Workshop 2023 recording YouTube playlist


 * Tool of the week
 * WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (source)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
 * Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
 * The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in T343419.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: National Union of Composers of Ukraine person ID, Encyclopaedia Islamica ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Virksomme ord ID, ‎Swetrails route ID, European Bridge League ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, IMVDb artist numeric ID, Team France athlete ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * disinherited ( someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Property proposal/heir or beneficiary )
 * conference schedule ( Conference schedule in Pentabarf XML format )
 * state of transmission
 * External identifiers: Works Diamond Catalogue ID, Editions Diamond Catalogue ID, NFSA ID, Identifiant Médiathèque Numérique CVS, DCB Number, wadoku id, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Mémoire déposé sur DUMAS, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, BG EGN, Google Scholar Organization ID, fiba.basketball player ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas:
 * We continued the work on giving them the same termbox as Items and Properties (T324235)
 * We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (T339924, T339921, T339925, T343231)
 * We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (T343333, T343118)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (T340006)

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.

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:05, 7 August 2023 (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: 2023-32
<section begin="technews-2023-W32"/> 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
 * Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "" in your settings and use the "" button in the "" menu.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:19, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Firefangledfeathers
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AlisonW · Amberrock · Closedmouth · Scottywong

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Novem Linguae

Technical news
 * The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools.
 * Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist.

Arbitration
 * The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
 * The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Wikidata weekly summary #589
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
 * WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
 * New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
 * Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
 * Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux
 * The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project
 * Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more
 * Papers
 * Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph
 * The World Literature Knowledge Graph
 * Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap
 * Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata
 * FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts
 * SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON
 * Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2
 * Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)
 * KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach
 * Notebooks
 * SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity (paper)
 * Movie settings and population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
 * Wikidata study day
 * SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup
 * Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia, Egon Willighagen et al.


 * Tool of the week
 * Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
 * WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Steam Deck compatibility rating ( official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not )
 * name version for other gender ( use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes )
 * Curator of ( has curated a collection or (art) exhibition )
 * Philippine middle name
 * External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors (source)
 * Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release (source)
 * Objects in Dresden with significant event (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
 * WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (T339363, T340006)
 * EntitySchemas:
 * We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
 * We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (T343333, T343118)
 * IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (T328454)

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!

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This Month in Education: July 2023
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In This Issue
 * Wikimedia Kaduna Connect Campaign
 * Wikimedia Serbia published a paper Promoting Equity in Access to Open Knowledge: An Example of the Wikipedia Educational Program
 * Wikimedia and Education Kailali Multiple campus
 * WikiCamp in Istog, Kosovo: Promoting Knowledge and Nature Appreciation
 * Wiki at the Brazilian National History Symposium
 * US & Canada program reaches 100M words added
 * Renewed Community Wikiconference brought together experienced Wikipedians and newcomers
 * Kusaal Wikipedia Workshop at Ajumako Campus, University of Education, Winneba
 * Join us to celebrate the Kiwix4Schools Africa Mentorship Program Graduation Ceremony
 * Activities that took place during the presentation of the WikiEducation book. Educational practices and experiences in Mexico with Wikipedia and other open resources in Xalala, Veracruz from the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
 * 62+ Participants Graduates from the Kiwix4Schools Africa Mentorship Program
 * “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” course launched in Ukraine
 * OFWA and Goethe Institute Host Wiki Skills For Librarians Workshop-Ghana

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Tech News: 2023-33
<section begin="technews-2023-W33"/> 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
 * The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

Future changes
 * A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #590
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #106, Sleep
 * Past:
 * Wikimania happened over the weekend. You can find a playlist of the events on YouTube here
 * Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #105, Wikimania Singapore


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners. Congratulations Tofeiku and Siobhan Leachman for your dedication to Wikidata \o/
 * Videos
 * Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap (relation (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Promoting GLAM Institution in Indonesia through OSM-Wikidata Mapping - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * appears before phonological feature ( this lexeme form appears only when another lexeme form with this phonological feature comes after it )
 * appears after phonological feature ( this lexeme form appears only when it comes after another lexeme form with this phonological feature )
 * appears before lexeme form ( this lexeme form appears only when this other specific lexeme form comes after it )
 * appears after lexeme form ( this lexeme form appears only when it comes after this other specific lexeme form )
 * Gottstein code ( code representing a variant of the cuneiform sign according to the Gottstein system )
 * tournament type ( significance or status of a sports competition for a league, tour, association, etc. )
 * External identifiers: Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, UMLS Semantic Network ID, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, Moroccan geographic code (2015), BHL item ID, TVING ID, Google Scholar organization ID, Rumble channel, GSA player ID, Roku Channel Store ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Antenna Structure Registration Number, Korean Tour player ID, Kastelenlexicon ID, NFDI4Culture ID, Pouët group ID, Pouët group member ID, Pouët demo ID, Steam curator ID, Podbay ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, Diamond Catalogue work ID, Diamond Catalogue edition ID, Frankfurt University Library Digital Collection ID, Nurnet ID, DUMAS thesis ID, Syok podcast ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * patron deity
 * WHO Aware Classification ( The World Health Organization currently classifies 258 antibiotics into "Access", "Watch", and "Reserve" based partly on the risk of resistance developing as a result of such use and critical nature of the antibiotic in question. )
 * nombre de niveaux ( number of levels in a video game or number of stages in a particular sport )
 * URL du plan du jeu vidéo ( URL of the video game detailed map in subject provided by the site CPC-Power )
 * Positioning ( A list of all the satellite navigation system (ex. GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NavIC etc. ) a mobile device, or a smartphone supports. List of all the Satellite Navigation System. )
 * place on the route ( object, station, facility, city, natural formation or other place on a road, track, route, line, watercourse, utility line or other linear route )
 * simule ( the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real )
 * External identifiers: ANPI person ID (2), J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, ID ve Slovníku české literatury po roce 1945, Vazhaju Word ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, Visiongame.cz game ID, Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Numeric ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Anikore anime ID, wiki.gg wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Count of items with an article on fr.wikivoyage.org by country (source)
 * Count of items with an article on fr.wikiquote.org by instance of (source)
 * Count of items that have X amount of statements. A simple showcase of Blazegraph optimizations.
 * Week 33, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (T341969)
 * Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (T328149)
 * Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (T338330, T340832)

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!

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Tech News: 2023-34
<section begin="technews-2023-W34"/> 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
 * The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons.
 * From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
 * Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
 * a Wiktionary in Pa'O
 * a Wikisource in Sundanese
 * To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
 * Wikifunctions
 * a Wiktionary in Mandailing
 * a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin
 * a Wikinews in Gungbe
 * a Wiktionary in Kabardian
 * a Wikipedia in Fante

Changes later this week
 * 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems.

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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35
<section begin="technews-2023-W35"/> 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
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis.
 * Octicons-gift.svg All pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.
 * Wikisource users can now use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> tag.
 * Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "" is now shown on the "" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "" tab at some wikis. The preference "" is now also shown on the "" tab at all wikis, instead of the "" tab.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
 * All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks.

Future changes
 * The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
 * A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:59, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #591
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
 * How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube
 * The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
 * How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube
 * Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube
 * WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikitrivia is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome!
 * Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! Project submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC.
 * Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * has heir or beneficiary ( people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title )
 * External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID, ‎research.com ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, wiki.gg article ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, ‎Visiongame.cz game ID, ‎Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, wiki.gg wiki ID, Audio+ show ID, Cent cols ID, Lift Up profile ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Dictionary of Czech literature after 1945 ID, ‎Biographical Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID, GamerProfiles game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * simule ( the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real )
 * sexe ou genre du protagoniste ( regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279) )
 * unofficial name ( name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for nicknames use P1449, for pseudonymes P742) )
 * External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022, WikiChip article ID, identifiant Demozoo d'une démo, identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Czech geological location ID, Moviefone person ID, Moviefone movie ID, Les Petits M'O ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Minerals.net mineral ID, Minerals.net gemstone ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of birthplaces of German women writers (source)
 * Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Where were people who went to space born? (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.

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.
 * Development
 * We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
 * We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (T328281)
 * We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (T318981)
 * We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (T325822)
 * We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (T344417)
 * We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (T338798)


 * 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!

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Pppery · Theleekycauldron
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dwheeler · G.A.S · Royalbroil · Ssd



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

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Bradv

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
 * A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news
 * Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.

