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This Month in GLAM: February 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue II, February 2021

Headlines

Albania report: Recruiting two PMs; Budget Report 2020; Wikipedia 20th Bday Australia report: Who do we think we are? Brazil report: New GLAM tutorials in Portuguese Estonia report: WikiMuseum Finland report: Focus on learning Indonesia report: PD Day 2021 in Indonesia, #1lib1ref, Wikisource workshop Netherlands report: Historical Maps; Share your Data on colonial heritage; Knowledge platform for heritage institutions Serbia report: Amazing results of the January #1Lib1Ref campaign Sweden report: Medieval ballads; Project HBTQI Switzerland report: 50 Years Women's Suffrage in Switzerland & More UK report: Khalili Collections USA report: Black History Month and Smithsonian anniversary WMF GLAM report: Project Grants, Analytics for GLAMs, and Shared Citations Calendar: March's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #459

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Minorax (RfP scheduled to end after 19 March 2021 11:23 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, from March 15th to April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • March 15: Kickstart and open discussion about lexicographical data
    • March 16: SPARQL queries about Lexemes (in French) with Vigneron
    • March 17: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
    • March 20: Live editing on Lexemes with Ainali and Abbe98
    • March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #54, March 21
  • Upcoming: Wikidata - The Linked Open Data Platform Everyone Can Contribute To (Public talk) - Registration link

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Internet Archive Scholar is launched - Wikidata is thanked in the acknowledgements
    • 10 basic but essential SPARQL queries for lexicographical data on Wikidata
    • Using Wikidata to model Aberdeen’s Industrial Heritage
    • Carnegie Hall experienced a veritable rock explosion during its 1971-72 season, with 70 rock concerts between September 1971 and June 1972
    • Writing your own data to Wikidata using spreadsheets: Part 1
  • Videos
    • OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taiwan Meetup Record - Odysee
    • RDF data model of Wikidata - YouTube
    • OpenRefine​ / SPARQL editing session with Saint-Raymond Museum in Toulouse. By VIGNERON - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook
    • An initial look at the TopicTagger tool for Wikidata - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeToggleSections.js script allows to expand/collapse the sections on lexeme pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
  • DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
  • The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
  • Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: assessment outcome, music transcriber, subsidy, inverse agonist of, gender equality index, transitivity, script style
    • External identifiers: Oklahoma's NRHP ID, ChemRxiv ID, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Inventory ID, FFF player ID (new scheme), Physics Magazine author ID, Ligue 1 player ID, ANPI person numeric ID, Science Magazine author ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, ANSI/NISO standard ID, Kickstarter username, DeCS ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava History person ID, LFChistory.net player ID, Pandektis ID, Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Catalogue of the Capitular Library of Verona author ID, AaRC film ID, GB1900 ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, EncyclopediaPR ID, Filmitalia person ID, TikTok music ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Astro Awani topic ID, TapTap application ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, svoyak.info player ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Max Movie person ID, EudraCT trial ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, operator licence number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cantonese romanisation, repairability, Gedong Kirtya classification, Valence, has graphical element, Antarctic Specially Protected Area ID, CBO Occupation Code (en) / Classificação Brasileira de Ocupações (CBO) (pt), Reason for unknown/no value, generalization of/generalized by, acronym, Sales of arms and military services, formé en même temps que, Suggested fields
    • External identifiers: AWB lemma ID, MWB lemma ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID, SVKKL authority ID, Demozoo Group ID, GameSpot developer ID, Washington Place Names ID, PatER ID, Latin Place Names ID, Enslaved ID, Ávvir topic ID, Salaborsa building ID, storiaememoriadibologna ID, UniversalMusic France artist ID, Oxford African American Studies Center ID, La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID, MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú researcher ID, Fortalezas.org ID, Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID, France24 topic ID, CNA topic ID, Portrait Archive ID, athletics.lv athlete id, temples.ru ID
  • Query examples:
    • Latin American women who are activists and were born between 1900-1999 (ordered by the number of articles written on Wikipedia) (Source)
    • Transportation routes in Zurich named after women (Source)
    • Location of buildings designed by Zaha Hadid (Source)
    • Proportion of Basque men / women in Donostialdea region (Source)
    • Count of the industry companies on Wikidata belong to (Source)
    • Danish verbs-derived-from-non-verbs (Source)
    • Mountains of the Basque Country (Source)

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
  • Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
  • Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
  • Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:11, 15. Mär. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-11

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

Recent changes

• Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
• Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [1]

Problems

• Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

• You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [2][3]
• You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
• You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [4]

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00:20, 16. Mär. 2021 (CET)

Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten: Bessere Farben für die Syntaxhervorhebung (Technische Wünsche)

Hallo! Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du in der Umfrage Technische Wünsche für den Themenschwerpunkt „Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten“ abgestimmt hast. In Kürze wird ein weiteres Projekt aus diesem Schwerpunkt umgesetzt:

Vorher/Nachher-Vergleich

ein Beispiel für die bisherigen Farben

ein Beispiel für das neue Farbschema

Die Farben der Syntaxhervorhebung (CodeMirror) erhalten höhere Kontraste und sollen dadurch besser lesbar werden. Diese Änderung, die gemäß der Richtlinien für barrierefreie Webinhalte umgesetzt wurde, hilft nicht nur Menschen mit eingeschränkter Sehkraft, sondern beispielsweise auch dann, wenn der Bildschirm durch Tageslicht geblendet wird. Hierzuwiki sowie auf zwei weiteren Wikis soll die Änderung am Mittwoch, 24.3.2021, ausgerollt werden. Mehr Informationen zur Verbesserung der Farben gibt es auf dieser Projektseite. Fragen und Anmerkungen sind auf der dortigen Diskussionsseite willkommen.

In den nächsten Monaten werden außerdem noch einige weitere Verbesserungen für die Arbeit mit Vorlagen umgesetzt. -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 17:42, 22. Mär. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-12

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
• The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Diskussions-Werkzeuge" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Probleme

• You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 März at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 23 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 24 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 25 März (Kalender).
• Die für das Syntax-Highlighting genutzten Farben werden geändert, damit sie besser zu erkennen sind. Diese Veränderung wird bald in den ersten Wikis erfolgen. [5]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [6][7]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [8]

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17:51, 22. Mär. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #460

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Signed Statements (T138708)

• Events
  • Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
    • March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
    • March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
    • March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
    • March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
  • Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021 (Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
  • Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[9]
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #55, March 28

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study (Using Wikidata to study whether prayers have an effect)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Taiwan @ g0v tw hackath43n - Youtube
    • Live editing lexemes YouTube, Facebook
    • Live editing lexemes (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Wikidata international women's rights day SPARQL queries (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata by Peteforsyth - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Sparql_rc is a recent changes feed that only shows you changes in an area of Wikidata you care about. It now also supports Lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Portuguese nouns
    • masculine
    • feminine
  • erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
  • ~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: pHash checksum, Jyutping transliteration, Yale romanization, Cantonese Pinyin, Cantonese Transliteration Scheme transliteration, Gedong Kirtya Classification, has graphical element
    • External identifiers: TaDiRAH ID, AWB lemma ID, Latin Place Names ID, Enslaved person ID, MyMusic artist ID, Ávvir topic ID, Dark Horse creator ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Inforegister ID, SVKKL authority ID, BiographySampo person ID, PatER ID, Cartigli di Bologna ID, Universal Music France artist ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Washington Place Names ID, Storiaememoriadibologna ID, Oxford African American Studies Center ID, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Archives West finding aid ID, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID, Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID, NFL.com ID (new scheme), Bavarian Monument Map object ID (architectural monument), MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID, MeSH qualifier ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (ground monument), temples.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: zugeschrieben, IMDb rating, death rate, trade union membership rate, identifier shared with lexeme, introduced on, instances are former instances of, presentation template, voted on by, has supplier, キロ程
    • External identifiers: Slovník českých filosofů ID, Encyklopedie migrace ID, Encyclopedia of Migration ID, Tacoma Local History & Biography Index ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Obituary Index ID, Rombase ID, Stalker author ID, ODLIS ID, Enslaved place ID, CAOI person ID, IBSF-Wettbewerbs-ID, FranceArchives agent ID, Pango lineage code, Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID, Place Names NI ID, NMRShiftDB Structure ID, Modernist Commons ID, Megale Kypriake Enkyklopaideia ID, Encyclopédie de l’humanisme méditerranéen ID, Sociologické encyklopedie ID, Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID, Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ID, Routes & Places ID, Rekhta Author ID, Rekhta Book ID, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija person ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija concept ID
  • Query examples:
    • Railway junctions in Scotland (Source)
    • Maps of Y-shaped subway lines (Source)
    • Map of the hometown of Real Sociedad / Athletic Club players (Source)
    • Count of type of things with IIIF links known to Wikidata (Source)
    • Successful candidates during 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly in each constituencies (Source)
    • COVID-19 external Identifier URLs in Wikidata (Source)
    • Public spaces whose names are of women (Source)
    • Place of birth of females with biography articles on Basque Wikipedia (Source)
    • Map of places in iNaturalist (Source)
    • Number of elements of scientists by nationality (Source)

• Development
  • Work on the first version of the Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
  • Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (phab:T165061)
  • Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (phab:T275611)
  • Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (phab:T263730)
  • Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 19:15, 22. Mär. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #461

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Minorax, welcome onboard!

• Events
  • Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • March 30: Live SPARQL queries about Lexemes in French by Vigneron
    • March 30: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
    • April 1: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
    • April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
    • April 5: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook, April 3
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #56, April 4
  • Upcoming: WikiCommons metadata analysis tool is intended to be developed at the online hackathon at hack.glam.opendata.ch, 16-17 April 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Dataroundtripping Wikidata - Wikicommons - Runestones pictures
  • Papers
    • FAIR and open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata and Wikipedia
    • Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese)
  • Videos
    • Live Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Live SPARQL queries on Lexemes by Vigneron (in English): on Youtube

• Tool of the week
  • d:User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js userscript is a proper entity suggester that gives a fixed set of properties for various languages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sitelinks links for two new Wikipedias can be entered: Atayal Wikipedia (Q105723660) and Seediq Wikipedia (Q105975521)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: does not have cause, external georeferencing URL
    • External identifiers: Discord server numeric ID, France24 topic ID (French), France24 topic ID (English), France24 topic ID (Spanish), France24 topic ID (Arabic), PeriodO period ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Portrait Archive ID, Porcelana Brasil ID, Slovník českých filosofů ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, MWB lemma ID, Encyclopedia of Migration ID, Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID, Encyklopedie migrace ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Obituary Index ID, Encyclopedia of Mediterranean Humanism ID, Modernist Commons ID, Rombase ID (English), Filmitalia film ID, CNA topic ID, Fortalezas.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Ottoman Association ID, url text, audio transcription 2, OFDb person ID, won sets, Number of stitches
    • External identifiers: Biblio.com ID, Czech Encyclopedia of Theater identifiers (Czech and German), Identifiant des Collections du Louvre, Verified Handles VHID, Michigan State University Library Record Number, Washington Flora Checklist ID, Washington Flora Checklist species ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, KATOTTH identifier, Viasona ID, Musikasten ID, Discover the networks, GCD publisher ID, Image Comics creator ID, BLPL ID, MnM ID, Arca author ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, IFCVPF ID, American University of Beirut's Libraries Title ID, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID, USCG MIC ID, Berlin Bezirkslexika identifiers, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Brapci author ID, ÖCV Biolex ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Donald P. Bellisario credits as screenwriter or director
    • Interwiki table from P6720, with end date for prefixes that are no longer in use (source)
    • Index map of Ordnance Survey Old Series preparatory drawings, with georeferencer links (source)
    • Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (source)
    • Music releases with incomplete track lists, showing diff count (Source)
    • Date and place of birth of female musicians in Nigeria (Source)
    • Scholarly articles on multilingualism and bilingualism (Source)
    • Things in Czechia which changed coordinate location at some point (Source)
    • Images about women programmers (Source)
    • UK railway stations connected from Topsham railway station (Source)
    • Most awarded person affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark (Source)
  • Newest database reports: current TV seasons

• Development
  • The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
  • Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:50, 29. Mär. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-13

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [10]
• IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [11]

Probleme

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [12]
• Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [13][14]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 30 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 31 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 1 April (Kalender).

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19:28, 29. Mär. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-14

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [15]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [16]
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 6 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 7 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 8 April (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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21:38, 5. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #462

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

• Events
  • Past Vorlage:Q: "InChI and InChIKey in Wikidata and Scholia", https://zenodo.org/record/4633789
  • Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
    • April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
    • April 8: Documentation Q&A
    • April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
    • April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[17]
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #57, April 11
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Vorlage:Q Meetup 2021-04-12 Vorlage:Q
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (English), supported by WikiCite, April 13
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Aplicativos de metadados (Portuguese), on metadata apps, April 29

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Adicionando cientistas ao sistema Wikidata/Scholia (Portuguese)
  • Papers
    • Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages "fostering development of technology for the languages of Africa with a Wikidata-derived resource of lists of 1.9M names across 28 African languages".
  • Videos
    • SPARQL queries around lexemes, words, lexicography (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Editing lexemes on Wikidata (in Swedish) by Ainali - YouTube
    • WikiActivate sessions introduction to Wikidata - YouTube 1, 2
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Launch of Climate Lexeme Week (Youtube, Facebook)

• Tool of the week
  • QRank is a tool providing a rank for Wikidata entities based on page view statistics from several Wikimedia projects.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The final version of the Wikibase Yearly Summary 2020 has been published.
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
  • User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
  • LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Ukrainian national romanization, law digest, Unicode character name, trade union membership rate, placeholder text element ID
    • External identifiers: Place Names NI ID, FranceArchives agent ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, ODLIS ID, Sociologická encyklopedie ID, BMZ lemma ID, FindeB lemma ID, Lexer lemma ID, LexerN lemma ID, Enslaved place ID, The Mountaineers Routes & Places ID, Adelung lemma ID, DWB lemma ID, DWB2 lemma ID, GWB lemma ID, Meyers lemma ID, RDWB1 lemma ID, Wander lemma ID, Česká divadelní encyklopedie ID, Tschechische Theaterenzyklopädie ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index ID, Louvre Museum ARK ID, Verified Handles VHID, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Armenian Book ID, athletics.lv athlete ID, Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID, Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ID, GameSpot developer ID, Musée national de la Marine ID, OFDb person ID, NMRShiftDB structure ID, Tacoma Local History & Biography Index ID, Megale Kypriake Enkyklopaideia ID, Washington Flora Checklist ID, American University of Beirut's Libraries title ID, USCG MIC, Arca author ID, BLPL author ID, Viasona ID, ÖCV Biolex ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: specific part, personal library at, departement, antipode, MovieMeter person ID, bicycle
    • External identifiers: CNN contributor ID, Our Campaigns race ID, Proveana ID, Storybook ID, Wissens-Aggregator Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit (WIAG) ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, The World Factbook country ID, SonyLIV show ID, EGID, Letecká badatelna accident ID, Camptocamp ID, National Inventory of Dams ID, PeakVisor ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Urban Archive ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, Podchaser Creator Id, La Réunion des Livres ID, vindskyddskartan.se ID, naturkartan.se ID, ANPI place numeric ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Virginia House of Delegates ID, Generals of World War II ID, DCinemaToday Organization ID, Swedish Bioguiden Movie Theater ID, bio.se Movie Theater ID, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women ID, Terras Indígenas ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Europalexikon ID, Politiklexikon ID, Encyklopedie antropologie ID
  • Query examples:
    • interwiki prefixes without corresponding Wikidata property by 2019 linkcount (some filtered) (source)
    • Women whose article on English Wikipedia has the featured article badge (source)
    • Map of males and females after which streets are named (Leiden, NL) (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of trans women and men with articles in the Basque Wikipedia (source)
    • Map of institutions where UNR faculty got their academic degrees (source)
    • Map of location of sense usage (P6084) by language
    • Botanists with image of signature and optional IPNI author ID (source)
    • Subclasses of musical instrument with the most individual instances (source, result starts with: bell, organ)
    • list of U.S. state songs, anthems, marches, hymns, cantatas, or missing (source)
    • Adjacency map of Ordnance Survey Old Series preparatory drawings (source)
    • Ordinals in all languages/notations: 0th to 100th (source)
    • locked-room mysteries (source)

• Development
  • We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
  • Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
  • Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
  • Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
  • Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)

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 GLAM: March 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue III, March 2021

Headlines

AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wikipedia in African Libraries Albania report: Wiki Loves Folklore 2021; I edit Wikipedia Brazil report: The Brazilian House is the theme of new GLAM dissemination activities Finland report: Enriching indigenous items in Wikidata Germany report: A virtual exhibition on 20 years of Wikipedia Netherlands report: Wikimedians in Residence for Media Art Project LIMA, Wikimedia and libraries, Wikimedia training related to shared heritage Sweden report: GLAM in Sweden in March UK report: Leeds Museums & Galleries, the British Library and the Khalili Collections USA report: Women's History Month in the US WMF GLAM report: Media Search, Image Suggestion API, and Project Grants Calendar: April's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #463

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Is it worth to import labels from interlanguage links of other wikipedia projects to wikidata

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII - Gathering and modelling of metadata pertaining to all Brazilian laws. April 13, 14-18 (UTC-3). register
  • Upcoming: closing of d:Wikidata:Events/30 lexic-o-days 2021, April 14. If you participated in the contribution month, please drop a line about your work on the outcomes page.
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook, April 17
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #58, April 18
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Much more than a mere technology: A systematic review of Wikidata in libraries, by Karim Tharani
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Data imports for Wikidata Lexemes (panel discussion 30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
    • Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data (30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
    • Wiki2Prop: A Multi-Modal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
    • Wiki World Heritage User Group: Capacity Building Wikidata Training - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • EditSum, a user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A simple portal of women that study metabolomics powered by Wikidata
  • Do you have any cool Wikidata tips and tricks that you use? Share them with everyone on Twitter under the hashtag #WikidataTips
  • Entitree is a graph generator that can display family trees, but also other graphs like taxa or company subsidiaries.
  • Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: personal library at
    • External identifiers: ScoreStorybook company ID, Camptocamp ID, Biblio.com ID, CNN contributor ID, IFVPF ID, Musikasten ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Demozoo group ID, Image Comics creator ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Commons-Kategorie für Portraits, pH, taxonomic treatment, Degrees day, NBM identifier, size of unit under command, Archdiocese of Liverpool identifier
    • External identifiers: HistoryLink essay number, National Provider Identifier, Singers.com ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Wikiroute ID, ID v Databázi periodického tisku pro veřejnost, GLEI RAL, OpenCorporates register id, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, hPSCreg ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, Trap Danmark ID
  • Query examples:
    • Danish lexemes matched to sentences (Source)
    • Twitter usernames and number of subscribers (Source)
    • Latin American musicians without a Wikipedia article in Spanish but with an article in another language (Source)

• Development
  • Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
  • Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
  • Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
  • Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:57, 12. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Technische Wünsche: Zeilennummerierung in Wikitext-Editoren bald verfügbar

Der Wikitext-Editor 2017 mit Zeilennummerierung

Hallo, du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du in der Umfrage Technische Wünsche 2019 für den Themenschwerpunkt „Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten“ abgestimmt hast. In Kürze wird ein weiteres Projekt aus diesem Schwerpunkt umgesetzt:

Wenn man im Wikitext-Editor 2010 oder 2017 die Syntaxhervorhebung aktiviert, werden dort auch Zeilennummern angezeigt. Diese Funktion ist in vielen anderen Code-Editoren Standard, und macht Zeilenumbrüche besser erkennbar. Auch unabhängig von der Arbeit mit Code kann sie hilfreich sein, um sich auf eine bestimmte Zeile beziehen zu können, beispielsweise in Diskussionen.

Die Funktion soll am 15. April hier in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia aktiviert werden – zunächst im Vorlagennamensraum, dann in Kürze auch in anderen Namensräumen. Mehr Informationen gibt es auf dieser Projektseite, und Rückmeldungen sind auf dieser Diskussionsseite willkommen. Weitere Verbesserungen, die die Arbeit mit Vorlagen erleichtern sollen, darunter auch solche für den VisualEditor, sind für die nächsten Monate geplant. -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 15:34, 13. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #464

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata - HackaLOD Online sessions (replay in Dutch)
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
  • Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
  • Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #59, April 25

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikibase: the Software for Open Data projects
  • Videos
    • Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
    • Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Adding information through EntitySchemas to Wikidata Andra Waagmeester and Jose Labra
    • SPARQL query requests around lexicography mapping] by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Fast Linking of Mathematical Wikidata Entities in Wikipedia Articles Using Annotation Recommendation - YouTube
    • Wiki2Prop: A Multimodal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws - YouTube
    • Librarians and Wikidata. A short tour - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release
  • Another history of Denelezh
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: pH value, introduced on, ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
    • External identifiers: Generals of World War II ID, La Réunion des Livres ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija concept ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija person ID, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women ID, Urban Archive ID, GCD publisher ID, Letecká badatelna accident ID, Proveana ID, KATOTTH ID, La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID, Politiklexikon ID, Europalexikon ID, National Inventory of Dams ID, Wissens-Aggregator Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit ID, Indigenous Lands in Brazil ID, Virginia House of Delegates ID, CAOI person ID, Encyklopedie antropologie ID, Our Campaigns race ID, Olympedia affiliations ID, ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: translator name string, scope note, LIMA media artist ID, CofE archives ID, CofE archives name ID, CofE archives place ID, has artist file in, term in higher taxon, accessibility statement URL, Hotel des Causses
    • External identifiers: Dialnet thesis ID, IAU member ID, MileSplit ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Malaysian school code, synonymer.se Swedish synonym ID, Prague City Gallery inventory number in Art for the City, Yukon Archives authority record ID, Cimiterium ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, HERO-tunniste, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, J! Archive player ID, Gender Glossar ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries Title ID, music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID
  • Query examples:
    • Artists on Spotify that lack a Spotify Artist ID (P1902) on Wikidata (Source)
    • Timeline of the discovery of elements in the periodic table (Source)
    • 19th-century depictions of sunflowers (Source)
    • Czech art collections by size (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cyprus

• Development
  • Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
  • Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
  • Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
  • Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
  • Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
  • Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
  • Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
  • Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:30, 19. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-16

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [18][19]
• If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [20][21][22]
• Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [23]
• The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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18:47, 19. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #465

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

• Discussions
  • Other: Scientific papers' labels in other languages than English
• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
  • Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
  • Upcoming: OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Vorlage:Q Meetup 2021-05-10
  • COSCUP 2021 CFP is now open
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 1
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #60, May 2

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • User:Lucas Werkmeister/P642 considered harmful
  • New extension: Wikibase EDTF by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
  • Videos
    • OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Meetup #27 - Wikidata Lexeme Teaching - LBRY, Odysee
    • (Workshop) Introduction to Wikidata by Lucie Aimée Kaffee
    • Graphic Possibilities Comics Wikidata Tutorial
    • SPARQL tutorial (in Portuguese)
    • An Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam)
    • Wikidata tutorials in Albanian (1, 2, 3, 4)
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French)
    • (Workshop) #1Lib1Ref​ on Wikidata
    • Adding an article to Wikidata by DOI (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
    • Item Quality Evaluator
    • Constraint Violation Checker
  • Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
  • RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
  • SPARQL-Blockly is a tool to visualise and construct SPARQL queries as visual blocks (Wikidata example)
  • Wikibase/FAQ is a living document of a list of frequently asked questions about Wikibase. Community members are welcome to contribute to it.
  • RIP Liz Marley
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
    • External identifiers: ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID, Bioguiden movie theater ID, MovieMeter person ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú ID, SonyLIV show ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, IAU member ID, LIMA media artist ID, Singers.com ID, HistoryLink essay number, inventory number of a work of art in the Art for the City database, Cimiterium ID, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, Malaysian school code, Trap Danmark ID, Finna ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Mitte ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, CofE archives ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: accessibility statement URL, symbol represents, main upper course, Political Graveyard geography ID, diel cycle, Taxon holotype location, Smithsonian trinomial prefix, Digital Atlas of Idaho taxon ID, hardware threading standard
    • External identifiers: music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Digital DISCI ID, The Draft Review ID 2, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, IUCN Green List ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation ID, UNITER Award person ID, ID právnické osoby vedené Ministerstvem kultury ČR, CEV Team-ID, Anime Filler List show id, CEV Coach-ID, memento.wien person ID, MyBIS ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, am.hayazg.info ID, The Criterion Collection film ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, Gopo Award ID, Director Identification Number, TheTVDB character ID, JECFA number, Norges Fotballforbund klubb ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Parliament of Romania person ID, Apple TV movie ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of road vehicles crashing into Montague Street Bridge, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • Coal-fired power plants in Germany (Source)
    • Average lifespan by profession (Select the desired columns and get labels) (Source)
    • The number of natural disasters in various countries since 1970 (Source)
    • Heads of states/governments whose cause of death was a military casualty (Source)
    • List of French stations sorted by number of tracks (Source)
    • Relationship of the different Corona viruses (Source)
    • Map of about one third of the ancient trees in Bulgaria (Source)
    • Lexemes without statements or senses by language
  • Newest database reports: Doctor Who companions

• Development
  • wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
  • We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
  • Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
  • Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
  • Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
  • Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
  • Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.

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.
  • Take a list of cities in your country, add {{Item documentation}} in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-17

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [24][25][26]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 27 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 28 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 29 April (Kalender).

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23:22, 26. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Virtuelles Treffen: Bessere Unterstützung von Geoinformationen im Mai (Technische Wünsche)

Hallo! Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter Technische Wünsche abonniert hast. In Kürze findet eine Online-Veranstaltung zum Themenschwerpunkt „Bessere Unterstützung von Geoinformationen“ statt.

Die Veranstaltung will einen Einblick geben, wie die Arbeit im Themenschwerpunkt bisher verlief, was die Ergebnisse der Recherchephase sind und welche nächsten Schritte geplant sind – und natürlich wollen wir uns über all das mit den Teilnehmenden auch austauschen.

Das Treffen findet entweder am 12. oder am 14. Mai statt. Wenn dich das Thema interessiert, würden wir uns sehr freuen, wenn du bis zum 3. Mai einträgst, welcher Termin für dich passen würde, sodass wir den Termin identifizieren können, der für die meisten passt.

• Hier eintragen: 12. oder 14. Mai?
• Wikiseite der Veranstaltung

Die Inhalte des Treffens werden zeitnah nach dem Treffen auch im Wiki vorgestellt und können auch dort kommentiert werden.

-- Für das Team Technische Wünsche, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (Diskussion) 20:57, 27. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Technische Wünsche: Vorschauen von Einzelnachweisen kommen am 5. Mai

Wie im März bereits angekündigt, wird die Vorschau von Einzelnachweisen hier bald Standardfunktion. Die Bereitstellung verschiebt sich auf voraussichtlich den 5. Mai. Dann werden Vorschauen von Einzelnachweisen standardmäßig für alle angezeigt – es sei denn, man nutzt die Helferlein Fußnoten-Tooltips oder Navigation-Popups. Angemeldete und Nicht-Angemeldete können die Funktion deaktivieren. Geändert hat sich ggü. der letzten Ankündigung, dass die Vorschau von Einzelnachweisen unabhängig von den Seitenvorschauen genutzt werden kann; die Einstellungen der beiden Funktionen sind nicht mehr aneinander gekoppelt. Mehr Infos auf der Projektseite. -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (Diskussion) 12:14, 28. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Vorgeschlagene Werte für Vorlagenparameter

Hallo, du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du in der Umfrage Technische Wünsche 2019 für den Themenschwerpunkt „Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten“ abgestimmt hast. In Kürze wird ein weiteres Projekt aus diesem Schwerpunkt umgesetzt:

Demonstrationsvideo wie Vorgeschlagene Werte im VisualEditor funktioniert

Mit der neuen Parametereigenschaft suggestedvalues können alle, die Vorlagen erstellen oder pflegen, nun eine Liste von Vorschlagswerten für einen Parameter definieren. Diese Werte erscheinen dann im Vorlagendialog des Visual Editors in Form einer Dropdown-Liste zur einfachen Auswahl. Auf diese Weise ersetzt die Funktion das zusätzliche Forschen nach Parameterwerten auf den entsprechenden Dokumentationsseiten der Vorlage bzw. erspart den Editierenden, die zugelassenen Werte raten zu müssen.

Die Funktion wird voraussichtlich am 29. April in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia aktiviert. Wie das Erstellen der Vorschlagswerte-Liste im Einzelnen geht, ist auf der Projektseite beschrieben. Rückmeldung und Fragen sind auf der Diskussionsseite des Wunsches sehr willkommen. --Timur Vorkul (WMDE) MediaWiki message delivery (Diskussion) 14:47, 28. Apr. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-18

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

• Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

• The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [27]
• Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [28]

Changes later this week

• Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [29][30]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [31]

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17:42, 3. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #466

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
  • Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
  • Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
  • Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
  • Videos
    • Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
    • Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

• Tool of the week
  • Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
  • TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
  • Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: field of usage, artist files at, accessibility statement URL, degrees day, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID
    • External identifiers: J! Archive player ID, CofE archives name ID, HERO ID, GLEI RAL, Archdiocese of Liverpool parish ID, Yukon Archives authority record ID, CofE archives place ID, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID, Digital DISCI ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Clubhouse account, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, hat Gedenkort, Secondary Archive artist ID, date of probate
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, DC Books store book ID, ctext data entity ID, SAIA authority ID, AdServio school ID, Apple Music label ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, DHLE, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, Scholarpedia article ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, Universal equine life number, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, Sigla ID, Bing Entity ID, light characteristic, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Identificativo Polo bibliografico della Ricerca, LTit person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List number of albums (Q482994) by language (P407) in descending order (Source)
    • Map of Scottish council areas (Source)
    • Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known by Wikidata (Source)
    • List of actors and actresses who died during 2020 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: new screenwriters

• Development
  • Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
  • Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
  • Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
  • Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
  • Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
  • Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
  • Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:45, 3. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #466

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
  • Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
  • Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
  • Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
  • Videos
    • Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
    • Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

• Tool of the week
  • Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
  • TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
  • Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: field of usage, artist files at, accessibility statement URL, degrees day, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID
    • External identifiers: J! Archive player ID, CofE archives name ID, HERO ID, GLEI RAL, Archdiocese of Liverpool parish ID, Yukon Archives authority record ID, CofE archives place ID, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID, Digital DISCI ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Clubhouse account, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, hat Gedenkort, Secondary Archive artist ID, date of probate
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, DC Books store book ID, ctext data entity ID, SAIA authority ID, AdServio school ID, Apple Music label ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, DHLE, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, Scholarpedia article ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, Universal equine life number, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, Sigla ID, Bing Entity ID, light characteristic, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Identificativo Polo bibliografico della Ricerca, LTit person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List number of albums (Q482994) by language (P407) in descending order (Source)
    • Map of Scottish council areas (Source)
    • Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known by Wikidata (Source)
    • List of actors and actresses who died during 2020 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: new screenwriters

• Development
  • Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
  • Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
  • Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
  • Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
  • Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
  • Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
  • Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:57, 4. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #467

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

• Events
  • Ongoing
    • Wikidata contest for International Museum from May 3-18 2021
  • Upcoming
    • OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
    • Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 11 at 18:00 CEST
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #62, May 16
    • Wikidata Bug triage hour about constraints, May 17
    • COSCUP 2021 Call For Papers now open
    • Wikimedia Taiwan x NCKUHis Digital humanities Wikidata Workshop National Cheng Kung University (Q706708), 2021-05-29 ~ 2021-05-31

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack setting changes, Federated properties, Wikidata entity mapping & more (covering some of the recent UI and setting changes that happened on WBStack in the past months by Addshore
    • Academic ancestor graphs from Wikidata
  • Papers
    • Roderic D. M. Page, Wikidata and the Bibliography of Life, doi:10.1101/2021.05.04.442638
    • Friederike Ehrhart, et al. Aresource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes (Q106708178), doi:10.1038/S41597-021-00905-Y
  • Videos
    • SPARQL #Wikidata​ retour aux bases #3 - YouTube
    • Wikidata, Linked Data… all the data! Knowledge representation for everybody - YouTube
    • Wikidata Nigeria tutorials on YouTube - How to contribute to Wikidata, add statements for streets named after a person
    • SPARQL Wikidata tutorial (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
  • May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
  • Template:Generic queries for filmmakers is a new wikidata template which defines generic SPARQL queries specific for filmmakers.
  • Template:Generic queries for occupations is a new wikidata template with generic queries for items of items such as occupations or professions
  • Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Digital Atlas of Idaho URL, identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription
    • External identifiers: MyBIS species ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, NBM authority ID, MileSplit ID, Mixcloud ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, am.hayazg.info ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, The Draft Review ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, IUCN Green List ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Senate of Romania person ID, Chamber of Deputies of Romania person ID, LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway Club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official podcast, Danish redlist ID, Velocity Relative to Earth, athletics program, North Carolina session law
    • External identifiers: vedidk ID, MyBIS protected area ID, COG ID, Badok ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity person ID, DTB-Gerätturner-ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, University of Washington Campus Map ID, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - diplomatic mission IDs, SOUNZ work ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, Repositório da Produção USP Person ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, SOSBrutalism ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, OSDN project, SOR bird ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number, ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of French firms without SIREN id (P1616) ordered by number of sitelinks with search links in annuaire-entreprises‧data‧gouv.fr : the query makes it easy to find the SIREN number (P1616) (source Property talk P1616)
    • Number of works per year by researchers supervised by Lars Kai Hansen (source)
    • Count of sitelinks of Nigerians on Wikidata (Source)
    • 30 largest cities with female mayor (Source)
    • Recent locations of boundary stones in Upper Lusatia (see pictures by clicking on the dots) (Source)
    • Types of items in Australia that don't have identifier properties (Source)

• Development
  • Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
  • Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
  • Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
  • Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
  • Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
  • Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:21, 10. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-19

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 11 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 12 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 13 Mai (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die für den Wikimedia Hackathon vom 22.–23. Mai geplanten Projekte sind veröffentlicht worden.

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17:08, 10. Mai 2021 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: April 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IV, April 2021

Headlines

Albania report: WikiGap 2021; Workshop “When State Security was engaged in Science”; Women in STEM; International Roma Day Edit-a-thon Australia report: A Wealth of Wiki Women Belgium report: Projects by Wikimedia Belgium Brazil report: Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia celebrates Wikipedia 20 Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2021 report DRCongo report: WMDRC - UG report: Wikipedia in library Estonia report: Finding new ways of making art visible + 360° panoramas of Estonian museums Finland report: Saami place names France report: Journée Wikimédia Culture et numérique 2021; French open content report Germany report: Northern Exposure for cultural heritage data India report: Proofread competition on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with British Library Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2021; Museum Daerah Deli Serdang is now on Commons Italy report: A Wikipedian in residence at the Civic Museum of Modena: report Netherlands report: WikiVrijdagen with Atria and IHLIA, Wikimedians in Residence will increase the visibility of media art on Wikipedia, Wikimedia training: shared heritage, Papiamentu and Papiamento: Wikipedia is up and ready to go! New Zealand report: West Coast WikiCon and Performing Arts Aotearoa Serbia report: Great impact of cooperations Spain report: New partnerships Sweden report: More music; Enriching GLAM photos with SDC; Swedish GLAM survey Switzerland report: GLAMhack 2021 & more UK report: University of Edinburgh Library Wikimedia Community of Interest; Khalili Collections; British Library USA report: The Met, Smithsonian, and a busy Edit-a-thon season Wikipedia Library report: Fostering Connections: Wikimedia and Libraries Global Meetup Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Extended Date Time Format for Wikibase WMF GLAM report: Wikimedia Hackathon, Product Updates, and Office Hours Calendar: May's GLAM events

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Virtuelles Treffen im Juni: Bessere Unterstützung von Geoinformationen (Technische Wünsche)

Nochmals hallo, am 27.4. hatte ich ein virtuelles Treffen angekündigt, das dann krankheitsbedingt leider ausfallen musste. Das Treffen soll nun im Juni stattfinden und es stehen wieder zwei Termine zur Wahl: Mittwoch, 2. Juni, und Montag, 7. Juni.