Arbitration
 * The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous
 * Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Wikidata weekly summary #592
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
 * New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
 * Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. [[https://actualitte.com/article/113238/ressources/wikimedia-2e-edition-du-mooc-wikidata. Link (in French)
 * Wikidata Days 2023, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. Registration (in Portuguess)
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, Roof (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. (including comments from Selena Deckelmann (WMF) and User:Jsamwrites)
 * Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive
 * Improving equity on Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * Papers
 * Wikidata Research Articles Dataset
 * Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning
 * Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives
 * SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples
 * Videos
 * #SPARQL #Wikidata: first name, occupation and Academy, by VIGNERON - YouTube (in French)
 * Newsletters
 * Wikidata and the epistemology of robots in RAW ((in French)
 * Explore Wikidata differently with Synia in RAW (in French)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d). For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible.
 * Wikidata's eleventh birthday is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours!
 * Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * has heir or beneficiary ( people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title )
 * towing capacity ( the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes )
 * learning outcome ( specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program )
 * tribe ( recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172 )
 * External identifiers: ANPI person ID, Anikore anime ID, Substack profile ID, Artmajeur artist ID, FantLab translator ID, ‎wadoku ID, identifier in a register in Germany, Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * when used with property ( when used with property )
 * Wikimedia Commons campaign ( name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign )
 * near ( for geo-objects which are located near some other geo-object )
 * External identifiers: animecons.com event id, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, BioGRID Publication, iNaturalist user ID, MyShows, NHK News topic ID, Museoitalia ID, DBpia author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica (source)
 * Largest heist by damage (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (T338797)
 * We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (T318981)
 * Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (T342238)

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!

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Tech News: 2023-36
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Recent changes Problems
 * EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences.
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects.
 * There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via and via the API.
 * One new wiki has been created:
 * a in Talysh
 * The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

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Wikidata weekly summary #593
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex). September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
 * German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023.
 * OpenRefine for beginners (in German). October 25-26, 2023.
 * The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland, for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; you can apply here.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API
 * Press
 * Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity.
 * Papers
 * Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky
 * Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis
 * KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent
 * Videos
 * Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins
 * Link data from local index to Wikidata - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno
 * Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos


 * Tool of the week
 * Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here. Application deadline is September 15.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * state of transmission ( state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816) )
 * describes actor of ( predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense )
 * describes undergoer of ( predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense )
 * External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID, ‎animecons.com event ID, Museo Italia ID, Dans nos cœurs ID, WWGR player ID, futzal.rus player ID, iNaturalist user ID, alyga.lt player ID, UETK ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, SEVIS school ID, WikiChip article ID, Mageia package ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Red List of South African Plants conservation status ( conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute )
 * Educational level ( school level in which the subject of the item is taught )
 * FragDenStaat tag ( tag in FragDenStaat.de )
 * Plate ( the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made )
 * External identifiers: Fansly ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, BookBrainz series ID, BookBrainz edition ID, ManyVids ID, LoverFans ID, IGI Global affiliate ID, Aparat channel ID, Pandit Project work ID, RKDexcerpts


 * Query examples:
 * Territories claimed by irredentism
 * Map of tram stop all over the world (source)
 * Map of public archives in Germany (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast).
 * WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement digital archive into Wikidata.


 * Development
 * Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (T343731)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
 * Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (T344231)
 * We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (T343979)
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (T342976) and get the labels of a Property (T342977)

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.

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 * 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: 2023-37
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Recent changes
 * ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "" and ""), please report them.
 * When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
 * The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 58
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Wikidata weekly summary #594
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-18.


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce! (see the closed request)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 (Task: Import commune of France contact data from french official directory, french official directory
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 (Task: Removing good list badge from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)


 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
 * Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy (in German)
 * Videos
 * List of free software in le socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata - Nicolas Vigneron
 * Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata - Oficina Wiki Apoia
 * Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement) - Magnus Sälgö
 * Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub - Wikimedia Sweden
 * From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving? - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau


 * Tool of the week
 * LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
 * Wikibase resources, a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: RBC person ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID, MyShows show ID, NHK News topic ID, ‎Sitios ID, Xiaohongshu user ID, Fansly ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * chronological designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
 * Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
 * External identifiers: British Pathé ID, ProductReview ID, BISAC Subject Heading, EDItEUR Thema id, ONIX Subject Scheme id, MiMoText ID, ADVN ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, Diktyon, Codeberg username, RAWG tag ID, National Library of Albania ID, DfE Group UID, AARoads Wiki article ID, Armasanicana person ID, FloraVeg.EU species ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID


 * Query examples:
 * Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata (source)
 * Power stations of this world (source)
 * Usage state of the nuclear power plant (source)


 * Development
 * We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
 * Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (T330550)
 * We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (T344231)
 * Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (T342977)

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.

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 * 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!
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 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2023-38
<section begin="technews-2023-W38"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.
 * All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

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PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

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Wikidata weekly summary #595
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot (Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
 * WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata by User:Nicereddy
 * Papers
 * Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet (A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage Library). Jacqueline J. Dearborn
 * "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. (Cao et al, 2023)
 * Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues. Tamsin L. Braisher
 * Press
 * They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how fitting that seems today - The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata fellowship.
 * Videos
 * The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location - salgo60
 * Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata - Will Kent
 * Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia - Kai Labusch
 * From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again - Crystal Yragui, Adam Schiff
 * Adventures in Korean Wikidata - Margaret Donald
 * Getting started on Wikidata - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
 * Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian - Wikidata in italiano
 * Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file - Michael Lindsey


 *  Tool of the week 
 * User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games has some Wikidata-related ones for you.
 * Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
 * Citation.js Toolforge is a service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX, RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
 * As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine Learning team will switch the backend of ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently migrated. This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)


 *  Did you know? 


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * type of musical notation ( system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition )
 * ‎chronological designation ( stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in support of a particular statement may not be the same as the publication date or volume )
 * External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, Diktyon ID, RAWG tag ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Demo ( video game or software that this trial version is based on )
 * ETCS level ( ETCS level of implementation )
 * adoption variant ( variant of this loanword with the same origin )
 * Temaportalen ID
 * External identifiers: Metacritic game ID, BAN ID, handlingar.se ID, identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, South African NPO number


 * Query examples:
 * Subclass of blogger (source)
 * List of taxon name as first having been described by Dennis P. Gordon (source)
 * Gallery of wood cuts made before 1600, including file description and the link to the Wikimedia Commons file (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 38, 2023) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance - an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical works.
 * WikiProject Museum AI projects - aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into Wikidata and create a data model for it.


 *  Development 
 * Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear (T344362)
 * Mismatch Finder:
 * We made improvements to the store part of the tool (T335864) and fixed small issues (T344336,, T343344)
 * We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers (T313467)
 * We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (T343731)
 * We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (T342857)
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item

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.

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 *  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!

Tech News: 2023-39
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Recent changes
 * The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The ResourceLoader <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
 * Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes
 * New variables will be added to AbuseFilter:  and  . They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #596
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC))
 * New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928))

Ongoing This Week
 * Events
 * November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
 * January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023
 * Papers
 * Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study - Zhang et al, 2023
 * Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
 * Videos
 * Intro about WikiPathways< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
 * Wikidata for Better Health (in French) - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
 * Notebooks
 * Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article
 * Artist selection (in French)


 * Tool of the week
 * Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program.
 * The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * demo of ( video game or software that this trial version is based on )
 * External identifiers: ‎Codeberg username, ADVN ID, ‎MiMoText ID, BookBrainz series ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, ‎National Library of Albania ID, AARoads Wiki article ID, BAN ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * self-identified name ( the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself )
 * non-self-identified name ( name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts )
 * exception to constraint (lexeme) ( lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302 )
 * External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID, DBIL ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Gematsu game ID, Matilda paper ID, Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, Pinakes IDs, WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors (source)
 * University's museum in France (source)
 * 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
 * WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
 * We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
 * You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (T342857)
 * We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
 * Lexicographical data:
 * We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (T322683)
 * If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (T343979)
 * We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (T286239)
 * Mismatch Finder:
 * Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (T335864)
 * We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (T313467)
 * The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (T343344)

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.

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 * 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: 2023-40
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Recent changes
 * There is a new user preference for "". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget definitions now have a new " contentModels " option. The option takes a list of page content models, like  or  . Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

Changes later this week
 * 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki.

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Hey man im josh
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Alex Bakharev · CorbieVreccan · Cyphoidbomb · Davodd · Hog Farm · JamesR · KnightLago · Mark Ironie · Nosebagbear (deceased) · Rschen7754 · Tamzin · TonyBallioni



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DatGuy
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ferret · RickinBaltimore
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni · Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg RickinBaltimore
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni · Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news
 * Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
 * Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Tech News: 2023-41
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Recent changes
 * One new wiki has been created: a in Fon

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature.
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will be replaced with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #597
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Saroj! (see the closed request)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Tildebot (Task: Upload about 16,000 AARoads Wiki article ID statements based on reconciliation in OpenRefine)
 * GamerProfilesBot (Task: Regularly update existing video games with the GamerProfiles game ID sourced from GamerProfiles.com)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 13, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
 * Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
 * New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here.
 * Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata by Chris Hanretty
 * Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate by Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds
 * These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT, by Hannah Murdock
 * COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022 < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore
 * Papers
 * Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard
 * Press
 * Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.")
 * Videos
 * Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham
 * Linking cultural heritage data in practice < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata.
 * Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University
 * Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond.
 * Proposal and creation of properties (in French) by VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata.
 * Wikidata: first pragmatic approach - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.