Wenn du dabei sein möchtest, trag dich bitte bis zum 20. Mai, 23:59 Uhr, bei den Terminen ein, die für dich passen. Das Treffen findet dann an dem Termin statt, der die meisten Stimmen hat. Wir freuen uns über rege Teilnahme. -- Für die Technischen Wünsche, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (Diskussion) 09:46, 17. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-20

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

Letzte Änderungen

• Im Reply-Tool gibt es eine neue Symbolleiste für den Wikitext-Mode. Man kann sie in den persönlichen Einstellungen aktivieren. [32] [33] [34]
• Die Wikimedia-Mailinglisten wurden auf die neuere Version Mailman 3 migriert. Damit die Zeichenkodierung funktioniert, wird sie von UTF-8 auf utf8mb3 umgestellt. [35][36]
• In einer früheren Ausgabe der Tech News war die Rede davon, dass die citoid -API Daten, die den Monat, aber nicht den Tag enthalten, anders behandeln werde. Das ist bis auf weiteres zurückgestellt worden, weil es sich auf verschiedenen Wikis ganz unterschiedlich auswirkte. [37]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist wird umbenannt zu: MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. Die Liste kann auf den neuen Namen verschoben werden. In einigen Wikis wird das am 19. Mai, auf anderen erst am 20. Mai geschehen. Die Liste enthält Bilder, die nicht als Vorschaubildern in Artikeln angezeigt werden sollen. [38]
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 18 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 19 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 20 Mai (Kalender).

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15:47, 17. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #468

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata
    • IP Masking Engagement
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion). Outcome --> no change to WD:N
    • Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties. Outcome --> constraints were removed

• Events
  • Ongoing:
    • Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to infoberd-bw.de
  • Upcoming
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
    • May 21-22, 2021 [39] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
    • OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Hiba Arnaout et al, Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata (full text link)
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #44 - YouTube
      • Link to all the Wikipedia Weekly Network/Live Wikidata Editing sessions by Ainali and Abbe98
    • Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons und Wikipedia bearbeiten 2021/001 (in German) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #4 - YouTube
    • How to use Wikidata to list nearby tourist places on a web page (in French) - YouTube
    • How to add lexemes to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
    • How to edit library data in Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Editing the drawings in the Gambara Bovardi collection at the Levi Foundation in Venice on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js is a user script that replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT when editing hyphenation snaks.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 20k+ DOIs of Chinese language scientific journal articles have now been added to WD, thanks to scraping->validation->matching->quickstatements workflow built by Stevenliuyi (via a WikiCite eScholarship)
  • Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
  • Template:Item documentation displays Template:Generic queries for occupations for items of class occupation (Q12737077) and Template:Generic queries for filmmakers for items with occupation (P106) filmmaker (Q2526255)
  • Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription, counterpart position, earned run average, official podcast, diel cycle, intended background color, scope note
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Memento Vienna person ID, universal equine life number, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Apple Music label ID (US version), bio.se movie theater ID, MyBIS protected area ID, Dialnet thesis ID, hPSCreg cell line ID, Michigan State University Library Comic Art Collection Record Number, LTit person ID, JECFA number, Badok ID, Sigla ID, DCinemaToday company ID, CEV coach ID, CEV team ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity ID, AdServio ID, PeakVisor peak ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Anime Filler List show ID, Anime Filler List episode slug, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Danish 2010 redlist identifier, synonymer.se ID, SOUNZ work ID, vedidk ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, UNITER Award person ID, sense on DHLE
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: infects, setlist, oral history at, DIVA author ID, DIVA record ID, type of lens
    • External identifiers: ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, CDep.Ro NGO ID, causesanti.va ID, Adevărul topic ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts ID, cIMeC.Ro Museum ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Styria Museum ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Archive Alsharekh person ID, Douban series ID, RomArchive IDs, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, Scholasticon person ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, WMF lang code
  • Deleted properties: iFixit repairability score (P7478)
  • Query examples:
    • Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (Source)
    • List of Wikimedia language codes (Source)
    • Plant genera that honor women (Source)
    • Poets whose fathers are lawyers (Source)
    • Phrase-book for types of food (mapping Catalan and English) (Source)

• Development
  • Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
  • Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
  • Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
  • Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
  • Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
  • Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
  • Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)

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.
  • Near 6,100 items have the Template:Item documentation in their talk page. Help deploy this template.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:18, 17. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #469

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

• Events
  • Past
    • HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube
  • Ongoing
    • #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
      • #1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th May 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
    • 27/05 (17h UTC): Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process with Ederporto, Pharos e Susannaanas (in English), on YouTube
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 25 at 18:00 CEST
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook, May 29 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #64, May 30
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: The history, present and future of WBStack & WBaas (Wikibase as a service) 27 May 2021, 1PM Eastern US. Please fill in this form to register!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora. Wikidata was used to generate sentences to train a language model.
    • An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
  • Videos
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 - Main track - Saturday 22
    • Curating bibliographic metadata of scholarly publications: demo of Wikidata-based Scholia workflows
    • Demo of Ordia, a Wikidata tool to visualize lexicographic information from Wikidata
    • Adding references to Wikidata items, as part of #1Lib1Ref campaign (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (screenshot)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The prefix [[lexemes:]] allows to link to a search for lexemes on any Wikimedia wiki. Sample: lexemes:describe (project chat announcement).
  • The wikidata-lang JS module got a major update, and now makes accessible pre-generated mappings between Wikidata ids, Wikimedia language code (P424), ISO 639-1 code (P218), ISO 639-2 code (P219), ISO 639-3 code (P220), and ISO 639-6 code (P221), that can also be used by non-JS programs by fetching the desired JSON. Examples:
    • mapping of Wikimedia language codes to Wikidata ids
    • mapping of ISO 639-2 to Wikimedia language codes
  • Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
    • User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms: Portuguese modal adverb - Deployed support for Portuguese modal adverbs in the Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool
    • User:Jon Harald Søby/addSenseImage.js - User script to add images to sense statements on lexemes
    • Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#identifierInput.js - fixing a bug in IdentifierInput.js gadget for Wikidata to better handle when a property has no format restraints

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: type of lens, oral history at, official map URL
    • External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Apple TV movie ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, causesanti.va ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, North Carolina session law, #SOSBrutalism ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, Museums in Styria ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID, SOR bird ID, ToateAnimalele ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca entity ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID, OSDN project, Scholasticon person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: music for work, in sense, academic calendar type
    • External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID, Buzer.de law identification, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, Apple TV show ID, Apple TV episode ID, Australian Music Centre work ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Unified book number, GLEI ELF, RBF event ID, Poetsgate poet ID, Badkartan.se ID, Book Owners Online person ID, ifixit device ID, Price One Penny Author ID, Price One Penny Publisher ID, Price One Penny Work ID, Medical Institution Code, AlternativeTo software ID, RoBasketballFed IDs, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Enciclopedia della Matematica ID
  • Query examples:
    • Danish idioms (Source)
    • Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (Source)
    • Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title
    • 20th-century UK parliaments with count of father/mother who were MPs (Source)
    • The tallest known female politicians (Source)
    • Writing systems/characters and their year of appearance (Source)
    • Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)

• Development
  • Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
  • Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
  • Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
  • Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
  • Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:45, 24. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-21

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Wikimedia-Projekte nutzten lange IRC über das Freenode-Netzwerk. Es gab Änderungen in Bezug darauf, wer die Kontrolle über das Netzwerk hat. Die Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts hat entschieden in das neue Libera Chat-Netzwerk zu wechseln. Dies ist keine formale Entscheidung für die Wikimedia-Projekte alle Channel umzuiehen, aber die meisten IRC-Channel werden Freenode wohl verlassen. Es gibt einen Migrationsleitfaden und eine andauernde Discussion über diesen Vorgang.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 25 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 26 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 27 Mai (Kalender).

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19:04, 24. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #470

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous. Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated.

• Events
  • Past
    • Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings- May 2021
    • How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021) - working hour (2)
    • SPARQL #Wikidata divers
      • Session du mardi 18 mai
      • Session du mardi 25 mai
  • Upcoming
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [40], June 1st.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #65, June 6
    • Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, to solve issues related to its affilation to the Wikimedia Foundation, June 9
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Mapping of ImageNet and Wikidata for Knowledge Graphs Enabled Computer Vision
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process
    • Use of VanderBot Wikidata API writing script (testing)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • User:So9q/ordia-link.js - is a script to add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
  • dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
  • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
    • automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
    • automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
    • and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: district heating grid
    • External identifiers: DiVA authority-person, CDep.Ro NGO ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, PoetsGate poet ID, Repositório da Produção da USP person ID, ctext data entity ID, Australian Music Centre work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Martian coordinates, gobbledygook
    • External identifiers: Nevada Women's History Project ID, AADFI member ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Price One Penny Periodical ID, Price One Penny Library ID, composers.am person ID, armradioarchive.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, AZGS Document Repository ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, PAS member ID, ℒoviℱm Top Songs ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800-2000) ID, BIU Santé image bank ID, cadastral plot in France, Internet Game Database developer ID, allabolag.se person ID, Olschki author ID
  • Query examples:
    • People with bird-like surnames in Czech (Source)
    • Properties used to link from preprints (Q580922) to scholarly articles (Q13442814) (Source)
    • Birthplace of Spanish poets (Source)
    • UK Parliaments since 1801 with number of members, number of distinct member-terms, and count of missing seats/parties. (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Fresnel lenses of lighthouses

• Development
  • Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
  • Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
  • Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
  • Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
  • Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
  • Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:15, 31. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-22

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Probleme

• Es gab Probleme mit der Textgröße der Kategorien und der Hinweise unter dem Seitentitel. Das wurde am Montag behoben. [41]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

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19:04, 31. Mai 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #471

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

• Events
  • Past:
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 (replay) "Wikidata Live Querying" by Lucas Werkmeister
    • SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 1/2 (in French) - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, Wednesday, June 9, 16:00 UTC
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook, June 12 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #66, June 13
    • (Dutch) 16 june 2021, 15.00-16.30 CEST, "Universiteitsbibliotheek: Bijzondere Collecties zichtbaar en vindbaar maken in Wikidata", during "Digitaal Erfgoed @UM | zichtbaar, bruikbaar, houdbaar"

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • "Wikidata and R: a perfect pair" by Evolution and evolvability and Canley. A WikiCite eScholarship.
    • "Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata", by Ederporto. A WikiCite project grant project.
  • Papers
    • (Preprint) KGPool: Dynamic Knowledge Graph Context Selection for Relation Extraction (Wikidata dataset used in evaluation)
    • (Article) “Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge”
    • (Presentation) Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties by User:Jsamwrites at Contribuling
  • Videos
    • Understanding data import into Wikidata via Quickstatements (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Workshop for "Cita": a Wikidata addon for Zotero, hosted by Diegodlh - English & en español. A WikiCite grant project.
    • Wikidata: Municipalities of Romania + a map of places in Kuopio - YouTube
    • Wikidata Editing training (in Tamil) - YouTube
    • Excursus: Wikidata Knowledge Graph - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Image Positions is a tool to show and add relative position within image (P2677) qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata items as areas on the item’s image (P18).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Badkartan.se ID, Eionet bathingWaterIdentifier, ifixit device ID, AlternativeTo software ID, Price One Penny author ID, Nevada Women's History Project ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID, Price One Penny work ID, Price One Penny library ID, Price One Penny publisher ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Range, not found in, LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation
    • External identifiers: DIP-ID, Castforward ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, EBAF ID, FCCOS ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, GCD creator ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties used to describe themselves (Inspiration)
    • Most common name in Germany by year of birth (Source)
    • Famous (not French) people born in France (Source)

• Development
  • You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883, example query with a title)
  • Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689)
  • Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312)
  • Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (phab:T219215)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:02, 7. Jun. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-23

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 8 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 9 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 10 Juni (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [42][43][44]
• Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [45]
• The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [46][47]

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22:01, 7. Jun. 2021 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: May 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue V, May 2021

Headlines

AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: A busy month at AfLIA Argentina report: Museum, Archives and Libraries on May Armenia report: Presence of Museums in Wiki Projects Australia report: Librarians unite across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand for 1Lib1Ref Brazil report: Wiki Loves Bahia: 2021 is the year of Bahia on Wikipedia in Portuguese Côte d'Ivoire report: Glam-wiki 2021 29 May in Côte d'Ivoire India report: Collaboration continues with British Library Indonesia report: #1lib1ref in Indonesia; Online talk show with Wikimedia Nederland Italy report: Conference, webinar and projects Kosovo report: National Gallery of Kosovo Collection now on Wikidata Netherlands report: Over 15,000 images available from Elsinga Collection, 1.9 million records on slavery and slave trade digitally accessible New Zealand report: A busy month in Aotearoa North Macedonia report: GLAM activities of GLAM Macedonia Serbia report: A month in the sign of edit-a-thons Spain report: Viquiprojecte:Muixeranga Sweden report: Working with UN Human Rights; Aftermath to the fiddler competition; Music manuscripts from the 18th century; Digital visions; Should museums work with Wikipedia?; Wikidata project with museums has results Switzerland report: Strengthening GLAM Partnerships Uganda report: Wikipedia for Museums in Uganda UK report: British Library, Khalili Collections USA report: Hackathon outputs, data roundtripping and Asian American heritage Special story: Wikimedia Hackathon report: Upgrading GLAM tech tools and PAWS Wikisource report: Indic Wikisource community online gathering WMF GLAM report: Grants and conferences Wiki World Heritage User Group report: May's report Calendar: June's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #472

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

• Events
  • Past
    • SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 2/2 (session 8) - YouTube
    • Open Repositories 2021: Wikidata Integration with Repository Contents - YouTube
    • Information Service Engineering 2021
      • SPARQL complex queries, SPARQL aggregation and variable assignment, Wikidata SPARQL examples
      • SPARQL Federated Queries, DBpedia and Wikidata, SPARQL query aggregation and variable assignment
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Diego de la Hera on Cita, a Wikidata add-on for Zotero. Agenda, June 15
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 19 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #67, June 20
    • OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-07-05

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Gateway into Linked Data: Breaking silos with Wikidata - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
  • WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
  • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: personality trait of fictional character
    • External identifiers: Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Olschki author ID, French Etalab parcel visualization code, Geneanet family name ID, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, DIP ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, Internet Game Database developer ID, Book Owners Online person ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation, sex or gender of the position, regime, earliest known OpenTimestamps, Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros, named after lexeme
    • External identifiers: TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, GCD creator ID, Memobase ID, Central records of collections ID, Musica Baltica person ID, Standard Citation Forms ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, PRISM Break project ID, Idaho Species ID, Room of Names ID, ZKM person ID, fotodok ID, IFFR film director ID, EUIPO OoC-name id, Gutenberg Biographics ID, EUIPO OoC-work id, Games@Mail.ru ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Handlingar.se, NAD agent ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, OlympicsIL ID
  • Query examples:
    • Lakes within 10 km of Berlin
    • Old bath pictures from Swedish Digitalmuseum
    • Bath water in Sweden with distance to the center of the lake it is connected to
    • Bath water in Sweden located in Nature reserves (protected area, geojson)
    • Map of the standard English and Welsh spellings of all places in the database (Source)
    • Films directed by Agnès Varda and their publication date (Source)
    • List of women who hold or have held the position of rector at a university (Source)
  • Schema examples:
    • EntitySchema:E319 - European bath waters
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject European Bath Waters - Europe is open up and its summer - lets add bath waters to Wikidata

• Development
  • Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
  • Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
  • Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...

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: 2021-24

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Angemeldete Benutzer der mobilen Website können in den erweiterten mobilen Modus wechseln. Darin werden Kategorien ähnlich wie in der Standardansicht für den Desktop angezeigt. Helferlein, die bisher nur für Desktop-Benutzer verfügbar waren, können nun auch für die mobile Ansicht bereitgestellt werden. Wenn es in eurem Wiki solche Helferlein geben sollte, könnten sie für die mobile Ansicht freigegeben werden, wenn ihr das wollt. Einige müssen wahrscheinlich an die mobile Version angepasst werden. [48]
• Sprachlinks auf Wikidata funktionieren jetzt auch für die mehrsprachige Wikisource. [49]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche gibt es keine neue MediaWiki-Version.

Künftige Änderungen

• Zukünftig werden wir die IP-Adresse von nicht angemeldeten Benutzern nicht mehr in der Versionsgeschichte für jeden sichtbar anzeigen. Wir werden sie "maskieren". Dafür gibt es rechtliche Gründe. Es gibt einen groben Entwurf, wie die Anzeige der IP-Adressen für diejenigen, die sie auch weiterhin sehen müssen, funktionieren könnte.
• Die deutschsprachige Wikipedia, die englische Wikivoyage und 29 kleine Wikis können voraussichtlich am 22. Juni zwischen 5:00 und 5:30 Uhr UTC (7:00 bis 7:30 Uhr Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) nicht bearbeitet werden. [50]
• In der Woche ab dem 28. Juni können alle Wikis für einige Minuten nicht bearbeitet werden. Näheres demnächst an dieser Stelle und auf den Nachrichtenseiten in den einzelnen Wikis. [51][52]

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22:25, 14. Jun. 2021 (CEST)

Inhalte des Termins „Bessere Unterstützung von Geoinformationen“ jetzt im Wiki

Hallo, vor zwei Wochen hatte das Team Technische Wünsche zu einem virtuellen Treffen über den Themenschwerpunkt „Bessere Unterstützung von Geoinformationen“ eingeladen. Eine ausführliche Zusammenfassung des Treffens findet sich nun im Wiki. Wenn du der Meinung bist, dass bei der Recherche etwas falsch verstanden wurde oder noch etwas fehlt, wäre es toll, wenn du das auf der Diskussionsseite kommentieren würdest. -- Besten Dank, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) Diskussion 10:45, 16. Jun. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #473

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
    • 24/06 (17:30 UTC): Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for tainacan with Ederporto and Dalton Lopes Martins (https://tainacan.org/en/ Tainacan) (in English), on YouTube
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #68, June 27
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 26 at 18:00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Beyond VIAF. Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries (with detailed statistics on VIAF and Wikidata)
  • Videos
    • Using OpenRefine and creating wikidata schema - YouTube
    • Query SPARQL Wikidata around genealogy (in French) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Template:PositionHolderHistory displays the full list of position holders for a given position.
  • Template:Generic queries for positions new template with generic queries for positions.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. phab:T275958
  • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
  • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
  • Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: not found in, named place on map
    • External identifiers: Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, Memobase ID, Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging ID, Skipsrevyen ID, EBAF authority ID, LdiF person ID, Musica Baltica person ID, EGID, RBF event ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: named after lexeme, replacement value, Qualis rank, role of component, table of contents available at URL, DICOM modality page, Flemish Heritage Themes ID
    • External identifiers: OlympicsIL ID, EBIDAT ID, Crosscut author ID, identifier BNM, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID, Handzone player ID, BES-Net user ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Research Resource Identifier, VK artist ID, MonumentalTrees.com, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, E-Flora BC species ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of public bookcases
    • SPARQL Jupyter notebook to explore generic queries for positions (using PAWS)
    • Biographies that can be linked in different Wikipedias (apart from deWP) (Source)
    • Vulnerable, endangered or extinct languages with number of lexemes in Wikidata (Source)
    • Articles in English Wikipedia about women that have the good article badge but do not have an article written in Spanish (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Outdoor Gyms

• Development
  • Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (phab:T284854)
  • Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219)
  • Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820)
  • Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
  • Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
  • Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
    • Testing infrastructure investigation and decision
    • Investigation: How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:23, 21. Jun. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-25

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Gruppe otrs-member heißt nun vrt-permissions. Das kann Auswirkungen auf Missbrauchsfilter haben. [53]

Probleme

• You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [54]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 22 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 23 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 24 Juni (Kalender).

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17:47, 21. Jun. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #474

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)

• Events
  • Past:
    • log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24
  • Upcoming:
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [55], June 29th.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
    • Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
  • Papers
    • Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools)
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, for the #ArcticKnot.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot.
    • Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube
    • Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube
    • Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
  • Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact for the Wikibase Community User Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page before 2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC), after which voting will commence.
  • Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale.
  • Wikidata Vertical Analysis by AKhatun (WMF)
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns
  • A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: date of resignation, curid, consequence of text
    • External identifiers: RBF event ID, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID, ZKM person ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, Fotodok ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Vindskyddskartan.se ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: delta of, Astrological sign, announced at, contact point (2)
    • External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID, Classical Archives composer ID, UFC ID, Tapology ID, Bellator ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, Ethereum token address, Legie 100 legionary ID, PsycNET ID, Index Theologicus ID, MK ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, African Film Database ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID, HockeyLive player ID, eishockey.info player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Street names in Alsatian (source)
    • What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? (Source)
    • UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata (Source)
    • Count of statements by property for theatrical plays (Source)
    • Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
  • Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
  • Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
  • Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
  • Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
  • Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
  • Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
  • Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
  • Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
  • Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
  • Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
  • The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
  • Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
  • It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
  • Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
  • A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
  • "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
  • There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:03, 28. Jun. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-26

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [56]
• Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [57]

Probleme

• You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [58][59]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 29 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 30 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 1 Juli (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Threshold for stub link formatting, Standardgröße der Vorschaubilder and Überschriften automatisch nummerieren can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
• A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [60][61]

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18:30, 28. Jun. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #475

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)

• Events
  • Past:
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Schema explorers and how they can help guide adoption of common standards
    • Tackling Technical Debt, big and small, in Wikidata and Wikibase
  • Papers
    • A Study of the Quality of Wikidata
    • Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries
  • Videos
    • (workshop) Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians - YouTube
    • Adding descriptions and statements to Wikidata using Quickstatements - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: voted on by, Qualis rank, author given names, author last name, delta of
    • External identifiers: Gutenberg Biographics ID, Idaho Species ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, Classical Archives composer ID, Crosscut author ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, E-Flora BC species ID, LexM ID, BES-Net user ID, VK artist ID, Legie 100 legionary ID, Buzer.de law identification, Games@Mail.ru ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, FOIH themes ID, African Film Database ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: code name, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, Impact factor, dependency grammar relations, biological target, URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state
    • External identifiers: fotoCH photographer ID, Raakvlak inventory number, cultural broadcasting archive station ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, MANTO ID, e-Rad researcher ID, WMO code
  • Query examples:
    • List of pairs of senses on the same lexeme that have the same gloss in at least one language (Source)
    • Which British Monarch saw most US Presidents; which US President saw most British Monarchs? (graph view) (dimensions view) (Source)
    • All paintings (Q3305213) that depict (P180) a painting (Source)
    • Count of qualifiers used in performer (P175) statements (Source)
    • Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (Source)
    • Latin American female mathematicians who are not on spanish Wikipedia but have an article in another language (Source)
    • US Governors and their religion, if listed (Source)
    • Living soccer players whose birthday is on January 1st (Source)
    • Museums nearby Cēsis (Q107582) (Source)
    • Distribution of public toilets per administrative units in Wales (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
  • Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
  • Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
  • Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
  • A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
  • A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:08, 5. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-27

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Tech-News

• Die nächste Ausgabe der Tech-News wird es am 19. Juli 2021 geben.

Letzte Änderungen

• AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [62]

Probleme

• InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [63]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [64][65]
• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [66]

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19:31, 5. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Passende Vorlage suchen und finden: Suchfunktion und weitere Verbesserungen im Vorlagenassistenten

Hallo, du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du in der Umfrage Technische Wünsche 2019 für den Themenschwerpunkt „Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten“ abgestimmt hast.

Die verbesserte Suchfunktion des Vorlagenassistenten im VisualEditor, dem Wikitext Editor 2017 und dem Wikitext Editor 2010 liefert ab jetzt nicht nur Treffer mit dem gleichen Anfangswort, sondern alle relevanten Vorlagen, die den eingegebenen Begriff im Titel enthalten.

Mit dem neuen „Zurück“-Button im VisualEditor wird es außerdem möglich, nach dem Auswählen einer Vorlage wieder zu der Vorlagensuche zurückzukehren. Auf diese Weise ist es leichter, solange im Suchfenster zu bleiben und in den Vorlagen zu stöbern, bis man eine passende gefunden hat, ohne, wie bisher, den Dialog vollständig schließen zu müssen.

Wenn Daten in die ausgewählte Vorlage eingegeben wurden und dann der Zurück-Button betätigt wird, erscheint nun außerdem eine Warnung. Sie dient dazu, dem Verlorengehen der eingegebenen Daten vorzubeugen.

Nicht zuletzt gibt es nun eine intuitive Möglichkeit im VisualEditor, eine Vorlage von einer Seite zu entfernen. Wenn man die Vorlage anklickt, erscheint neben dem „Bearbeiten“ eine neue „Löschen“-Option im Menü, wie es beispielsweise auch für Tabellen bereits der Fall ist.

Diese Neuerungen werden voraussichtlich am 7. Juli hier in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia sowie auf einigen weiteren ersten Wikis aktiviert. Mehr Informationen gibt es auf den Projektseiten: Vorlagen suchen und einfügen und Vorlagen von einer Seite entfernen (VisualEditor). Rückmeldungen sind hier und hier willkommen. --Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 16:26, 6. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Technische Wünsche: Umgang mit noch offenen Wünschen aus bisherigen Umfragen & nächste große Umfrage

Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du in einer der Umfragen Technische Wünsche über Projekte abgestimmt hast, um deren weiteres Vorgehen es hier geht.

In den vergangenen Monaten hat das Team Technische Wünsche evaluiert, wie gut die Arbeitsweise in Themenschwerpunkten funktioniert und wie sie noch verbessert werden kann. Die Überlegungen und daraus abgeleiteten Konsequenzen sind hier auf der Projektseite beschrieben.

In Kürze: Der neue Arbeitsmodus funktioniert insgesamt sehr gut, aber es ging bisher nicht so schnell voran wie geplant – aus verschiedenen Gründen. Um in Zukunft in den zwei Jahren pro Themenschwerpunkt mehr erreichen zu können, hat das Team nach reiflicher Überlegung beschlossen, wie mit den vier noch offenen Wünschen aus dem alten Arbeitsmodus umgegangen werden soll: Zwei Wünsche, die bereits umgesetzt, aber noch nicht auf allen Wikis bereitgestellt wurden, werden noch auf weiteren Wikis ausgerollt. Die anderen beiden Wünsche können im aktuellen Zustand noch nirgends bereitgestellt werden; an diesen beiden Wünschen wird das Team nicht mehr weiterarbeiten.

Weil es bei der Arbeit an den Themenschwerpunkten zu ein paar Monaten Verzögerung kam, verschiebt sich auch die nächste große Umfrage Technische Wünsche. Geplant ist sie nun für Januar 2022. Wer sie nicht verpassen möchte, kann sich per Newsletter erinnern lassen.

Eine kleinere, themenbezogene Umfrage gibt es trotzdem schon bald: Voraussichtlich ab dem 19. Juli kann darüber abgestimmt werden, in welchem Problembereich aus dem Themenschwerpunkt „Bessere Unterstützung von Geoinformationen“ das Team Technische Wünsche für Verbesserungen sorgen soll. Mehr Informationen dazu gibt es in Kürze auf der Projektseite. Auch daran kann man sich per Newsletter erinnern lassen. Es wäre toll, wenn sich viele beteiligen und die Information weitergeben.

Ausführlichere Informationen zum geplanten Vorgehen und den Gründen dafür gibt es wie gesagt auf der Technische-Wünsche-Projektseite. Feedback dazu bitte auf die dortige Diskussionsseite, damit alles an einer Stelle gesammelt werden kann.

-- Für das Team Technische Wünsche, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:35, 7. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Umfrage zu Geoinformationen: Wo sind Verbesserungen am dringendsten nötig?

Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter des Projekts Technische Wünsche abonniert hast. Danke dafür!

Nach dem Abschluss einer umfassenden Recherchephase zu Geoinformationen wird es eine themenbezogene Umfrage geben. Auf diese Weise soll entschieden werden, in welchem Problembereich Verbesserungen erfolgen sollen.

Aktive auf der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia sowie anderen deutschsprachigen Wikis (einschließlich Commons) sind aufgerufen mitzumachen. Stimmberechtigt sind alle, die zum Zeitpunkt der Umfrage angemeldet sind, ein seit 30 Tagen existierendes Konto und 50 Bearbeitungen (Edits) im Hauptnamensraum auf einem deutschsprachigen Wikimedia-Wiki oder auf Commons vorweisen können. Alle Erfahrungs- und technischen Wissensstufen sind willkommen.

Die Umfrage startet voraussichtlich am 19. Juli und soll bis zum 1. August 2021 laufen – also gern vormerken und weitersagen! Weitere Informationen folgen auf dieser Projektseite. Rückmeldung und Fragen sind auf dieser Diskussionsseite willkommen. --Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 15:58, 8. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: June 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VI, June 2021

Headlines

AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: African Librarians Week 2021 Albania report: CEE Spring Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: A course on opening cultural collections Belgium report: Edit-a-thons with Wiki Women Design Brazil report: A metadata roundtripping model for museums France report: European Archaeology Days; Edit-a-thon in Romanity Museum Guinea report: GLAM with Harmattan Guinée 15 June 2021 in Conakry Italy report: Festival and edit-a-thon dedicated to the world of archives Netherlands report: Training at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; training for Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean has concluded New Zealand report: Making artists visible Serbia report: Wikidata development and culture of Rudnik and Takovo region Spain report: Museums writing challenge and Viquimarató Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas Sweden report: Free music; Kulturarv som gymnasiearbete; Statistics Sweden – now as open data; KTH library training Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program Uganda report: Wikipedia for Museums in Uganda UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections Ukraine report: #1Lib1Ref in Ukrainian Wikipedia USA report: Meetup/CCCCWI; Vaccine Safety Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; San Diego Wiknic; Black Lunch Table / Black visual artists Special story: Play, experiment and cross borders at Hack4OpenGLAM Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts Structured Data on Commons development and is searching for two developers WMF GLAM report: Conferences and Structured data modeling Calendar: July's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #476

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
    • -akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)

• Events
  • Past:
    • LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
    • SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
    • SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [67], July 13th.
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
    • A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
  • Papers
    • Vorlage:Q, by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
  • Videos
    • Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
    • Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
    • Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
  • The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: Wikidata:Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to Wikidata:Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
  • OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
    1. Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
    2. Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
  • For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
    • External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
    • External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
    • Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
    • Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
  • Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
  • Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
  • We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
  • We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
  • Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
  • Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
  • Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
  • Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:13, 12. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Jetzt abstimmen: Wo sollen Verbesserungen im Bereich Geoinformationen erfolgen?

Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter abonniert hast. Danke dafür!

Die Umfrage zum Themenschwerpunkt Bessere Unterstützung von Geoinformationen ist ab sofort eröffnet.

In den letzten Monaten hatte das Team Technische Wünsche ausführlich recherchiert, welche Probleme es im Bereich Geoinformationen gibt. Jetzt geht es an die Umsetzung von Lösungen.

Das Projektteam wird sich auf Lösungen in einem Bereich konzentrieren wird, weil Geoinformationen ein besonders breites Thema sind, das viele verschiedene Arbeitsabläufe und -prozesse umfasst. Aus der Zeit, die für diesen Themenschwerpunkt zur Verfügung steht, kann am meisten herausgeholt werden, wenn Recherche, Prototypen-Entwicklung, Tests und die Umsetzung von Lösungen sich auf einen Bereich fokussieren.

Welcher Bereich das sein wird, soll diese Umfrage in Erfahrung bringen, denn die Recherche hat nicht klar gezeigt, wo Verbesserungen am meisten gewünscht werden. Zur Wahl stehen diese drei großen Problembereiche, die sich in der Recherchephase herauskristallisiert haben:

• Im Bereich Karten könnte eine Möglichkeit geschaffen werden, auf der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia interaktive Karten automatisch zu erzeugen und diese in Artikel einzubinden.
• Im Bereich Koordinaten könnte eine neue Koordinateneingabe für das Hochladen von Bildern auf Commons entwickelt werden.
• Die Spezialseite „In der Nähe“ könnte zum leichteren Erkunden von Geodaten auf allen Wikis verbessert werden.

Editierende aller Erfahrungs- und technischen Wissensstufen, die sich für Geoinformationen interessieren, sind eingeladen abzustimmen. Stimmberechtigt sind alle, die zum Zeitpunkt der Umfrage angemeldet sind, mindestens ein seit 30 Tagen existierendes Konto und mindestens 50 Bearbeitungen (Edits) im Hauptnamensraum auf einem deutschsprachigen Wikimedia-Wiki oder auf Commons vorweisen können. Der Kreis der Wikis wurde so gewählt, weil Geoinformationen auch außerhalb der Wikipedia eine wesentliche Rolle spielen und die Verbesserungen auch die Arbeit in diesen Wikis betreffen können.

Hier geht's zur Umfrage

Genauere Informationen zu den Problembereichen und möglichen Verbesserungen und zur Umfrage selbst sind auf der Umfrageseite zu finden. Die Umfrage läuft bis zum 1. August 2021 um 23:59. -- Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 09:01, 19. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-29

Nachfolgend die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Bitte gibt sie an andere Benutzer weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich unmittelbar betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Das Tool zum suchen, ergänzen und entfernen von Vorlagen wurde aktualisiert. Dadurch soll es einfacher werden, passende Vorlagen zu finden. Es sollte am 7. Juli auf den ersten Wikis freigegeben werden, kommt nun aber erst am 12. Juli heraus. Die Freigabe auf anderen Wikis wird später folgen. [68][69]
• Special:UnconnectedPages gibt eine Liste von Seiten aus, die bisher nicht mit Wikidata-Einträgen verknüpft worden sind, damit man dem leichter abhelfen kann. Es gibt aber Seiten, die nicht mit Wikidata verknüpft werden sollten. In solchen Fällen kann man jetzt das magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ auf solchen Seiten einsetzen, die nicht auf der Spezialseite ausgegeben werden sollen. [70]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 20 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 21 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 22 Juli (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die HTML-Ausgabe des Parsers wird demnächst geändert. Das kann sich auf Bots, Helferlein, User-Skripte und Erweiterungen auswirken. Hier kannst du dazu mehr erfahren. Tests sind möglich im Testwiki oder im Testwiki 2.
• Die Parameter, mit denen man Tokens über die MediaWiki-API erhalten kann, wurden im Jahr 2014 geändert. Die alte Variante wird ab dem 1. September 2021 nicht mehr funktionieren. Skripte, Bots und Tools, die noch die alten Parameter aus der Zeit vor der Änderung 2014 verwenden, müssen aktualisiert werden. Hier kannst du dazu mehr erfahren.

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17:29, 19. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #478

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

• Events
  • Past:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72, July 25
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata English & Italian by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project.
    • Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill
    • Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R
    • Introducing the MathFoldr Project
  • Videos
    • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project (by Mahir256) - YouTube
    • Bringing IIIF Manifests to Life in Wikidata with Mirador 3 (2021 IIIF Annual Conference) - YouTube
    • Moving Wikipedia's InfoBox to Wikidata (in Taiwanese) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice)
    • Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice).
    • A first look at featured articles in Wikipedia in French using Wikidata (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS)

• Tool of the week
  • searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS
  • For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel, Laurentius and Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
  • Sitelinks to the recently created Tachelhit Wikipedia and Dagbani Wikipedia are being added.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, number of request signatories, translation of
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, Città e Cattedrali ID, MANTO ID, WMO code, IFPNI author ID, Landshuth ID, Pladias ID, Central records of collections ID, Podchaser creator ID, Steam Greenlight game ID, CEICE school code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, URL for freedom of information requests, Legal History, bridge number, Notable role, inventory number, Weverse user ID, ITU radio emission designation
    • External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID, eBru ID, Daum Cafe ID, Douyin Video ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, SDBM IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID, The New Yorker ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, Marmiton ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, PubFacts author ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of all stages of all tour de France (source)
    • Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (source)
    • Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (Source)
    • Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (Source)
    • Unemployment rate in Sweden by year (1970-2020) (Source)
    • Serious plane crashes with only one survivor (Source)
    • Mayors' genders of U.S. cities above 100k population (Source)
    • Global usage of pronouns (in English Language) (Source)
    • Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility
  • Newest database reports: language names in Italian (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now.
  • Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105)
  • Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919)
  • Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items (phab:T280910)
  • SPARQL was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:33, 19. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #479

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

• Events
  • Next Wikidata and Wikibase office hour on July 28th at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group
  • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
  • 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries
    • Issues and Challenges in optimum utilization of Linked Data in Indian libraries
    • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project
    • Tutorial: Wikidata: Intro to the Basics
    • Tutorial: Writing Data to Wikidata Using Spreadsheets
    • Wikibase: Free, Flexible and Collaborative Linked Data
    • Rune inscriptions in Wikidata / Wikibase; Sampo Model and Portal Series on the Semantic Web
    • Wikidata In Classroom • Creating Linked Data from Books and Magazines
    • LD4 meeting: Wikidata Affinity Group
  • Introduction to Wikidata (in Indonesian) part 1, part 2, part 3
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [71], July 27th.
  • COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
  • Openstreetmap x Wikidata meetup 2021.08.09 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Typed Citations in the Journal of Cheminformatics
    • What happens in Wikibase when you make a new Item?
    • Discovering new comics with Wikidata’s powerful tools
    • Two metadata directions. Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization
    • Still mapping! "Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
    • Making the Camino de Santiago visible on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on lexeme pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions is hiring software engineers and an engineering manager.
  • Job opening: Digital Channels Outreach Manager ("mentions contributing to Wikidata and Wikimedia platforms")

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia Incubator URL, symbol represents, bridge number
    • External identifiers: Adventure Corner video game ID, FRB person ID, Apple TV episode ID, Apple TV show ID, FRB event ID, Wikidata language code, Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Plant life-form, cabinet, title of a church
    • External identifiers: VI.BE Platform ID, Smartify artwork ID, Women Also Know History ID, IrishTheatre.ie Company ID, BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of all stage winners in the Tour de France with links to the list of stages won (source)
    • Map of miniature parks (Source)
    • Map of open data portals (Source)
    • Video games published before 1980, and their authors (Source)
    • Protected bridges over the Zadorra river basin (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory

• Development
  • Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
  • Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org

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: 2021-30

Nachfolgend die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Bitte gibt sie an andere Benutzer weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich unmittelbar betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen.

Letzte Änderungen

• A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 27 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 28 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 29 Juli (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preference Responsiven Modus aktivieren. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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23:09, 26. Jul. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #480

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

• Events
  • July 2021 Wikidata+Wikibase office hours logs
  • July 2021 Wikibase Live sessions logs

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • What is Wikidata (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Mahir256/syndepgraph.js is used to make interesting SVG-based syntactic dependency graphs generated with {{Syndepgraph}} to appear.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Portuguese version of the Wikidata Query Service tutorial tool is now available.
  • Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
  • The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
  • New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: symbol represents, bridge number, syntactic dependency head relationship, syntactic dependency head position
    • External identifiers: Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, IRIS SNS author ID, U.S. Ski & Snowboard athlete ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cabinet, title of a church, Apple App Store classification, amount of medals, GRAC/GRB content descriptor, GRAC/GRB rating category, Igromania developer/publisher ID, commentator, FLOSS development policy URL
    • External identifiers: BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, police zone ID, Tax identification number, Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, The Women’s Print History Project person ID, USA Climbing member ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Vokrug sveta Encyclopedia ID, Nationalencyklopedin ID, MPAA certificate number, Magyar írók élete és munkái ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of film directors who have worked with Jean-François Stevenin the most (source) Jean-François Stevenin is a French actor, dead the 27th of July
    • French municipalities containing the word "ville" (Source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (Source)
    • Museums within 70 km of Dresden (Source)

• Development
  • Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. Focusing on wrapping up the store part of the tool and moving on to the UI for reviewing mismatches.
  • Made it so that Special:EntityData doesn't throw an exception when called with an invalid flavor parameter (phabricator:T286275)
  • Limit languages of entity stubs in RDF output (Breaking change)

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: 2021-31

Nachfolgend die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Bitte gibt sie an andere Benutzer weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich unmittelbar betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen.

Letzte Änderungen

• If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
• Erinnerung: Wikimedia ist aus dem alten Freenode-Netzwerk in das Libera Chat IRC-Netzwerk gewechselt. Lokale Dokumentation sollte aktualisiert werden.

Probleme

• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [72][73]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [74]
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org ab 3 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 4 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 5 August (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
• The Beta Feature for Diskussions-Werkzeuge will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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22:45, 2. Aug. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #477

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [75], Aug 10th.
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
    • Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Past:
    • JOSS2021 National Diet Library-sponsored session "Linked Data, Wikidata, GLAM" (in Japanese)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Generic queries for musicians new wikidata template to explore the work of a musician.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:So9q/duplicate item.js is a userscript that can duplicate the current item, minus sitelinks and descriptions (not allowed by Wikidata).
  • Collection of Wikidata:Weekly summary query examples (2015-2021) by MKar

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: edition/version, open source software policy URL
    • External identifiers: Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID, Women Also Know History ID, Marmiton ID, Knesset member ID, The New Yorker contributor ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, BNM bibliographic record ID, Treccani's Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, e-Rad researcher number, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: FLOSS development policy URL, Umění pro město ID, broadcast of, dissertation program, DDB-Person-Nummer
    • External identifiers: GSSO ID, COD ID, ARTEINFORMADO Person ID, CDAEM Person ID, ASE person ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, IRIS Pisa IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Shironet ID, Paleobotany ID, arheologi.ro ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Welsh lakes and reservoirs (Source)
    • Gender statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org
    • Statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org by their value of instance of property
    • Place of birth of Swedish 1912 Summer Olympics participants (Source)
    • Interactive map with all Olympic Games medalists by place of birth (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
  • Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
  • Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)

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 deploy Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-32

Die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der technischen Community von Wikimedia. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Äanderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen alle Nutzer. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• Am 10. August konnten 17 Wikis einige Minuten lang gelesen, aber nicht editiert werden. Das ist geplant um 05:00 UTC, wegen Arbeiten an der Datenbank. [76]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Der Wikimania Hackathon wird am 13. August online stattfinden, beginnend um 5:00 UTC und geht 24 Stunden lang. Es gibt verschiedene Teilnahmemöglichkeiten. Projekte und Sessions können noch vorgeschlagen werden.
• Die neue Version von MediaWiki wird auf Test-Wikis und MediaWiki.org ab 10 August zu finden sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 11 August. Sie wird auf allen Wikis ab 12 August (calendar) verfügbar sein.
• Altes CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> wird nach dem 12. August nicht mehr unterstützt. Stattdessen sollten Vorlagen und Seiten <div style="clear:both;"></div> benutzen. Bitte helft dabei mit, alle existierenden Anwendungen auf euren Wikis entsprechend zu ersetzen. Links für die globale Suche sind verfügbar bei T287962.

Künftige Änderungen

• The Wikipedia Library ist ein Ort für Wikipedia-Editoren, wo auf Quellen zugegriffen werden kann. Es gibt eine Erweiterung mit einer neuen Funktion, Nutzern mitzuteilen wann sie teilnehmen können. Es kommen Benachrichtigungen zum Einsatz. Die ersten Nutzer werden im September angepingt. Mehr Nutzer werden später angepingt. [77]
• Vue.js wird in Zukunft das JavaScript-Framework für MediaWiki sein. [78]

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18:18, 9. Aug. 2021 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: July 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VII, July 2021

Headlines

Albania report: Collaboration with the New Vision Organization in Tirana; Summer of Wikivoyage Campaign 2021 Australia report: Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges Brazil report: A wikicontest to celebrate and make visible the state of Bahia India report: Rabimas proofread contest ends on Bengali Wikisource New Zealand report: New Zealand holds its second Wikimedia conference, and a performing arts Wikiproject gathers steam Serbia report: New chances for GLAM success Sweden report: Photos of Childrens theatre UK report: A Thousand Images of Islam, British Library Updates USA report: Smithsonian Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History; San Diego 73; Black Lunch Table Black artists WMF GLAM report: A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #481

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

• Events
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
      • Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion
      • Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata
      • Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q
      • Making feedback loops work for Wikidata
      • Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going?
  • Upcoming:
    • A biodiversity-themed hackathon is being organized at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium for September 20-24. Three of the ten proposed topics are Wikidata-related — biodiversity-related Wikidata lexemes, taxonomic names, and women in biodiversity research. Remote participation is possible.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
  • Videos
    • Guide to fetch Wikipedia data from Wikidata using Wikibase-SDK and node.js (in Hindi) - YouTube
    • How to create an item on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Books
    • SPARQL wikibook

• Tool of the week
  • Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:So9q/KORP-link.js is a userscript to add a link to the Swedish corpus KORP in the Tools section on items.
  • WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: performed at, Smithsonian trinomial format regex, setlist, number of Classification of the Functions of Government
    • External identifiers: Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, ASE person ID, Alsharek Archive author ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, ARPI author ID, IRIS SSSUP author ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dissertation program, CDDA designationType, container, remix of, insurance number (building), numéro de parcelle
    • External identifiers: SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Palynodata taxa ID, arheologi.ro ID, DDB-Person-Nummer, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID, Svenska Ord ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage object ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage institutions ID, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Mapping the Lives ID, MART catalog person ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Palynodata publications ID, opaquenamespace ID, HarperCollins product ID, Derrieux Agency person ID, Lambic.Info ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, GLN, Unconsenting Media ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Iași Central University Library ID, Volleybox ID, Team-Deutschland-Paralympics-ID, ISL ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, ASJC
  • Query examples:
    • List of properties which have instances or subclass of organisations as possible value (source)
    • List of classes which are used as value constraints for the properties (source)
    • Concepts, processes, practices, etc. linked to the philosophical concept of power (Source)
    • Twelve Times table using Wikidata items (Source)
    • Newly protected World Heritage sites in 2021 (Source)
    • Total number of wins for each world snooker champion (Source)
    • Who was the UK Prime Minister when each of the English Premier League/First Division title winners last won the title (Source)
    • Map of the birthplace of sports team players by decade (lines link birthplace to home venue location) (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Neighborhood Public Art in Boston

• Development
  • Cut save-time for edits in half (phab:T288639)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
  • Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
  • Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
  • Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)

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: 2021-33

Die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der technischen Community von Wikimedia. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Äanderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen alle Nutzer. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Sprachlinks können wieder in der Seitenleiste im new Vector-Skin hinzugefügt werden, indem die Seite mit einem Wikidata-Item verbunden wird. Der neue Vector-Skin hat die Sprachlinks bewegt, doch der neue Sprachen-Selektor kann noch keine Sprachlinks hinzufügen. [79]

Probleme

• Es gab ein Problem mit der Erweiterung Translate. Übersetzungen wurden nicht aktualisiert oder mit englischem Text ersetzt. Der Bug ist behoben worden. [80][81][82]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Ein Schlagwort für Revisionen ergänzt bald Bearbeitungen, die Links zu Begriffsklärungsseiten einbinden, weil diese Links normalerweise versehentlich eingebunden werden. Der Tag wird es Bearbeitern ermöglichen, defekte Links leichter zu finden und zu reparieren. Wenn dein Wiki dieses Feature nicht mag, kann es auch versteckt werden. [83]
• Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
• In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [84]
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 17 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 18 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 19 August (Kalender).

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21:25, 16. Aug. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #482

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MusikBot II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Érica Azzellini and Éder Porto on MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link, August 24.
    • BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
  • Past:
    • Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
      • Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata
      • Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects
    • Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Articles
    • 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights -

      

      In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
  • Blogs
    • Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher - Charles Tapley Hoyt
    • The Invisible Citation Commons - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein
    • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries - Bob DuCharme
    • Wikidata or scraping Wikipedia - Denny Vrandečić
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube

• Tools of the week
  • Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed: Try it!
  • The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources from Zotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
  • Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, mix or remix of
    • External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, PsycNET ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: hunting areas, number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID
    • External identifiers: TeamNL player ID, Finnish National Gallery ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, NDL earlier law ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs, KNHB ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code
  • Query examples:
    • Predicates implicated in non-scholarly-article item bloat (source)
    • Church of Scotland Synods as Geoshapes (Source)
    • Map of the origin of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts, current location (Source)
    • Current principal local authorities in England

• Development
  • Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder
  • Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
  • ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
  • Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)

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: 2021-34

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• The Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Probleme

• Einige Wikis können für wenige Minuten am 25 August zwar gelesen aber nicht bearbeitet werden. Das wird um 06:00 UTC passieren. Grund dafür sind Arbeiten an der Datenbank. Während dieser Zeit werden CentralAuth-Aktionen auch nicht möglich sein.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org ab 24 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 25 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 26 August (Kalender).

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Read-only reminder

Am Mittwoch August 25 06:00 UTC wird es eine Unterbrechung der Verfügbarkeit zu Wartungszwecken geben. Sie sollte nur wenige Minuten dauern.

Auch CentralAuth wird in dieser Zeit nicht zur Verfügung stehen (GlobalRenames, Ändern/Bestätigen von E-Mail-Adressen, Einloggen in neue Wikis, Ändern von Passwörtern).

Weitere Einzelheiten zu dem Vorgang und zu den betroffenen Diensten findest du auf Phabricator.

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Bitte gib diese Nachricht über die Wartungsarbeiten an deine Community weiter. Danke!

22:33, 24. Aug. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #483

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Labs XXXI in English on the topic of Reimagining Wikidata from the margins, August 31
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook, September 4 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #77, September 5
    • Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about data quality, September 13
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021 Come with anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session (August 26th, 2021) logs
    • RubyConfTW 2021
      • Wikidata basics (in Chinese)
      • Wikidata and Open Streetmaps (in Chinese)
      • Using the MediaWiki open data API to solve data description problems (in Chinese)
      • Moving Wikipedia's Infobox to Wikidata's Property:Taiwanese place names (in Chinese)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Why Are Citations Not Part of Discussions on Open Knowledge?
    • Mapping Diversity Puts The Gender Gap of Toponymy On Paper (in Italian)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata: Behind the Scenes of the Great Wikipedia Data Repository (in Spanish)
    • Bring data from Wikidata and any other LOD Knowledge Graph to your Roam graph
  • Notebooks
    • What are the Wikipedia articles you've created about? a notebook which show how to compute statistics about the articles you've created in Wikipedia by "instance of" (P31) property

Wikidata2Ical

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
  • Wikibase Installation & Updating survey has been published!
  • The Board of Trustees election has started. Votes will be accepted until 23:59 31 August 2021 (UTC). View candidate statements, verify your eligibility and vote now.
  • Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
  • WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, remix of, container, release of
    • External identifiers: Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username, Team Deutschland Paralympics ID, BMC ID, Kartridge game ID, ISL ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Daum Cafe ID, Freeview show ID, Unconsenting Media ID, TeamNL athlete ID, Volleybox ID, COD ID, allabolag.se person ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry ID, GSSO ID, Fontaines de France ID, KNHB ID, DC Books book ID, Igromania developer/publisher ID, Deutsche Sporthilfe ID, Finnish National Gallery artwork ID, Igromania series ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, Svenska ord ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID, uses natural resource, created for, number of triples, reprinted in, Eneström Number, літературний редактор
    • External identifiers: Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code, Government Publications Number, Food.com ID, Dewan Negara ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, BBC Food ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II author ID, IndieMag game ID, Bleus Handisport-ID, Overnia, Edizioni Ares author ID, hmmlid, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Naver Post member ID, eAmbrosia ID, DC Character ID, Postimees topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Items in Sweden with coordinate location and elevation above sea-level statements (Source)
    • Map of UK's most extreme cities (Source)
    • All current principal Local Authorities in England (Source)

• Development
  • Wikidata:Mismatch Finder development continues. We are now working on the frontend. First pieces are starting to be visible at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org (but nothing usable yet)
  • Fixed an issue with unicode characters in constraints checks (phab:T289805)
  • Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
  • Continued work on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Continued work on new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)

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: 2021-35

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Syntax von Musiknoten funktioniert teilweise nicht mehr und muss daher aktualisiert werden. Unter Category:Wikipedia:Seite mit Notensatzfehlern kann eine Liste der fehlerhaften Seiten in deinem Wiki ausgegeben werden.

Probleme

• Beim Musiknotensatz war es in einigen Sprachen nicht möglich, die Liedertexte hinzuzufügen, weil dazu Schriften fehlten. Das wurde nun behoben. Wenn du in deiner Sprache lieber eine andere Schriftart verwenden möchtest, teile uns das bitte auf Phabricator mit. [85]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die Parameter, mit denen man Token über die MediaWiki-API erhalten kann, wurden im Jahr 2014 geändert. Die alte Variante wird ab dem 1. September 2021 nicht mehr funktionieren. Skripte, Bots und Tools, die noch die alten Parameter aus der Zeit vor der Änderung 2014 verwenden, müssen aktualisiert werden. Hier kannst du dazu mehr erfahren.
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 31 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 1 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 2 September (Kalender).

Künftige Änderungen

• Commons kann einige Minuten lang am 6 September zwar gelesen aber nicht bearbeitet werden. Das wird um 06:00 UTC passieren. Grund dafür sind Arbeiten an der Datenbank.
• In der Woche des 13. September können alle Wikis für einige Minuten nicht bearbeitet werden. Näheres demnächst an dieser Stelle und in den einzelnen Wikis in den kommenden Wochen. [86]

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17:59, 30. Aug. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #484

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [87], Sep 7th.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A new R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata: tidywikidatar
    • A global directory of official governmental online accounts and services, by Albin Larsson and Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Creating and Querying Personalized Versions of Wikidata on a Laptop
    • Type or Individual? Evidence of Large-Scale Conceptual Disarray in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
  • Other
    • Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
    • Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
    • Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
    • Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
  • In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
    • External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
    • Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
    • Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
    • Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)

• Development
  • Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
  • Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
  • Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
  • Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
  • We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.

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!
  • Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-36

Dies sind die neuesten Tech News aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Community. Bitte erzähle anderen Benutzern von diesen Änderungen. Nicht alle werden dich betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen dieses Newsletters.

Letzte Änderungen

• Bei den Wikis, in denen die Growth-Features installiert wurden, hat es seit deren Einführung A/B-Tests gegeben, bei denen einige Neulinge die neuen Features nicht erhielten. Von nun an werden alle neu angemeldeten Benutzer in den 21 kleinsten dieser Wikis diese Features von Anfang an erhalten. [88]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die jQuery-Bibliothek war im Jahr 2017 von Version 1 zu 3 aktualisiert worden, einschließlich eines Kompatibilitäts-Layers. Die Migration wird bald abgeschlossen sein, so dass die Website für alle schneller lädt. Falls du ein Helferlein oder ein Skript betreust, kümmere dich bitte um evtl. JQMIGRATE-Fehlermeldungen und behebe sie, sonst werden dein Helferlein oder dein Skript bald nicht mehr funktionieren. [89][90]
• Vergangenes Jahr lief in der Portugiesischen Wikipedia ein Experiment: Nur eingeloggte Benutzer sollten seitden Bearbeitungen vornehmen können. Der Bericht über die Ergebnisse dieses Versuchs ist fertig. Im weiteren Verlauf sucht das Anti-Harassment-Tools-Team nach Projekten, die bereit sind, mit Editier-Beschränkungen für IPs zu experimentieren. Hier kannst du dazu mehr erfahren.

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17:18, 6. Sep. 2021 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: August 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VIII, August 2021

Headlines

Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Australia report: How Australian libraries are turning to Wikipedia during the global pandemic Brazil report: Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America discusses GLAM and decolonization Côte d'Ivoire report: Glam-wiki 2021 10 Juillet en Côte d'Ivoire France report: Wikimedian in residence; Some projects for this autumn India report: Second proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library Italy report: Summer school in July and two new WiR in August Netherlands report: 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg New Zealand report: A Wikimedian at New Zealand Opera Serbia report: Villas and castles of Serbia Sweden report: History, history and future UK report: Khalili Collections reaches 30 articles USA report: Wiki salons and Kearny Mesa Special story: Hack4OpenGLAM is ready to start Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts SDC development WMF GLAM report: GLAM conversations and feedbacks for a better Wikimedia movement Calendar: September's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #485

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
    • Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
      • 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
      • 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
      • 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
    • Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
  • Past:
    • Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
  • other
    • Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Wikipedia podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
  • Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: GRAC rating
    • External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
    • External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
    • List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
    • count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
    • List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
    • People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
    • Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
    • Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)
• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
  • Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
  • Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
  • All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:04, 13. Sep. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-37

Die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der technischen Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden jeden betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• 45 neue Wikipedias haben jetzt Zugriff auf die Growth-Features. [91]
• In den meisten Wikipedias gibt es jetzt die Growth-Features. Das Growth-Team hat zu den Features eine FAQ-Seite veröffentlicht. Diese übersetzbare FAQ deckt die Beschreibung der Features ab, wie man sie benutzt, wie man die Konfiguration ändert und mehr.

Probleme

• Alle Wikis werden am 14. September einige Minuten lang nur Lesezugriff haben. Geplant ist das für die Zeit 14:00 UTC. [92]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 14 September verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 15 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 16 September (Kalender).
• Von dieser Woche an wird die italienischsprachige Wikipedia jeden Mittwoch wöchentliche Software-Updates bekommen. Durch diese Änderung können Bugs schneller bemerkt und behoben werden. [93]
• Beim neuen Vector-Skin kann man wieder Sprachlinks in der Navigationsleiste hinzufügen, indem man die Seite mit einem Wikidata-Item verbindet. Beim neuen Vector-Skin wurden die Sprachlinks an eine andere Stelle platziert, beim neuen Sprachen-Selektor kann man aber noch keine Sprachlinks hinzufügen. [94]
• Das Werkzeug für die Syntax-Markierung markiert Code mit unterschiedlichen Farben. Damit können jetzt 23 neue Codesprachen markiert werden. Zusätzlich kann golang jetzt als Alias für die Programmiersprache Go verwendet werden, und ein spezieller output Modus wurde hinzugefügt, um die Ausgabe eines Programms anzuzeigen. [95][96]

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17:31, 13. Sep. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #486

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [97], Sep 21st.
    • Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
  • Ongoing:
    • The Creative Commons Global Summit and Hack4OpenGLAM hackathon take place from September 20 until 24 (fully online). Several sessions and projects are related to Wikidata and/or Wikibase (see schedule search).
  • Past:
    • Data Quality Days:
      • Periodic editathons as a way to improve data quality on Wikidata: an experiment in Italy - YouTube
      • Bringing Czech authority files into 21st century: Integration with Wikidata - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Mapping the Scottish Reformation - using Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project - YouTube
    • OpenSym 2021: WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #53 (user scripts and gadgets that can help you edit) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Sign up here if you want to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: created for, Candomblé nation, NZTCS conservation status, Mexican video game rating category
    • External identifiers: INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry-Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Every Noise at Once ID, Spotify show episode ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Bing entity ID, TermCymru ID, NZTCS ID, Online Begraafplaatsen person ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Naver Post member ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: relevant date for copyright, issuing agency, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods ID, main subject for, type host taxon, has thematic relation, location of lexeme usage, ODOT county code, illustrative content
    • External identifiers: e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Google Fonts ID, Kallías, Owler company ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Allrugby, SLSP editions ID, Issuu ID, XXI Secolo ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, HJP ID, NVE reservoir ID, Biografija.ru ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, IRIS Tuscany IDs, Joshua Project people group ID, Flipboard ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide (2021- Version) ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Poetsgate poem ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Zenodo Communities ID, National Union Catalog ID
  • Query examples:
    • Biological taxa named after (metal (and other) music bands
    • Works by Dante Alighieri (1265 - September 13/14, 1321)
    • Cumulative page views for candidates in Czech parliamentary election 2021, split by party (Source)

• Development
  • The new Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service will be in production 18 Oct 2021
  • Working on changing the way sitelinks to Wikimedia Commons are created from Item data; now using topic's main category (P910) and category related to list (P1754) before Commons category (P373) (T232927)
  • Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
  • Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
  • Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
  • Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
  • Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
  • Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
  • Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:13, 20. Sep. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-38

Die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der technischen Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden jeden betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Growth-Features werden jetzt auf alle Wikipedias angewendet. Für die meisten kleinen Wikipedias sind die Features nur für erfahrene Nutzer verfügbar, um die Features zu testen und zu konfigurieren. Die Features werden für Neulinge ab dem 20. September 2021 verfügbar sein.
• Das MediaWiki hatte ein Feature, bei dem lokale Links zu Kurzartikeln in einem anderen Stil hervorgehoben wurden. Jeder Nutzer konnte die Größe wählen, in der vorläufige Einträge hervorgehoben werden konnten. Dieses Feature schadete der Performance und nach einer Abstimmung wurde es wieder entfernt. [98]
• Eine technische Änderung wurde an dem MonoBook-Skin vorgenommen, um die Wartung und Pflege zu vereinfachen. Das führte zu einigen kleinen Änderungen beim HTML, was das MonoBook-HTML mit anderen Skins vereinheitlicht. Es wurden schon Versuche unternommen, die Auswirkungen auf Editoren zu minimieren, aber bitte pingt Jon (WMF) auf dem Wiki oder im Phabricator, falls Probleme gemeldet werden.

Probleme

• Es gab letzte Woche ein Problem mit der Suche. Viele Suchanfragen waren 2 Stunden lang nicht funktionsfähig aufgrund eines versehentlichen Neustarts der Suchserver. [99]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 21 September verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 22 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 23 September (Kalender).
• Die meta=proofreadpage API wurde geändert. Der piprop-Parameter wurde umbenannt zu prpiprop. API-Nutzer sollten ihren Code aktualisieren, um Warnungen zu unbekannten Parametern zu vermeiden. Pywikibot-Nutzer sollten auf 6.6.0 upgraden. [100]

Künftige Änderungen

• Das Reply-Werkzeug wird in den kommenden Wochen auf die verbleibenden Wikis angewendet. Es ist aktuell Teil von "Diskussions-Werkzeuge" in den Beta-Features auf den meisten Wikis. Man wird sie in den Bearbeitungseinstellungen auch wieder deaktivieren können. [101]
• Die früher angekündigte Änderung zur Erlangung von Tokens von der wurde auf den 21. September verschoben wegen einer Inkompatibilität mit Pywikibot. Bot-Betreiber, die Pywikibot benutzen, können für Fortschritte zu einem Fix T291202 folgen und sollten schon einmal planen, auf 6.6.1 upzugraden, sobald es veröffentlicht wurde.

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20:29, 20. Sep. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #487

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021 14:36 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #55 (with OpenRefine) - YouTube, Facebook, October 2 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #81, October 3
    • COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard, 30 Sep 2021, Time: 13.00-14.00 WIB (join details)
  • Past:
    • Data Quality Days: You can find slides, videos and notes for many of the sessions on the event page.
    • Wiki Movimento Brasil. The universe of libraries:
      • Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies (in Portuguese)
      • Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge powers (in Portuguese)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #54 - YouTube, Facebook

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting Cell Ontology and Wikidata via Mix’n’match
  • Papers
    • WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides, source code, Short Video)
  • Videos
    • How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Demo: create Wikidata lexemes from Goethe's "Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" - YouTube
    • Demo of adding a string to Wikidata as a lexeme and linking it to the corresponding Wikidata item - YouTube
    • Wikidata Query Service assistance (in French) - YouTube
    • Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical Subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
  • Other
    • Chirpanalytica: "Give me your Twitter name and I'll tell you which party you choose". "What if you could automatically determine the political orientation of a person using just a Twitter account? This is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years".
    • That Wikidata Buzz - Siobhan Leachman talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon community awards.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL
    • External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID
    • External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS)
  • Query examples:
    • Given name "Filaret" ranked within similar names (source: talk page of item)
    • Start time of open access journals known to Wikidata (Source)
    • Mouths of rivers flowing into the Arctic (Source)
    • What chocolate mousse is called in different languages (Source)
    • Women in Wikidata whose husbands are economists with articles on the English Wikipedia, but they themselves lack articles (adapted from Source)
    • Same with husbands (adapted from Source)
    • People employed by the ZDF with an image on Commons and a link to the German language Wikipedia (Source)
    • Coordinates of the birth places of people named Antoine (Source)
    • Place of birth of people named Antoine, Tony, Antonio, etc
    • UK MPs who had the most identified descendants who were themselves MPs (Source)
  • Newest database reports: top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (works again)

• Development
  • Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
  • Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
  • Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
  • Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:44, 27. Sep. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-39

Neuigkeiten aus der technischen Wikimediagemeinschaft. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Änderungen. Keine Sorge, es betreffen dich nicht alle Änderungen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Probleme

• Einige Helferlein und Benutzerskripte fügen Einträge in portlets (Artikelwerkzeuge) hinzu. Falls die Links neuerdings eine andere Schriftgrösse haben, fügt man am besten die CSS-Klasse .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon ein. [102]

Änderungen im Lauf der Woche

• Testwiki und MediaWiki.org erhält ab 28 September neue Version von Mediawiki. Außer auf Wikipedia wird die Version ab 29 September auf allen Wikis verfügbar. Auf Wikipedia gibt es die Version ab 30 September (Kalender).
• "GettingStarted", eine Erweiterung für Neueinsteiger aus 2013, wird am 4. Oktober deaktiviert. Bitte verwendet die neuen Erweiterungen für Neueinsteiger (Growth-Features). [103]
• Ein altes Stammzertifikat läuft am 30. September ab. Benutzer die ihren Browser mehr als fünf Jahre nicht aktualisiert haben können möglicherweise nicht auf Wikimedia Seiten und andere Seiten im Internet zugreifen. Mehr Info gibts hier.
• Du erhältst eine Nachricht wenn jemand deinen Namen in einem Kommentar erwähnt. Ein Klick auf die Nachricht bringt dich nun zum entsprechenden Kommentar und markiert ihn. Mehr Info in T282029.

Künftige Änderungen

• Das Antwort-Werkzeug wird in den kommenden Wochen auf die verbleibenden Wikis verteilt. In den meisten Wikis ist es aktuell Teil von "Diskussions-Werkzeuge" in den Beta-Funktionen. Deaktivieren kann man es in Einstellungen-Bearbeiten. Hier eine Liste der Wikis. [104]

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00:20, 28. Sep. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-40

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org ab 5 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 6 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 7 Oktober (Kalender).
• Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [105]
• A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [106]
• Die JavaScript-Variablen wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars und wgIllegalFileChars werden bald aus mw.config entfernt werden. Sie gehören nicht zu den "stabilen" Variablen, die für die Verwendung in MediaWiki-JavaScript zur Verfügung stehen. [107]
• Die JavaScript-Variablen wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath und wgCookieExpiration werden bald aus mw.config entfernt. Scripte sollen stattdessen mw.cookie aus dem Modul "mediawiki.cookie" nutzen. [108]

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18:28, 4. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #488

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: BrokenSegue. Welcome onboard \o/

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-10-04, Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Stephanie Sapienza and Emily Frazier on Unlocking the airwaves, a digital archive project that compiles early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). Agenda with call link, October 5.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French, by Vigneron, October 5 at 18:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • New Wikidata Lexemes Challenge! Help to improve lexicographical data on Wikidata. This week's theme: Seasons.
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session logs (September 2021)
    • LD4 - video presentation start 05:00 Keepin 'N Sync... with wikidata ... and ORCID...and GBIF - slides by David Shorthouse
      • The Magnus list that was mentioned at 27:00 (please update list)
      • Ticket created related to problem mentioned with WD objects getting deleted - T291659
    • 2021-09-30, Talk "COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard" at Seminar Pekanan IR-NLP — slides in English, video in Indonesian (source)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • What can querying Wikidata do for me?
    • https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/01/synchronising-wikidata-and-wikipedia-an-outreachy-project/
  • Papers: Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: The case of Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata for beginners Part. 1 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
• ItemSubjector is Python console tool that helps add main subject (P921) to groups of items in a semi-automatic way.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
  • You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
  • Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL, number of evacuated, template populates category, number of tries marked, madhhab
    • External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru person ID, Kallías ID, Convict Records of Australia ID, Croatian Language Portal identifier, Issuu ID, Flipboard ID, Umění pro město ID, BBC Food ID, Baijiahao ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts institution ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts object ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Zenodo communities ID, XXI Secolo ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Postimees topic ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID, original description, Bowers acronym, mul label property, stylized name
    • External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS), IRIS Sapienza author ID, AFNIL publisher ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, TMOK ID, Kastra ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Österreichischer Fußball-Bund ID, MYmovies-Personenkennung, IGI Global Dictionary ID, L'Unificazione ID, EMBO member ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women born in Nigeria with an article in Basque for Listeria (Source)
    • Still life paintings by women (Source)
    • Map of cemeteries in New Zealand (Source)
    • Right Livelihood Award laureates (Source)
    • Chelsea FC players, with English Wikipedia article, Commons image, etc (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks: P22 (father) (works again)

• Development
  • Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (phab:T291377)
  • Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
  • Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (phab:T289473)
  • Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:35, 4. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-41

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 12 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 13 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 14 Oktober (Kalender).

• The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Treffen

• You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.

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17:28, 11. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #489

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
    • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #83, October 17
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #11, Perception and Senses

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata in African Language Communities
    • Media art on Wikipedia wants to make collections and metadata more accessible (in Dutch)
  • Papers
    • Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Scripts and gadgets in Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Coupling Wikipedia Categories with Wikidata Statements for Better Semantics - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Neguess is a Wikidata entity guessing game with negative clues. (demo video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
  • You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
  • Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
  • Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!
  • The WMF Search team will begin data transfer for the new Streaming Updater today (11 Oct 2021).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dissertation program, date of probate
    • External identifiers: Densho Encyclopedia ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, DWDS lemma ID, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID, Database of Czech Amateur Theater person ID, WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: registration number, present in non-fictional work, NIK (Nomor Induk Kependudukan), reports to, excitation energy, merger, split-off, choreography for
    • External identifiers: AllSides ID, Apple maps id, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, NLI archive ID, CANTIC ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Chi era Costui - Plaque ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, Apple Music track ID
  • Query examples:
    • Share of women for each Nobel prize (source)
    • Nobel Prize statistics on number of recipients for award wrt. gender (interactive plot) (source)
    • Share of women among Nobel prize winners by decade
    • Notable books on linked data, semantic technologies, and semantic knowledge graphs (source)
    • Benelux railway stations connected from Brussels-South railway station (Q800587) (source)
    • Date of opening and closing of railway stations in Denmark (Source)
    • Map or Talaiotic archeological culture sites located in the Menorca island in Spain (source)
    • Location of all the meteorological stations in Navarre (source)
    • Photos of participants in the Pandora Papers (source)
    • Diameter, size and mass of balls (source)
    • French departments with their shape
    • Longest rivers located in France and which did not gave their name to a department (source)
    • Statues measuring more than 30 m in height (excluding the pedestal) (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
  • Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (phab:T289473)
  • Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (phab:T285758)
  • Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (phab:T292203)
  • Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (phab:T289417)
  • Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.