 * Tool of the week
 * https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: BAN ID, Metacritic game ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, ‎Gematsu game ID, Encyclociné ID, DBIL ID, Pinakes country ID, Pinakes city ID, Pinakes institution ID, Pinakes fonds ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux object ID, Aparat channel ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * self-identified name ( the name by which a group of humans refers to itself )
 * non-self-identified name ( name used to identify a group of humans against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts )
 * fonds
 * External identifiers: WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID, SBL player ID, identificador Qué series ver, Steam Workshop file ID, Find my School ID, Fichier des ecclésiastiques ID, Walmart product ID, Open Library publisher ID, kihondōshi handbook ID, OzBargain tag, OzBargain brand, ELSST Thesaurus ID, Gematsu company ID, Valve Developer Community article ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, Illinois State Parks ID, Flixy.dk emne ID


 * Query examples:
 * Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting(source)
 * Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow (source)
 * List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list (source)
 * Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases (source: @espejolento)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions (T342982, T337371, T337371, T348150)
 * We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (T344362)
 * We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (343998, T343999)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (T313467)

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!

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This Month in Education: September 2023
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 * Inauguration of the Kent Wiki Club at the Wikimania 2023 Conference
 * Letter Magic: Supercharging Your WikiEducation Programs
 * Réseau @pprendre (Learning Network) : The Initiative for Educational Change in Francophone West Africa
 * WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique closes its 5th edition with 13 winning schools
 * WikiConecta: connecting Brazilian university professors and Wikimedia
 * Wikimedia Germany launches interactive event series Open Source AI in Education

Wikidata weekly summary #598
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 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the online or the onsite event! You can also check the program, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
 * Wikidata Day NYC '23 Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
 * State of the Map EU 2023 has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
 * Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
 * Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October.
 * Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image". October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
 * Past Week:
 * Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs has ended. Did you contribute?
 * Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata by Vogel & Binnig.
 * Press: Indexing news with AI via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
 * Videos
 * Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
 * Drag'n'Drop Gadget <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö.
 * Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
 * Introduction & Overview of Wikidata (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it.
 * Notebooks
 * Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results (in French)
 * What's nearby, Wikidata? will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location.
 * Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) by Ambrosia10


 * Tool of the week
 * Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code, LSG code, SEC code).
 * User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * ‎WHO Aware Classification ( antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization )
 * ‎self-identified name ( name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym) )
 * non-self-identified name ( name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination )
 * External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID, MUSE book ID, ‎Game Jolt ID, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID, ‎ProductReview ID, ‎Acclaimed Music album ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, SlackBuilds package, Metacritic numeric game ID, Metacritic publication ID, Metacritic company ID, StopGame series ID, Steam Workshop mod ID, California State Park ID, ‎Find my School ID, WikiKids ID, SBL player ID, Open Library publisher ID, DBpia article ID, ‎Gematsu company ID, ‎Valve Developer Community article ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * parent form of an active substance ( parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance in the form of a salt )
 * FAO WIEWS Institution ID
 * External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT, Rahlfs Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Kinobox ID, GNU Savannah project, Indie DB company ID, Mod DB company ID, Catenae Catalogue, GameBrew ID, JLPGA player ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of lighthouses in France (source)
 * Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research? (graph) (source)
 * Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements (source)
 * People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
 * WikiProject BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
 * WikiProject Manuscripts


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (T342982, T337371)
 * Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (T342979)
 * Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (T348150)
 * Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (T344362)
 * Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (T313467)

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!

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Tech News: 2023-42
<section begin="technews-2023-W42"/> 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
 * The Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome.
 * Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

Changes later this week
 * 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).

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Wikidata weekly summary #599
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27)
 * Upcoming:
 * How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23.
 * Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures.
 * Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom.
 * Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan.
 * Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page
 * 4th Wikidata Workshop as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Final Report of the Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund.
 * Videos
 * Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? Find it here.
 * Live Editing #110 < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session.
 * Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students.
 * Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit:
 * MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
 * MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is a new update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs.
 * Mismatch Finder tool improvements: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * ‎fonds ( archival fonds (part of a collection) which an item belongs to )
 * parent form of an active substance ( parent form of a chemical entity (e.g. a salt) used as an active substance in pharmaceutical products )
 * ‎Red List of South African Plants conservation status ( conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute )
 * Parpulov group ( class of similar manuscripts with Catenae as assigned by Georgi Parpulov )
 * External identifiers: ‎DfE group UID, Kinobox film ID, Kinobox person ID, FloraVeg.EU taxon ID, DBpia author ID, ‎Mod DB company ID, ‎GameBrew ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, ‎RKDexcerpts ID, ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023), JLPSA player ID, ‎Catenae Catalogue ID, ‎IGI Global author ID, ‎Pandit Project work ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID, Flora of New Jersey Project atlas ID, ‎GNU Savannah project ID, ‎Rahlfs number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * used by practitioners of ( item used by a practitioner of another item )
 * Plant Illustrations taxon ID ( URL for a taxon on the Plant Illustrations website )
 * Art Platform Japan ID ( identifier in (Japanese & English) )
 * External identifiers: IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, Flickr Photo ID, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, identifiant d'un membre de l'Académie de Stanislas, Bantumen Powerlist 100, identifiant Repairs, Legends Tour ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Cycling Archives race ID, Gale ACID, ID osoby Medvik, HBL topic ID, National Humanities Center Fellow ID


 * Query examples:
 * Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross
 * Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers
 * List of cathedrals around the world with its height (source)
 * Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them (source)
 * Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects
 * WikiProject Photography in Finland - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items
 * WikiProject Celtic Music - a project for collecting Celtic tunes


 * Development
 * We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days.
 * We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes.
 * We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next (T343999)

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!

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Tech News: 2023-43
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 * There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:15, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to the 600th Wikidata Weekly Summary!
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">

Lydia initiated the weekly newsletter at the start of the Wikidata project, before it even went live, to keep the community in the loop about the developments, the new projects and tools. Léa carried on the newsletter in 2016 and then it was my turn in 2020. The newsletter has been going strong for eleven years, with its content powered by the community, and delivered every week without fail. Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the different sections of the Weekly Summary thus far ❤️ --Mohammed "Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming.
 * Welcome to the 600th Weekly Summary!
 * Item #600 Ichiro Suzuki; Property #600 is Wine AppDB ID; and Lexeme #600 is the Japanese conjugation だから
 * 600 in the multiverse: as a year (another year), a number, a category, a track gauge, a jet, an asteroid, an auto race, a genetic element, a death, a birth, a TV serie, a car, a galaxy, a sport discipline, a radio telescope, an engine, a polygon, a film, a GPU, a photolithography, and many more…
 * Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 600
 * Map of things at an altitude of 600 m
 * List of items with an external ID equal to 600
 * Wikidata was 600 days old on Wednesday 11 June 2014. It will be 600 weeks old on Monday 9 August 2027
 * WikidataCon happened over the weekend
 * Birthday wishes from the community, and a special note from the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland below:

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There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉

Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all.

And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me.

Lydia for the development team"


 * Documentation of the sessions is currently ongoing with the slides getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here. The Livestream and replay of the conference per day are already available on YouTube. The individual sections are here.
 * List of presents gathered by the community for Wikidata's eleventh birthday
 * Luthor is a multi-lingual tool for adding usage examples to lexemes on Wikidata, from sentences found on Wikisource in the same language. (by Asaf Bartov)
 * সংকলক একটি সরঞ্জাম যেটা দিয়ে উইকিসংকলনের লেখাগুলির উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম অনুসারে সে লেখাগুলিকে উন্নত ভাবে অনুসন্ধান করা যায়। - Sangkalak is a tool with which Wikisource works can be searched more readily, using the Wikidata items for those works. (present from Mahir256) (by মাহির২৫৬-এর উপহার)
 * File:Wikidata 11th Birthday Card.jpg (by Almaddy2022)
 * Quonter Vandal - is a tool powered by AI to help identify vandalism to Wikidata. For more details and to leave comments see Quonter_Vandal. Developed by BrokenSegue
 * Creating new Lexemes? For a lot more languages you now no longer need to provide a spelling variant when creating a new Lexeme, making it even easier to contribute data about words in your language. (present from the development team)
 * The Mismatch Finder, the tool to help review mismatches between Wikidata and other data sources now also has support for mismatches on qualifiers. This allows it to be useful also for issues that are in the data in qualifiers. (present from the development team)
 * inteGraality service pack update from d:User:Jean-Frédéric
 * support for grouping by predicates, particularly useful for Lexemes (example by, example by  ) ; other example by badge
 * new column type: sitelinks (example 1, example 2)
 * Automatic support for grouping by datetime properties (example)
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms experimental Wikifunctions support (details TBA) --Lucas Werkmeister
 * The projects WiseWoman briefly presented of students editing obscure corners of Wikidata are on her Wikidata user page.
 * Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit (by Houcemeddine Turki):
 * MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
 * MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Hjart! (see the closed request)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * DifoolBot (Task: Update pages containing an ECARTICO person ID (P2915) statement, currently 5709 pages)
 * MsynBot 13 (Task: Remove unnecessary use of preferred rank)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 31, 2023: We will hear from Darnelle Melvin, Cory Lampert, and Andre Hulet, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Libraries, on WireframeVG: A Search and Discovery Application for Wikidata Projects. Agenda
 * Ongoing:
 * WikiProject India/Events/Wikidata Eleventh Birthday online Datathon, Oct 26 - Nov 5th 2023
 * Weekly Lexeme Challenge #115: Orchestra (Challenge started on 2023-10-30 12:01:26)
 * Past: Wikidata Eleventh Birthday Distributed events