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 GLAM: September 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IX, September 2021

Headlines

Albania report: Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign Argentina report: New parnership agreements and more training! Australia report: Preserving paralympic history Belgium report: Wikimedia Belgium GLAM report September 2021 Brazil report: WikidataCon's right around the corner: find out how to participate France report: Wikidata training in Musée de Grenoble Italy report: Call for Italian museums, archives and libraries Kosovo report: Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign Netherlands report: GLAM at WikiconNL2021, ISA-campaign Tag the species Naturalis en Rijksmuseum Serbia report: New WiR and presentation of our activities Spain report: Women Gastronomes Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Uploads from museums in Göteborg; Wiki Loves Monuments; LGBTQIA+ edit-a-thon UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections USA report: New page patrol not assuming good faith towards workshop editors Content Partnerships Hub report: Working towards a thematic hub on content partnerships Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: First steps for Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service WMF GLAM report: Updates on grant-funded technical projects Calendar: October's GLAM events

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WLB-Treffen

Hallo,

du erhälst diese Nachricht, da du als Teilnehmer oder Interessierter von Wiki Loves Broadcast eingetrageb bist: Vom 4. bis zum 7. November findet das nächste Treffen statt. Dabei treffen wir uns am 5. November mit dem ZDF und nach aktueller Planung mit weiteren Vertretern des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks am 6. November. Wärst du denn beim Treffen dabei? Dann trag dich bitte in die Teilnehmenden-Liste ein. Vor Ort sind noch wenige Plätze verfügbar. Aber auch digital kannst du gerne dabei sein. Viele Grüße, --Wikiolo (D) 12:32, 15. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #490

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments
    • Frequency of YouTube follower count data
    • Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh). [109], Oct 19th.
    • WikiProject Govdirectory Collab Hour, October 22
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook, October 23 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84, October 24
    • IT Festival Without Borders from 21 to 23 October 2021 in Rovereto - There will be a Wikidata for SPARQL queries workshop for high school and university students.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #12, Health professions
    • #12MonthsofOSM, mapping historical features

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Introduction to Observablehq.com for Wikidata users in French (Introduction à Observable pour les utilisateurs de Wikidata)
    • Learning to edit Wikidata is challenging; we aim to make it easier with this interactive course
    • Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art? by Martin Poulter
    • Digital scholarship in archives: A data case study
  • Papers
    • Accepted papers for the Wikidata Workshop at ISWC have been published: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/
    • Detecting Cross-Language Plagiarism using Open Knowledge Graphs
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Scripts and gadgets (in French) - YouTube
    • Import RDF data from Wikidata (part 11) - YouTube
    • New introductory working hour on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Building Wikidata - Queries with Wikidata Query Service (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Building Wikidata - Databases and Open Refine (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • How to retrieve the list of works by Canadian authors available on Wikisource? (in French) - YouTube
  • Other:
    • Research project: How can museums improve the usability of collection APIs?

• Tool of the week
  • Snowman is a static site generator for SPARQL backend (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
  • Sina Ahmadi has released a SPARQL query generator for lexicographical data
  • Wikidata reached the 10000th numbered property, with the creation of P10000 Research Vocabularies Australia. (There are currently 9285 pages in the Property namespace.)
  • Wikidata now has over 600,000 Lexemes!
  • Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
  • The 3^rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27^th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, predicate for, has thematic relation, illustrative content, ITU radio emission designation, isotopically modified form of, stylized name, record number, excitation energy
    • External identifiers: WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (Web version), RAWG game ID, TMOK ID, Vokrug sveta article, copyright registration, Eneström Number, NRK TV ID, NLI Archive (bibliographic) ID, L'Unificazione ID, IGI Global Dictionary ID, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, CANTIC ID, EMBO member ID, NDL earlier law ID, AbandonSocios ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: merger, split-off, choreography for, classification, compartmentalisation, or information category for this document, Hotel rating, NatureScot Sitelink ID, pole positions, podium finishes, StopGame ID, fastest laps, Amends, heading, Conway polyhedron notation
    • External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Apple Music track ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Nynorskordboka-ID, Birdata ID, IRIS Superior Graduate Schools IDs, Australian Trade Mark Number, Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, FFCAM ID, TVSA ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID, NSW Parliament Member ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID, KPU Calon 2019, Monaco Nature Encyclopedia ID, Refuges.info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, Norgeshistorie ID, AHPRA registration number, PubCRIS product number, Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, SNSF person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of written works authored by recent Nobel laureate Joshua Angrist (via d:Template:Item documentation on d:Talk:Q921499)
    • Books by Canadian authors with a Wikisource page (Source)
    • Repetitive taxon names (Source)
    • Count of sitelinks of museums/tourist attractions in the US (Source)
    • Map of French communes that are >30 characters long (Source)
    • Lexemes in Swedish that are missing in Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (Q1935308) (Source)
    • Attendance at the Bargoin, Roger-Quilliot and Henri-Lecoq museums per year (Source)
    • Present and past members of Czech Chamber of Deputies who are relatives (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
  • In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:50, 18. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-42

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Toolhub ist ein Katalog, der es einfacher macht, Software-Tools für das Bearbeiten der Wikimedia-Projekte zu finden. Du kannst mehr dazu lesen.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 19 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 20 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 21 Oktober (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
• 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
• Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

Tech-News, erstellt von Tech-News-Autoren und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Feedback geben • Abonnement verwalten.

22:52, 18. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Umfrage Technische Wünsche: Jetzt Themenschwerpunkte vorschlagen (bis 14. November)

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Hallo! Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter der Technischen Wünsche abonniert hast.

Ein wichtiger Meilenstein im Projekt steht bevor: Die nächste Umfrage Technische Wünsche findet im Januar statt, und die Vorbereitungen sind schon jetzt in vollem Gange. Auch im Januar wird wieder ein Themenschwerpunkt gewählt, in dem das Team Technische Wünsche dann – zusammen mit den Wiki-Communitys – etwa zwei Jahre lang technische Verbesserungen umsetzen wird.

Dies ist die erste von mehreren Nachrichten, die zu diesem Thema hier herein flattern werden, denn es wird verschiedene Schritte geben, in denen man sich an der Umfrage beteiligen kann.

Die wichtigsten Meilensteine auf dem Weg zur Ermittlung des nächsten Themenschwerpunkts:

• bis 14. November: Themen oder Probleme vorschlagen
• 6. bis 19. Dezember: Zur Wahl stehende Themenschwerpunkte kommentieren
• Feiertage und Puffer für Anpassungen
• 24. Januar bis 6. Februar: Die Umfrage Technische Wünsche findet statt – es kann abgestimmt werden

Jetzt geht es also erstmal darum, Input für die Themenschwerpunkte zu geben, die im Januar zur Wahl stehen sollen:

Fällt dir ein Themenbereich ein, in dem es mehrere Probleme gibt, die dringend mal technisch angegangen werden sollten? Dann trag ihn bis zum 14. November auf dem Wunschparkplatz ein. Es reicht, wenn du das Thema allgemein beschreibst, ergänzt um 2-3 konkrete Probleme aus Anwendersicht. In der Vergangenheit lauteten die Themenbereiche beispielsweise „Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten“ (Gewinnerthema der Umfrage 2019) und „Bessere Unterstützung für Geoinformationen“ (2020). Falls du ein konkretes technisches Problem hast und nicht weißt, zu welchem größeren Thema es passen würde, kannst du es ebenfalls auf dem Wunschparkplatz notieren und das Team Technische Wünsche schaut dann, wozu es passt.

Die weiteren Schritte sowie weitere Infos zur Umfrage 2022 finden sich auf der Umfrageseite. Auf der dortigen Diskussionsseite sind Fragen und Anregungen willkommen. -- Für das Projekt Technische Wünsche: Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 13:37, 25. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #491

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • WikidataCon is happening this week! Don’t forget to register if you want to attend!
    • ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (register on meetup)
    • WikidataCon Bioblitz (During WikidataCon)
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #13, Death
  • Past:
    • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour log (2021-10-20)
    • Wikiarabia Algeria 2021: Wikibase Presentation - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Georgina Burnett
    • Talk at Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Mathematics In Wikidata
    • LibreOffice Conference 2021 - Enhancing a spellcheck dictionary by Wikidata Lexemes
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network: Wikipedia podcast section #152 - Wikidata + Wikipedia: fact templates (in Swedish)
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Buggregator
    • AutoDesc Reloaded by Magnus Manske
    • Awesome Wikidata notebooks
    • Close to the Edge - Graph Databases through 1970s Prog Rock
  • Videos
    • How to upload Australian Faunal Directory IDs to Wikidata using OpenRefine. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
    • PhysWikiQuiz - a Physics Formula Question Generation and Test Engine using Wikidata in Education - YouTube
    • Timelapse of churches in the Americas (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
    • UseAsRef 2.0 - adding references using external IDs and other statements on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Addressing the gender gap - Wikidata and SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
    • Understanding Wikidata: a free and open knowledge base (in French) - YouTube
    • WikidataTutorial: Learn how to edit / create items on Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
    • Linked Data and Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
  • The 3^rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27^th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: stylized name, record number, excitation energy
    • External identifiers: Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, AllSides ID, Birdata ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, IRIS GSSI author ID, IRIS IUSS author ID, SISSA Digital Library author ID, NSW Parliament member ID, SNSF person ID, FFCAM ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Conway polyhedron notation, Nombre de voies routières, Museu da Pessoa Story, Official forum, Properties for legislation, Stack Exchange user ID
    • External identifiers: Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, Meetup group id, UAE ID, Tennis Abstract player ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, SoccerPunter player ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, pfl.uz player ID, ua-football.com player ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Snob.ru author ID, TASS Encyclopedia ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, DFIH financier ID, DFIH business ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, IndexCat ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Penza Encyclopedia ID, SEKO-ID, Musées Nationaux Récupération ID, Women in the Legislature ID, Dissernet person ID, Dissernet institution ID, Dissernet journal ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Vokrug.tv show ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of mosques (Source)
    • Documents from the Boyer collection by decades, subjects most represented (Source)
    • Pronouns of people in different languages (Source)
    • Twitter accounts of libraries in Switzerland (Source)
    • Images of cell types in Wikidata (Source)
    • Map of the place of death of people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
    • Graph of NFDI consortia with their fields of work, the map of (co-)applicants, (Source)
    • Places where people in South-America work who published on Wikidata (Source)
    • Rail link between Narvik and Singapore (Source)

• Development
  • The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
  • Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
  • Preparing for WikidataCon.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:31, 25. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-43

Neuigkeiten aus der technischen Wikimediagemeinschaft. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Änderungen. Keine Sorge, die Änderungen werden nicht jeden betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Für den Coolest Tool Award 2021 werden Nominierungen gesucht. Werkzeuge können bis zum 27. Oktober vorgeschlagen werden.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 26 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 27 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 28 Oktober (Kalender).

Künftige Änderungen

• Diff-Seiten bekommen eine verbesserte Copypaste-Funktion. Die Änderungen werden es ermöglichen, dass der Text im Diff für Vorher und Nachher wie separate Spalten behandelt wird und ungewollte Syntax entfernt wird. [110]
• Die Version der Liberation-Schriftarten, die in SVG-Dateien benutzt wird, wird verbessert. Nur neue Bildvorschauen werden betroffen sein. Liberation Sans Narrow bleibt unverändert. [111]

Treffen

• Man kann jetzt einem Treffen zur Community Wunschlisten-Umfrage beitreten. Neuigkeiten zur Begriffsklärung und die Wünsche der Echtzeit-Vorschau werden gezeigt. Die Veranstaltung findet am Mittwoch, dem 27. Oktober um 14:30 UTC statt. Informationen zur Teilnahme.

Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.

22:06, 25. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Technische Wünsche: Mach mit bei der Befragung zur Syntaxhervorhebung

Hallo, du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter Technische Wünsche abonniert hast.

Das Team der Technischen Wünsche hat in diesem Jahr im Rahmen des Themenschwerpunktes „Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten“ mehrere Verbesserungen an der Syntaxhervorhebung umgesetzt. In einer kurzen Befragung möchte das Team dich nach deiner Erfahrung mit den Änderungen der Syntaxhervorhebung beim Editieren von Wikitext fragen. Die Befragung ist ab sofort eröffnet und das Team freut sich über rege Teilnahme.  

Syntaxhervorhebung ermöglicht, unterschiedliche Elemente farbig und anderweitig unterschiedlich darzustellen und verbessert damit die Lesbarkeit von Wikitext. Die Syntaxhervorhebung der Erweiterung CodeMirror kann sowohl in der Quelltextbearbeitung (Editor 2010) als auch in der VisualEditor-Quelltextbearbeitung (Editor 2017) aktiviert werden.

Folgende Änderungen hat das Team Technische Wünsche in diesem Jahr umgesetzt:

• Zusammengehörige Klammerpaare wurden durch eine hellgrauen Hintergrund hervorgehoben und können so besser gefunden werden. Bereitgestellt seit Januar auf einigen ersten Wikis, weitere Wikis folgen in den nächsten Monaten. [1]
• Farben der Syntaxhervorhebung wurden leicht angepasst, sodass sie höhere Kontraste bieten und besser lesbar sind. Seit März bereitgestellt auf einigen ersten Wikis, weitere Wikis folgen in den nächsten Monaten. [2]
• Neue Zeilennummerierung am linken Rand, die Zeilenumbrüche besser erkennbar macht und hilft, sich in Diskussionen auf eine bestimmte Zeile zu beziehen. Seit April bereitgestellt im Vorlagennamensraum auf allen Wikis, die Syntaxhervorhebung (CodeMirror) nutzen, und seit September in allen anderen Namensräumen auf einigen ersten Wikis. [3]

Die Befragung dauert etwa 3 Minuten und hilft dem Entwicklungsteam zu erfahren, wie die Erfahrung mit der verbesserten Syntaxhervorhebung ist und, nicht zuletzt, wo Bedarf nach Nachbesserungen besteht. Auch weniger technisch erfahrene Bearbeitende sind gefragt bei der Befragung mitzumachen. Die Befragung ist anonym und läuft bis zum 14. November. Es werden keine persönlichen Daten erhoben und der Umgang mit Daten ist DSGVO-konform.

Vielen Dank für deine Hilfe! --MediaWiki message delivery (Diskussion) 16:49, 28. Okt. 2021 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #492

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: handling of data objects for pages in the project namespace

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Sam Oyeyele will join us to discuss the AfroCine project. doc, Nov. 2nd.
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—November 3rd, 2021. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 09:00-10:00 PDT / 12:00-13:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #14, COP26
  • Past:
    • WikidataCon 2021 happened \o/
      • Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
      • Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
      • List of birthday presents
        • WikidataComplete gadget by Dhairya3124
        • Wikidata Subgraph Analysis by Aisha Khatun
        • UseAsRef 2.0 by Epìdosis
        • KGTK project by Pedro Szekely
        • Wikidata Map (series of updates of the all-coordinates-on-wikidata, made available at commons:Wikidata map) by Addshore
        • Special episode of Wikipediapodden with an interview with Denny about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions by Ainali
        • Lua access for Lexemes on beta by LydiaPintscher
        • Editathon documentation page by bunch of lovely glam professionals
        • Learn wikidata course by Clifford Anderson and co
        • Wikxhibit by Tarfah Alrashed
        • Integraality updates by Jean-Frédéric
        • iNaturalist BioBlitz by Pigsonthewing

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog post
    • Challenge A to Z 2021 (in French)
  • Papers
    • Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers about the Vorlage:Q <> Wikidata connection
    • (fr) Les libellés francophones genrés dans Wikidata (notebook Observablehq)
  • Videos
    • Working hour on preferences and common.js Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Semantic web tutorial # 3 | What is Wikidata? (in French) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries around Boyer collection of the Clermont Auvergne Métropole heritage library (in French) - YouTube
    • New Item creation (in Japanese) - YouTube
  • Research projects
    • Creating and evolving knowledge graphs at scale for explainable AI

• Tool of the week
  • Cemeteries.wiki by Yamen is a project to display Dataviz and statistics about cemeteries all over the world. (2021-11-01)
  • ... and remember you can propose a new tool or gadget!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: term in higher taxon, official forum
    • External identifiers: NatureScot Sitelink ID, Refuges.info ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, George Eastman Museum people ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, UAE University Libraries ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, Toolhub ID, Research Data Australia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: date of recording, Candidate position, MTBdata
    • External identifiers: Vokrug.tv person ID, Standing Waters Database ID, State Duma person ID, Federation Council person ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, FRACS profile ID, NER portfolio ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, SEEK company ID, Levels.fyi company ID, romaq.org ID, NWT Species ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Douyin User ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, ACE Repertory writer ID, Indonesian Hospital ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of French bridges and tunnels carrying an high-speed railway line
    • List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in French (ie using the generic as male form) (source)
    • List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in English (ie using the generic as male form)(source)
    • consorts of Selim III (source)
    • Coordinates of the birthplaces of people with family name Autrique (Source)
    • Coordinates of battles (Source)
    • Geographical distribution of votive boats historic monuments in France (Source)
    • Relationship among accepted NFDI consortia (Source)
  • Newest database reports: top missing property by number of identifiers: spouse (P26)

• Development
  • WikidataCon! \o/
  • Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
  • Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
  • Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
  • Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.

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: 2021-44

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Es gibt ein Limit für die Anzahl der E-Mails, die ein Benutzer pro Tag versenden kann. Dieses Limit wird nun global statt pro Wiki konfiguriert. Das soll Missbrauch verhindern. [112]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 2 November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 3 November. Auf allen Wikis ab 4 November (Kalender).

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21:26, 1. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #493

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, November 9 at 18:00 CET
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #61 - YouTube, Facebook, November 13 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #86, November 14 at 13.00 UTC
    • Wikidata webinar at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Greek). Nov 8, 2021 17:00 UTC+1
    • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour! Monday 15 November 2021, 3PM - 4PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration: Zoom registration link
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #15, COP26 (2/2)
  • Past
    • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
    • Wikidata SPARQL tutorial around the Saint-Brieuc museum (in French)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Media
    • User:Theklan at Vorlage:Q: Wikidata: una base de datos editable, multilingüe, libre y con datos de todo conocimiento (Spanish)
  • Blogs
    • TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1 , Part 2
    • With help of their prof, U of T students go from being Wikidata novices to international conference presenters
    • Crowdsourcing the Scene at the Boston Rock City Edit-a-Thon
  • Videos
    • Basic tutorial on how to improve Wikidata items (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Metadata of cultural institutes: import strategies on Wikidata in the case of the Tuscany Region (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB - YouTube
    • Using Wikidata entities and properties in schema.org markup and linked data - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • are occupation labels gender neutral? a tool to explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages.
  • RAWGraphs, a dataviz tool which allows SPARQL queries (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
  • OpenRefine 3.5.0 was released

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Museu da Pessoa History, Conway polyhedron notation
    • External identifiers: Tennis Abstract player ID, Women in the Legislature ID, StopGame ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Biografija.ru ID, Derrieux agency person ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, Penza Encyclopedia ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, Musées Nationaux Recuperation ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Nynorskordboka-ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Indonesian parliament candidate ID 2019, Trove work ID, Vokrug.tv show ID, Apple maps ID, Federation Council person ID, Meetup group id, Glitchwave genre ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: original catalog description, Kanobu ID, Yandex.Question person ID, 発車メロディ
    • External identifiers: Listen Notes podcast ID, WhatsApp number, CNKI Journal ID, Baidu Scholar Journal ID, AllHomes research location ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Coles Online product ID, Woolworths product ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, NVE Bre ID, Databáze-her.cz ID, FederalPress Encyclopedia ID, babesdirectory, DHAC ID, Naver TV ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, live.ijf competition ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, The-Sports.org competition ID, StarHit ID, Nasha Versia ID, LocalWiki ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Comparably company ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Chemical ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of virtual twins (pair with the same dates of birth and death) in Wikidata (source)
    • People recently buried in a cemetery nearby without an image of the grave (P1442) on Wikidata (source)
    • List of lexemes in French associated with occupation items (source)
    • Towns with less than 1000 people that have a cathedral (Source)
    • Musical works based on literary works (Source)
    • Main surnames of people born in the Puy-de-Dôme, France (Source)
    • Members of the Ukrainian national sports team (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
  • We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (phab:T275251)
  • We have put a version of WBStack on wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the coming weeks.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:32, 8. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-45

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen auch alle.

Letzte Änderungen

• Autoren mit mobiler IP können ab sofort Warnhinweise dafür bekommen, dass sie auf einer Diskussionsseite auf der mobilen Seite eine Nachricht bekommen haben (ähnlich zu den orangenen Bannern am Computer). Diese Hinweise werden auf jeder Seite außerhalb des Haupt-Namespaces angezeigt und jedes Mal, wenn ein Nutzer eine Bearbeitung vornimmt. Der Hinweis am Computer hat jetzt eine etwas andere Farbe bekommen. [113][114]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Wikidata wird einige Minuten lang im Lesemodus sein am 11. November. Das geschieht etwa um 06:00 UTC und dient der Datenbankpflege. [115]
• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Künftige Änderungen

• In Zukunft wird unregistrierten Autoren eine Identität zugeordnet, die nicht ihrer IP-Adresse entspricht. Anlass dafür sind rechtliche Gründe. Ein neues Benutzerrecht erlaubt es Autoren, die die IPs unregistrierter Konten erfahren müssen, um Vandalismus, Spam und Störungen zu bekämpfen, die IP zu sehen. Vorschläge zur Funktionsweise der Identität und Austausch auf der Diskussionsseite.

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21:34, 8. Nov. 2021 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: October 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue X, October 2021

Headlines

Australia report: Open access as Australia reopens Belgium report: Wikimedia Belgium GLAM report October 2021 Estonia report: Wikipedia Art Month + Heritage Days Italy report: Collaborations and partnership Netherlands report: How Wikipedia helped to create a Serbian stamp; Many GLAM-related presentations planned at WikiconNL New Zealand report: Outreach by members of the Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia User Group Nigeria report: Wikidata for Libraries and notable Librarians in Nigeria Serbia report: A good start to GLAM Fall Spain report: Women Writers Month Sweden report: The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk; More museum data on Wikidata; LGBT edit-a-thon; Local business history in Nyköping; Stockholm City Museum ♥ Wikipedia; Writing about fashion at Nordiska museet UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections USA report: Wikiconference North America + Workshops Content Partnerships Hub report: Needs assessment interviews; Cultural heritage on Wikidata – thousands of monuments in Norway; Structured Data uploads continue Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: A Wikimedia Commons Reconciliation Service, You Say? WMF GLAM report: GLAM office hours, GLAM newsletter moving to Meta-wiki, and more Calendar: November's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #494

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Create massive changes in one property for spesific categories/properties?

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Bug Triage Hour on API issues. Monday 15th November at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones) (Etherpad)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Éder Porto will be discussing adding journal articles to Wikidata Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project/Chapter 17. doc, Nov. 16th.
    • Open Source Publishing Tools in Wikidata, 16 November 2021. Part of the Open Publishing Fest.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #62 - YouTube, Facebook, November 20 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #87, November 21 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #16, Books
  • Past
    • Introduction to Wikidata: GWMAB con IAML Italia replay (in Italian)
    • WikiData4Education_Aligning the sum of all knowledge with school curricula, WikiIndaba (replay)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
    • Own metadata for own blog posts - science communication and bibliographies with open data and Wikidata
    • How we're tracking elections in symbiosis with Wikidata
    • Recent updates and improvements to Wikidata Query Service
      • How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow
      • The trouble with triples
      • Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF
  • Videos
    • Fuzheado and T Cells to demonstrate how to discover, track and work with sets of Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata Introduction course (in German) - 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Wikidata in Educational Institutions / Academic research at Wikimedia Polska / Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
  • Podcasts
    • Siobhan Leachman - Wikimedia Editor and Citizen Scientist

• Tool of the week
  • Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
  • What kind of articles have you created? an Observable notebook which use Wikidata API to get the value of P31 for the list of articles created by a user.
  • OpenRefine is hiring a part-time Project director (paid position).
  • Hewell public beta app: is a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your hometown.
  • Full Fact is using the MediaWiki Action API in their workflow to help add some Wikidata identifiers to their mark-up.
  • Magnus replaced some live SPARQL queries in Mix’n’match with a database cache. Main page now loads faster.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, Standing Waters Database ID, Vokrug.tv person ID, Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Philosophica ID, Castforward ID, Baidu Scholar journal ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Tabakalera ID, mathematical symbol, included as part, specific impulse by weight, Newgrounds username
    • External identifiers: 7 Days person ID, DBLP event ID, Osmose Agency person ID, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, IRIS Umbria IDs, biografiA ID, Global Geoparks Network ID (new), identifiant Numelyo
  • Query examples:
    • List of properties which have instances or subclass of humans as possible value with male and female form in French (source)
    • Different people with same label / birthday / occupation in a specified year
    • Narrative locations of the book Itinerary from Paris to Mont-d'Or (Source)
    • Maps of tombs of unknown soldiers (Source)
    • Most common first names (> 5) among people with a Wikidata item and born in Auvergne (Source)
    • Student-Teacher relationship based on entries in 'Das Geistige Berlin' (1897) (Source)
    • Relative frequency of reasons MPs' terms end, since 1870 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: recently ended TV series

• Development
  • The language codes agq (Aghem, T288335) and mcn (Massa, T293884) are now supported.
  • Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
  • Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
  • Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
  • Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:35, 15. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-46

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die meisten Fehler bei Uploads großer Dateien, bei denen es Fehlermeldungen wie "stashfailed" oder "DBQueryError" gab, wurden behoben. Ein Vorfallsbericht ist verfügbar.

Probleme

• Manchmal werden bei Bearbeitungen über den Visual Editor auf iOS aufgrund einer Funktion des Betriebssystems Zahlengruppen als Links auf Telefonnummern gespeichert. Dieses Problem wird untersucht. [116]
• Letzte Woche gab es ein Problem mit der Suche. Zwei Stunden lang haben aufgrund eines Konfigurationsfehlers viele Suchanfragen nicht funktioniert. [117]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 16. November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 17. November. Auf allen Wikis ab 18. November (Kalender).

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23:05, 15. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #495

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Wikidata:Requests for comment/How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ?

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
    • Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
    • ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
  • Past
    • Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Using Wikidata to promote epistemic equity
    • How Penn's Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better
  • Videos
    • How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
    • Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
    • ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase team.
  • Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
  • This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
  • A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
  • The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
  • [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: train melody
    • External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
    • External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
    • Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
    • Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
    • UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
    • Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
    • Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
    • Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
    • Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)

• Development
  • Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
  • Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
  • The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
  • Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:59, 22. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-47

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
• Der Vorlagendialog im VisualEditor und in der Beta-Funktion Neuer Wikitext-Modus wird in ein paar Wikis stark verbessert. Rückmeldungen dazu sind erwünscht.

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21:00, 22. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Technische Wünsche: Grundlegende Verbesserung des Vorlagen-Dialogs kommt in Kürze

Hallo, du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du in der Umfrage Technische Wünsche 2019 für den Themenschwerpunkt „Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten“ abgestimmt hast. Danke dafür! In Kürze wird das letzte und umfangreichste Projekt in diesem Themenschwerpunkt umgesetzt.

Der Vorlagen-Dialog im VisualEditor und Wikitext Editor 2017 wird grundlegend verbessert: Die sichtbarste Neuerung ist die Seitenleiste, die nun auf einen Blick darstellt, welche Parameter für eine Vorlage zur Verfügung stehen. Zuweisen und entfernen lassen sich Parameter jetzt bequem über Auswahlkästchen, und beim Finden des richtigen Parameters unterstützt eine Suchmaske. Nicht zuletzt kann man über die Parameternamen in der Seitenleiste auf die entsprechenden Felder im Hauptdialog springen und so Zeit sparen. Genauer sind alle Änderungen auf der Projektseite beschrieben.

Voraussichtlich am 24. November werden diese verschiedenen kleinen und großen Änderungen nun auf mehreren Wikis, einschließlich der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia, bereitgestellt. Wie immer würde sich das Projektteam über Rückmeldungen auf der Diskussionsseite dieses Projekts freuen. -- Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 12:48, 24. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #496

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

• Discussions
  • Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
    • Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session log, month of November 2021
    • Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata (in Swedish)
    • Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
    • (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
    • Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
  • Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
    • External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
    • External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
    • Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
    • Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
    • List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
    • Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
    • List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
    • Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
    • List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
    • Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
    • Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
    • Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
    • List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
    • Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
  • Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
  • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:54, 29. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-48

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 30 November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 1 Dezember. Auf allen Wikis ab 2 Dezember (Kalender).

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22:13, 29. Nov. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #497

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #90, December 12 at 13.00 UTC
    • Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, December 7 at 18:00 CET

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in the English Wikipedia
    • Bringing together journalists, the public, and Wikidata to understand our world
    • Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in Wikipedia in French
    • Reflection on filling a new Wikidata item by Addshore
  • Papers
    • "Knowledge Based Multilingual Language Model" Using the Wikidata to build the language models that not only memorize the factual knowledge but also learn useful logical patterns. (Liu et al, 2021)
  • Videos
    • Summary of Transbordados, the pre-WikidataCon conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese)

• Tool of the week
  • Weaviate big graph (source) is a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
    • Wikibase Installation Survey
    • Wikibase Software Updating Survey
  • The new Wikimedia Research Fund is live now. It can fund research projects related to Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: specific impulse by weight
    • External identifiers: FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, OùVoir.Ça ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub ID, SensCritique work ID, Snob.ru author ID, IRIS POLIBA author ID, Re.Public@Polimi author ID, PORTO@Iris author ID, IRIS UNIVPM author ID, Sceneweb organization ID, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, Apple Music track ID, AbeBooks ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista, Numista coin ID, lieu de disparition
    • External identifiers: Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Lingua Libre ID, Express Gazeta person ID, bards.ru person ID, PGM author ID, Deutsches Zeitungsportal ID, Index of Middle English Verse ID, ICCROM authority ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, ThENC@ thesis ID, Baidu Baike LemmaID, Indonesian College Code, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Museum of the Great Patriotic War encyclopedia ID, iTunes genre, CYT, Folketinget actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Ruskino actor ID, Pandora album ID, Pandora track ID, Swiss National Library ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, Athens Academy authority ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of laureates of the women's Ballon d'or (source)
    • List of people born in Cook Islands (source)
    • Wordcloud articles without statements of MyLang Wikipedia (switch to "Table" view to list, at left border of screen)
    • Artworks picturing snow (source)
    • Graph of football players who died per year (source)
    • Things depicted in art works of the Khalili Collections (source)
    • People represented on the painting "Le Sacre de Napoléon" from 1804 by Jacques-Louis David (source)
    • German cities whose names are also verbs (using Lexemes) (source)
    • Railway stations in the Baltics (source, see the full thread for more queries)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued polishing for the first version. Improving the texts and adding loading state. Incorporating feedback from testing.
  • Continued migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
  • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • Finished work on small tool to show Items recently edited by several accounts to surface current events.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:48, 6. Dez. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-49

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 sollte in der letzten Woche in einigen Wikis eingeführt werden. Die Einführung hat sich aufgrund unerwarteter Probleme verzögert.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 7 Dezember verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 8 Dezember. Auf allen Wikis ab 9 Dezember (Kalender).
• In allen Wikipedias ist nun unter Special:MentorDashboard eine Lotsen-Verwaltungsseite verfügbar. Sie ermöglicht es registrierten Lotsen, die Neulinge bei ihren ersten Schritten begleiten, die Aktivität der ihnen zugewiesenen Neulinge zu verfolgen. Sie ist Teil der Growth-Funktionen. Du kannst mehr darüber erfahren, wie man in deinem Wiki die Lotsen-Liste aktiviert, sowie über das Projekt Lotsen-Verwaltungsseite.
• Der Vorgänger der aktuellen MediaWiki Action API (die 2008 erstellt wurde), action=ajax, wird in dieser Woche entfernt. Alle Skripte oder Bots, die ihn nutzen, müssen auf das entsprechende API-Modul wechseln. [118]
• Ein altes ResourceLoader-Modul, jquery.jStorage, das seit 2016 veraltet ist, wird in dieser Woche entfernt. Alle Skripte oder Bots, die es nutzen, müssen stattdessen auf mediawiki.storage wechseln. [119]

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22:57, 6. Dez. 2021 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: November 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue XI, November 2021

Headlines

From the team: Migration from Outreach to Meta: your opinion is needed France report: Study day on open content; Open content GLAM report India report: Second proofread competition ended on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library Italy report: Traing course and conference in November Serbia report: GLAMorous November Sweden report: Art, design and history from the museums of Göteborg; Maps in the National Archives of Sweden UK report: Khalili Collections Ukraine report: Aricle contest for librarians «Local cultural heritage and prominent people» USA report: Smithsonian demos new Wiki API Connector tool and other meetups Content Partnerships Hub report: We continue building for the hub; SDC for fun and profit: detecting bad coordinates; Needs assessment – video recorded interviews; Improving ISA WMF GLAM report: Wikisource birthday celebration, Community Tech Wishlist, and upcoming conversation about courses for GLAM professionals Calendar: December's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #498

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

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking (schema.org/ Full Fact)
    • Most liked Wikidata tweets (addshore)
    • Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021 (addshore)
  • Papers
    • Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
    • "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool

• Tool of the week
  • Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL
  • embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blazegraph failure playbook now available
  • Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries
  • When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol, protective marking, recording date
    • External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID, Indonesian Hospital ID, Music of Armenia ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, World of Shakespeare ID, AllHomes research location ID, Australian Trade Mark Number, Harvard Art Museums ID, BookDepository publisher ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, German Newspaper Portal ID, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Dissernet journal ID, Dissernet person ID, centrasia.org person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, Pandora track ID, Nintendo64EVER ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: alphabetical index, International Standard Content Number ISCN, Number of likes, homophone form, Roovet Sound
    • External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID, Famitsu game ID, JSTOR artwork ID, NYPL Copyright Entries, Kinomania.ru film ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), Irish Times Profile ID, All About Birds ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, f6s id, IRIS Marche IDs, Viber group ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, AAGM Artwork ID, Muz-TV ID, MTV Russia ID
  • Query examples:
    • French departments with more population than all their neighbour departements (source)
    • Map of places names after horses (source)
    • Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
    • Map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cities

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
  • Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (phab:T294637, phab:T294159)
  • Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:19, 13. Dez. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-50

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Es gibt nun standardmäßig Kurz-Aliasse für den "Project:"-Namensraum in den meisten Wikis. So leitet in Wikibooks-Wikis [[WB:]] auf den lokalen Standardnamen für den [[Project:]]-Namensraum weiter. Diese Änderung soll es kleineren Gemeinschaften erleichtern, einfach auf diese Funktion zuzugreifen. Zusätzliche lokale Aliasse können weiterhin über das übliche Verfahren beantragt werden. [120]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 14 Dezember verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 15 Dezember. Auf allen Wikis ab 16 Dezember (Kalender).

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23:25, 13. Dez. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #499

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories
  • Other:
    • SPARQL query service (SDC) mandatory authentication considered harmful

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #21, Celebration
  • Past:
    • EduWiki Live on the theme of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization. (replay)
    • Wikidata workshop (in Italian) (replay)
    • Semantic Web in Libraries: SWIB21 (replay)
      • From string to thing: Wikidata based query expansion
      • Representing the Luxembourg Shared Authority File based on CIDOC-CRM in Wikibase

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata user and project talk page connection graph
    • Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia
    • Integrating the PM20 companies archive: part 3 of the data donation to Wikidata
    • Parliamentary debates are made more transparent and accessible with Wikidata
    • A parliamentary document says more than a thousand words (in Swedish)
    • The Longest Serving MP in Sweden
    • "With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon. "To help overcome this challenge, researchers use several sources of commonplace knowledge like Wikidata to obtain a “reasoned” AI response."
  • Papers
    • A botanical demonstration of the potential of linking data using unique identifiers for people
    • Survey on English Entity Linking on Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Tutorial for Wikidata Mix'n'Match tool for database pairing (in Czech) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries on Wikidata - basic level (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Presentation about the Wikidata community (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Advanced Course (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - YouTube
      • Introduction
      • Concept of Linked Open Data
      • SPARQL-Queries
      • Automatic data import
    • Querying Wikidata: Museums, Volcanoes (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Fundamentals (in French) by CAPACOA - YouTube
      • Triplets, licenses
      • Item, references and qualifiers, history tab
      • Creation of a user account. Creation of a new items
    • Wikidata Workshop: The basics by CAPACOA - YouTube
      • Wikimedia Foundation licenses, item, semantic triples
      • User creation
      • Searching and editing an item
    • Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate - YouTube
    • Creating items on Wikidata using OpenRefine (without sound — subtitles only) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • NoclaimsBot adds the first statements on items without claims based on templates used on the linked Wikipedia article.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
  • Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), currently in beta, will soon be in production with a planned General Availability date of 1 Feb 2022. See the Upcoming General Availability release discussion page for more details.
  • Seth started an essay to summarize the multiple data-related projects going on between Wikimedia Projects at the moment: User:Lectrician1/The grand mess of data on Wikimedia.
  • When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” by using “!Sxx” instead of “Sxx” syntax to start a new reference group.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
    • Wikibase Installation Survey
    • Wikibase Software Updating Survey
  • Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
    • Engineering Director
    • Full-Stack Developer

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: iTunes genre
    • External identifiers: Pandora album ID, Indonesian College Code, Institute of History of Ukraine ID, Academy of Athens authority ID, ThENC@ ID, CDAEM person ID, Famitsu game ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, Levels.fyi company ID, U-PAD author ID, CAMPUS author ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, iTunes genre ID, Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Category for work of subject, Honorary citizens category of entity, Kanobu numeric ID, cadastral district, official shop URL, website, documented files
    • External identifiers: street number in Austria, EU Whoiswho ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Österreichische Schulkennzahl, iCSO ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, Lur Encyclopedia ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, KSH code (historical), Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, WikiStrinda ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Film.ru film ID, Film.ru actor ID, Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID
  • Query examples:
    • Shijian (SJ 实践) experimental satellites (source)
    • Age of living Hawthorn FC players (source)
    • People died on their 50th birthday (Source)
    • Relationship between London School of Economics doctoral advisors and students (source)
    • Map of twinned towns (or partners) of municipalities of Puy-de-Dôme (source)
    • Map of the places named in reference the horse (source)
    • Map of bridges in Kaliningrad (source)
    • Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
    • Wikidata items which are the most linked by lexemes using the property “item for this sense” (source)
    • Actors in Christmas movies: by frequency, with film titles and sample film item (source)
    • Filming locations of Christmas movies, with film titles and sample film item (source)
    • Recent Christmas movies lacking filming location (source)

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:36, 20. Dez. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-51

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Technische Neuigkeiten

• Wegen der Feiertage wird die nächste Ausgabe der Technischen Neuigkeiten erst am 10. Januar 2022 verschickt.

Letzte Änderungen

• Abfragen der Erweiterung DynamicPageList (<DynamicPageList>) dürfen nun maximal 10 Sekunden dauern und schlagen fehl, wenn sie länger dauern. Dies ist eine Reaktion darauf, dass es in der Vergangenheit mehrere Ausfälle gab, bei denen lange dauernde Abfragen zu Ausfällen in allen Wikis geführt haben. [121]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche oder nächste Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Entwickler der Wikipedia-iOS-App suchen Tester für Bearbeitungen in unterschiedlichen Sprachen. Du kannst mehr lesen und sie wissen lassen, wenn du interessiert bist.
• Wikimedia Cloud VPS beherbergt technische Projekte für die Wikimedia-Bewegung. Entwickler müssen die Projekte beanspruchen, die sie nutzen. Dies liegt daran, dass alte und nicht genutzte Projekte einmal im Jahr entfernt werden. Nicht beanspruchte Projekte können ab Februar abgeschaltet werden. [122]

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23:04, 20. Dez. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #500

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

• Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
  • Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
  • “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
  • Q207742 is about the natural number 500
  • Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
  • The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
  • Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500
  • Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
    • Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year
  • Past:
    • Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
    • WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
      • Wikidata talks:
        • Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.
        • A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.
        • Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development
        • How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander
        • Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations
        • Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons
        • IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria
        • Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula
        • Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism
        • Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations
        • Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia
        • Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language
        • Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata
        • Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world
        • Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry
        • A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org
        • Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata
        • Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration
        • From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata
        • Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion
        • From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience
        • Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages
        • IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field
        • A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
        • Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America
        • Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern
        • Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education
        • Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata
        • Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata
        • Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata
        • The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention
        • Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata
        • Measuring and monitoring data quality
        • Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel
        • Integrating Wikidata into education
        • Integrating Wikidata into education
        • Wikidata in Australia showcase
        • Wikidata and R: a perfect pair
        • Writing schemas for Wikidata
        • Overview of ontology issues
        • Wikidata and OCCRP
      • Wikibase talks:
        • Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session
        • How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?
        • Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph
        • "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph
        • Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session
        • How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase
        • Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup
        • Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud
        • Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture
        • Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session
        • Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in
  • Papers
    • Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features
    • Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
  • Videos
    • SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - YouTube
    • How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu - YouTube
    • Alias names in Wikidata - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 now available.
  • If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
    • Wikibase Installation Survey
    • Wikibase Software Updating Survey
  • Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
    • Engineering Director
    • Full-Stack Developer

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: type host, CSS code
    • External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
    • External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon, (ordered by country) (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
    • UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP (source)
    • Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages (source)

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:27, 27. Dez. 2021 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #501

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ?
  • Videos
    • Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
  • Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
  • Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
    • External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
    • External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016
  • Query examples:
    • Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
    • Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
    • Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
    • Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
    • People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
    • Average height of people named Joe (Source)
    • Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:45, 3. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Schon mal vormerken: Vom 24.1. bis zum 6.2. findet die Umfrage Technische Wünsche statt

Frohes neues Jahr! Es gibt vieles, was man sich für 2022 wünschen kann: viele erfolgreiche Bearbeitungen, interessante Artikel, Gesundheit … und Verbesserungen an der Nutzbarkeit der Wikipedia und ihrer Schwesterprojekte!

In Kürze ist es nämlich wieder so weit: Vom 24. Januar bis zum 6. Februar findet die Umfrage Technische Wünsche statt. Es wird wieder darüber abgestimmt, in welchem Bereich das Team Technische Wünsche (WMDE) zwei Jahre lang, in engem Austausch mit den deutschsprachigen Communitys, für Verbesserungen sorgen wird.

Du bist wieder herzlich eingeladen, mitzumachen! Es stehen 16 Themenschwerpunkte zur Wahl. Neu ist in diesem Jahr, dass du angibst, welche fünf davon dir am wichtigsten sind. Das Konzept ist auf der Umfrageseite genauer beschrieben. Dort finden sich auch Antworten auf häufig gestellte Fragen und einiges mehr. Auf der Diskussionsseite sind außerdem Fragen und Anregungen sehr willkommen.

Wir würden uns freuen, wenn du ab dem 24. Januar wieder dabei bist und auch anderen davon erzählst. Technikkenntnisse oder viele Bearbeitungen sind ausdrücklich nicht nötig, um teilzunehmen. -- Für das Team Technische Wünsche, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 15:07, 6. Jan. 2022 (CET)

PS: Wenn du zu Beginn der Umfrage nochmal erinnert werden möchtest, kannst du mit dem folgenden Textschnipsel auf diese Nachricht antworten, und bekommst dann am 24. Januar eine Nachricht über das System:
{{ErinnerMich|24.1.2022}} Jetzt abstimmen in der Umfrage Technische Wünsche -- ~~~~

Wikidata weekly summary #502

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
  • New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. to local time!
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
    • The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
    • Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • An introduction to Observable for Wikidata users
    • 10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
  • Videos
    • Introduction to the interwiki links between Wikidata and Wikipedia (in French) - YouTube
    • Exploring Wikipedia infobox from Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
    • WIkimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
      • Implementing Wikidata in Educational Institutions — CEE Challenges and Opportunities - YouTube
      • Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
      • Wikidata automatization and integration with web resources - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
  • The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
    • if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
    • if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
  • New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
    • Product Manager Wikibase Suite
    • Working student in International Software Collaboration
  • Post WikidataCon 2021
    • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
    • Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
    • Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
    • External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
    • External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID
  • Query examples:
    • Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
    • Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
    • Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
    • Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
    • Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
    • Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
    • Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
    • World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
    • Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)

• Development
  • Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
  • Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
  • Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)

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.

• Looking back at 2021
  • Developments rolled out in 2021:
    • New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
    • Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
    • Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
    • Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
    • Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
    • Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
    • Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
  • New entities in 2021:
    • Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
    • Properties P9003 to P10223
    • Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:12, 10. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-02

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Eine "oauth_consumer"-Variable wurde zum AbuseFilter hinzugefügt, um die Identifizierung von Änderungen durch spezifische Werkzeuge zu aktivieren. [123]
• Helferlein (von der Gadgets-Erweiterung) sind nun fähig, JSON-Seiten direkt mit einzubeziehen. Dies bedeutet, dass Administratoren einige Helferlein konfigurieren können, ohne dass sie das Benutzeroberflächenadministratoren-Recht brauchen, wie es z.B. bei dem Geonotice-Helferlein der Fall ist. [124]
• Helferlein können nun Seitenaktionen vorgeben, auf denen sie verfügbar sind. Beispiel: |actions=edit,history wird nur ein Helferlein laden, während man editiert oder auf Versionsgeschichtenseiten ist. [125]
• Helferlein können nun auf Abfrage geladen werden mit dem "withgadget"-URL-Parameter. Dies kann man zum Ersetzen eines früheren Codefragmentes nutzen, welches überlicherweise so aussieht: withJS. Oder so: withCSS. [126]
• In Wikis, in denen das Lotsensystem konfiguriert ist, kannst du nun die Action API nutzen, um eine Liste der Mentees eines Lotsen zu erhalten. [127]
• Der Titel der Hauptseite kann nun über MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin für angemeldete Benutzer und über MediaWiki:Mainpage-title für unangemeldete Benutzer konfiguriert werden. Jedes CSS, das zuvor genutzt wurde, um den Titel zu verstecken, sollte entfernt werden. [128] [129]
• Vier Spezialseiten (und ihre API-Äquivalente) haben nun eine maximale Ausführungszeit für die Datenbankabfrage von 30 Sekunden, Diese Spezialseiten sind: Letzte Änderungen, Beobachtungsliste, Beiträge und Logbuch, Diese Änderung wird die Seitenperformance und die Stabilität verbessern. Du kannst dir weitere Details über diese Änderung ansehen, darunter mögliche Lösungen, wenn sich dies auf deine Arbeitsabläufe auswirkt. [130]
• In mehr als 10 Wikis sehen nun 50% der angemeldeten Benutzer den fixierten Seitentitel. Dies ist Teil der Desktop-Verbesserungen. Siehe auch, wie du dich an dem Projekt beteiligen kannst.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 11 Januar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 12 Januar. Auf allen Wikis ab 13 Januar (Kalender).

Ereignisse

• Die Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2022 beginnt. Alle Benutzer der Wikimedia-Projekte können Werkzeuge und Plattformverbesserungen vorschlagen. Die Vorschlagsphase läuft vom 10 Januar 19:00 MEZ bis zum 23 Januar 19:00 MEZ. Erfahre mehr.

Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.

02:22, 11. Jan. 2022 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: December 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue XII, December 2021

Headlines

Australia report: Writing The Record: the Australian Music Wikipedia project launches Colombia report: We were editing about Bogotan writers Croatia report: Ab ovo. Towards future reports... New Zealand report: The New Zealand Wikidata thesis project Poland report: Safeguarding the heritage of a community Sweden report: Commons project with Göteborg museums was a success; Digital humaniora meets Wikidata; HBTQI, Europeana and WiR UK report: 2021 in Review USA report: Smithsonian Institution Training Content Partnerships Hub report: Adding more Structured Data on Commons statements WMF GLAM report: Some structured data developments Calendar: January's GLAM events

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About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 11:46, 12. Jan. 2022 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: December 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue XII, December 2021

Headlines

Australia report: Writing The Record: the Australian Music Wikipedia project launches Colombia report: We were editing about Bogotan writers Croatia report: Ab ovo. Towards future reports... New Zealand report: The New Zealand Wikidata thesis project Poland report: Safeguarding the heritage of a community Sweden report: Commons project with Göteborg museums was a success; Digital humaniora meets Wikidata; HBTQI, Europeana and WiR UK report: 2021 in Review USA report: Smithsonian Institution Training Content Partnerships Hub report: Adding more Structured Data on Commons statements WMF GLAM report: Some structured data developments Calendar: January's GLAM events

Read this edition in full • Single-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 17:23, 12. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #503

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present 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.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
    • #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
  • Past:
    • Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
    • Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
    • Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
    • Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
  • Videos
    • Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -YouTube
    • Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
  • GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
    • External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
    • External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Things that turned 20 years old today (source)
    • Irish artists and their relationships (source)
    • Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius) (source)
    • Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 (source)

• Development
  • Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520)
  • Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
  • Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
  • Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:25, 17. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-03

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Bei der Nutzung des WikiEditors (auch Wikitext-Editor von 2010 genannt), sieht man jetzt eine Warnung, wenn man auf Begriffsklärungsseiten verlinkt. Wenn man "Link überprüfen" in der Warnung anklickt, wird man aufgefordert, den Link zu einem spezifischeren Begriff zu ändern. Erfahre mehr zu diesem erfüllten Wunsch aus der Community-Wunschliste von 2021.
• Automatisches Abonnieren aller Diskussionen auf der Diskussionsseite, die man begonnen oder kommentiert hat, ist jetzt über die Diskussionswerkzeuge möglich. Man erhält eine Benachrichtigung, wenn ein anderer Bearbeiter antwortet. Diese Funktion wird auf den meisten Wikis verfügbar sein. Gehe einfach zu den Einstellungen und aktiviere "Automatisches Abschnittsabonnement". [131]
• Beim Erstellen einer neuen Seite oder eines neuen Abschnitts auf einer Diskussionsseite, können Felder mit bestimmtem Text "geladen" werden. Diese Funktion ist nun auf Wikitext-Seiten beschränkt. Dies soll verhindern, dass Benutzer versehentlich bösartige Bearbeitungen vornehmen. Es läuft eine Diskussion darüber, ob die Funktion für manche Inhaltsmodelle wieder aktiviert werden sollte.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 18 Januar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 19 Januar. Auf allen Wikis ab 20 Januar (Kalender).

Ereignisse

• Die Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2022 läuft weiterhin. Alle Benutzer der Wikimedia-Projekte können Werkzeuge und Plattformverbesserungen vorschlagen. Die Vorschlagsphase läuft vom 10 Januar 19:00 MEZ bis zum 23 Januar 19:00 MEZ. Erfahre mehr.

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20:53, 17. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #504

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube, Facebook, January 29 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
    • Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
    • #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack featured on Hacker News
    • Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
    • Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates
    • Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history (in Spanish)
    • 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
  • Papers
    • Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
    • Wikidata for Digital Preservationists: New DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note now available on general release
  • Videos
    • [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Lexemes forms:
    • Now supports the Odia language
    • Substantially expanded template for Spanish verbs
  • How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
    • External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
    • External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of tramways in France
    • Map of categories for honorary citizens (source)
    • Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date (source)
    • Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location (source)
    • Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) (source)
    • Birthplace of Rabbis (source)
    • Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80 (source)
    • Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article (source)
    • Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages (source)

• Development
  • Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
  • Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (phab:T297393)
  • Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
  • Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:54, 24. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-04

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 25 Januar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 26 Januar. Auf allen Wikis ab 27 Januar (Kalender).
• Die folgenden Sprachen können jetzt mit der Syntax-Hervorhebung verwendet werden: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
• Du kannst jetzt auch außerhalb des Benutzermenüs im neuen Vector-Skin auf deine Beobachtungsliste zugreifen. Der Link zur Beobachtungsliste erscheint neben den Benachrichtigungssymbolen, wenn du dich am oberen Rand der Seite befindest. [132]

Ereignisse

• Du kannst die Ergebnisse des Coolest Tool Award 2021 sehen und mehr über die 14 Tools erfahren, die dieses Jahr ausgewählt wurden.
• Du kannst die Vorschläge der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste übersetzen, bekannt machen oder kommentieren. Die Abstimmung beginnt am 28 Januar.

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22:36, 24. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #505

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • GretaHeng18bot
    • Pi bot 24
    • SchoolBot
    • companyBot

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Talk to the Search Platform Team about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! February 2nd, 2022. Etherpad.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube, Facebook, February 5 at 19:00 UTC
    • Wikimedia Research February Office Hours Wednesday, 2022-02-02 at 00:00-1:00 UTC (16:00 PT 02-01 /19:00 ET 02-01 / 1:00 CET 02-02).
    • Data Reuse Days will take place on March 14-24, highlighing applications and tools using Wikidata's data. You can already propose a session.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #27, Numbers (1/n)
  • Past:
    • Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron
    • Wikibase Live Session (2022.01.27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Press
    • "Massive open index of scholarly papers launches" - called OpenAlex, it draws its data from sources including Wikidata
  • Blogs
    • OpenSanctions is integrating persons of interest from Wikidata
    • Celebrating the 2,000 featured articles milestone in Wikipedia in French: Using the Wikipedia Categorymembers API through a SPARQL query to get all articles featured in category "Article de qualité" and compute statistics.
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Using Linked Open Data to Connect Smithsonian Information
    • The origin of the gender gap
  • Videos
    • Wikidata as a Modality for Accessible Clinical Research
    • Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase

• Tool of the week
  • Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS scaling update for Jan 2022 available here. We will be trying to do monthly updates starting this month.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast logo URL, hotel rating, dpi for original size, director of publication, official jobs URL
    • External identifiers: TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, Muz-TV ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, Tretyakov Gallery work ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania encyclopedia ID, Amazon podcast ID, Habr company ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, German Lobbyregister ID, Film.ru actor ID, Film.ru film ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID, StarHit ID, North Data ID, CYT/CCS, LKI ID, Unified book number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has member, register in Germany, dailytelefrag.ru ID, time in the pouch, semantic gender, Game World Navigator ID
    • External identifiers: Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, CHY Number, OpenSanctions ID, identifiant Les Archives du spectacle (organisme), Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, histrf.ru person ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, Chgk person ID, Latvijas ūdenstilpju klasifikatora kods, RCN (Irish Registered Charity Number), RBC company ID, OpenStates ID, NetEase Music Artist ID, QQ Music Singer ID, Euro NCAP ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2
  • Query examples:
    • US states with the most punk bands (source)
    • List of Ghanaian scientists by citation count (source)
    • Actresses who have played Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, with type of production (source)
    • MPs with identified mythical ancestors
    • Items with "language of work or name = Toki Pona" as qualifier
    • Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline (source)
    • Water boards in the Netherlands (source)
    • Birthplaces of US Presidents, Russian emperors, Roman emperors (source)
    • Age of the actress when she played "Elizabeth Bennet" (source)
    • People with dates of birth and death on January 1st (day precision dates) (source)
    • More than 500 lexemes in Breton now have at least one sense (source)

• Development
  • Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (phab:T297393)
  • Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
  • Continuing work on fixing a bug where Wikidata changes do not get sent to Wikipedia and co for the first sitelink adding leading to missing information in the page_props table (phab:T233520)
  • Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (phab:T296202)
  • Mismatch Finder: Debugging some issues with the first files we got with mismatches that we can load into the Mismatch Finder

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:44, 31. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-05

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Wenn ein Helferlein den neuen URL-Parameter ?withgadget unterstützen soll, der vor drei Wochen angekündigt wurde, muss es jetzt auch supportsUrlLoad in der Definition des Helferleins spezifizieren (Dokumentation). [133]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 1 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 2 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 3 Februar (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Eine Änderung, die im letzten Jahr angekündigt wurde, hat sich verzögert. Sie kann nun umgesetzt werden:
  • Die Benutzergruppe oversight wird umbenannt in suppress. Dies erfolgt aus technischen Gründen. Es handelt sich um den technischen Namen. Es beeinflusst nicht, wie du die Benutzer mit diesem Benutzerrecht in deinem Wiki nennst. Die Änderung soll in drei Wochen erfolgen. Du kannst im Phabricator kommentieren, wenn du Bedenken hast. Wie üblich können diese Bezeichnungen im Translatewiki übersetzt werden (direkte Links sind verfügbar) oder direkt von Administratoren in deinem Wiki geändert werden.

Ereignisse

• Du kannst vom 28. Januar bis zum 11. Februar über die Vorschläge der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste abstimmen. Die Umfrage legt fest, woran das Community-Tech-Team arbeiten wird.

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18:40, 31. Jan. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #506

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MystBot
  • Other: Discussion about replacing values with a new format or scheme for "SBN author ID" (P396), an identifier for National Library Service (SBN) of Italy

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
    • Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
    • Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, Computer
  • Past:
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube
    • Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government - Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine
    • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
    • Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data, by Envlh
    • Profiling a Wikibase item creation on test.wikidata.org by Addshore
    • Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase
  • Papers
    • XAlign: Cross-lingual Fact-to-Text Alignment and Generation for Low-Resource Languages
  • Videos
    • Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - YouTube
    • Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in Wikipedia) - YouTube
    • Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - 1, 2 & 3 (YouTube)
    • Wikidata Tutorial (in German): create a user account on Wikidata, add an institution's website to Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata edit map by Denny puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • January 1st as date
  • Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing, time in the pouch, semantic gender
    • External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Artland fair ID, Artland gallery ID, Douban book series ID, Douban book works ID, Les Archives du spectacle organization ID, Urban Electric Transit city ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, Ezeri.lv lake ID, Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Bugs! music video ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, New York Flora Atlas ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: HSK ID, sports in region, Computational complexity, YouTube video
    • External identifiers: Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2, podchaser episode ID, IFPI UPC/EAN, Weltfussball-Spiel-ID, GoodGame.ru ID, USgamer ID, Riot Pixels game ID, HaBima Archive play id, HaBima Archive person id, NLI topic id, 100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id, Old-Games.RU ID, iXBT Games ID, Students of Turin University ID, Tagoo video game ID, AusGamers ID, GameGuru ID, LMHL author ID, VGTimes ID, ULI id, GameMAG ID, SBN new authority IDs, Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, Gesher Theater Archive person id, Gesher Theater Archive play id, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID, A9VG game ID, Qichaha firm ID, Chinese School Identifier, GoHa.ru ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, CiteSeerX ID of a person, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2
  • Deleted properties:
    • "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
    • "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
    • "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
    • "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
  • Query examples:
    • Events by number of video games announced (source)
    • Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef (source)
    • Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times they are used (source)
    • Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages (source)
    • Team and positions played by National Women's Football League players (source)
    • Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges) (source)
    • Location of statues of women in Italy (source)
    • Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages (source)
    • Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR (source)
    • Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types (source)
    • Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Archaeology

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
  • Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 7. Feb. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-06

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die englischsprachige Wikipedia hat kürzlich ein Gadget für einen Dark Mode aufgesetzt. Du kannst es dort aktivieren oder einen Benutzeroberflächenadministrator um Hilfe bitten, um es in deinem Wiki aufzusetzen (Anleitungen und Bildschirmfotos).
• Die Zählung in Kategorien ist manchmal falsch. Sie werden nun am Anfang jedes Monats komplett neu gezählt. [134]

Probleme

• Eine Code-Änderung in der letzten Woche, um einen Fehler bei der Live-Vorschau zu beheben, kann Probleme mit lokalen Helferlein und Benutzerskripten verursacht haben. Jeder Code mit Skin-spezifischem Verhalten für vector sollte aktualisiert werden, um auch auf vector-2022 zu prüfen. Ein Code-Ausschnitt, eine globale Suche und ein Beispiel sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 8 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 9 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 10 Februar (Kalender).

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22:14, 7. Feb. 2022 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: January 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue I, January 2022

Headlines

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About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 19:31, 12. Feb. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #507

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 2
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
  • New request for comments: Population data model

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata February 17, 5:00 PM
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube, Facebook, February 19 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
  • Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration
    • Wikidata in Stardog
    • Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers, coordinates & address
    • PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
    • OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - YouTube
    • Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
    • Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022
  • Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Wikidata ESR is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
    • External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
    • External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID
  • Query examples:
    • Tram bridges in France
    • Polish Righteous Among the Nations
    • Launch date, logo of social media services (source)
    • Oscar winners from 1929 (source)
    • Images of biologists by height (source)
    • Biggest coins outside the U.S. (source)

• Development
  • Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
  • Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:41, 14. Feb. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-07

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Wenn man bei einer Kategorieseite mit weniger als 5.000 Mitgliedern den Cache leert, wird diese nun komplett neu gezählt. Dies ermöglicht es Autoren, fehlerhafte Zählungen zu korrigieren. [135]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 15 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 16 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 17 Februar (Kalender).
• In der Missbrauchsfilter-Erweiterung wurde die Funktion rmspecials() aktualisiert, sodass sie "Leerzeichen" nicht entfernt. Wikis wird empfohlen, alle Nutzungen von rmspecials() mit rmwhitespace() zu umfassen, sofern dies erforderlich ist, damit das Verhalten des Filters unverändert bleibt. Du kannst die Suchfunktion auf Special:AbuseFilter nutzen, um ihre Nutzungen zu finden. [136]

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20:17, 14. Feb. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #508

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ChineseWikiClubBot, 1
    • Auto Prod Bot

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th February 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Huda Khan and Astrid Usong on their Linked Data for Production 3 (LD4P3) grant work to use Wikidata in knowledge panels in Cornell’s library catalog Agenda - 2022-02-22 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
    • Hands-on introduction to Wikidata with The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library's Edit-a-Thon! Theme: Boston public art and artists. February 23, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern time
    • OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup - Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your timezone).
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 22 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #30, Trains
  • Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #71 #MelFest - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Plans Become Projects
  • Papers: "COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System" using Wikidata
  • Videos: Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata:Tools/asseeibot - is a tool made by User:So9q to improve the scientific articles in Wikidata. Source code on GitHub under GPLv3+
  • Coinherbarium.com - coins depicting plants; powered by Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of lanes, computational complexity
    • External identifiers: UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID, Gardens Navigator ID, Tagoo video game ID, Lingua Libre ID, Labyrinth database ID, A9VG game ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, RCN, CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date, quality has state, beforehand-afterward owned by, Number of units, created during, award recipient, medical indication
    • External identifiers: KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, YouTube Topic channel ID, YouTube Official Artist Channel ID, GoFood restaurant ID, traveloka restaurant ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, HiSCoD, Databazeknih.cz Book ID, Databazeknih.cz Author ID, Renacyt ID, CBDB.cz Book ID, CBDB.cz Author ID, Gab ID, Drammen byleksikon ID, NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, MakeMyTrip Hotel ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID
  • Query examples:
    • Frequency of letters in five-letter words in Wikidata lexeme forms (source)
    • Visualization of the Prime/Ulam Spiral using natural numbers and primes stored in Wikidata (source)
    • Monuments that are named after somebody without being connected to them by any other property (source)
    • Places named after Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine) (source)
    • Gold medal winners in the Olympic Games by age (source)
    • Top 20 languages in number of lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of lexemes with at least one external id (source)
    • Count of PropertyLabels for lakes in the UK (source)
    • Moons of solar system planets and what they are names for (source)
    • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID (source)

• Development
  • We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
  • We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:42, 21. Feb. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-08

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Special:Nuke wird nun die Standard-Löschgründe (diese können auf MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown bearbeitet werden) anbieten, wenn man Massenlöschungen von Seiten durchführt. Dies war ein Wunsch aus der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2022. [137]
• In Wikipedias erhalten nun standardmäßig alle neuen Konten die Growth-Funktionen, wenn sie ein Konto erstellen. Den Gemeinschaften wird empfohlen, ihre Hilfe-Seiten zu aktualisieren. Zuvor erhielten nur 80% der neuen Konten die Growth-Funktionen. Ein paar Wikipedias sind von dieser Änderung nicht betroffen. [138]
• Du kannst nun verhindern, dass bestimmte Bilder, die auf einer Seite verwendet werden, an anderen Orten zu sehen sind, wie in der Seitenvorschau oder Suchergebnissen. Dies erfolgt mithilfe der Markierung class=notpageimage. Zum Beispiel: [[Datei:Beispiel.png|class=notpageimage]]. [139]
• Die HTML von Spezial:Beiträge, Spezial:Versionsgeschichten vereinen und Versionsgeschichten wurde geändert, um die Gruppierung von Änderungen nach Datum im mobilen Skin zu unterstützen. Dies kann Auswirkungen auf Helferlein und Benutzerskripte haben, auch wenn es unwahrscheinlich ist. Eine Liste aller HTML-Änderungen findet sich im Phabricator.

Ereignisse

• Die Ergebnisse der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste wurden veröffentlicht. Die Priorisierungsränge der Vorschläge sind ebenfalls verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 22 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 23 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 24 Februar (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Software zum Abspielen von Video- und Audiodateien auf Seiten wird auf allen Wikis geändert. Der alte Player wird entfernt. Manche Audioplayer werden nach dieser Änderung über erweiterte Funktionen verfügen. Der neue Player war über vier Jahre lang als Beta-Funktion verfügbar. [140][141]
• Das Betriebssystem, auf dem Toolforge läuft, wird aktualisiert. Wenn du dort Tools betreibst, gibt es zwei Optionen, um deine Tools in das neue System zu migrieren. Auf Wikitech sind Details, der Zeitplan und Anleitungen verfügbar. [142]
• Administratoren werden in Kürze die Möglichkeit haben, die zugehörige "Diskussionsseite" zu löschen/wiederherzustellen, wenn sie eine Seite löschen. Ein API-Endpunkt mit dieser Möglichkeit wird ebenfalls verfügbar sein. Dies war ein Wunsch aus der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2021.

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20:10, 21. Feb. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #509

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ikkingjinnammebetinke (RfP scheduled to end after 7 March 2022 13:33 UTC)
  • New request for comments: Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items
  • Other: Qualifiers for given names and surnames

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - YouTube, Facebook, March 5th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, War
  • Past:
    • Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study
  • Videos
    • Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
    • Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried
    • Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data
    • Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example
    • Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example
    • Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
  • February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
  • Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. Apply here!
  • Job opening: Vorlage:Q is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: computational complexity
    • External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
    • External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of edits by user on French lexemes (source)
    • Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO (source)
    • Successful coups and attempts in Africa (source)
    • New York Times journalists that are alive (source)
    • Ukrainian coins and banknotes (source)
    • Types of quartz (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
  • Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
  • REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
  • Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
  • Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:03, 28. Feb. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-09

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Wenn man mithilfe von Markierungen nach Bearbeitungen sucht, z.B. in der Versionsgeschichte oder Benutzerbeiträgen, gibt es nun eine ausklappbare Liste möglicher Markierungen. Dies war ein Wunsch aus der Community-Wunschliste 2022. [143]
• Mentoren, die die Loten-Verwaltungsseite nutzen, werden nun die ihnen zugeordneten Neulinge sehen, die eine bis 200 Bearbeitungen vorgenommen haben. Zuvor waren alle dem Lotsen zugeordneten Neulinge auf der Verwaltungsseite sichtbar, auch diejenigen ohne Bearbeitungen und diejenigen mit hunderten Bearbeitungen. Lotsen können diese Werte ändern, indem sie die Filter auf ihrer Verwaltungsseite nutzen. Außerdem wird die letzte Filterauswahl nun gespeichert. [144][145]
• Die Benutzergruppe oversight wurde umbenannt in suppress. Dies erfolgte aus technischen Gründen. Du musst möglicherweise lokale Verwendungen des alten Namens, z.B. in Helferlein, Links auf Spezial:Benutzer oder Verwendungen von NUMBERINGROUP aktualisieren.

Probleme

• Die kürzlich erfolgte Änderung der HTML an Seiten zur Verfolgung von Änderungen verursachte Probleme bei Screenreadern. Dies wurde nun behoben. [146]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 1 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 2 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 3 März (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Arbeit mit Vorlagen wird einfacher. Einige Verbesserungen sollen ab dem 9. März auf den meisten Wikis verfügbar sein, in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia sind sie bereits verfügbar. Zu den Verbesserungen gehören: Klammerzuordnung, farbige Syntaxhervorhebung, Finden und Einfügen von Vorlagen und verwandte Funktionen des Visual Editors.
• Wenn du Vorlagen entwickelst oder Benutzeroberflächenadministrator bist und absichtlich die Standard-CSS-Styles von Boxen zur Rückmeldung an Benutzer (die Klassen successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox) überschreibst oder nutzt, beachte bitte, dass diese Klassen und das zugehörige CSS bald aus dem MediaWiki-Kern entfernt werden. Dies soll Probleme verhindern, falls die gleichen Klassennamen in einem Wiki verwendet werden. Bitte lass es uns wissen, wenn du glaubst, dass du betroffen sein könntest, indem du in phab:T300314 kommentierst.

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23:58, 28. Feb. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #510

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the 35 presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - YouTube, Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Presentation and discussion: "Introduction to Linked Open Data Strategy with Lea Voget, Head, Product Management WMDE". Lea is not only the team lead of product, project and program managers at WMDE, she is also one of the main thinkers behind the Linked Open Data strategy. When: 11 March 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter). Registration: Registration link
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Associate Librarian Stacy Allison-Cassin and her students on Wikidata in the classroom. Agenda
    • Art+Feminism editathon at the University Library Center of the University of Salerno. 8 March 2022
    • Wikidata workshop, held in collaboration with IPTC and explores the use of Wikidata concepts when dealing with metadata in media applications. Timing: from 10:00 to 18:00 CET. With presentations from: Yle, RAI, France TV, IPTC, Gruppo RES, Media Press, Perfect Memory, New York Times, NTB, Imatrics.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Ukraine
  • Past:
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 #opendataday - YouTube
    • NFDI InfraTalk: Wikibase - knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture - YouTube (March 7, 4:00 PM CEST)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube: 1, 2, 3.

• Tool of the week
  • Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (phab:T300255#7746418). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
  • Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
  • Job openings:
    • The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
    • The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
    • Vorlage:Q is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: created during, Ghana Place Names URL, trained by
    • External identifiers: Old-Games.RU ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, SBN work ID, SBN place ID, Kanobu numeric game ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, CBDB.cz author ID, CBDB.cz book ID, ULI ID, NLC Bibliography ID, LMHL author ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Latvia water body classification code, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, QQ Music singer ID, PubCRIS product number, PKULaw CLI Code, NVE glacier ID, iXBT Games ID, TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Агрегатируется с, Observer
    • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, tiket to-do ID, TEIS ID, OBD Memorial ID, Hrono.ru article ID, db.narb.by ID, Shopee Shop ID, Grab Food ID, US trademark serial number, Scottish Built Ships ID, trivago hotel ID, skyscanner hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, pravo.gov.ru ID, NGO Darpan ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID
  • Query examples:
    • Use of free software license for describing software (source)
    • Count of latest available Twitter follower count for different programming languages (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages and their paradigms (source)
    • Most popular programming language on Wikipedia with multilingual articles (source)
    • Russian TV channels from and about Russia (source)
    • Places of birth of people named "Désirée" (source)
    • People in the Père-Lachaise cemetery who were born in a city that is or was in Ukraine (source)
    • Properties linking between a church and its saint (source)

• Development
  • Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
  • REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:22, 7. Mär. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-10

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• Es gab in der letzten Woche ein Problem mit manchen Bezeichnungen in der Benutzeroberfläche. Dieses wird diese Woche behoben. Die Änderung war Teil der aktuellen Arbeiten daran, die Unterstützung für Skins zu vereinfachen, die keine aktiven Entwickler haben. [147]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 8 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 9 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 10 März (Kalender).