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * From MeSH Keywords to Biomedical Knowledge in Wikidata: The giant move
 * Linking ACMI & Wikidata, by Paul Duchesne
 * Enhanced Wikibase, by Wikiworks MediaWiki consulting
 * Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes, by Yamen
 * 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects, By Dario Crespi (WMIT) & Ilaria Diterlizzi (WMIT)
 * The 11th Birthday of Wikidata was celebrated in Bhubaneswar by the Odia Wikimedians User Group
 * Papers
 * Relevant Entity Selection: Knowledge Graph Bootstrapping via Zero-Shot Analogical Pruning (Jarnac et al)
 * Press
 * The 11th Birthday Of Wikidata Was Celebrated In Bhubaneswar By The Odia Wikimedians User Group via OrissaDiary.com
 * Find the most famous person in your city using this interactive map (in German) by Kay Nordenbrock via t3n.de ("The database contains data on people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. It consists largely of data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.")
 * Videos
 * How cultural institutions use Wikidata (How cultural heritage institutions sharing their collection data, including implementing Wikidata projects, batch uploading datasets to Wikidata, and how to share successes to a broader audience) - Jackie Rubashkin, Metadata Technician, Barack Obama Presidential Library; Michelle van Lanschot, Project Coordinator at Wikimedia-Netherlands; William Blueher, Associate Museum Librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Will Kent, Wiki Education
 * (in Chinese) Wikidata基礎編輯教學 (Wikidata basic editor) - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters (COSCUP) 2023
 * How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - Yucheng Lin (COSCUP 2023)
 * Wikidata merge-gadget (in Swedish) by Magnus Sälgö
 * Wikidata Live editing session - NASA, inteGraality, dates and qualifiers (in French) by Nicolas VIGNERON
 * Pairing SBN with Wikidata via WikiLinker (in Portuguese)
 * Introduction to Wikibase Cloud (in Italian)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Magnus Manske/author sort.js is a user script to automatically sort the authors of a paper in the order they appear on the paper, ie. by sorting author (P50) and author name string (P2093) statements by series ordinal (P1545). Example: One Hundred and Seventeen Clades of Euagarics (Q28209168).
 * Notable People is a map project by Topi Tjukanov that showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. It uses the combined data of Wikipedia and Wikidata from the paper's "a cross-verified database of notable people, 3500 BC-2018 AD" by Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique & Etienne Wasmer. The data shows only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members.
 * Wikimedia Research Fund Update update. "You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 15, 2023. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects."
 * The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is investigating the different ways Wikidata is used in the sister projects. We would like to speak with you about your experiences integrating or connecting Wikidata, if you'd like to tell us, please sign up for an interview on our project page or on our Registration Form.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Illinois State Parks ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, ‎Flickr photo ID, ‎IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, ManyVids ID, ‎North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, Repairs ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * nixpkgs path ( other operating systems have their package manages as id properties )
 * Cultural Heritage Online ID ( identifier for heritage assets and related institutions on Cultural Heritage Online )
 * External identifiers: Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID, Emerald network site ID, Playdate Catalog ID, Rowing Canada ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID, old-games id, TheTVDB movie ID, Indiana Plant Atlas ID, cagb manuscript ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, Filmweb ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Gale document ID


 * Query examples:
 * Property completeness dashboard for manuscripts
 * Map of narrative locations of romantic comedies (source)
 * Tunisian scientists are cited by Nobel Prize winners (source)
 * Which cathedrals are the tallest in the world? (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Source Reliability - an project to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher - a project to display open access shares (among others based on publishers) at the Austrian Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to remove a description in a given language from an Item, modify the label of an Item and add aliases to an Item (T342986, T342980, T335842)
 * Lexicographical data: We switched the Property that is used to pre-select the spelling variant on the Special:NewLexeme page from P218 (ISO 639-1 code) to P305 (IETF language tag) to make use of the latter’s larger coverage. (T348923)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on addressing the feedback from the testing of the new datatype in the test 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!

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Tech News: 2023-44
<section begin="technews-2023-W44"/> 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
 * The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
 * The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.
 * Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months.

Future changes
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive
<div style="border: 2px solid #484898; background: #FFF; background-color:#98FB98; padding: 1ex 1ex 1ex 1.5ex; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; font-size: 99%"> Hello Whiteguru:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:25, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 November 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #601
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 * Discussions
 * AramBot (Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to Wikidata).


 * Events
 * Past: Search Platform / Query Service Team office hour log — November 1, 2023
 * This Week:
 * Wikidata for Digital Humanities workshop hosted by Brown University Library, Nov. 6th 19:00 - 20:00 CEST.
 * Wiki Loves Monuments: Learning Clinic #3 hosted by WM Sweden in partnership with WM Uganda, Nov. 9th
 * Upcoming: Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. You can propose a session until November 19. If you are running another event or meetup and would like to connect it to the Data Modelling Days, you can add it to the satellite events section.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata Arabic Community.
 * ULTRA: Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning.
 * Papers
 * PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept A White Paper released from Charles Faulhaber
 * Using Pregel to Create Knowledge Graphs Subsets Described by Non-recursive Shape Expressions by  Á. Préstamo & J. Gayo
 * Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web is a collection of preceedings from the 5th Iberoamerican Conference and 4th Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2023, Nov. 13–15. By F. Ortiz-Rodriguez, B. Villazón-Terrazas, S. Tiwari & C. Bobed.


 * Videos
 * OpenHPI Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
 * OpenHPI Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph
 * Wikidata 11th Birthday Celebrations(YouTube shorts) are celebrated by the Community
 * Live Editing with Wikidata in Italiano (Italian)
 * Intro to Wikibase Cloud (Italian)


 * Tool of the week
 * subclass of, new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * SMWCon 2023 Call for Contributions on the topic 'MediaWiki in the age of AI'
 * The Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool was upgraded to autogenerate the different forms of a regular word with functions from Wikifunctions
 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: ‎Playdate Catalog ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * linguistic family of place name ( Relates directly a placename to its original language family. It's not the language in which the toponym is written, but the language from which the word (place name) comes from. )
 * according to ( to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source )
 * counterexample ( qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold (alias: "item belonging to the subject class but not the value class") )
 * Book ordinal in a publication series ( This property describes the order of the book within a book series. )
 * Comitato Italiano Paralimpico ID ( Athlete ID in the Italian Paralympi Committee website (comitatoparalimpico.it) )
 * tax base ( This property describes the calculation basis for the item of Taxation. )
 * tax objects ( This property describes certain objects, acts, or other facts that are the basis for calculating taxes. )
 * taxpayer ( This property describes someone who owes money. )
 * External identifiers: Pallaalcentro player ID, Propylaeum-VITAE id, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID, Alexandria.dk person, Identifiant One Earth d'une écorégion, CECC Political Prisoner ID, shukach.com ID, Carte d'autore online ID, Fondazione Fiera ID, Il Sole 24 Ore cinema IDs, Dongqiudi.com team ID, Moviepilot.de person ID, IDVT, National-Football-Teams.com national team ID, Kicker team ID, FilmAffinity person ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of phobias in French
 * Interviewees who were part of the Suffragette Movement and
 * Interviewees who had a relative or friend in the Suffragette Movement as part of the LSE Suffrage Interviews Project


 * Newest WikiProjects: Source Reliability "is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources".


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We have implemented the endpoints for PATCH /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (T337371), PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases (T342982) and PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/labels (T342980)
 * We started working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (T342986)
 * Language codes:
 * We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. (T349652)
 * We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (T341409)
 * Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells in the query result should be readable again. (T350153)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.

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!

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Tech News: 2023-45
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 * In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content.

Problems
 * Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem.