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22:14, 7. Mär. 2022 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: February 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue II, February 2022

Headlines

Albania report: Traditional Food Photography Belgium report: Shakespeare is dead - Contemporary playwriting festival; Public Domain Day Belgium 2022 (10/02) report Estonia report: An examples of a visual storytelling – two virtual exhibitions France report: Wikimedian in Residence in Clermont Auvergne Italy report: New agreement for Wiki Loves Monument Italy 2022 Kosovo report: Traditional Food Photography Netherlands report: New photo collections of Alkmaar, Wiki goes Caribbean meeting, contemporary art Wikidata import and knowledge platform for GLAMS New Zealand report: National Digital Forum and Editing in a Time of COVID Nigeria report: 1Lib1Ref 2022 Kwara Poland report: New GLAM-Wiki partnerships and cooperations Serbia report: A month in the sign of 1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Additional photos from Swedish missionairies; Historical maps of Ukraine UK report: Khalili Collections Ukraine report: Stand with Ukraine! USA report: Women's History Month activities AvoinGLAM report: February in AvoinGLAM Content Partnerships Hub report: Encyclopaedia of Life release their 2 million species descriptions under CC0 Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Editing SDC with OpenRefine; Monthly OpenRefine and Wikimedia office hours Calendar: March's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #511

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. You can also look at a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #75 - YouTube, Facebook, March 19th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #100(!), March 20th at 13.00 UTC
    • Bug Triage Hour focused on data reuse, March 23rd
    • Wikidata 101 workshop (in Albanian language) March 15th at 10 o'clock at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
    • Ontotext Webinar - GraphDB as Company Data Central - "How GraphDB can help you create a graph model of your data and enrich it with reference data". March 17th
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Furniture

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • History of the Tour de France: a notebook to explore the history of the tour de France in three charts.
    • A dataset of scholarly journals in wikidata : (selected) external identifiers
    • Getting all the government agencies of the world structured in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus (built using Wikidata)
  • Videos
    • Breton Lexicographic data SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata SPARQL session (in French) - YouTube
    • moreIdentifiers UseAsRef gadget (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata working hour - QuickStatements (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Graph data formats: Common RDF vocabularies (in Czech) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeTranslations.js is a userscript that shows translations for a lexeme. The translations are inferred from statements on senses, such as item for this sense (P5137).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Ghana Place Names URL, trained by, KLADR ID, identifies
    • External identifiers: TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, Change.org decision maker ID, Podchaser episode ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, Dansk Navneleksikon ID, CiteSeerX person ID, CNKI author ID, naturkartan.se ID, HaBima Archive play ID, HaBima Archive person ID, Vedomosti company ID, Grab Food restaurant ID, Chinese School Identifier, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, svpressa.ru person ID, GameMAG ID, ICQ user ID, Scottish Built Ships ID, histrf.ru person ID, symogih.org ID, Mapping Manuscript Migrations manuscript ID, US trademark serial number, NLC Bibliography ID (foreign-language), GoFood restaurant ID, Official Internet Portal of Legal Information ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (building ensemble), skyscanner hotel ID, NGO Darpan ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Observer, identifiant spectacle Les Archives du spectacle, Supports qualifier 2, franchisor, Exhibited Creator, colocated with
    • External identifiers: trivago hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), MovieMeter TV season ID, MangaDex title ID, 1905.com film ID, 1905.com star ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Italian Women Writers ID, Championat.com ID, Arachne entity ID, IRIS Friuli-Venezia Giulia IDs, Sport24.ru team ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Virginia Burgesses and Delegates Database ID, Arizona Legislators Then and Now ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, ubereats store ID, FamousFix topic ID, FAOTERM ID, RSPA Ancient authors ID, RSPA Modern authors ID, ImagesDéfense ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, ILO code, Culture.ru institutes ID, Proza.ru author ID, Stihi.ru author ID, TV Maze season ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, Boobpedia ID, Leafsnap ID, neftegaz.ru person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties describing Art UK artworks (source)
    • Timeline of victims of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Population of countries that share a border with Russia (source)
    • Audio pronunciation of places in Wales (source)
    • Things with a national gallery of Scotland ID where the artist was or is a woman (source)
    • Software with gender information of developer, designer and the person named after source

• Development
  • Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
  • Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
  • Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
  • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:41, 14. Mär. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-11

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Es ist in der Wikipedia-Android-App nun möglich, die Werkzeugleiste am Ende der Seite zu verändern, sodass die Werkzeuge, die du häufiger nutzt, einfacher zu erreichen sind. Die App hat jetzt außerdem einen fokussierten Lesemodus. [148][149]

Probleme

• Es gab ein Problem bei der Sammlung einiger Daten für die Seitenaufrufe von Juni 2021 bis Januar 2022. Dies bedeutet, dass die Statistiken unvollständig sind. Um dabei zu helfen, zu berechnen, welche Projekte und Regionen am stärksten betroffen waren, werden die relevanten Datensets für zusätzliche 30 Tage erhalten bleiben. Du kannst mehr dazu im Meta-Wiki lesen.
• Am 10. März gab es ein Problem mit den Datenbanken. Alle Wikis waren für angemeldete Benutzer 12 Minuten lang nicht erreichbar. Unangemeldete Benutzer konnten Seiten lesen, aber nicht bearbeiten oder auf Inhalte zugreifen, die sich nicht im Cache befanden. [150]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 15 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 16 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 17 März (Kalender).
• Wenn man uselang=qqx nutzt, um lokalisierte Nachrichten zu finden, werden nun alle möglichen Nachrichtenschlüssel für Navigationsreiter wie "Versionsgeschichte" angezeigt. [151]
• Der Zugriff auf Spezial:Versionslöschung ist nun auch für Benutzer möglich, die über ihre Gruppenmitgliedschaften die Rechte deletelogentry und deletedhistory haben. Zuvor konnten nur Benutzer mit dem Recht deleterevision auf diese Spezialseite zugreifen. [152]
• Auf den Seiten Spezial:Wiederherstellen für Versionsunterschiede und Versionen wird es nun einen Link zurück auf die Haupt-Wiederherstellungsseite mit der Liste der Versionen geben. [153]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Wikimedia Foundation hat die Implementierungsstrategie und nächste Schritte für die IP-Maskierung angekündigt. Die Ankündigung kann hier gelesen werden.
• Die Entwickler der Wikipedia-Android-App arbeiten an neuen Funktionen für Benutzerdiskussionsseiten und Diskussionsseiten von Artikeln. [154]

Veranstaltungen

• Der Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 wird als Hybridveranstaltung vom 20. bis zum 22. Mai 2022 stattfinden. Der Hackathon wird online stattfinden und es sind Förderungen zur Unterstützung lokaler persönlicher Treffen auf der ganzen Welt verfügbar. Förderungen können bis zum 20. März beantragt werden.

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23:06, 14. Mär. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #512

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
    • AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project. Agenda with call link, March 22.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers by Lucas Werkmeister
    • Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source
  • Videos
    • Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
      • Lightning talks
      • Wikidata for performing and visual arts
      • Wikxhibit
      • How to retrieve Wikidata’s data?
      • Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data
      • Building a simple web app using Wikidata data
      • Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method
      • GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator
    • Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube
    • Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
  • Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
  • Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc.
  • Andrew put together a guide to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries
  • The proposed config change to remove the changetags right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID
    • External identifiers: LDT @ Library Name Authority ID, LDT @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, LDT @ Library Classification Authority ID, USP Production Repository ID, Transilien ID, United Russia member ID, MovieMeter TV season ID, Joshua Project people group ID, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, vc.ru company ID, Repetti on-line ID, Cybersport.ru ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Discover Moscow ID, ArTS author ID, IRIS UNIUD author ID, Game Informer ID, Ligue 2 player ID, Femiwiki ID, Arachne entity ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bhashakosha pp., local education level, hours per week, education level, time allocation, grading system, grade, ISCED-ALevel, ISCED category orientation, ISCED Broad Field, ISCED Narrow Field, ISCED Detailed Field, competency, sessions per week, applies to work, rack system, maintains consistent linking to
    • External identifiers: Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, USA Track & Field (www.usatf.org) athlete ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, DACS ID (2022), marriott hotel ID, identifiant Epigraphie, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, CPNI ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, eSbírky institution ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria cultural place ID, Zotero ID, World of Waterfalls ID
  • Query examples:
    • Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth! (source)
    • Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement (source)
    • Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline (source)
    • Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC)
    • Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names) (source)
    • Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan)
    • Map of institutions where "where people who studied there" have created written works whose main subject is knowledge graph (Q33002955), knowledge base (Q515701) and (Q33002955)
    • Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
  • Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
  • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:14, 21. Mär. 2022 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-12

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Neuer Zeitplan für Code-Veröffentlichungen in dieser Woche

• In dieser Woche wird es vier MediaWiki-Veröffentlichungen geben statt nur einer. Dies ist ein Experiment, das zu weniger Problemen und schnelleren Aktualisierungen führen soll. Die Veröffentlichungen werden auf allen Wikis zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten am Montag, Dienstag und Mittwoch erfolgen. Du kannst mehr über dieses Projekt lesen.

Letzte Änderungen

• Du kannst nun in deinen Einstellungen festlegen, wie viele Suchergebnisse standardmäßig angezeigt werden sollen. Dies war der zwölftbeliebteste Wunsch in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2022. [155]
• Das Jupyter-Notebook-Werkzeug PAWS wurde aktualisiert und hat nun eine neue Benutzeroberfläche. [156]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Auch Wikis, die Gesichtete Versionen nutzen, können bald interaktive Karten mit Kartographer enthalten. Das Team Technische Wünsche führt bis zum 31. März eine Umfrage durch, welche Verbesserungen an Kartographer gewünscht werden. [157]

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16:59, 21. Mär. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #513

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
    • The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
  • Past:
    • Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
    • Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
    • Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
    • Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
    • Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the Vorlage:Q Spring 2022 meeting
  • Papers
    • "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
  • Videos
    • DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
    • A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
    • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
    • A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
  • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
  • The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
  • 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: documentation files at
    • External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
    • External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
    • Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
    • UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
    • List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
    • Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries

• Development
  • [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
  • Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
  • Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
  • Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
  • REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:00, 28. Mär. 2022 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-13

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Mit Sunflower gibt es für Nutzer von macOS ein neues einfaches Werkzeug zum Hochladen von Dateien nach Wikimedia Commons.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 29 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 30 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 31 März (Kalender).
• Aufgrund regulärer Wartungsarbeiten an der Datenbank werden einige Wikis für ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Die Wartungsarbeiten werden am 29 März um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 31 März um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) stattfinden. [158][159]

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21:53, 28. Mär. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #514

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. Agenda with call link, April 5.
    • Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
    • Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions, April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English on May 4.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
    • Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
  • Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata?
    • UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..."
    • Highlighting linked data projects. "...Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources".
  • Videos
    • The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - YouTube
    • Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
      • Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata
      • Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges
      • Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
      • Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts de la scène (in French)
      • Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata
  • Other
    • FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata"
    • OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to help translate the survey to their language? It will take around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier if you want to help!

• Tool of the week
  • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
  • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022 is now available.
  • WDQS backend alternatives paper with shortlist of options have been published.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
    • External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
    • External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID
  • Query examples:
    • Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata (source)
    • Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
  • REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
  • Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:32, 4. Apr. 2022 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-14

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche wurden vorgeschlagene Bearbeitungen für Neulinge auf Spezial:Letzte Änderungen ein paar Tage lang nicht markiert. Dieser Fehler wurde behoben. [160]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 5 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 6 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 7 April (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 7 April um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Ab nächster Woche wird der Titel der Technischen Neuigkeiten übersetzbar sein. Wenn der Newsletter verschickt wird, bleibt der Titel nicht Tech News: 2022-14. Dies kann Filter auslösen, die von manchen Gemeinschaften eingerichtet wurden. [161]
• In den nächsten Monaten wird die "Link-Vorschlagsfunktion" der Growth-Erweiterung in weiteren Wikipedien verfügbar sein. Jede Woche erhalten einige Wikis die Funktion. Du kannst die Funktion in einigen Wikis, in denen die "Link-Vorschlagsfunktion" bereits verfügbar ist, ausprobieren.

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22:59, 4. Apr. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #515

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Stang (RfP scheduled to end after 14 April 2022 12:18 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Botcrux 10. Task/s: Change publication date (P577) of scientific articles from "1 January YYYY" to just "YYYY".
    • Pi bot 25. Task/s: Wikidata:Properties for deletion maintenance

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #104, April 17th at 12.00 UTC
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
    • April 26, Ghent, Belgium: public OpenRefine data cleaning workshop and meet&greet with the OpenRefine team, including preview of Structured Data on Commons functionalities. Physical event, free, sign up via this link.
    • Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open! The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC
    • April 22nd - 24th, from Wiki Mentor Africa, A three days workshop on Linking biodiversity data through wikidata using Webaps and jupyter notebooks to attend, register here
    • May 5th: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour, open discussion. Come with your favorite Phabricator task and we will improve its description together.
    • DigAMus goes Wikidata workshop: make digital projects in museums visible and findable. April 29, 3-5 p.m. TIB Open Science Lab. Register here.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #37, Numbers

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Chinese Ancestor Portrait Project
    • Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer
  • Papers
    • A formalization of one of the main claims of “Cortex reorganization of Xenopus laevis eggs in strong static magnetic fields” by Mietchen et al. 2005 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
    • A formalization of one of the main claims of “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information” by Hagedorn et al. 2011 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Query Service Tutorial in Tunisian by Houcemeddine Turki (WikiConference RU 2021 - Part 1, Part 2)
    • Live Coding - PyORCIDAtor, integrating ORCID with Wikidata - YouTube
    • How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Bundestag + Wikidata = Open Parliament TV (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
  • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata MOOC (online course) has been developed by Wikimedia France, involving several French-speaking Wikidata editors. The first version of the course will start on April 26 (in French only - registration here)
  • OpenRefine is running a short survey to learn about user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed. If you upload files to Wikimedia Commons and/or edit structured data there, please help by filling in the survey!
  • Wikibase cloud update (April): the closed beta of Wikibase.cloud is planned to start in mid-April. If you want to apply for closed beta access, please register with this form.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: APE code, maintains linking to, academic calendar type, taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, P10604, notable role
    • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID, Speleologi del passato ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Intesa Sanpaolo Historical Archive Map ID, Monoskop article ID, IDU foreign theatre ID, IDU theatre building ID, IDU theatrical ensemble ID, Cameroun COG, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, SRSLY person ID, FAOTERM ID, Catalogue of Life ID, Trovo ID, IFPI GTIN, MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: является автором художественной выставки, shoe color, government debt-to-GDP ratio, National Historical Museums of Sweden object ID, class of property value, has group, name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID
    • External identifiers: HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, bebyggelseområdeskod i Sverige, Israeli Opera site person id, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Identifier, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, IRIS Piedmont IDs, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most popular Chess openings (by number of sitelinks) (source)
    • Random set of popular ("having more than 20 site links") items (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on social media (source)
    • Listed viaducts in the UK (source)
    • Pages linked to the University of Clermont according to the number of articles on Wikimedia projects (source)
    • Which languages share a word for the same thing (visualized as a tree map). e.g. planet (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
  • REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:54, 11. Apr. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-15

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Auf www.wikimediastatus.net gibt es eine neue öffentliche Status-Seite. Diese Seite zeigt fünf automatisierte Statistiken, denen du Informationen zur Performance der technischen Umgebung unserer Wikis entnehmen kannst. Sie enthält auch manuell geschriebene Informationen über Vorfälle mit großen Auswirkungen, die so schnell geschrieben werden, wie es den Technikern möglich ist, während sie auch das eigentliche Problem beheben. Diese Seite ist unabhängig von unserer normalen Infrastruktur und läuft über einen externen Dienst, sodass sie auch dann aufgerufen werden kann, wenn die Wikis kurzzeitig nicht erreichbar sind. Du kannst mehr über dieses Projekt lesen.
• In Wiktionary-Wikis wurde die Software zum Abspielen von Video- und Audiodateien auf Seiten geändert. Der alte Player wurde entfernt. Manche Audioplayer werden nach dieser Änderung über erweiterte Funktionen verfügen. Der neue Player war über vier Jahre lang als Beta-Funktion verfügbar. [162][163]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 12 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 13 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 14 April (Kalender).

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21:43, 11. Apr. 2022 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: March 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue III, March 2022

Headlines

Argentina report: Visual culture, human rights and digitization Australia report: Australia grows gender equity for International Women's Day Belgium report: Collaboration with GLAM institutes in Belgium Brazil report: Pills of GLAM Croatia report: ...starting bottom-up in indie archive! Estonia report: Glass, Books and Paintings France report: Mooc Wikidata India report: Wikimedian-in-Residence program initiated at the Research Institute of World's Ancient Traditions, Cultures and Heritage in Arunachal Pradesh Italy report: The growth of sharing on Wikimedia projects Netherlands report: Letters from Sierra Leone: the Sjoerd Hofstra photo collection in a new light New Zealand report: Forming Wikimedia Aotearoa and the Aotearoa New Zealand Theses Project Serbia report: News in Wikipedian in residence projects Spain report: WikiToro Sweden report: The Unique Historical Kalmar County project continues ...; WikiGap x 3; Students writing articles UK report: Khalili Collections Uruguay report: GLAM Activities by Wikimedia Uruguay USA report: Women's History Month Content Partnerships Hub report: UN Environment Programme sharing their knowledge on Wikipedia. Logo competition Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine: survey for Structured Data on Commons features WMF GLAM report: Commons APP calls, Bophana documentaries, and Image Description Week Calendar: April's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #516

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
    • AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time: Martin Schibel will be speaking on Entitree. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time Agenda
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US (time zone converter). Where: Registration Link
    • Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software. Conference date: April 22
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WeDigBio Transcription workflow "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
    • More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard
  • Videos
    • Transfer bibliographic data from Zotero to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Art+Feminism community Hours: Add your event data to Wikidata! - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • other:
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?

• Tool of the week
  • Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
  • Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2).
  • There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated.
  • Wikidata metrics are now easily accessible on the Dashboard. Here's an example Dashboard including a blog post above detailing the process.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
    • External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
    • External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of rappers (source)
    • Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont (source)
    • List of corporate archives, location, and address where available (source)
    • French adventure video games (source)
    • Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia (source)
    • Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
  • REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.

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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Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-16

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 19 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 20 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 21 April (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 19 April um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 21 April um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Administrators werden nun die Möglichkeit haben, die zugehörige Diskussionsseite zu löschen/wiederherzustellen, wenn sie eine Seite löschen. Ein API-Endpunkt mit dieser Option ist ebenfalls verfügbar. Damit wird der 11. Wunsch aus der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2021 erfüllt.
• Auf ausgewählten Wikis werden nun 50 % der angemeldeten Benutzer das neue Inhaltsverzeichnis sehen. Wenn man auf der Seite hoch und runter scrollt, wird das Inhaltsverzeichnis an der gleichen Stelle bleiben. Dies ist Teil des Projektes Desktopverbesserungen. [164]
• Vom MediaWiki-Code produzierte Nachrichtenboxen werden nicht mehr die folgenden CSS-Klassen haben: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. Die Styles für diese Klassen und messagebox werden aus dem MediaWiki-Kern entfernt werden. Dies betrifft nur Wikis, die diese Klassen in Wikitext nutzen oder ihr Aussehen in seitenweitem CSS ändern. Bitte überprüfe alle lokalen Verwendungen und Definitionen für diese Klassen. Dies wurde bereits in den Technischen Neuigkeiten vom 28. Februar angekündigt.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Kartographer wird mit der Seitenstabilisierung von FlaggedRevisions kompatibel werden. Kartographer-Karten werden auch auf Seiten mit gesichteten Versionen funktionieren.[165] Die Kartographer-Dokumentation wurde entsprechend aktualisiert. [166] [167] [168]

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01:10, 19. Apr. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #517

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Pi admin bot (successful)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
      • Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
      • Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
      • Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
      • How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
      • The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
    • Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
    • From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow (diff version)
    • Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics
  • Papers
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations (closed access)
    • Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License
    • WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1, 2, 3, 4]
    • Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
      • Creating subsets of Wikidata
      • Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks
      • Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata
      • Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session

• Tool of the week
  • Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
  • User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
  • Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
  • Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
    • External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
    • External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID
  • Deleted properties:
    • GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
  • Query examples:
    • Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons (source)
    • Scottish river drainage basins (source)
    • The earliest road accident victims (source)
    • Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities (source)
    • Count of Wikidata property types (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
  • REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:04, 25. Apr. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-17

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• In vielen Wikis (Gruppe 1) wurde die Software zum Abspielen von Video- und Audiodateien auf Seiten geändert. Der alte Player wurde entfernt. Manche Audioplayer werden nach dieser Änderung über erweiterte Funktionen verfügen. Der neue Player war über vier Jahre lang als Beta-Funktion verfügbar. [169][170]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 26 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 27 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 28 April (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 26 April um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Manche sehr alte Browser und Betriebssysteme werden nicht mehr unterstützt. Manche Dinge in den Wikis können seltsam aussehen oder auf sehr alten Browsern wie Internet Explorer 9 oder 10, Android 4 oder Firefox 38 oder älter nicht funktionieren. [171]

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00:53, 26. Apr. 2022 (CEST)

Wiederverwendung von Einzelnachweisen: Teile uns jetzt die Probleme mit

Was ist dein Problem bei der Wiederverwendung von Einzelnachweisen?

Hallo! Nachdem der Themenschwerpunkt „Wiederverwendung von Einzelnachweisen“ zum Gewinner 2022 gewählt wurde, macht sich das Team Technische Wünsche nun an die Recherche. Dazu braucht es dich!

Wenn du Einzelnachweise wiederverwendest,

• wo liegen für dich die größten Probleme?
• was fühlt sich umständlich an und strapaziert deine Nerven?
• wo wünschst du dir Erleichterungen oder Verbesserungen?

Hinterlasse uns deinen Erfahrungsbericht, möglichst ausführlich, hier auf der Diskussionsseite. Dieser könnte beispielsweise so aussehen. Danke an alle, die sich bereits beteiligt haben und rege mitdiskutieren!

P.S.: Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du dich für den Newsletter Technische Wünsche eingetragen hast. Danke dafür! Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 12:55, 26. Apr. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #518

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
    • TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
    • Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
    • Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
    • Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
    • May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.” [172]
    • Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
    • Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
  • Papers
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
  • Videos
    • Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
    • Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
    • Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
  • EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
  • The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
  • Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
  • Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
    • External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
    • External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID
  • Query examples:
    • Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank) (source)
    • Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment (source)
    • Countries which are named after a person (source)
    • Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)

• Development
  • The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
  • REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from 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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:10, 2. Mai 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-18

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• In allen verbleibenden Wikis (Gruppe 2) wurde die Software zum Abspielen von Video- und Audiodateien auf Seiten geändert. Der alte Player wurde entfernt. Manche Audioplayer werden nach dieser Änderung über erweiterte Funktionen verfügen. Der neue Player war über vier Jahre lang als Beta-Funktion verfügbar. [173][174]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 3 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 4 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 5 Mai (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Entwickler arbeiten an Diskussionsseiten in der Wikipedia-App für iOS. Du kannst dazu Rückmeldung geben. Du kannst an der Umfrage auf Englisch, Deutsch, Hebräisch oder Chinesisch teilnehmen.
• Die meisten Wikis werden einen verbesserten Vorlagendialog im VisualEditor und dem neuen Wikitext-Modus erhalten. [175] [176]
• Wenn du die Syntaxhervorhebung bei der Bearbeitung von Wikitext nutzt, kannst du bald ein für Farbblinde geeignetes Farbschema aktivieren. [177]
• Mehrere CSS-IDs mit Bezug zu MediaWiki-Benutzeroberflächennachrichten werden entfernt. Technische Autoren werden gebeten, die Liste der IDs und Links auf deren derzeitige Nutzungen zu prüfen. Dazu zählen #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision und 3 andere.

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21:32, 2. Mai 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-19

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• In der Wikipedia-Android-App kannst du nun Kategorien sehen. [178]

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche gab es ein Problem mit der Autovervollständigung der Suche in Wikidata. Dies wurde nun behoben. [179]
• In der letzten Woche hatten unangemeldete Benutzer auf Seiten, die sich nicht im Cache befanden, sowohl angemeldete Benutzer auf allen Seiten, in allen Wikis 20 Minuten lang nur langsamen oder keinen Zugriff. Dies wurde durch ein Problem bei einem Datenbankwechsel verursacht. [180]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben. [181]
• Inkompatibilitätsprobleme zwischen den Erweiterungen Kartographer und FlaggedRevs werden behoben: Die Umsetzung ist für den 10. Mai in allen Wikis geplant. Kartographer wird dann in den fünf Wikis, in denen die Erweiterung noch nicht aktiviert ist (einschließlich den deutschen Wikipedia), am 24. Mai aktiviert.
• Der Skin Vector (2022) wird als Standard für einige weitere Wikis festgelegt, darunter die Arabischsprachige und Katalanische Wikipedia. Angemeldete Benutzer werden die Möglichkeit haben, zurück zum alten Vector (2010) zu wechseln. Siehe die letzten Neuigkeiten über Vector (2022).

Zukünftige Treffen

• Das nächste offene Treffen mit dem Web-Team über Vector (2022) wird am 17. Mai stattfinden. Die folgenden Treffen sind derzeit geplant für: 7. Juni, 21. Juni, 5. Juli, 19. Juli.

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17:20, 9. Mai 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #519

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
    • International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
  • Past:
    • Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh: video (French), slides: French, English

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Automating Values in Wikibase (new extension)
  • Papers
    • Building a Knowledge Graph of Events and Consequences Using Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Working with the Automated Values extension in Wikibase - YouTube
    • Bringing IIIF Manifests to life in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Fun with lexemes. By Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week
  • MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
  • User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
    • External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
    • External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
    • Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
    • Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
    • Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Slovakia

• Development
  • REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
  • Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
  • We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:11, 9. Mai 2022 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: April 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue IV, April 2022

Headlines

Australia report: Growing the record of Australian Music Belgium report: About African Pagnes and Belgian music Brazil report: Brazil wins the first place in WLM 2021 France report: French GLAM meeting Italy report: Work with GLAMs on Wikisourse and Wikimedia Commons Mexico report: GLAM professionals add an image and become Wikipedians; Edificio Carolino Edit-a-thon New Zealand report: People in Paleontology, Digikult, and copyright term extension for New Zealand Nigeria report: Wikidata for Nigerian Novelist and Novel Poland report: Wikiresidence in progress and workshop Evolution in GLAM in Poland Serbia report: Important activities within the GLAM Sweden report: Training at the National Archives of Sweden; Training at the Stockholm City Museum; Training at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology; Improved images from Swedish Performing Arts Agency Switzerland report: Wikidata Coffee Breaks UK report: Khalili Collections Uruguay report: Wikimedistas de Uruguay report USA report: WVU Libraries; Earth Day-2022-SWC; Wiki-Gap AvoinGLAM report: Open Access vs NFT, GLAM School, Saami language, family trees Content Partnerships Hub report: Enter our logo competition; IGO/INGO; Needs assessments research results; Wrapping up some ISA-things WMF GLAM report: 1Lib1Ref, Image Description Week, Commons calls, and the Add an image events Calendar: May's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #520

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
    • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
    • International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Regional newspaper map with datawrapper and Wikidata
  • Papers
    • CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community (Q111987319)
    • OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts (tool)
  • Videos
    • How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
    • External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Similar web ranking
    • External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
  • Query examples:
    • List of oldest cryptocurrencies
    • Scottish rivers that merge to make a river with a new name (source)
    • List of candidates in the French legislative elections (source)
    • List of people with Elisabeth, Élisabeth or Elizabeth as first name (source)
    • Wikimedians with a Twitch channel (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:38, 16. Mai 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-20

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Einige Wikis können bald die Link-Vorschlagsfunktion nutzen. Damit wird Mittwoch begonnen. Die Wikis sind Katalanischsprachige Wikipedia, Hebräische Wikipedia, Hindisprachige Wikipedia, Koreanischsprachige Wikipedia, Norwegischsprachige (Bokmål) Wikipedia, Portugiesischsprachige Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Schwedischsprachige Wikipedia, Ukrainischsprachige Wikipedia. Dies ist Teil der progressiven Einführung des Werkzeugs in weitere Wikipedien. Die Gemeinschaften können konfigurieren, wie diese Funktion lokal funktioniert. [182]
• Der Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 wird vom 20.–22. Mai online stattfinden. Er wird auf Englisch sein. Es wird auch lokale Hackathon-Treffen in Deutschland, Ghana, Griechenland, Indien, Nigeria und den Vereinigten Staaten geben. Technisch interessierte Wikimedianer können an neuen Software-Projekten arbeiten und neue Fähigkeiten erlernen. Du kannst eine Sitzung anbieten oder ein Projekt beisteuern, an dem du arbeiten möchtest.
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 17 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 18 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 19 Mai (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Du kannst demnächst übersetzbare Seiten im Visual Editor bearbeiten. Übersetzbare Seiten gibt es beispielsweise auf Meta und Commons. [183]

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20:56, 16. Mai 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #521

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
    • 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
    • External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
    • External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID
  • Query examples:
    • Relationships of Roman deities (source)
    • Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
    • Food names after a place in the UK (source)
    • French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
    • Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
    • Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
    • Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
  • First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
  • Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:55, 23. Mai 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-21

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Administratoren, die die mobile Benutzeroberfläche nutzen, können nun von Benutzerseiten aus direkt auf Spezial:Sperren zugreifen. [184]
• Die Portalseite www.wiktionary.org nutzt nun ein automatisiertes Aktualisierungssystem. Andere Projektportale werden in den nächsten paar Monaten aktualisiert. [185]

Probleme

• Das Growth-Team betreibt ein Lotsenprogramm für Neulinge. Bisher gab es für Neulinge keine Opt-Out-Möglichkeit von diesem Programm. Seit dem 19. Mai 2022 können Neulinge das Growth-Lotsenprogramm verlassen, wenn sie keinen Lotsen haben wollen. [186]
• Manche Autoren können nicht auf das Werkzeug zur Inhaltsübersetzung zugreifen, wenn sie es von dem Menü in ihren Benutzerbeiträgen aus aufrufen. An diesem Problem wird gearbeitet. Es sollte jedoch funktionieren, wenn es direkt über Spezial:Inhaltsübersetzung aufgerufen wird. [187]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 24 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 25 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 26 Mai (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Entwickler von Helferleins und Benutzerskripten sind eingeladen, Rückmeldung zu einer vorgeschlagenen technischen Richtlinie zu geben, die die Unterstützung durch MediaWiki-Entwickler verbessern soll. [188]

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02:19, 24. Mai 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-22

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• In der Erweiterung Missbrauchsfilter wurde eine Funktion ip_in_ranges() eingeführt, um zu prüfen, ob eine IP in einer von mehreren Ranges liegt. Wikis wird empfohlen, mehrere Ausdrücke ip_in_range() mit | in einem einzigen Ausdruck zu kombinieren, um die Performance zu verbessern. Du kannst die Suchfunktion auf Spezial:Missbrauchsfilter nutzen, um ihre Verwendungen zu finden. [189]
• Die IP-Info-Funktion, die Benutzern, die in der Vandalismusbekämpfung aktiv sind, dabei hilft, auf Informationen über IPs zuzugreifen, wurde in allen Wikis als Beta-Funktion eingeführt. Dies erfolgt nach einem mehrwöchigen Betatest auf test.wikipedia.org.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 31 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 1 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 2 Juni (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 31 Mai um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Das Neues-Thema-Werkzeug wird bald für alle Autoren in den meisten Wikis aktiviert. Du kannst es im Werkzeug selbst und in deinen Einstellungen deaktivieren. [190][191]
• Die list=usercontribs-API wird es bald ermöglichen, die Beiträge einer IP-Range zu erhalten. API-Nutzer können den Parameter uciprange setzen, um die Beiträge einer IP-Range aus dem Limit zu erhalten. [192]
• Eine neue Parserfunktion wird eingeführt: {{=}}. Sie wird die existierenden Vorlagen mit dem Namen "=" ersetzen. Sie fügt ein Gleichheitszeichen ein. Dies kann genutzt werden, um das Gleichheitszeichen in den Parameterwerten von Vorlagen auszulassen. [193]

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22:27, 30. Mai 2022 (CEST)

nicht zugestellter Wikidata-Newsletter Nr. 522

Hallo, du bist (oder warst noch vor ein paar Tagen) Bezieher des Wikidata-Newsletters. Die Ausgabe Nr. 522 hat leider unseren lokalen Spamfilter ausgelöst und wurde deshalb nicht zugestellt. Du kannst dir den Newsletter aber in anderen Projekten ansehen, wo er zugestellt wurde, zum Beispiel hier. Gruß --Schniggendiller Diskussion 22:01, 4. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-23

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 7 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 8 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 9 Juni (Kalender).
• Eine neue Funktion str_replace_regexp() kann in Missbrauchsfiltern genutzt werden, um Teile eines Textes durch einen regulären Ausdruck zu ersetzen. [194]

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04:44, 7. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #523

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

• Events
  • June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
  • June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
  • July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
    • Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?
  • Papers
    • "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
  • Videos
    • Live Wikidata editing #82 by Ainali and Abbe98

• Tool of the week
  • Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
  • There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
  • Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
  • A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
    • External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
    • External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
    • Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
  • REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:24, 7. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: May 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue V, May 2022

Headlines

Albania report: Summer of Wikivoyage 2022 Argentina report: Face-to-face and virtual events on May Australia report: Over 1000 references added in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand for #1Lib1Ref Belgium report: New Wikidata Property Brazil report: Wiki Loves Espírito Santo is a sucess Estonia report: From university to library Finland report: Photowalks in Southern Finland, spring 2022 France report: International Museum Day 2022 India report: Digitization of Tibetan Buddhist canons, The International Museum Day 2022 Wikidata Competition Italy report: May in and for museums Kosovo report: Cooperation with the National Gallery of Kosova and Summer of Wikivoyage 2022 Malaysia report: WikiGap Malaysia 2022 @ Kuala Lumpur Library New Zealand report: Pacific Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject, Auckland Museum's Exploratory Study and Report back on #1Lib1Ref Poland report: Wikipedian in residence in the National Museum in Cracow; Training at the Wawel Royal Castle National Art Collection; How can we make GLAM’s digital resources more reusable in education?; The International Museum Day 2022 Wikidata Competition Serbia report: New GLAM brochure and Wikilive 2022 Sweden report: Rembrandt and others – drawings from the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm; Stockholm Museum of Women’s History; The map book of Heinrich Thome; Sörmland Museum; Wikidata competition – International Museum Day 2022 Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program UK report: Khalili Collections Uruguay report: Wikimedistas de Uruguay report: 1bib1ref, Museum of Natural History, and more! USA report: Hackathons and Edit-a-thons Content Partnerships Hub report: International Energy Agency share their knowledge and graphics on Wikipedia Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine: looking for test uploads! WMF GLAM report: Results from 1Lib1Ref May 2022 Calendar: June's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #524

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
    • Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
    • William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05)
    • OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
  • Past
    • 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland
    • 50,000 video games on Wikidata by Jean-Frédéric
    • The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)
    • Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database (in Basque)
  • Papers
    • A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
    • WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph
  • Videos
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
    • Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
    • Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
    • DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
    • How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
    • Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
    • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
    • The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata Testimonials
      • Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)
      • Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA)) (in French)
      • Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) (in French)
      • Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich) (in German)

• Tool of the week
  • ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
  • Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
  • Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
  • Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
  • Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
  • New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: orchestrator
    • External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
    • External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID
  • Query examples:
    • Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
    • Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
    • items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
    • Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
    • A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
    • Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
    • Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
    • Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
    • In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
    • Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
    • Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)

• Development
  • Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
  • Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:27, 13. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-24

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Kartographer-Karten können nun in allen Wikis genutzt werden. Kartographer-Karten funktionieren jetzt auf Seiten mit ungesichteten Änderungen. [195][196]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 14 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 15 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 16 Juni (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 14 Juni um 8:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis). [197]
• Ab Mittwoch erhalten einige Wikipedien die Link-Vorschlagsfunktion (Abchasischsprachige Wikipedia, Achinesischsprachige Wikipedia, Adygeischsprachige Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannischsprachige Wikipedia, Amharischsprachige Wikipedia, Aragonesische Wikipedia, Altenglische Wikipedia, Syrischsprachige Wikipedia, Ägyptisch-Arabische Wikipedia, Asturianische Wikipedia, Atikamekwsprachige Wikipedia, Awarische Wikipedia, Aymarasprachige Wikipedia, Aserbaidschanischsprachige Wikipedia, Südaserbaidschanische Wikipedia). Dies ist Teil der progressiven Einführung des Werkzeugs in weitere Wikipedien. Die Gemeinschaften können konfigurieren, wie diese Funktion lokal funktioniert. [198]
• Das Neues-Thema-Werkzeug wird bald für alle Benutzer auf Commons, Wikidata und in einigen anderen Wikis aktiviert. Du kannst es im Werkzeug selbst und in deinen Einstellungen deaktivieren. [199][200]

Zukünftige Treffen

• Das nächste offene Treffen mit dem Web-Team über Vector (2022) wird am heute (13. Juni) stattfinden. Die folgenden Treffen finden statt am: 28. Juni, 12. Juli, 26. Juli.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Bis Ende Juli soll der Skin Vector 2022 bereit sein, der Standard in allen Wikis zu werden. Diskussionen dazu, wie er am besten an die Bedürfnisse der Gemeinschaften angepasst werden kann, werden in den nächsten Wochen beginnen, Es wird immer möglich sein, individuell zu einer vorherigen Version zurückzukehren. Erfahre mehr.

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18:57, 13. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

Kartographer ist da – die Kartensaison ist eröffnet!

Hallo! Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du per Newsletter Technische Wünsche über umgesetzte Wünsche informiert werden möchtest. Vor Kurzem wurde im Themenschwerpunkt „Bessere Unterstützung für Geoinformationen“ ein wichtiger Meilenstein erreicht: Die Softwarefunktion Kartographer ist nun endlich auch auf der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia nutzbar.  Damit gibt es eine weitere Möglichkeit, einfache Karten in Artikeln zu erstellen.

Hast du Lust, die Funktion auszuprobieren? Kennst du Artikel, die von Karten profitieren würden? Dann:

Mach mit bei der Kartensaison!

Dort findest du:

• Beispiele, Informationen und Hilfen zu Kartographer
• andere interessierte Wikipedianer*innen
• ein Forum zum Austausch
• eine Übersicht, welche Artikel im Zuge der Kartensaison schon Karten erhalten haben.

Das Team Technische Wünsche freut sich über rege Beteiligung und über Feedback zu Kartographer!

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Mehr Infos
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Wikidata weekly summary #425

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Integration of POTD template
  • Closed request for comments:
    • How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
    • Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
    • Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
    • (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsiaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
    • Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
    • Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
    • Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
  • Videos
    • Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
  • Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
  • Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
  • Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
    • External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
    • External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID
  • Query examples:
    • Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
    • Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
    • List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
    • Cemeteries in France near churches (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
    • Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
    • Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
    • Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
  • REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to 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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:57, 20. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-25

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Wikipedia Android-App verfügt nun über eine Option zur Bearbeitung der ganzen Seite auf einmal. Sie findet sich im Drei-Punkte-Menü . [201]
• Einige kürzlich erfolgte Datenbank-Änderungen können Abfragen beeinflussen, die das Quarry-Werkzeug nutzen. Abfragen für site_stats in der Englischsprachigen Wikipedia, auf Commons und Wikidata müssen aktualisiert werden. Erfahre mehr.
• Eine neue Variable user_global_editcount kann in Missbrauchsfiltern genutzt werden, um zu verhindern, dass diese global aktive Benutzer betreffen. [202]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 21 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 22 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 23 Juni (Kalender).
• Nutzer von nicht-responsiven Skins (z.B. MonoBook oder Vector) auf Mobilgeräten können möglicherweise eine leichte Änderung des Standard-Zoom-Levels beobachten. Dies ist beabsichtigt, um das Zoomen zu optimieren und sicherzustellen, dass alle Elemente der Benutzeroberfläche auf der Seite vorhanden sind (zum Beispiel das Inhaltsverzeichnis in Vector 2022). Im unwahrscheinlichen Fall, dass dies zu Problemen bei deiner Nutzung der Seite führt, würden wir dies gerne besser verstehen. Bitte pinge bei Diskussionen im Wiki Jon (WMF) an. [203]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Beta-Funktion Diskussionswerkzeuge wird im Juli aktualisiert. Diskussion werden anders aussehen. Du kannst dir einige der vorgeschlagenen Änderungen ansehen.
• Die HTML-Ausgabe wird Datei-Links demnächst nicht mehr mit unterschiedlichen Attributwerten für typeof versehen und stattdessen für alle Typen mw:File nutzen. Autoren von Werkzeugen sollten Code, der mw:Image, mw:Audio oder mw:Video erwartet, anpassen. [204]

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22:16, 20. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #426

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
    • July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
    • The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
    • Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
  • Past:
    • 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
    • Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
    • What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
  • Videos
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
    • The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
  • Podcasts
    • Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
  • Other
    • Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here

• Tool of the week
  • IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: inker, penciller
    • External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
    • External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID
  • Query examples:
    • "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
    • Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
    • The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (phab:T306667)
  • Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (phab:T309445)
  • Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:08, 27. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-26

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Für den API-Dienst Wikimedia Enterprise kann man nun selbst Konten erstellen und kostenlos On-Demand-Abfragen stellen und monatliche Snapshots erhalten (API-Dokumentation). Der Zugriff für die Gemeinschaft über Datenbank-Dumps & Wikimedia-Cloud-Dienste ist weiterhin möglich.
• Alle Wikimedia-Wikis können nun Wikidata-Lexeme in Lua nutzen, sofern sie entsprechende lokale Module und Vorlagen erstellen. Diskussionen dazu sind auf der Projekt-Diskussionsseite erwünscht.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 28 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 29 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 30 Juni (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 28 Juni um 8:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis). [205]
• Einige globale und wiki-übergreifende Dienste werden aufgrund eines Wechsels ihrer Haupt-Datenbank ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 30 Juni um 08:00 MESZ. Dies wird sich auf die Inhaltsübersetzung, Echo, Strukturierte Diskussionen, Growth-Funktionen und ein paar weitere Dienste auswirken. [206]
• Nutzer werden im mobilen Skin Spalten von sortierbaren Tabellen sortieren können. [207]

Zukünftige Treffen

• Das nächste offene Treffen mit dem Web-Team über Vector (2022) wird morgen (28. Juni) stattfinden. Die folgenden Treffen finden statt am 12. Juli und 26. Juli.

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22:01, 27. Jun. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. [208] should have a wiki commons link to [209] since they both refer to [210].

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
    • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
  • Past
    • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
    • Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
    • Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
    • Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
    • Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
  • Report
    • User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
  • Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
    • Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
    • External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
    • Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
    • Map of tram depots in France
    • Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
    • List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
    • French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
    • French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
    • Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
    • Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
    • We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
  • We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
  • We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:22, 4. Jul. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-27

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 5 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 6 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 7 Juli (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 5 Juli um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 7 Juli um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Die Beta-Funktion Diskussionswerkzeuge wird im Juli aktualisiert. Diskussion werden anders aussehen. Du kannst dir einige der vorgeschlagenen Änderungen ansehen.
• Diese Änderung betrifft nur Seiten im Hauptnamensraum auf Wikisource. Die Javascript-Konfigurationsvariable proofreadpage_source_href wird aus mw.config entfernt und durch die Variable prpSourceIndexPage ersetzt. [211]

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21:30, 4. Jul. 2022 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: June 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VI, June 2022

Headlines

Albania report: CEE Spring 2022 in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: In the middle of new projects Australia report: A celebration, a commitment, an edit-a-thon: Know My Name returns for 2022 Belgium report: Heritage and Wikimedian in Residence Brazil report: FIRST WikiCon Brazil & Three States of GLAM Croatia report: Network(ing) effect(s) France report: French open content report promotion Italy report: Opening and closing projects in June Kosovo report: Edit-a-thon with Kino Lumbardhi; DokuTech; CEE Spring 2022 in Albania and Kosovo New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large and Auckland Museum updates Poland report: Wikipedian in residence in the National Museum in Cracow; The next online meeting within the cycle of monthly editing GLAM meetings; Steps to communicate GLAM partnerships better and involve the Wikimedian community Sweden report: 100 000 memories from the Nordic Museum; Report from the Swedish National Archives Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program UK report: Featured images and cultural diversity USA report: Fifty Women Sculptors; Juneteenth Edit-a-thon; Juneteenth Photobooths 2022; Wiknic June 2022; New York Botanical Garden June 2022; LGBT Pride Month Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Structured data on Commons editing now possible with OpenRefine 3.6; file uploading with 3.7 Calendar: July's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #528

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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 call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
    • 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
    • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day
  • Past:
    • Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
    • Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
    • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
    • Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
    • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
    • Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Papers
    • Wikidata and the bibliography of life (Q112959127)
  • Videos
    • Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
    • Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
  • User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
  • Q113000000 was created.
  • Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
  • Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: opus number
    • External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
    • External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID
  • Query examples:
    • Current list of French departments (documentation)
    • Prime ministers of Japan whose manner of death is homicide (source)
    • 1st level administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
    • List of globes and how many times they've been used

• Development
  • Data Quality Days!
  • Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
  • Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
  • Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
    • Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
    • Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
  • REST API:
    • Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
    • Started work on the API route for removing a statement from 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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Update the description of the "of" property in your language.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:29, 11. Jul. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-28

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Im Skin Vector 2022 wird der Seitentitel nun über den Reitern Diskussion, Lesen, Bearbeiten, Versionsgeschichte und Mehr angezeigt. Erfahre mehr darüber. [212]
• Es ist nun möglich, sich einfach die meisten Konfigurationseinstellungen für nur ein Wiki anzusehen und die Einstellungen von zwei Wikis zu vergleichen: Zum Beispiel Einstellungen des japanischen Wiktionarys oder Einstellungen, die sich bei der spanischen Wikipedia und der Esperanto-Wikipedia unterscheiden. Lokale Gemeinschaften können Änderungen ihrer lokalen Einstellungen diskutieren und vorschlagen. Details zu jeder benannten Einstellungen können über die Suche auf MediaWiki.org gefunden werden. [213]
• Das Team Anti-Harassment Tools hat kürzlich die IP-Info-Funktion als Beta-Funktion in allen Wikis eingeführt. Diese Funktion ermöglicht es Benutzern, die in der Vandalismusbekämpfung aktiv sind, auf Informationen über IP-Adressen zuzugreifen. Bitte sieh dir unser Update dazu an, wie man das Werkzeug findet und nutzt. Bitte teile uns dein Feedback mit, indem du einen Link nutzt, der im Werkzeug selbst zu finden ist.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 12 Juli um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Beta-Funktion Diskussionswerkzeuge wird im Juli aktualisiert. Diskussion werden anders aussehen. Du kannst dir einige der vorgeschlagenen Änderungen ansehen.

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21:23, 11. Jul. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #529

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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 Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
    • Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
    • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, Lexical categories
  • Past
    • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. (replay on YouTube)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Barassi Line: a globally unique divider splitting Australia’s footy fans
    • Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata
    • Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia
    • My GLAMorous introduction into the Wikiverse
  • Papers
    • Enriching Wikidata with Linked Open Data
  • Videos
    • Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - YouTube
    • Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
    • The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule.
    • Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Threads
    • OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.

• Tool of the week
  • EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
  • User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job openings:
    • AFLIA: Wikidata Course Manager/Facilitator
    • WMF: Senior Program Officer, Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
  • There is a new Telegram group for OpenRefine users.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
    • External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of recent heatwaves (source)
    • Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata (source)
    • Cause and mode of death of ex-prime ministers (source)
    • Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants (source)
    • Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes (source)
    • People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages (source)
  • Newest database reports:
    • Albums ranked by number of sitelinks

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing
    • Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (phab:T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
  • REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
  • We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
  • EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:41, 18. Jul. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-29

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• Die Funktion Nahegelegene Seiten hat letzte Woche in der mobilen Ansicht gefehlt. Das wird diese Woche behoben. [214]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 19 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 20 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 21 Juli (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Das Forum für Technische Entscheidungen sucht Gemeinschaftsvertreter. Du kannst dich im Wiki oder per Email an TDFSupport@wikimedia.org vor dem 12. August bewerben.

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00:58, 19. Jul. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #530

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot 1. Task/s: Automatically adds author information to Wikidata scholarly articles (items where instance of (P31) = scholarly article (Q13442814)) that have missing author information. Currently works for articles with the following references: PubMed ID (P698), PMCID (P932), Dimensions Publication ID (P6179), ADS bibcode (P819). Part of Outreachy Round 24.
    • BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
    • ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
    • ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
  • New request for comments:
    • Documented and featured SPARQL queries

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
    • [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
    • Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • The Lay of the Land: Data Visualizations of the Language Data and Domains of Wikidata (Q113181609)
  • Videos
    • Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - YouTube
    • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
  • Fellowship: Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's harvest_template.py script.
  • Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
  • OpenRefine 3.6.0 was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the release page for a changelog and download links.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, Delaware Division of Corporations file number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for
    • External identifiers: Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn Artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of driverless rapid transit railway lines worldwide
    • An example of finding problematic references
    • Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)
    • People born on rivers (source)
    • Humans with "native language" "German"

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (phab:T313116)
  • Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (phab:T313467)
  • REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
  • We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (phab:T307869)
  • We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (phab:T312223)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 19:24, 25. Jul. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-30

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Portalseiten www.wikibooks.org und www.wikiquote.org nutzen nun ein automatisiertes Aktualisierungssystem. Andere Projektportale werden in den nächsten paar Monaten aktualisiert. [215]

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche waren einige Wikis für ein paar Minuten aufgrund eines Notfallwechsels ihrer Hauptdatenbank im Lesemodus (betroffene Wikis). [216]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 26 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 27 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 28 Juli (Kalender).
• Das Symbol für externe Links wird in den Skins Vector Legacy und Vector 2022 leicht geändert. Das neue Symbol verwendet einfachere Formen, damit man es besser auf Bildschirmen mit geringer Auflösung erkennen kann. [217]
• Administratoren werden auf Benutzerseiten "Sperre ändern" und "Benutzer freigeben" statt nur "IP-Adresse/Benutzer sperren" sehen, wenn der Benutzer bereits gesperrt ist. [218]

Zukünftige Treffen

• Das nächste offene Treffen mit dem Web-Team über Vector (2022) wird morgen (26. Juli) stattfinden.

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21:25, 25. Jul. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #531

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names|Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
    • EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
    • Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, Software
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
    • Tour de France Femmes : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online
    • Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data
    • Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST
    • Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship (source)
    • This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown
    • Map of notable people based on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD which is based on Wikidata. Made by Topi Tjukanov
    • Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
  • Videos
    • The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - YouTube
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - YouTube
    • WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Generic queries for authors has now generic queries about narrative locations (P840) of works written by an author.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contains the statistical territorial entity, recordist, spoken by
    • External identifiers: Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met Constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Gitee username, Anghami artist ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Base Budé person ID, Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for, Matrix space, Tribe, Prisoner's camp number, field of this item, Linkinfo ID, Zhihu question ID, Baidu Tieba name
    • External identifiers: IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID, Galleria Recta author ID, Business Online ID, Real Time IDs, The Devil's Porridge Museum Worker Database, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Scinapse Author ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ID, National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID
  • Query examples:
    • Grammatical features used on forms of French lexemes (source)
    • Most notable people (by sitelinks) (source)
    • List of draughts (source)
    • Map of NZ graduates based on coordinates of employer (source)

• Development
  • [Significant change] New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module
  • REST API:
    • You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API
    • We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
  • Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
  • Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (phab:T313896)

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.
  • Remove the Vorlage:Q value for property Datei:ButtonYellow31.png. See the list and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:43, 1. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-31

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Dank der Unterstützung des Phantom-Tags sind in den Wikis nun verbesserte LaTeX-Funktionen für mathematische Darstellungen verfügbar. Damit wird der Wunsch auf Platz 59 der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2022 erfüllt.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 2 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 3 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 4 August (Kalender).
• Die Echtzeit-Vorschau wird als Beta-Funktion in den Wikis in Gruppe 0 verfügbar sein. Diese Funktion wurde entwickelt, um einen Vorschlag aus der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste zu erfüllen.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Beta-Funktion Diskussionswerkzeuge wird im August aktualisiert. Diskussion werden anders aussehen. Du kannst dir einige der vorgeschlagenen Änderungen ansehen.

Zukünftige Treffen

• Diese Woche gibt es drei Treffen zu Vector (2022) mit Live-Übersetzung. Am Dienstag wird die Übersetzung auf Russisch angeboten. Am Donnerstag wird auf Arabisch und Spanisch übersetzt. Sieh, wie du teilnehmen kannst.

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23:20, 1. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #532

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Pi bot 26 Task/s: Auto-correct coordinates set to the wrong globe
    • Pi bot 27 Task/s: Auto-copy coordinate globe to located on astronomical body (P376) (except for Q2)
    • William Avery Bot 9 Task/s: Remove tracking parameters from reference URLs, as suggested at Wikidata:Bot requests § Tracking parameters in reference URLs. I would like to run this as a recurring task, after clearing the c. 2800 current instances.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8 (approved) Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names § Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at WD:RBOT § Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
    • The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
  • Past
    • First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Books
    • Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship
  • Blogs
    • Most notable person, everywhere in the world
    • Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!
    • Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata - User:MargaretRDonald
    • Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes
    • Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists in historical Newspaper and Journals
  • Papers
    • Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians Online - Tweet
  • Videos
    • New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022 - User:DrThneed
    • Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia (in French) by VIGNERON and Jsamwrites
    • Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's 10th birthday: you can contribute to the collaborative celebration video by sending a "happy birthday video" before September 18th, more information here

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: recordist, spoken by, foliage type
    • External identifiers: Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID, Super Basketball League ID, Sport24.ru team ID, P. League+ ID, Paleobiology Database ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Theatrical Index person ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Zhihu question ID, counts instances of, holds diplomatic passport of, Identifier of Czechoslovak books
    • External identifiers: Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Baidu Tieba name, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID, identifiant BD oubliées d'un auteur, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, Onestop ID, Federation Council reference ID, athletics.by person ID, AFC player ID, izsambo.ru person ID, Rugby Union of Russia athlete ID, Online Torwali Dictionary ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, USK ID, BiatlonMag profile ID, motocross.ru profile ID, Football 24 article ID, abART book series ID, Turkish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933–1945 ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of death (P570)
    • Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists (source)
    • Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal (source)
    • Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo (source)
    • Places named after Lenin (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292, phab:T313113, phab:T313466)
    • We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
  • Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (phab:T278962)
  • REST API:
    • Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
    • Looking into feedback from first testing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help out, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:37, 8. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-32

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• GUS2Wiki kopiert die Informationen von Spezial:GadgetUsage auf eine Wiki-Seite, sodass du dir ihre Versionsgeschichte ansehen kannst. Wenn dein Projekt nicht im Wikidata-Datenobjekt für Projekt:GUS2Wiki aufgeführt ist, kannst du entweder GUS2Wiki selbst laufen lassen oder die Aktualisierung beantragen. [219]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 9 August um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 11 August um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).

Zukünftige Treffen

• Der Wikimania Hackathon wird vom 12.–14. August online stattfinden. Verpasse nicht die Präsentation vor dem Hackathon, um etwas über Projekte zu erfahren und Mitstreiter zu finden. Jeder kann ein Projekt vorschlagen oder eine Sitzung anbieten. Neulinge sind willkommen!

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21:48, 8. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: July 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VII, July 2022

Headlines

Argentina report: Provinces: our main characters Brazil report: Brazil holds its National Wiki Conference, and many GLAM partners join Colombia report: A very busy July for Colombian libraries / Un Julio bastante movido para las bibliotecas colombianas France report: Wikimedian in residence in Clermont-Ferrand New Zealand report: News from Auckland Museum, the West Coast, and New Zealand's thesis repositories Poland report: Edit-a-thon in the National Museum in Cracow, GLAM editing contest on the collection of artworks Portugal report: Portugal’s first GLAM-Wiki open access museum project is launched!! Serbia report: Presentation of GLAM activities at Edu Wiki Camp UK report: Khalili Collections USA report: GLAM for the Masses AvoinGLAM report: Wikimania Content Partnerships Hub report: Wikimania activities WMF GLAM report: What next for 1Lib1Ref? Calendar: August's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #533

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
  • Ongoing:
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
    • Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, Fire

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Turns out most famous people aren’t that famous at all
    • An introduction to Wikidata: How worlds of Wikimedia link
  • Papers
    • An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph
    • The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement
  • Videos
    • Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata - Overtime Discussion
      • Wikimania Hackathon: Let us play with PubMed to enrich Wikidata with medical information
      • When Quechua meets Wikibase - QICHWABASE
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
    • Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script
    • Some reflections on wikidata and color biology
    • Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements
    • Wikidata tutorials:
      • Add the official street address of an institution
      • Add visitor numbers to an institution
    • Wikidata tutorials (in French):
      • Adding an institution's official website
      • Create a Wikimedia Account
      • Adding a webpage

• Tool of the week
  • KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project? OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
  • Wikimedia integration in OpenRefine: looking for developers

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
    • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
    • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common numbers of statements per item (source)
    • Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category Mosques in Dubai (source)
    • Art people who died in Nazi camps (source)
    • Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item (source)
    • Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article (source)
    • Longest natural watercourses in France (source)
    • Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement
    • Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet

• Development
  • Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
  • Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
  • REST API:
    • Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (phab:T314790)
    • Doing research around PATCH and JSON Patch

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:45, 15. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-33

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die persische (Farsi) Wikipedia-Gemeinschaft hat entschieden, Bearbeitungen von IPs von Oktober 2021 bis April 2022 zu verbieten. Das Produktanalytik-Team der Wikimedia Foundation hat den Einfluss dieser Änderung verfolgt. Ein Einflussbericht ist nun verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 16 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 17 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 18 August (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 16 August um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 18 August um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Die Echtzeit-Vorschau wird als Beta-Funktion in den Wikis in Gruppe 1 verfügbar sein. Diese Funktion wurde entwickelt, um einen Vorschlag aus der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste zu erfüllen.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Beta-Funktion Diskussionswerkzeuge wird im August aktualisiert. Diskussionen werden anders aussehen. Du kannst dir einige der vorgeschlagenen Änderungen ansehen. [220][221][222]

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23:06, 15. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #534

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (successful)
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French
    • Alternate disclosure policy

• Events
  • Past events:
    • Clutch sprint August 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Automatic word relatedness evaluation
  • Videos
    • Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
    • Highlights from Wikimania 2022
      • Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation By Mahir Morshed
      • Partner Up for Wikidata!
      • Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities
      • Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project
  • Tutorial
    • Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks

• Tool of the week
  • List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
  • Template:Documented queries skeleton
  • Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
  • OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
    • External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
    • External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)¹
    • Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL" (source)
    • Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China (Source)
    • Journals with the most retractions (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
  • REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
  • Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:39, 22. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-34

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Zwei Probleme mit Kartographer-Karten wurden behoben. Karten werden nicht mehr als leer angezeigt, wenn eine Geozeile über den VisualEditor erstellt wurde. Geozeilen, die aus Punkten mit QIDs bestehen (z.B. U-Bahn-Linien), werden nicht mehr mit Reiszwecken angezeigt. [223][224]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 23 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 24 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 25 August (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 25 August um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Die Farbe von Links und besuchten Links wird sich ändern. Dadurch soll der Unterschied zwischen Links und anderem Text deutlicher werden. [225]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die neue Schaltfläche [Abonnieren] hilft Neulingen dabei, Antworten zu erhalten. Das Bearbeitungsteam aktiviert dieses Werkzeug überall. Du kannst es in deinen Einstellungen deaktivieren. [226]

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02:09, 23. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #535

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Small wiki toolkits/Workshops#Writing Wikidata queries using the WDQS tool
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
  • Past:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
    • Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
    • Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
    • Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
  • Papers
    • DrNote: An open medical annotation service
  • Videos
    • [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
    • Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
    • Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)

• Tool of the week
  • SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
  • The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
  • The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
  • Open vacancy:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia - Technology internships in the GLAM and Wikidata fields

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
    • External identifiers: IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
    • External identifiers: Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Occupations as classified by ISCO/ESCO (source)
    • Occupation of people in the New Zealand Thesis Project (source)
    • Average weights and heights of sportsmen (source)
    • Letters by numbers of alphabet where they are found (source)

• Development
  • REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:46, 29. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-35

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Echtzeit-Vorschau ist als Betafunktion in Wikis der Gruppe 2 verfügbar. Diese Funktion wurde entwickelt, um einen Vorschlag aus der Community-Wunschliste umzusetzen. Bitte beachte, dass es zu Problemen mit wikispezifischen Helferleins kommen kann, wenn diese Betafunktion aktiviert wird.

Probleme

• In den letzten Monaten gab es fehlerhafte Zahlen auf Spezial:Statistik auf Commons, Wikidata und in der Englischsprachigen Wikipedia. Dies wurde nun behoben. [227]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 30 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 31 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 1 September (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 30 August um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 1 September um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Wikimedia Foundation will verbessern, wie Wikimedia-Gemeinschaften schädliche Vorfälle melden, indem sie ein Privates Meldesystem für Vorfälle (PIRS) entwickelt, über das Benutzer einfach und sicher Meldungen erstellen können. Du kannst Kommentare auf der Diskussionsseite hinterlassen, indem du die Fragen beantwortest. Wenn du bereits einer schädlichen Situation begegnet bist, die du melden wolltest oder gemeldet hast, kannst du an einem PIRS-Interview teilnehmen, um deine Erfahrungen zu teilen. Bitte sende dafür eine Email an Madalina Ana.

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01:02, 30. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

Newsletter: Austausch über Technische Wünsche im September online – sei dabei

Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter Technische Wünsche (Rubrik „Workshops“) abonniert hast.

Hallo, im September lädt dich das Projektteam Technische Wünsche herzlich ein, einen unserer Online-Workshops zu besuchen.

Worum geht’s? Die Tech on Tour ist eine Workshopreihe, in der sich die Aktiven in den Wikis schon seit einigen Jahren mit dem Team Technische Wünsche über Softwareentwicklung austauschen. In diesem Jahr soll es um die Arbeit im Projekt Technische Wünsche selbst gehen, und wie wir sie noch verbessern können, zum Beispiel:

• Wie gut funktionieren die die Mitmachmöglichkeiten, die es gibt?
• Wie könnten wir noch mehr Menschen dafür gewinnen, sich zu beteiligen?
• Und unterstützt das Projekt die Wikicommunitys überhaupt bestmöglich?

Um dabei zu sein, muss man ausdrücklich nicht besonders technisch versiert sein oder besonders lange in einem Wiki aktiv sein. Es reicht, ein Interesse daran zu haben, dass sich die Bedienbarkeit von Wikipedia & Co verbessert. Weil du diesen Newsletter abonniert hast, würden wir uns sehr freuen, wenn du dabei bist: Denn du hast schon einige Erfahrungen mit dem Projekt Technische Wünsche – und sei es, dass du Einladungen zum Mitmachen bisher bewusst nicht gefolgt bist. Diese Erfahrungen sind für den Workshop sehr wertvoll.

Wann? Im September. Die genauen Termine stehen noch nicht fest. Es wird fünf Termine geben: einen Termin für alle, und für einige Gruppen bieten wir dieses Mal separate Treffen an, damit wir zielgerichtet diskutieren können.

Bis zum 8.9. kannst du hier eintragen, welche Termine dir passen. Es finden dann die Termine mit den meisten Interessent*innen statt.

Zu den Terminen

Technische Wünsche: Tech on Tour · Wünsche notieren · Status der gewählten Themenschwerpunkte · Newsletter

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (Diskussion) 12:11, 5. Sep. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #536

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
    • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
  • Papers
    • Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Find museums without official website on Wikidata
      • Add coordinates of an institution
      • Different ways to display SPARQL queries
      • How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
    • External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
    • External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
    • Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
    • Education of French prefects (source)
    • Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
    • Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
    • Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
    • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
    • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
  • Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:51, 5. Sep. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-36

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 6 September verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 7 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 8 September (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 6 September um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 8 September um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Auf Spezialseiten, die nur einen Reiter haben, wird die Zeile für Reiter im Skin Vector-2022 versteckt, um Platz zu sparen. Die Zeile wird weiterhin angezeigt, wenn sie von Helferleins genutzt wird. Helferleins, die direkt an die CSS-ID von #p-namespaces angehängt werden, sollten aktualisiert werden, sodass sie stattdessen die Funktion mw.util.addPortletLink nutzen. Helferleins, die diese ID formatieren, sollten erwägen, auch auf #p-associated-pages, die neue ID für diese Zeile, abzuzielen. Beispiele sind verfügbar. [228][229]

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01:19, 6. Sep. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #537

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
    • Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Introducing Knowledge Graphs featuring Elena Simperl - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #89 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Adding the address of an institution (in French) - YouTube
  • Dataviz
    • All Tour de France's stage winners from 1903 to today
    • All Vuelta's stage winners by country of citizenship

• Tool of the week
  • View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
  • Job opening:
    • Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
    • External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
  • Query examples:
    • Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
    • Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
    • Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
    • Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
    • Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
    • Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)

• Development
  • REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
  • Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:32, 12. Sep. 2022 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: August 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VIII, August 2022

Headlines

Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign in Albania and Kosovo in 2022 Australia report: Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney Brazil report: In-person and online activities hosted by Brazil during Wikimania 2022 Estonia report: Summer in WMEE - from collecting professors´ portraits to new potential co-operations Germany report: Coins and paintings by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Indonesia report: 4 Islands Outreach; Digital Clippings; Balinese Wikisource Competition Italy report: Italian institutions ever closer to Wiki Loves Monuments Kosovo report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign and Wikivoyage Netherlands report: West Africa in the Van der Kraaij Photo Collection 1972-1987 New Zealand report: A Wikipedian at Large Poland report: The summary of GLAM editing contest and the end of residency at the National Museum in Cracow; Cooperation with Wawel Royal Castle; Hack(art)hon for Zachęta Portugal report: Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata Serbia report: Contemporary Art Edit-a-thon and Wikipedian in residence at the Historical Archive of Negotin Sweden report: 100 000 Bildminnen; Uniforms, images from New Sweden, colonial officers, the map book of Fryderyk Getkant, and more!; Swedish general election 2022 UK report: Culturally diversifying Wikipedia Uruguay report: Wikimuseos & editing clubs in Uruguay USA report: Wikimania, Meetups and More AvoinGLAM report: Crisis & GLAM Content Partnerships Hub report: Tools; Helpdesk; IGO/INGO Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: New tool in development utilizing Structured Data WMF GLAM report: Capacity building for Bophana Center Calendar: September's GLAM events

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Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-37

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Suchserver haben ein grundlegendes Update erhalten. Wenn bei der Suche Probleme auftreten, melde sie bitte im Phabricator. [230]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 13 September verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 14 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 15 September (Kalender).
• Die Syntax-Hervorhebung wird nun als aufwendige Parser-Funktion verfolgt. Auf einer einzelnen Seite können nur 500 aufwendige Funktionsaufrufe verwendet werden. Seiten, die das Limit überschreiten, werden zu einer Wartungskategorie hinzugefügt. [231]

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03:47, 13. Sep. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #538

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • بوٹ دا عثمان
      • Task/s:
        • Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
        • Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
    • The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Vue le vue, by Magnus Manske
    • Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board election
  • Papers
    • Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
    • Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
    • WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
    • Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
    • Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
    • Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
      • Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
      • Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
    • ContribuLing 2021
      • Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
      • Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
      • Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by "Report an issue" method
  • Dataviz
    • A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
  • Presentation
    • New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022

• Tool of the week
  • WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
    • External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
    • External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
    • Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
    • List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
    • Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
    • People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
    • French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
    • Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
    • World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
    • Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
    • Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
    • Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
    • Cause of death of US presidents by party

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
    • Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
    • Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
    • Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
  • Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
  • Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
  • Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:20, 19. Sep. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-38

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Zwei Datenbankfelder in der Tabelle templatelinks werden jetzt gelöscht: tl_namespace und tl_title. Alle Abfragen, die sich auf diese Felder verlassen, müssen so geändert werden, dass sie das neue Normalisierungsfeld tl_target_id nutzen. Siehe T299417 für weitere Informationen. Dies ist Teil der Normalisierung von Linktabellen. [232][233]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 20 September verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 21 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 22 September (Kalender).
• In Kartographer-Karten kannst du als Markierungen für interessante Orte Symbole verwenden. Am Dienstag wird das alte Symbol-Set auf Version Maki 7.2 aktualisiert. Das bedeutet, dass rund 100 neue Symbole verfügbar sein werden. Zusätzlich werden alle bereits existierenden Symbole aus Gründen der Übersichtlichkeit und damit sie in internationalen Zusammenhängen besser funktionieren, aktualisiert. [234][235]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Bei einer Gruppendiskussion bei der Wikimania haben sich mehr als 30 Personen darüber unterhalten, wie Software für inhaltliche Partnerschaften in der Wikimedia-Bewegung nachhaltiger gemacht werden kann. Welche Art von Unterstützung ist für freiwillige Entwickler geeignet? Lies die Zusammenfassung und hinterlasse deine Rückmeldung.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:13, 20. Sep. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #539

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

• 🧵 Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • JhsBot 6
      • Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • 2022 September status on Danish lexemes in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #91 - YouTube
    • How donations to Wikidata work (in English with French subtitles) - YouTube
    • BridgeDB & Wikidata. A powerful combination that generates interoperable open research (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Presentations
    • Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
  • The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
    • External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
  • Query examples:
    • Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
    • Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
    • Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
    • Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
    • Song titles that match female given names (source)
    • Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
    • Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
    • Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
    • People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
    • Software license, by year (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Hiking trails

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
  • Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
  • Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)

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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Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-39

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Parsoid-Clients sollten aktualisiert werden, um mehrere durch Leerzeichen getrennte Werte im Attribut rel von Links zu erlauben. Weitere Details finden sich in T315209.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 27 September verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 28 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 29 September (Kalender).
• Visuelle Versionsunterschiede werden für alle Benutzer verfügbar werden, außer für Wiktionary und Wikipedia. [236]
• Diskussionsseiten in der mobilen Ansicht werden in den Wikipedia-Sprachversionen auf Arabisch, Bengalisch, Chinesisch, Französisch, Haitianisch, Hebräisch, Koreanisch und Vietnamesisch geändert. Sie sollen einfacher zu nutzen sein und mehr Informationen bieten. [237] [238]
• Im Modul-Namensraum werden Seiten, die mit .json enden, als JSON behandelt, wie es bereits bei Seiten im Benutzer- und MediaWiki-Namensraum der Fall ist. [239]

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:27, 27. Sep. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-40

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Kartographer-Karten können nun Geopunkte aus Wikidata per QID oder SPARQL-Abfrage anzeigen. Zuvor war dies nur für Geoformen und Geozeilen möglich. [240] [241]
• Für den Coolest Tool Award 2022 werden Nominierungen gesucht. Werkzeuge können bis zum 12. Oktober vorgeschlagen werden.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 4 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 5 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 6 Oktober (Kalender).
• Diskussionsseiten in der mobilen Ansicht werden in den Wikipedia-Sprachversionen auf Arabisch, Bengalisch, Chinesisch, Französisch, Haitianisch, Hebräisch, Koreanisch und Vietnamesisch geändert. Sie sollen einfacher zu nutzen sein und mehr Informationen bieten. (Die Veröffentlichung letzte Woche hat sich verzögert) [242] [243]
• Das API-Modul scribunto-console wird ein CSRF-Token benötigen. Dieses Modul ist als intern dokumentiert und seine Nutzung wird nicht unterstützt. [5]
• Der Skin Vector 2022 wird in den kleinsten Wikimedia-Projekten der Standard werden. Erfahre mehr.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:21, 4. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #540

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • EuropeanCommissionBot 1
      • Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
    • William Avery Bot 10
      • Task/s: Fix instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143)-->Minor Planet Center (Q522039) to stated in (P248)-->Minor Planet Center Database (Q106600690) as requested at Request to fix certain instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143) (2022-09-25)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
      • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
      • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
    • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney
    • Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata
    • Wiki Loves…. Wikidata!
    • More Picasso paintings in one year than all the Vermeer paintings? (Answering an art history question SPARQL).
  • Papers
    • LOD4Culture: Easy Exploration of Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data
    • Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
    • 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
    • Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
  • View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
  • 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
  • It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
  • Job openings
    • Open call for a WiR at The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Senior Software Engineer (Wikibase.Cloud)
      • Software Engineer (Wikibase Suite)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: won sets
    • External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
    • External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
    • Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
    • British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
    • Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
    • Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
    • Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
    • Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
    • People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
    • Films with "it" in the title (source)
    • Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
    • Emblems depicting birds! (source)
    • Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
  • REST API:
    • Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
    • Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
  • Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:38, 4. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: September 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue IX, September 2022

Headlines

Albania report: Wiki Loves EuroPride in Albania Australia report: Behind the scenes with Australia's Wiki Loves Earth 2022 winner Austria report: A Börthday present for Wikidata - the DACH Culture Contest Brazil report: Reopening of Museu Paulista and other news France report: Meeting with Prime minister cultural adviser; Residence at the Brittany Museum India report: Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949 Indonesia report: GLAM Socialization; Wikistories for GLAM Competition Italy report: September month of results and planning Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Monuments Suriname first edition: 554 photos New Zealand report: New Zealand Thesis Project and Te Papa Forget-me-nots Poland report: The results of GLAM editing contest; GLAM Coordinators Meeting Serbia report: External projects, great results and high level of independence Sweden report: Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022 Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm UK report: Islamic art and global art USA report: Advocacy and Invention; New Smithsonian WiR; Called to Create; DC Statehood and Home Rule; Annual meeting; Wikipedian in Residence Opportunity at the Pérez Art Museum Miami Content Partnerships Hub report: Workshops on tool prioritization and helpdesk Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: View it! tool development update Calendar: October's GLAM events

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Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-41

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 11 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 12 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 13 Oktober (Kalender).
• In manchen Wikis können Kartographer-Karten in vollständiger Größe nahegelegene Artikel anzeigen. Nach einer Phase für Rückmeldungen werden weitere Wikis folgen. [244][245]

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16:06, 10. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #541

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

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
    • UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
  • Ongoing
    • DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
  • Past
    • The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 1 (en, de)
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 2 (en, de)
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #93
    • DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
    • Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
  • Dataviz
    • All Nobel laureates by year and gender
    • Tribute to Annie Ernaux, Literature Nobel lauréate in 2022

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50)

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image
    • External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
    • External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
    • Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
    • "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
    • Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
    • Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
    • Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
    • Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
    • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
  • Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
  • Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
  • Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:21, 10. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #542

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
    • RobertgarrigosBOT
      • Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
    • Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
    • Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
    • Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
  • Papers
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #94
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 10: Adding references to Wikidata items
    • Qichwabase as a Wikibase instance - Wikibase as a core technology to support a harmonization process of the Quechua language and knowledge.
  • Dataviz
    • Career of Nobel laureates in literature
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers careers in dataviz
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
    • 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
    • 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
  • The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
  • The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
  • Job opening
    • Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
    • External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
    • External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
    • Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
    • How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
    • Streets of Paris that meet (source)
    • Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
    • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
  • Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
  • The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
  • Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
  • Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
  • Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
  • Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
  • Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 19:36, 17. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-42

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die kürzlich implementierte Funktion dee Artikel-Vorschaubilder auf Spezial:Suche wird auf Wikipedia-Projekte beschränkt. Weitere Details dazu finden sich in T320510. [246]
• Ein Fehler, der Probleme beim Laden von Artikel-Vorschaubildern auf Spezial:Suche verursacht hat, wurde behoben. Weitere Details finden sich in T320406.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 18 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 19 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 20 Oktober (Kalender).
• Autoren von Lua-Modulen können mw.loadJsonData() nutzen, um Daten aus JSON-Seiten zu laden. [247]
• Autoren von Lua-Modulen können require( "strict" ) aktivieren, um Fehler für bestimmte mögliche Code-Probleme hinzuzufügen. Dies ersetzt das "Modul:No globals" in den meisten Wikis. [248]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Beta-Funktion Diskussionswerkzeuge wird in den meisten Wikis aktualisiert. Die Schaltfläche "Beantworten" wird nach dieser Änderung anders aussehen. [249]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 17. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #543

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AniMangaDBImportBot
      • Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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 Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
    • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
    • Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables
  • Past
    • The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
      • Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports
      • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • The Impact of Wikidata and its Community – Part 1, Part 2
    • Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
    • What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
    • Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
    • Volunteers speaking Turkic languages ​​met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
  • Videos
    • Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #95
    • GND meets Wikibase
    • COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
    • Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
    • Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
    • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
  • Papers
    • Towards improving Wikidata reuse with emerging patterns
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections
    • Empirical Study of Elite Networks with Wikidata
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data
  • Dataviz
    • Nobel laureates in Economics
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 awesome tools and little helpers to help you around Wikidata
    • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • Documenting our languages with Lexeme by Asaf Bartov

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.