Changes later this week
 * 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).
 * The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg 0xDeadbeef
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Tamzin
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Pppery
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss · TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections.  is the reserve commissioner.
 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
 * Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous
 * The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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This Month in Education: October 2023
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 * 3 Generations at Wikipedia Education Program in Türkiye
 * CBSUA Launches Wiki Education in Partnership with PhilWiki Community and Bikol Wikipedia Community
 * Celebrating Wikidata’s Birthday in Elbasan
 * Edu Wiki Camp 2023 - together in Sremski Karlovci
 * PhilWiki Community promotes language preservation and cultural heritage advocacies at ADNU
 * PunjabWiki Education Program: A Wikipedia Adventure in Punjab
 * WikiConference on Education ignites formation of Wikimedia communities
 * Wikimedia Estonia talked about education at CEE meeting in Tbilisi
 * Wikimedia in Brazil is going to be a book
 * Wikipedian Editor Project: Arabic Sounds Workshop 2023

Wikidata weekly summary #602
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: S8321414 (RfP scheduled to end after 13 November 2023 14:50 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * DiFoolBot 2 (Task: import VIAF ID based on Union List of Artist Names ID)
 * KizuleBot (Task: Adding sitelinks to Serbian Wikipedia for maintenance categories (see contributions of account) based on items for English Wikipedia's ones)
 * KormiSKbot (Task: Linking newly created pages on SKWiki to the appropriate Wikidata items.)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 14, 2023: We will hear from Diego Saez-Trumper on Wikidata Revert Risk and Annotool. Agenda
 * Latin America in Wikidata Challenge (Spanish) < Nov. 14 - Dec. 14. Play the game and help highlight the region hosting the GLAM Wiki conference! (Prizes available).
 * Edit-a-thon "Women in sciences" < 17 Nov. 12:00 - 18 Nov. 03:00 (UTC). A live edit-a-thon to improve the quality and variety of articles of women who have won the prestigious L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award "For Women in Science". (Prizes available).
 * Language community meetings: A new initiative by WMF language team to organize quarterly gatherings to encourage collaboration among individuals and communities interested in language-related technical topics. First meeting: Friday, November 17, 2023, 16:00 to 17:00 (UTC)
 * Glam Wiki Program - 16 - 18 November, Montevideo, Uruguay. Want to attend in person? - Register here. Wikidata Related Sessions:
 * Wikidata For Cultural Heritage
 * WADE: Add artwork depiction information on Wikidata
 * Workshopping Metadata Interoperability for Small Museums
 * Wikisource and Wikidata: when two cool kids play together!
 * Using Wikidata integration on the Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-WIKI content sharing
 * Wikidata + Education + Heritage
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexeme Challenge #117: School (Challenge started on 2023-11-13 12:01:25). Did you participate in last week's Challenge #116 : Storm?
 * Knowledge Graphs - Foundations and Applications course by Prof. Dr. Harald Sack. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Enrol here if you have not done so yet.
 * Past: WikiWitch: mapping witches from Switzerland and elsewhere Nov. 4th


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Investigating the “formatter URI for RDF resource” (P1921) property and its uses in the Wikidata infrastructure <-- It discusses how this property enables unique identification of resources, its usage in federated queries, and its role in the Wikidata Query Service.
 * Switzerland Witch hunt: over 2,000 victims, but no monument (Italian) WikiWitches project is using Wikidata to track execution sites of persecuted persons. Read about the project here.
 * Open Access Week and Wikidata; Opening Culture and Heritage training (Colombia GLAM report) <-- details the Open Access Week and Wikidata event in Colombia, which included discussions on the use of Wikidata for academic journals and the use of Wikidata for open science.
 * Wikipedia for all of Sweden; Museums and Wikidata – why and how?; Photo memories from Stockholm and Rome; Negotiating Knowledge on Wikipedia (Sweden GLAM report) <-- discusses the “Wikipedia for all of Sweden” project, which includes the use of Wikidata for authority control in museums.
 * Wikiwitches: giving back a soul to the victims of the witch-hunt <-- The Wikiwitches project, initiated by the association Les sans pagEs in collaboration with Wikimedia CH, aims to map the victims of witch-hunts on Wikidata.
 * GSOC ‘23: Automating Area Management in MusicBrainz <-- Prathamesh, in their Google Summer of Code project, developed a data pipeline to automate the synchronization of area metadata between MusicBrainz and Wikidata.
 * Papers
 * Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world <-- The project “Usable Authorities for Data-driven Cultural Heritage Research” aims to link museum authority data to Wikidata, enhancing the visibility, accessibility, and relevance of information across different museum collections, and encouraging cultural heritage institutions in Sweden to contribute to and utilize the Wikimedia platforms.
 * The 4th Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community happened on 07 November 2023. You can find a full list of presented papers here
 * Videos
 * Connecting Entomological Collectors ECN2023 <-- A presentation for the Entomological Collections Network 2023 conference by Siobhan Leachman, this presentation explains how Wikidata can be used to create an identifier for entomological collectors, empowering the collation & linking of biographical data as well as the ability to link to other databases & catalogs relating to those collectors.
 * Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda <-- The Learning Series offers practical guidance on using Wikidata for Wiki Loves campaigns, with hands-on experience and follow-up mentoring.
 * Wikidata projects in Wikimedia Spain <-- part of the online sessions organized by Wikimedia España to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wikidata. In this session, Ángel Obregón, a member of Wikimedia España, presents some of the projects driven by Wikidata by the members of WMES.
 * Notebooks:
 * Subclass of... <-- Wikidata's ontology is complex. This tool aims at finding if an item is a subclass of another one.
 * The Wednesday Index <-- A longitudinal analysis of gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.


 * Tool of the week
 * OpenFlights.org is now getting some of its airline data from Wikidata. It is a free open-source tool that allows you to log, map, calculate, and share your flights and trips.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.5 – minor changes (security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.5)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * stated in source according to ( to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source )
 * External identifiers: HBL topic ID, Art Platform Japan ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID, Aves de Chile ID, cagb manuscript ID, Italian Paralympic Committee ID, ‎old-games.org ID, Carte d'autore online ID, Indiana Plant Atlas ID, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID, Il Sole 24 Ore movie ID, Il Sole 24 Ore person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Official wiki URL ( URL to the official wiki for the item )
 * maternal mortality ratio ( number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births )
 * External identifiers: Gaming Wiki Network article ID, Playdate community wiki ID, BNE periodical SID, vesti.kz team ID, EIDR parties (Entertainment Identity Registry), Art Gallery of Ontario object ID, GeoLOD ID, Spectrum Computing, Museo Nacional de Arte artist ID, Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of every recorded battle the past 4,500 years (source)
 * Map of locations of witch memorials and sites of interest in Scotland (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject IDEA - This Wikiproject serves as a working group and process documentation archive for the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and in development at Bard College and Yale University.
 * WikiProject Interwiki - The goal of this project is linking Wikidata items with wiki articles outside of the Wikimedia ecosystem. Niche wikis frequently offer more in-depth content compared to general online dictionary articles, although their quality can vary significantly.
 * WikiProject SrpKor - The main aim of this project is building Wikidata entities for the novels from SrpKor: Corpus of the contemporary Serbian language.
 * WikiProject Manors - Collecting data about manor house (Q879050) as part of manor (Q2066754) or manor estate (Q2116450) as part of the Research Centre for manors in the baltic sea region (Q117756751).
 * WikiProject Echinodermata - A repository for information pertaining to the NSF Grant Echinoderm Project.


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (T342986)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
 * Language codes: We continued work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (T341409)

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!

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Tech News: 2023-46
<section begin="technews-2023-W46"/> 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
 * Four new wikis have been created:
 * a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh
 * a Wikipedia in Dagaare
 * a Wikipedia in Toba Batak
 * a Wikiquote in Banjar

Problems
 * Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved.
 * Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved.

Changes later this week
 * 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
 * Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default.

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #603
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Congratulations to our new Admin! S8321414 - (See the closed request)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: KormiSKbot - (Task: Linking newly created pages on Slovak Wikipedia to the appropriate Wikidata items)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Data Modelling Days, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program (under construction) and to sign up as a participant.
 * Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel.
 * Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
 * Wikibase for art and cultural data (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexeme Challenge #118: Diseases (Challenge started on 2023-11-20 12:01:41)
 * Past:
 * ItWikiCon '23 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations.
 * GLAM Wiki 2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * New study shows how authors’ personal circumstances influence the depiction of nature in their works
 * Papers
 * Can you trust Wikidata? - is a paper exploring Wikidata's veracity and trustability for providing values to Knowledge Graphs. Written by V. Santos et al.
 * Videos
 * Wikidata for Cultural Heritage, available in Spanish, Portugese, English
 * Find-A-Grave of Swedish politicians in Magnus Sälgö's exploration of Wikidata, OpenRefine, SPARQL and Svenskagravar (Swedish).
 * Wikidata Live Editing #111 with the Wikipedia Weekly Network, hosted by Ainali and Abbe98
 * Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships presented by Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda. Get essential Wikidata-editing skills for Listeria, OpenRefine, run queries and structured data on Commons.
 * How to upload collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine (in Portuguese). Training on uploading collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine.
 * Cohort 2 Graduation: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course. The session includes exciting testimonials from participants and goodwill messages.
 * Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models with Wikidata's 12B Facts. This HackerNews video discusses a paper that explores the use of Wikidata, which contains over 12 billion facts, to improve the factuality of large language models (LLMs)
 * Back to basics and #SPARQL #Wikidata (in French). Using Wikidata SPARQL query by VIGNERON
 * Wikidata for cultural heritage (ES) - GLAM Wiki Conference
 * Presentations: "Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the Possibilities" - workshop on at WikiConference North America, by User:Mahir256
 * Notebooks:
 * The End of an Era - A study on the major deaths that have occurred in our generation and the people that were left behind. (1997-2012)
 * Relationship Between Senators and Political Parties - A sample network graph that depicts the political parties of Senators.
 * Family Network of Female Horse - A sample network graph that depicts the relationships of female horses.
 * Poets and the Monarchs they were appointed by
 * Metro stations of The Metropolitan line (Q19891) of the London Underground Metro System - A sample network graph that depicts the stops and adjacent stops of metro stations of the London Underground's Metropolitan line.


 * Tool of the week
 * User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia - a tool that computes the number of articles created by gender has been repaired after some months of unavailability. It relies on xtools and P21 property.
 * Luthor - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open until December 18th!
 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Fondazione Fiera ID, EIDR party ID, ‎Gaming Wiki Network article ID, ‎Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) heritage ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) institution ID, Playdate community wiki ID, Danacode (short), Danacode (long), archINFORM ID (awards), shukach.com ID, BNE periodical SID, Moviepilot.de person ID, FilmAffinity person ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, BioGRID ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, CECC Political Prisoner ID, One Earth ecoregion ID, ‎Spectrum Computing ID, IDVT, BISAC Subject Heading


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Papers with Code URL ( URL for subject in Papers with Code system )
 * PAEnflowered taxon URL ( URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website )
 * BioCyc ID (Pathway/Genome Databases)
 * External identifiers: Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Paradox wikis article ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Rare Species Guide ID, TLA thesaurus ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, ELMCIP person ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, SWERIK Person ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Team Wales ID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Pinakes work ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, ELMCIP organization ID, Japan Search ID


 * Query examples:
 * Articles on English Wikipedia tagged 'Water pollution' with no equivalent article in Spanish (source)
 * Highest point (in meters) per counties in Finland (source)
 * Week 46, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source) "Basque are back on top for the second time this month"
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Manuscripts - This WikiProject coordinates efforts on Wikidata to gather and curate structured data on manuscripts.
 * WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead - aims to shed light on the lives and stories of Black women leaders who have shaped Boston’s history from the colonial era to the present day.
 * Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-svwiki - 3875 merge candidates in English Wikipedia and Swedish Wikipedia based on same sitelink name.
 * Showcase Items: University of Konstanz (Q835440) - University in Konstanz, Germany (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
 * Showcase Lexemes: rød - Danish word for red with features in many compounds and derivations (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)


 * Development
 * We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. (T341409)
 * Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change (T209138)
 * We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements.
 * We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.

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!

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Tech News: 2023-47
<section begin="technews-2023-W47"/> 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.
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more.

Future changes
 * There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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Wikidata weekly summary #604
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Clarify Wikidata: Account creators abilities and where to request from S8321414. (RfC started 23-11-20)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * UNLP: the first Wikiarchivists Day is coming < 04.12.23 at the UNLP Public Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organised by WM Argentina.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 28, 2023: As a satellite event for Data Modeling Days, we will facilitate community discussion around data modeling in Wikidata for library collections in a variety of formats, including people, books, serials, scholarly articles, rare materials, music, media, and realia. Agenda
 * Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2, online. 3 days of discussions, presentations and workshops to discuss our challenges related to data modelling and improve the structure of Wikidata's data together. Check out the program, add yourself as a participant.
 * Wikidata editathon to add Arabic labels & descriptions to Islamic art objects, hosted by Wikimedians of the Islamic Civilization User Group, 2 December 17:00-19:00 UTC


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * 23 Linked Data Things
 * Querying for labels: The normal way and the wikibase:label service way, by Bob DuCharme.
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Here: Mark Your Calendar 🎉 for May 3rd – 5th, 2024, and register to attend
 * What is Wikidata? Your Guide to the World’s Largest Free Knowledge Base
 * Papers
 * Using Wikidata to identify the gender gap in Ibero-American public art (Q123470669) - The study, using Wikidata, reveals gender disparities in public art in Madrid and Buenos Aires, emphasizing the need for more works created by women and increased visibility of female artists.
 * Understanding Structured Knowledge Production (Q123561334) - A Case Study of Wikidata’s Representation Injustice. This paper seeks to explore the sources of epistemic injustice and biases from Wikidata's peer-production data model.
 * Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers (Q123561640) - highlights the use of Wikidata as an asset when linking taxa in different databases.
 * Videos: Individual Sessions from Wikimania Singapore 2023
 * Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform < Shani Evenstein Sigalov presents this Wikimania Singapore session on her 5-year PhD journey
 * Data use and reuse: Unlocking Potential of Frictionless Data for Wikidata < Sara Petti, Shashi Gharti & Carol Matos of the Open Knowledge Foundation host this session.
 * Using Wikibase and Wikidata for Community Archives by My Community < a non-profit organisation using Wikibase and Wikidata to digitise and preserve Singaporean cultural artefacts and stories.
 * Wikidata Basics with SPARQL access to analyse data from Wikidata < Asaf Bartov hosts this workshop for Wikidata newbies. Gain some foundational skills and learn how you can contribute to the biggest Knowledge Graph!
 * How to use Wikidata to build web tools for the social good < Csisc & Yamen present Sawtpedia & |MedCYN (github), 2 tools built using Wikidata and will show you how you can build your own.
 * Linked Open Data and Wikidata < Alan Ang (WMDE) talks about the importance of Linked Open Data and forming mutually beneficial partnerships between the Foundation and Institutions.
 * Notebooks
 * Explore new ways of visualising your data with a Circular Dendrogam, illustrated here with Association Football players broken down by Country and Team.


 * Tool of the week
 * Harvest Templates - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata.
 * User:MichaelSchoenitzer/Updown - is a userscript used for faster navigation. If there are a lot of values for one property it will add arrows that allow you to jump to the first/last value.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WMDE is researching ways to improve the editing experience in different languages and would love to hear your feedback. We would like to talk to a few of you in online interviews to learn about your experiences, expectations, and concerns. Please let us know in this sign-up form if you are interested in taking part.
 * The Research team at WMF is running a second labeling campaign to evaluate the Revert Risk model for Wikidata. This is part of ongoing work on creating a new generation of Machine Learning models to support patrolling work on Wikimedia projects. Please help by going to this link, and labeling each revision in one of these three categories: Keep, Not Sure, Revert. Notice that "Not Sure" should be used in all cases where the Keep or Revert labels are not clear to you.
 * Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.40.1 – major release compatible with MediaWiki 1.40, based on MediaWiki 1.40.1
 * Is there a Wikidata item (about you)? Consider providing a voice-clip pronouncing your name in this Voice-intro project


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * Torino scale ( the Torino scale level for the astronomical object )
 * External identifiers: ‎Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Gale publication ID, Emerald network site ID, Museo Nacional de Arte artist ID, GeoLOD ID, Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID, Klingon Word Wiki ID, Newman Numismatics Portal ID, tribal council number, EDItEUR Thema ID, Propylaeum-VITAE ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * COR SEM ( The Danish central word registry identifier )
 * UPOC
 * উইঙ্ক অ্যালবাম আইডি
 * Europeana record ID ( unique Europeana record identifier for photos, objectes etc. )
 * ISU ranking position ( Skater's position in the ranking of the International skating union )
 * old image ( image of this thing taken long ago )
 * Montana Plant Life URL ( URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website )
 * External identifiers: Japan Search ID, NIWA article ID, WikiIndex ID, Wiktionary ID, Moviebuff ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Flightradar24 ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Baidu Baike page numeric ID, Parliament of Victoria ID, m3db.com lyrics ID, ELMCIP ID, The Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society), TracesOfWar award ID, Babelio serial ID


 * Query examples:
 * Rail link between Narvik and Singapore (source)
 * Week 47, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Gender representation of Scottish witches (source)
 * Most popular names in Ghana among Ghanaians on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Heritage Collections - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most comprehensive high quality database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
 * WikiProject Roman Provinces
 * WikiProject Events and Role Frames - The primary aims of WikiProject Events and Role Frames is to define a set of properties that consistently model event occurrences and their participants; to fill gaps in Wikidata regarding items for events and actions; and to encourage use of the proposed model and newly introduced items across Wikidata.
 * Newest database reports: Wikidata:Database reports/badged items without claims - This is a list of badged items (i.e. items for feature or good articles in somewiki) without claims. Ideally it should be empty.
 * Showcase Items: Nelson Mandela (Q8023) - First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
 * Showcase Lexemes: gepard - Polish noun for cheetah with many forms


 * Development
 * We are preparing for the Data Modelling Days happening later this week
 * Language codes:
 * We are making some small remaining changes before the next testing round of the new language code (T345750, T345751, T345083)
 * We continued to make a lot more language codes available (341409)
 * EntitySchemas: We are experimenting with how to work around some technical blockers for the new datatype
 * Wikibase REST API: We've been working on the ability to remove an Item's label in a specific language and modify the descriptions on a Property (T342981, T342981)

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!

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Books & Bytes – Issue 59
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 * Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
 * Tech tip: Library access methods

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Tech News: 2023-48
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Changes later this week
 * 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). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> / syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately.
 * The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #605
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * RudolfoBot - (Task: import lists of drugs with black box Warnings)
 * TiagoLubianaBot 4 - (Task: add drug-drug interactions from (Q123478206) A reference set of clinically relevant adverse drug-drug interactions)
 * LiMrBot - importing and updating information about asteroids and comets.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Register and Apply for Scholarships until January 5th 2024!
 * WikiMania 2024 Scholarships are open - You can apply now for paid accommodation, travel and registration of the event!
 * Next:
 * Extended Semantic Web Conference 2024 < The deadline to submit your Papers is December 7th (23:59 UTC-12)!
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service team - the 1st Wednesday of every month, bring your questions on Wikimedia Search, Wikidata Query and Wikimedia Commons Query service.
 * Past:
 * Data Modelling Days 2023 - (30 Nov - 2 Dec.) If you missed it, don't worry! We have recordings, slides and notes for each session, available here!
 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Press
 * Around 250 war-threatened architectural monuments documented (German) - Wikidata, Wikibase and Commons are helping preserve and plan the restoration of culturally-significant Monuments damaged or destroyed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
 * Blogs
 * How many properties are created on Wikidata each month?, by Envel Le Hir
 * Videos
 * Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project A Wikidata Workshop provided by the British Institute at Ankara.
 * Metaphactory's advanced semantic search with Wikidata KG < shows a new way of building queries with Metaphacts visualised UI. Read more with their latest News Posts!
 * Wikibase for GLAM organizations: Collections in the Linked Open Data web by our excellent Partner Manager User:Christos Varvantakis (WMDE)
 * Intro to Wikidata and importing bibliographic elements from Zotero < (Italian) An initiative to expand Greek and Latin antiquities in Wikidata for use in humanistic studies. Read more here > Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche


 * Tool of the week
 * ZotWb < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation. Here's a short explanation and demo video Tool is written and provided by David Lindermann with support from WMF Rapid Grant.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: We're looking for a new Product Manager for Wikibase Cloud. Are you interested or do you happen to know someone who might fit this position?
 * Wikimedia Deutschland will be collaborating with Purdue Students to Find New Mismatches for the Mismatch Finder. We Need Your Help to Suggest External Datasets!
 * Outreachy Round 27 interns selected, including 1 Wikidata related project.
 * A cool new Obsidian plugin for Wikidata is in the works.
 * Fulltext search for folders in an external archive via text in Wikidata items (more).
 * Have you tried EntiTree yet? Explore relationship and connections between Wikidata entities with this new visualisation!
 * Last call for the Wikibase.Cloud 2023 User survey. It only takes 10 minutes and it's fully anonymous so please participate!
 * The StructuredDiscussions extension is being archived but your comments on the Project Chat are wanted.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * PAEnflowered taxon URL ( URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website )
 * External identifiers: Rare Species Guide ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, Art Gallery of Ontario object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, ‎Paradox Wikis article ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame ID, SWERIK person ID, Team Wales athlete ID, ‎WikiIndex ID, ‎Theapolis person ID, TheTVDB movie ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Pinakes work ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, COR SEM ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Montana Plant Life URL ( URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website )
 * event role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * role in event ( event class for which the item describes a role )
 * selectional preference ( (to be used only with the subclasses of Q_event_role) an item that plays this role in an event instance should descend from this item via a combination of P31 and P279 )
 * event arguments and types ( item that plays a role in an event instance; used with a qualifier "argument type" )
 * BnF archives and manuscripts ID ( identifier for a manuscript in the archives and manuscripts catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Do not include the initial "cc" )
 * clerked for ( this person has held a clerkship with the judge )
 * battery life ( the length of time a device can continue to work before it needs its battery to be recharged )
 * External identifiers: China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, DIMA ID, CoL Taiwan ID, RFI station ID, BUGZ ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, turismoroma.it place ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument & street IDs, International Hockey Federation competition ID, Black Games Archive ID, Al-shamila Book ID, Akadem person ID (new format), AustrianGames ID, Atari-8-bit Forever game ID

Feel free to suggest next week's Showcase Item and Lexeme!
 * Query examples:
 * People born somewhere named after them (source)
 * Rose cultivars named after screen writers source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Events and Role Frames
 * Newest database reports:
 * Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Showcase Lexemes: läsa - 'read' about this Swedish word with many pronounciations and grammatical features.


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished the endpoint for removing an Item's label in a specific language (T335841) and the endpoint for modifying descriptions on a Property (T342981)
 * We are working on the endpoint for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (T342983)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on moving the tool over to the new design system Codex
 * We adjusted the styling for the values of monolingual text statements to make the language easier to distinguish from the value (T280774)
 * mul language code: We made some final adjustments to get it ready for testing.
 * Lexemes: We are adding a license note for anon users when editing a Lexeme’s lemma, a Form or Sense (T343999)

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.

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 * 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: 2023-49
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Recent changes
 * The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences.
 * The "" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> keywords.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date.
 * Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events
 * Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ganesha811 · JPxG
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ajpolino · Lourdes · Mairi · RockMFR · Somno · WilyD
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →



CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
 * The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
 * Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #606
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 * Discussions


 * New requests for permissions/Bot: LccnBot (Task: Adds P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.)
 * New request for comments: Duplicate References Data Model and UI < During Data Modelling Days '23, 2 proposals emerged trying to answer the question of how to handle duplicate References on Wikidata Items.


 * Events


 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 12, 2023: Several members of the Chinese Culture and Heritage Wikidata group will provide an overview of the group's Wikidata projects as well as the challenges they have encountered. Agenda
 * Data-SHS Bordeaux Week: Processing and Analyzing Quantitative Data in Human and Social Sciences 2023. Dec. 11 - 15, Bordeaux, FR.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Agreeing to agree: Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata < The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand shows how Wikidata is being used to verify subjects when sharing Collections and data between sources. Here's a video explaining more!
 * Papers / Books
 * 1Lib1Nearby with Wikidata (German) < Queries and edits for the multilingual world knowledge of the nearby environment.
 * Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women < S. Mering, L. Gardiner, S. Knapp et al.
 * Fine-tuned LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less with Few-Shot Sequence-to-Sequence Semantic Parsing over Wikidata < Presented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference. Authors: S. Xu, S. Liu, T. Culhane et al.
 * Videos
 * BiCIKL to Wikidata: Harmonizing the chaotic universe of natural history collectors < presented by Mathias Dillen at the TDWG 2023 Annual Conference.
 * Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata: Best Practice for Standardisation and Contexualisation. Presented by Dag Endresen also at the TDWG Annual Conference.
 * Riksdagen Corpus Wikidata < Magnus Sälgö.
 * Scholia - a profiling tool to explore scholarly knowledge < As part of the national research data infrastructure (NFDI) infratalk, Dr. Daniel Mietchen presents Scholia.
 * Catalogue of Premodern Manuscripts < See a Wikibase instance used for The Digital Scriptorium Catalog. Presented by Lynn Ransom & L. P. Coladangelo.
 * Data Modelling Days 2023 Playlist < The list of recorded Sessions for the DMD '23 Online Conference is available here!
 * Building a semantic knowledge (wiki)base for synthetic phytochemistry < Presented by Dr. Gitanjali Yadav
 * OpenRefine - a open source tool for working with data < This session explores the advantages of using OR to wrangle, clean, transform and standardise data for Wikidata. Presented by Jinoy Tom Jacob at the IndiaFOSS3.0 Conference.
 * Various queries and modeling on Wikidata (French) < User:VIGNERON introduces several SPARQL queries.

(QLEver has already featured in Tool of the Week but we wanted to showcase it again after experiencing it at DMD '23)
 * Tool of the week
 * QLever SPARQl Engine < If you attended Data Modeling Days '23, you may have seen an extraordinary Session given by Hannah Bast and Johannes Kalmbach showcasing the power and advantages of the QLever engine. QLever can handle queries that cause the WDQS to timeout or allowing Federated queries and Geospatial!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Healthcare Disparities in the U.S.: Exploring Access to Healthcare in the Immigrant Population < Zoomable Bar Charts and visualisations exploring access to healthcare across the U.S. Prison system, powered by Wikidata and WDQS. Authored by Haryn Shin.
 * DMD23: documentation and outcomes can be viewed on Wikidata project Chat as well as related-topics from the Conference on Qualifiers for fuzzy properties and Should WMF fund QLever?


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * official wiki URL ( URL of the official wiki for the item )
 * counterexample ( qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold )
 * External identifiers: ELMCIP ID, RFI station ID, BnF archives and manuscripts ID, The Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society), DIMA ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Flora of the Hawaiian Islands ID ( URL of the entry for a plant species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website )
 * Hijri Date ( Hijri Date of claim )
 * External identifiers: Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, New words in Danish ID, Game Classification game ID, Lobbypedia ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text witness ID, Game Classification machine ID, Game Classification creation tool ID, a8.fandal.cz ID, Numer KRS, Stadium 64 ID, Sina Chinese Basketball ID, Veterans Legacy Memorial, SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID, WHDLoad database ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query examples:
 * Geolocalized object that have the same name than something named after some some kind of church building. This includes streets, bus stops, …
 * Video games per Platform. Timeline of video game releases per platform.
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Heritage Collections: database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
 * WikiProject Source Reliability: is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources.
 * Newest database reports:
 * Showcase Items: (Q8409) Alexander The Great - Alexander III, King of Macedon.
 * Showcase Lexemes: (L630387) Pri - the meaning of this Breton word is not 'muddy' with VIGNERON's contribution!


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued work on the routes for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (T342983)
 * Monolingual text values can now use many more languages than before. We’re still working on doing the same for Lexemes. (T341409)

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

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Tech News: 2023-50
<section begin="technews-2023-W50"/> 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
 * On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons.

Problems
 * There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * 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
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This Month in Education: November 2023
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 * 4th WikiUNAM Editathon: Community knowledge strengthens education
 * Edit-a-thon at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo
 * EduWiki Nigeria Community: Embracing Digital Learning Through Wikipedia
 * Evening Wikischool offers Czech seniors further education on Wikipedia
 * Expansion of Wikipedia Education Program through Student Associations at Iranian Universities
 * Exploring Wikipedia through Wikiclubs and the Wikeys board game in Albania
 * First anniversary of the game Wikeys
 * Involve visiting students in education programs
 * Iranian Students as Wikipedians: Using Wikipedia to Teach Research Methodology and Encyclopedic Writing
 * Kiwix4Schools Nigeria: Bridging Knowledge Gap through Digital Literacy
 * Lire wikipedia en classe à Djougou au Bénin
 * Tyap Wikimedians Zaria Outreach
 * Art Outreach at Aje Comprehensive Senior High School 1st November 2023, Lagos Mainland
 * PhilWiki Community holds a meet-up to advocate women empowerment

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 * 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). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
 * Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work.
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 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
 * The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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Wikidata weekly summary #607
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * So9qBot 7. Task: Add not found in (P9660) --> Q123739672 to Danish Lexemes
 * So9qBot 8. Task: Add missing names of European legal documents to labels and aliases of items with a CELEX identifier
 * LccnBot. Task: Adds Library of Congress authority ID (P244) to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.
 * Other discussions: How to handle concepts of trans people on Wikidata? Should {privacy at wikidata.org} be redirected to {privacy at wikimedia.org} or should it be monitored by Wikidata volunteers? Join the discussion!


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour December 18th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.The ninth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL and Scholia to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #121: Pottery


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: #LD42023. Part I: The Future of Wikidata + Libraries (A Workshop) - This blog series explores how libraries engage with Wikidata and Linked Data in the face of AI challenges. Led by Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle from the Wikimedia Foundation, the series summarizes insights from a collaborative session at the 2023 LD4 Conference, using Design Thinking strategies to connect the Library-Wikidata community with WMF, focusing on Wikidata, Wikibase, and Structured Data on Commons (SDC) in libraries. By Silvia Gutiérrez & Giovanna Fontenelle
 * Papers
 * Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review - This review analyzes Wikipedia's gender gap from 2007 to 2022, revealing a slight majority of female authors, addressing key themes, and exploring strategies to mitigate the gap, providing valuable insights into the research landscape in this domain. By Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Juan-José Boté-Vericad and Julia Minguillón.
 * Ten years of Wikidata: A bibliometric study - This research delves into scholarly publications about Wikidata from its inception in 2012 to late 2022, revealing 945 relevant papers, primarily from conferences. The analysis highlights a concentration of experts and contributors from the Global North, as well as governmental institutions as predominant funders. The study calls for enhanced networking and outreach to promote diversity and inclusion within the Wikidata research community. Emphasizing computer science perspectives, the research focuses on methods for developing and utilizing open knowledge graphs, notably Wikidata, with a narrower but significant interest in application-oriented studies in digital humanities, biology, and healthcare. (Turki, et al)
 * Videos
 * Duplicating Everywhere All at Once | Cebuano Wikipedia - Five years ago, Lsjbot's Wikipedia articles caused duplicate Wikidata items, notably impacting geographic places on Cebuano Wikipedia. This video by User:Canley at Wikimania 2023 delves into the history, visualizes the issue, and suggests cleanup strategies for Wikidata and Wikipedia, emphasizing Aotearoa New Zealand and parts of Australia, with implications for the global challenge of bot-created duplicates.
 * Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research with Alicia Fagerving - Alicia Fagerving, Wikimedia Sverige, introduces the project "Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research" and Wikidata. The project, spanning 2021-2023, links vocabularies from the databases of Nationalmuseum and Statens historiska museer to Wikidata, exploring it as a platform for semantic interoperability among cultural heritage institutions and providing tools and visualizations for similar projects.
 * 2023: OSM-Wikidata Map Framework. Combining OpenStreetMap and Wikidata allows to leverage the strengths of the two projects to create richer maps. This talk explores how OSM-Wikidata Map Framework simplifies this process. By Daniele Santini
 * Press: Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National Open Research Data (ORD) Prize for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research. More coverage
 * Notebooks
 * It's not bad! Measuring Gérard Depardieu's mark on French cinema (in French) - The analysis centers on Gérard Depardieu's impact on French cinema amid legal issues and sexual assault allegations. Despite difficulties in addressing these accusations, the author leverages Wikidata to measure Depardieu's influence by querying films from directors born after 1930 to assess his involvement.
 * How to Become a Billionaire: A Billionaire's Occupations Network Analysis - This network analysis investigates billionaires’ primary sources of income with a network graph—based on their occupations—connecting billionaires from all over the world and uncovering some of the biggest industries in the world.
 * Documentation: User:Mahir256 statred Lexemes documentation pages about Lemmata and Lexeme languages. Your contributions are welcome.


 * Tools of the week
 * Drama Corpora Project (DraCor) is a digital database of plays, primarily from Europe. It collects and organizes texts of plays in a way that allows researchers and others to extract and analyze information from those texts. This could include details about the characters, the dialogue, the stage directions, and more. The data is being pulled from Wikidata.
 * Magnus Manske added a new game to the Wikidata game to identify duplicate Items for researchers.
 * Mike Peel set up a new Distributed Game to add links to Wikiquote to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase Cloud has a new website. Check it out: https://www.wikibase.cloud/


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * battery life ( length of time after a full charge that a device can continue to work under normal use before it needs its battery to be recharged )
 * External identifiers: ‎Atari-8-bit Forever game ID, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes object ID, FNAC artwork ID, Akadem person ID, ‎Game Classification game ID, ‎Game Classification machine ID, ‎Game Classification creation tool ID, TaiCOL ID (new version), ‎a8.fandal.cz ID, ‎Stadium 64 ID, Filmweb.no film ID, SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID, BUGZ ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Substances in the reference ( Substances studied in reference works such as papers, reports, etc. )
 * Book format ( Page size of a historical book, manuscript, or artwork on paper, based on folding sheets into leaves )
 * beneficial owner
 * External identifiers: DraCor ID, PCSX2 Wiki ID, Twitch numeric channel ID, identifiant article ORBi, identifiant auteur ORBi, TheTVDB IDs, RPCS3 Wiki ID, Retskrivningsordbogen ID, Kanjipedia word ID, MAMCS ID, Citra compatibility database ID, IGN wiki article ID, AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, RPGFan game ID, Swissubase ID, goalzz.com team ID, MilliBase taxon ID, Digicarmel ID, Arcade Hub ID, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID, Biota of New Zealand ID, NientePopCorn IDs, HistoriaGames game ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of movies directed by French filmmakers born after 1930 with or without Depardieu (source)
 * Czech buildings carved into the rock (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%202023%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29as%20%3Fyear%29%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%222023-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%222023-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%29%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A Works created by females, died in 2023]
 * Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/Unsupported sitelinks - Found 279 items
 * Showcase Items: lion (Q140) - species of big cat
 * Showcase Lexemes: cevap (L1124154) - Turkish noun for 'answer' derived from the Arabic noun جَواب


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished adding the endpoints for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (T342983)
 * We started working on the endpoint for removing a Property's description in a given language (T342985)
 * We are fixing an issue with incorrect handling of lowercase statement IDs in edit requests (T352644)
 * Special:PrefixIndex now shows label/lemma for Properties and Lexemes (T343115)
 * Language codes: We changed where Wikidata is getting its languages from for Lexemes and Monolingual text statements and thereby resolved many tasks requesting another language being added to them (T341409)

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!

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