Wikidata passed another milestone on October 19.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata has crossed the mark of 100,000,000 items
  • The Small wiki toolkits team are looking for feedback on the ongoing workshop series around bots and scripts development.
  • Job openings
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d)
      • Data Analyst Wikidata (m/f/d)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
    • External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to (source)
    • People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin (source)
    • Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics (source)
    • Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association (source)
    • Flags containing the colors white and yellow (source)
    • AI models (source)
    • Swedes accused for churel (source)
    • Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (phab:T307866)
  • Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360)
  • Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289)
  • REST API:
    • Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681)
    • Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 19:22, 24. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-43

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Es gab einige kleinere Korrekturen an Spezial:Suche bezüglich der Ausrichtung des Audioplayers und der Höhe des Platzhalters für Bilder. Weitere Details finden sich in T319230.
• In Wikipedias wurde eine neue Einstellung hinzugefügt, um Artikel-Vorschaubilder in Spezial:Suche auszublenden. Weitere Details finden sich in T320337.

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche konnten drei Wikis (Französischsprachige Wikipedia, Japanischsprachige Wikipedia, Russischsprachige Wikipedia) für 25 Minuten nur gelesen, aber nicht bearbeitet werden. Dies wurde durch ein Hardwareproblem verursacht. [250]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 25 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 26 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 27 Oktober (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 25 Oktober um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 27 Oktober um 9:00 MESZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Ab Mittwoch erhalten einige Wikipedien die Link-Vorschlagsfunktion (Assamesische Wikipedia, Baschkirische Wikipedia, Balinesische Wikipedia, Bairische Wikipedia, Samogitische Wikipedia, Zentralbikolanosprachige Wikipedia, Weißrussische Wikipedia, Weißrussische Wikipedia mit klassischer (Taraškievica-)Rechtschreibung, Bulgarischsprachige Wikipedia, Bhodschpurisprachige Wikipedia, Bislamasprachige Wikipedia, Banjaresische Wikipedia, Bambarasprachige Wikipedia, Bishnupriyasprachige Wikipedia, Bretonische Wikipedia, Bosnischsprachige Wikipedia, Buginesische Wikipedia, Burjatische Wikipedia, Indonesische Wikipedia). Dies ist Teil der progressiven Einführung des Werkzeugs in weitere Wikipedien. Die Gemeinschaften können konfigurieren, wie diese Funktion lokal funktioniert. [251]
• Ab Mittwoch, dem 26. Oktober 2022, wird die Liste von Lotsen in Wikis, in denen das Growth-Lotsensystem verfügbar ist, verbessert. Das Lotsensystem wird weiterhin wie bisher funktionieren. Der Prozess zur Registrierung als Lotse wird ersetzt und eine neue Verwaltungsfunktion wird angeboten. Diese Änderung vereinfacht die Erstellung von Lotsensystemen in Wikipedias. [252][253][254]
• Seiten mit Titeln, die mit einem Kleinbuchstaben nach Unicode 11 beginnen, werden umbenannt oder gelöscht. Es gibt eine Liste betroffener Seiten auf m:Unicode 11 case map migration. Weitere Informationen finden sich in T292552.
• Der Skin Vector 2022 wird in den kleinsten Wikipedias der Standard werden. Erfahre mehr.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Das Antwort-Werkzeug und das Werkzeug für neue Themen werden bald ein Menü für Sonderzeichen erhalten. [255]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 24. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Wünsche: Neue Funktion „Artikel in der Nähe“ und mehr Verbesserungen rund um Karten

Hallo! Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter der Technischen Wünsche abonniert hast.

In dieser Newsletter-Ausgabe gibt es einiges zu feiern. Im aktuellen Themenschwerpunkt „Bessere Unterstützung von Geoinformationen“ hat das Technische Wünsche Team kürzlich gleich drei große Verbesserungen an Kartographer vorgenommen:

• Die neue „Artikel in der Nähe anzeigen“-Funktion macht es möglich, sich in der Kartenvollansicht Artikel in der Nähe anzeigen zu lassen. Diese Funktion dürfte auch für diejenigen interessant sein, die selbst keine Karten erstellen. Bislang ist die Funktion in einer ersten Fassung auf einigen ersten Wikis verfügbar, unter anderem hierzuwiki. Projektseite. Ort für dein Feedback.
• Für Wikidata-Kenner*innen: Es ist nun möglich, auf einer Karte Marker mittels einer Wikidata-ID oder SPARQL-Abfrage aus Wikidata anzuzeigen. Bisher funktionierte das nur mit Geoformen und Linien. Projektseite. Ort für dein Feedback.
• Wenn man einen Marker mit einem besonderen Symbol versehen möchte, steht dafür nun eine erweiterte und schönere Liste von Symbolen (aus der Bibliothek Maki 7.2) zur Verfügung. Projektseite. Ort für dein Feedback.

• 
  "Artikel in der Nähe"- Funktion in Aktion auf dewiki
• 
  Geopunkte aus einer SPARQL-Abfrage
• 
  Karte mit Marker-Symbolen

P.S.: Außerdem stehen in Kürze kleinere Verbesserungen am VisualEditor-Dialog von Kartographer bevor. In der Registerkarte „Optionen“ werden einige Möglichkeiten eingeführt, die es bislang nur im Wikitext gab. Der Dialog wird also insgesamt benutzerfreundlicher. Projektseite. Ort für dein Feedback. Die Übersicht aller Verbesserungen an Kartographer gibt es hier. -- Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 13:52, 25. Okt. 2022 (CEST)

Technische Wünsche: Wünsche notieren · Status der gewählten Themenschwerpunkte · Newsletter

Wikidata weekly summary #544

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

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
  • Past
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
    • Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
      • Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
      • Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
      • Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
    • Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday collaborative video (Youtube, Commons)
    • Livestream with Jan Ainali, Abbe98, Denny Vrandečić and Sandra Fauconnier for Wikidata's birthday (Youtube)
  • Threads
    • History of Wikidata by Denny Vrandečić
    • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
    • 10 WikiProjects you should join
    • 10 tools and helpers to help you around Wikidata
    • 10 websites and apps built on top of Wikidata
    • 10 queries that teach you something about the world
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: embargoed until
    • External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
    • External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID
  • Query examples:
    • Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
    • Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
    • Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
    • French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
    • Graph of filmi music composers (source)
    • Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
    • Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
  • Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
  • REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• ☑️ Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 20:19, 31. Okt. 2022 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-44

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Bei Nutzung der Tastaturnavigation in einer Kartographer-Karte wird der Fokus sichtbarer. [256]
• Du kannst in Spezial:Letzte Änderungen nun Logbucheinträge für die Erstellung von neuen Benutzerkonten mit dem Filter für "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽" ausblenden. [257]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 1 November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 2 November. Auf allen Wikis ab 3 November (Kalender).
• Der Kartendialog im VisualEditor erhält Hilfetexte. [258]
• Es ist nun möglich, die Sprache einer Kartographer-Karte im VisualEditor über ein aufklappbares Menü auszuwählen. [259]
• Es ist nun möglich, im VisualEditor eine Beschriftung zu einer Kartographer-Karte hinzuzufügen. [260]
• Es ist nun möglich, den Rahmen einer Kartographer-Karte im VisualEditor auszublenden. [261]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:13, 31. Okt. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #545

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MsynBot 10, Mr Robot
  • New request for comments: Create items for property proposals
  • Other discussions: State of the Wikidata, thoughts on data quality and structure (on the mailing-list)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
    • Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
    • Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Analysis of City Information on Wikidata by Jsamwrites
    • Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia by Tim Sherratt
    • Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Papers
    • Leveraging Wikidata's edit history in knowledge graph refinement tasks (Gonzalez-Hevia and Gayo-Avello)
  • Videos
    • Practical Linked Open Data for Small Archives (in English)
    • Live Wikidata editing #97 with Jan and Albin

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: collection items at
    • External identifiers: Language of Bindings ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, AUTC herritage object ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Universal Content Identifier, Léonore Web ID, BritBox ID (UK version), OMED ID, Municipal Library of Trikala ID, MMB ID, HiSCoD ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ILAMDIR ID, Cannabis Database ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, island code of Indonesia, SR-Archiv print media ID, SR-Archiv record ID, EuDML work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official demo URL, WMOOV movie ID, press information URL, contact page URL, sitemap URL, REGON, Check Digit, impressum URL, from language & to language, object identifies
    • External identifiers: Oblio author ID, Pittori Liguri ID, Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, SciSpace author ID, RomArchive person ID, Webtoon creator ID, Archives West repository ID, npm scope, Team Norway profile ID, identifiant USTC, worldofsam ID, Open Supply Hub organization ID, Kotobank ID, Weblio ID, Haymarket Books Author ID, ILNM ID, BookWalker series ID, IRIS Sicily IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Intangible cultural heritage (source)
    • Wikimedians with Mastodon accounts
    • Politicians with Mastodon accounts (source)
    • Graph of the characters of the book "We Are Here" (source)
    • Map of birth places of women mentioned in the book "Femmes de lettres en Bretagne" (source)
    • Participants in the 1955 Bandung Conference (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
  • Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
  • Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
  • Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
  • REST API:
    • Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:59, 7. Nov. 2022 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-45

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Eine aktualisierte Version des Werkzeugs zur Veranstaltungsanmeldung steht nun zum Testen auf testwiki und test2wiki zur Verfügung. Das Werkzeug bietet Funktionen für Organisatoren und Teilnehmer von Veranstaltungen an. Wir freuen uns über deine Rückmeldung auf der Diskussionsseite des Projekts. Weitere Informationen über das Projekt sind verfügbar. [262]

Probleme

• Zweimal in der letzten Woche wurden für etwa 45 Minuten einige Dateien und Vorschaubilder nicht geladen und Uploads sind fehlgeschlagen. Dies betraf überwiegend angemeldete Benutzer. Der Grund dafür wird derzeit untersucht und ein Ereignisbericht wird bald verfügbar sein.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue X, October 2022

Headlines

Albania report: Wikimedian in Residence in Albania Australia report: Celebrating Wikidata, and over 400 new Wikipedia pages Brazil report: WLM Brazil, HR & Environment Wikicontest, and GLAM with Atlantic Forest National Institut Estonia report: Chuvash people in WMEE and Photo contest Indonesia report: GLAM Talk; Javanese Wikisource Workshop Italy report: Touring Club Italiano: updates and uploads Netherlands report: About the Dutch Wiki Loves Fashion 2022 New Zealand report: TDWG2022 and Molluscs Poland report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 selection process in progress; GLAM online meeting on evaluation of ten editions Wiki Loves Monuments in Poland Serbia report: GLAMorous October; Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade; CEE Meeting Sweden report: Women and architechture Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program UK report: Khalili Foundation USA report: Asian American Edit-a-thons and More Content Partnerships Hub report: First batch upload; list of tools Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: View it! tool: now with Commons category search! WMF GLAM report: AfLIA Wikisource webinar, Wiki Rescues Manuscripts & European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting Calendar: November's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #546

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 11
      • Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular daily
    • VojtěchDostálBot 1
      • Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 10
      • Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
    • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n)
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Awesome Wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information
    • The Wednesday index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article
    • The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria
    • Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon
    • Checking lexical forms - Abstract Wikipedia Updates
  • Papers
    • Building the European Social Innovation Database with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
    • WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark
  • Videos
    • Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest.
    • David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube
    • Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube
    • 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
  • Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, JioSaavn artist ID, England Hockey ID, UWIND ID, NCUA Charter ID, FDIC Certificate ID, Niconico ID, Camp Wild ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, MSVF ID, Central Library of Volos authority ID, Aerodrome identification Code, UOM ID, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, Levadia Library ID, IHF profile ID, ihg Hotel ID, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Louisiana Plant ID, WMOOV movie ID, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: subfunction, mastodon URL, unique name, user input & output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme, fruit color, headline, chapter or section
    • External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID, Wyndham Hotel ID, Hilton Hotel ID, DML-CZ publication ID, Accor Hotel ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon, Hlídač státu, Kirjasampo ID, Boksampo ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID, KOBIS people ID, RISM siglum, Infopédia ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
  • Query examples:
    • Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata
    • Mastodon accounts of researchers (source)
    • Most annotated servers according to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address (source)
    • European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude (source)
    • Map of water bodies in France (source)
    • Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize (source)
    • Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
    • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
  • Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
  • New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:01, 14. Nov. 2022 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-46

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Auf Wikidata kann ein Interwikilink nun auf eine Weiterleitungsseite verweisen, wenn bestimmte Bedingungen erfüllt werden. Diese neue Funktion heißt Seitenlinks auf Weiterleitungen. Sie wird benötigt, wenn in einem Wiki mehrere Konzepte auf einer Seite behandelt werden, ein anderes Wiki hingegen mehrere Seiten nutzt, um das gleiche Konzept zu behandeln. Bitte gib auf der Diskussionsseite des Entwurfs der neuen Richtlinien Rückmeldung. [263]
• Die Portalseiten www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org und www.wikivoyage.org nutzen nun ein automatisiertes Aktualisierungssystem. [264]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 15 November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 16 November. Auf allen Wikis ab 17 November (Kalender).
• Es wird einen neuen Link geben, um Vorlagendaten direkt aus der Ausgabe, die auf Vorlagenseiten angezeigt wird, zu bearbeiten. [265]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Wikis, in denen Diskussionswerkzeuge aktiviert sind (diese), werden bald vollständiges CSS-Styling nutzen, um Vorlagen anzuzeigen, die sich oben auf Diskussionsseiten befinden. Um diese "Boxen auf Diskussionsseiten" für Mobilgeräte mit schmalem Bildschirm zu adaptieren, kannst du Medienabfragen nutzen, wie in diesem Beispiel. [266]
• Ab 2023 wird Community Tech die Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste alle zwei Jahre durchführen. Dies bedeutet, dass es 2024 keine neuen Vorschläge und keine Abstimmung geben wird.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:52, 14. Nov. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #547

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cewbot 5
      • Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
    • Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Apple Podcasts is auto-tagging episodes with topics
  • Papers
    • Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
    • Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube
    • SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
    • Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: build system, tiratge, official demo URL, pinout, sitemap URL
    • External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID, Baidu Tieba name, DrugCentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID, Musicsperlacobla composer ID, Boig Sardanista sardana ID, npm scope, IRIS UNICT author ID, IRIS UNIME author ID, IRIS UNIPA author ID, IRIS UNIKORE author ID, Hlídač státu person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has visual representation, chapter and verse in the Bible, commit hash, official server list URL, translation management URL
    • External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID, SNE publisher ID, Livres Hebdo ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, AniList staff ID, ECOF saint ID, DFK Paris person ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID
  • Query examples:
    • Finding the first revision and original creator of items with mwapi
    • Mastodon accounts (with Twitter equivalents) (source)
    • Gender balances of winners of literary awards (source)
  • Newest templates:
    • Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki

• Development
  • REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
    • Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
    • Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:02, 21. Nov. 2022 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-47

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Anzeige von nicht-freien Medien in der Suchleiste und für Vorschaubilder von Artikeln in Spezial:Suche wurde deaktiviert. Weitere Details finden sich in T320661.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 22 November um 8:00 MEZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 24 November um 8:00 MEZ (betroffene Wikis).

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Wikidata weekly summary #548

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (RfP scheduled to end after 4 December 2022 17:22 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Identifier sync bot
      • Task: Add database identifiers to items, mainly journal article items.
    • BorkedBot 9
      • Task: Import values of YouTube handle based on YouTube channel ID (P2397) and vice versa.
    • Botcrux 11
      • Task/s: Replace stated in (P248) to publisher (P123) where the value is World Athletics (Q1158).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
    • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (November 2022) log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • When information expands, ronnabytes and quettabytes come to the rescue.
    • Understanding the Knowledge Graph: Examples, Uses and More
    • Plotting the age of parliament with Livebook
    • Programming Languages Influence Ranking
  • Papers
    • Mapping Process for the Task: Wikidata Statements to Text as Wikipedia Sentences
    • KnowGL: Knowledge Generation and Linking from Text
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #99
    • WikiMentorAfrica - Displaying Wikidata DataViz on external web pages day - YouTube (part1, part 2)
    • Wikidata Workshop (Digital Humanities on Wikipedia - Archiving of COVID-19 under debate) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Creating a Wikidata item (in Estonian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2022 (in Chinese) - YouTube
      • The past and future of Wikidata in Taiwan
      • An Attempt to Connect Wikidata with OpenStreetMap
      • Wikidata teaching experience in National Cheng Kung University's "Integrating Wiki into History Teaching"
      • Is it composition or construction? Talking about the System Thinking of "Data Translation" Opening up in Data Dictionary
  • Other
    • Summary of the tabular style data discussion at Wikidata 10th Birthday in Utrecht, the Netherlands

• Tool of the week
  • The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube))

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenCheck is a new effort to build an open community-powered identity verification system, among other things with the help of Wikidata.
  • The Digital Benin website is linking to Wikidata identifiers, making more exploration and understanding possible beyond what the site itself has: https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109380697777661025
  • Wikidata is on Mastodon: wikis.world/@wikidata. Remember to toot using the #Wikidata hashtag so people can find related topics.
  • New product managers have joined the Wikimedia Deutschland development team:
    • Arian Bozorg, Junior Product Manager for Wikidata
    • Jon Amar, Wikibase Suite Product Manager

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎fedpress.ru person ID, ‎UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID, ‎OVO ID, ‎Best Western hotel ID, ‎Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, ‎New Zealand Legislation ID, ‎Travel Weekly hotel ID, ‎fruit color, ‎e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, ‎Accor hotel ID, ‎OpenCritic outlet ID, ‎Aathavanitli Gani film ID, ‎ID of část obce díl, ‎Livres Hebdo ID, ‎AniList staff ID, ‎Dictionary.com entry, ‎Golfdata ID, ‎Collins Online English Dictionary entry
  • New property proposals to review: Verbalization by lexeme, Cultural Good of Croatia ID, access via, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, image of feces, image of fauna tracks, hackage package, Packagist package, supports authentication method, package registry usernames, Go package path, Dongqiudi.com player ID, Plazi reference ID, Kanjipedia ID, kino1tv.ru ID, EuDML journal ID, Jiten Online kanji ID, lexeme of other gender, serves resource, YouTube handle, Wikimedia Phabricator project, ISFDB award ID, Trismegistos author ID, Africultures Structure-ID, African American Visual Artists Database ID, Lighthouse Directory page, UniProt Disease ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, object pertains to, negates property, GCD issue ID, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, Nîmes cemetieres person ID, LMÍ id, kód adresního místa podle RÚIAN, IdnaMapping, экологическая группа растений, International Computer Game Collection work ID, JLect entry ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Au Senate ID, manchu.work lexeme ID, Israeli Opera site (English) person id, of instances of, subclass of with uncertain existance, vazn, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Sense relationships connected to semantic roles, TV Maze episode ID
  • Query examples:
    • Translated Wikidata property labels (top 100 languages) (source)
    • Dentists who are notable footballers (source)
    • Map of obelisks over 40 m high (source)
    • Notable doctoral student/advisor pairs where at least one of them is within the Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on Mastodon (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
    • Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
    • Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
    • Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
  • Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
    • Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
  • Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:
    • Improved the markers that indicate the field is required input (phab:T322683)
    • Improved a help link (phab:T315161)

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
  • Go through the list of pages with Vorlage:Q and update them either to Vorlage:Q or remove the sitelink. We have worklists for many languages.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:07, 28. Nov. 2022 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-48

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die neue Einstellung “Modus für begrenzte Breite aktivieren” wurde zum Skin Vector 2022 hinzugefügt. Die Einstellung ist auch als Umschaltfunktion verfügbar, wenn dein Bildschirm mindestens 1600 Pixel breit ist. Sie ermöglicht es unangemeldeten und angemeldeten Benutzern, die Breite der Seite zu erhöhen. [267]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 29 November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 30 November. Auf allen Wikis ab 1 Dezember (Kalender).
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 29 November um 8:00 MEZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 1 Dezember um 8:00 MEZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Mathematische Formeln, die im SVG-Bildformat angezeigt werden, werden keine PNGs als Rückfalloption für Browser haben, die SVGs nicht unterstützen. Die ist Teil der Arbeiten zur Modernisierung des Erzeugungssystems. Die ausschließliche Anzeige der PNG-Versionen war bis Februar 2018 der Standard. [268][269][270]
• In manchen Wikis, die das Sichtungssystem nutzen, wird ein neues Kästchen auf Spezial:Beiträge eingefügt, das es ermöglicht, sich nur die ungesichteten Änderungen eines Benutzers anzeigen zu lassen. [271]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Anfang nächster Woche wird sich in Wikis der Gruppe 1 (aber nicht in Wikimedia Commons und dem Meta-Wiki) ändern, wie Medien in der HTML-Ausgabe des Parsers strukturiert sind. Diese Änderung verbessert die Zugänglichkeit von Inhalten und erleichtert es, zugehöriges CSS zu schreiben. Du musst möglicherweise das seitenweite CSS oder Benutzerskripte und Helferleins aktualisieren. Es gibt Details dazu, welcher Code geprüft werden sollte, wie man den Code aktualisiert und wo man zugehörige Probleme melden kann. [272]

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Wikidata weekly summary #549

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • TaxonomyBot
  • New request for comments:
    • Remove watchlist summary

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
    • Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
    • The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
    • Animals to Play H-O-R-S-E With
    • Mini hackathon in Utrecht, by Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Structural Quality Metrics to Evaluate Knowledge Graphs
    • Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets
  • Videos
    • How to edit a Wikidata item to appear in an Infobox on Wikipedia (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Library data on Wikidata: a case study of the National Library of Latvia - YouTube
    • Wikidata / National Archives of Australia Project with Tim Sherratt - YouTube
    • How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects - YouTube
    • 2022 edition: Timelapse of railway stations in Denmark (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 14: How To Add References To Wikidata Articles (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday celebration events, By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
    • Wikidata Istanbul 2022
      • Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) by Asaf Bartov (Day 1: English, Turkish)
      • Modeling Our Languages ​​with Lexeme (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata Querying with SPARQL (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • Wikidata and GLAM: Museums of Turkey (Day 3: Turkish, English)
      • Potential Benefits of Wikidata to the Health System, Nevit Dilmen (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Useful Wikipedia Tools, Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Handy Wikidata Gadgets by Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, English)
      • Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and Beyond, Lydia Pintscher (Day 1: Turkish, English)
      • Structured Data Across Wikimedia by Luca Martinelli (Day 2, English)
      • Getting Inspiration from Projects Using Wikidata, Neslihan Turan (Day 1: Turkish, English)
  • Podcasts
    • WikiProject Biography, a podcast episode presenting Wikidata:WikiProject Biography
  • Thread
    • The advent of Wikiviz, 24 dataviz about Wikipedia and Wikidata until Christmas
  • Other
    • A rap battle between Wikipedia and Wikidata as envisaged by ChatGPT

• Tool of the week
  • How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opportunities: Post-doc in Natural Language Processing (1.0 FTE), University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: has biological vector, EuDML journal ID, SciSpace author ID, Oblio author ID, Dams in Japan number, SNE publisher ID, KOBIS people ID, OpenML dataset ID, DFK Paris person ID, PIM publication ID, Pittori Liguri ID, USTC identifier, EPA ID, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959 ID, YouTube handle, hackage package, Observation.org place ID, Diskograf artist ID, KBR person ID, Miraheze article ID, ILNM ID, Trismegistos author ID, Packagist package, translation contribution URL, Cinemaazi people ID, Cinemaazi film ID, MAK Collection Online person ID, MAK Collection Online object ID, BookWalker series ID (JP version), list item, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, alt text
  • New property proposals to review: Amazon Browse Node, Beatport release ID, Bandcamp release ID, subject of qualifier, has part part of, property metamodelling, MangaUpdates IDs, man page, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, MyAnimeList magazine ID, OpenPlaques place ID, is a number of, source of action & destination of action, CSD Refcode, Ès lettres ID, is the change of, removed in version (2), PodLink ID, KOBIS film festival ID, KOBIS film company ID, DBpia journal ID, DBpia publisher ID, tuxDB game ID, Crunchyroll series ID, US-DMF ID, Dehkhoda ID, CocoaPods pod, Appsight app, Appsight SDK, Maven groupID and Maven artifactID, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, Game Boy hardware database ID, Bane NOR Network Statement station ID, Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID, has duplicate Wikimedia page, GBDB ID, Lygaeoidea Species File ID
  • Query examples:
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Researchers with a Mastodon account and a known field of work (source)
    • Count per each language of unique language codes used in lemmas for Lexemes in that language

• Development
  • Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
  • Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
  • Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
    • Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
    • Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
    • Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
    • Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
    • Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
  • Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
  • Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
  • Query Service:
    • Making the popup less intrusive that leads to the Query Builder (phab:T296135)
    • Adding tooltips for Lexemes (phab:T255245)
    • Unifying the way to get a link to a query (phab:T324218)
  • mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
  • REST API:
    • Finalized json format for sitelinks and data values (phab:T321483, phab:T322734)
    • Investigating rate limiting (phab:T322746)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:25, 5. Dez. 2022 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-49

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Wikisource verwendet ein Werkzeug namens ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage verwendet OpenSeadragon, ein Open-Source-Werkzeug. Die OpenSeadragon-JavaScript-API wurde erheblich umgeschrieben, um das dynamische Laden von Bildern zu unterstützen. Die von der älteren Version der API bereitgestellte Funktionalität sollte weiterhin funktionieren, wird aber nicht mehr unterstützt. Benutzerskripte und Helferleins sollten auf die neuere Version der API umgestellt werden. Die von der neueren Version der API bereitgestellte Funktionalität ist auf MediaWiki dokumentiert. [273][274]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 6 Dezember verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 7 Dezember. Auf allen Wikis ab 8 Dezember (Kalender).

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This Month in GLAM: November 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue XI, November 2022

Headlines

Africa report: Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Winners & 2022 ISA Drive Albania report: An event at the National History Museum in Tirana Brazil report: WLM tool, Wiki Takes, New WMB's Strategy, and 2 new GLAMs India report: Two Open Culture films on India's Odia language, made with volunteer labour Indonesia report: Open GLAM Conference; Sundanese Wikisource Workshop; Minangkabau books digitization Italy report: Video and photo to share the beauty of Italy's heritage Netherlands report: Linking heritage data at HackaLOD New Zealand report: Integrating with the BHL, loading natural science specimens and data Poland report: How Wiki helps to explore and enjoy art & culture; Wiki workshop for the National Museum in Krakow; GLAM online meeting on ideas for 2023; Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and National Museum of Zrenjanin Sweden report: Wikipedian in Residence at Musikverket; Women and architecture; Gymnasiearbete; New uploads from the Swedish National Archives; WLM winners; Images of Äpplet Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program UK report: Khalili Foundation Uruguay report: Let's GLAM Together in Uruguay: Help us organize the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 USA report: WikiConference North America 2022; Punk Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Kensho Technologies Impact-a-thon Special story: We need your opinion: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 & Your Favorite Tools Content Partnerships Hub report: Survey: your favorite tools Calendar: December's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #550

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DL2204bot 2
      • Task/s: Correct messy entries for scholarly articles of Uztaro. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Q12268801) and Aldiri. Arkitektura eta abar (Q12253132) journals, add 2020-2022 articles.
    • Kalliope 7.3
      • Task/s: Update User:Kalliope 7.3/List of bots every hour.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 2
      • Task/s: For all items that have an enwiki page that starts with Template:Taxonomy/, set instance of (P31) taxonomy template (Q115595777).

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 13, 2022: Wikimedia Search Platform Team will be sharing updates on Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and Blazegraph. For background, see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update. Agenda.
    • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel.
    • Next Wikimedia Research Showcase - December 14. "A year in review from the WMF Research team: Tying our work to the research community".
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #71, Qatar 2022
  • Past
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 7, 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MatchID enriched with Wiki links
    • Another successful Wikidata Project with UVA
  • Papers
    • The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers...Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
    • Computational Metabolomics: From Spectra to Knowledge (Dagstuhl Seminar 22181) (Q115647969), with:
      • 3.7 Wikidata: empowering metabolomics research
      • 3.14 CxSMILES: computation ready representation for compound classes (about CXSMILES (P10718))
  • Videos
    • Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers, By Daniel Mietchen - short, full talk
    • Using and Editing Wikidata - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase for Libraries and Librarians (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #100 - YouTube
    • Tutorial for adding OSM data with the Wikidata tag and adding Wikidata items (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • BNElab, contribution and reuse in Wikidata (in Guaani) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • qualifier-constraint-usage.js: Shows what properties this qualifier is a required and allowed qualifier on at the bottom of the qualifier page

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations. Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎contact page URL, ‎Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers ID, ‎press information URL, ‎changeset, ‎RomArchive person ID, ‎African American Visual Artists Database ID, ‎Bureau of Meteorology location ID, ‎Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ID, ‎Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, ‎manchu.work lexeme ID, ‎Professional Referee Organization ID, ‎CIViC gene ID, ‎Athletics Canada ID, ‎is a number of, ‎Ma'agarim ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID, ‎Tanzania Parliament member ID, ‎JCDb ID, ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (1st edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (2nd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (3rd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (4th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (5th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (6th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (7th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (8th edition), ‎man page, ‎Amazon.com browse node, ‎TV Maze episode ID, ‎International Computer Game Collection work ID, ‎Cultural Good of Croatia ID, ‎JLect entry ID, ‎Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, ‎Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Inscriptions ID
  • New property proposals to review: number of penalty kicks scored, Play:Right series ID, OWID identifiers, Wikidata property example statement ID, Mangadex IDs, WSJ article ID, maturity level, official list URL, thumbnail sharpness, Play:Right company ID, IRIS Apulia IDs, Geograph Germany image ID, Spiritains ID, Play:Right class ID, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, INKR title ID, Kitsu IDs, Game-Rave ID, Anime-Planet IDs, has value, ComicWalker content ID, STEDT ID, Middle English Dictionary ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, Adventure's Planet ID, value of property identifies, not, frame rate, Copernicus EMS ID, Sega-Saturn.net ID, PLDB ID, ArchWiki ID, has right, (not) officially recognized by, Famicom World ID, property describes
  • Query examples:
    • Person(s) after whom both a warship and a microarchitecture are named (source)
    • Institutions that have contributed to all #vBIB conferences so far (source)
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Mountains in Iceland with no Cebuano Wikipedia sitelink (source)
    • Universities that have an associated Mastodon account (source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We would love to have some feedback on the JSON format for the REST API
    • Planning the final pieces that still need doing before the first release
  • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
  • Query Service:
    • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
    • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
    • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
    • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
  • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:29, 12. Dez. 2022 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-50

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• In 15 Wikipedias wurde ein A/B-Test für das Diskussionsseiten-Projekt auf Mobilgeräten gestartet. Die Hälfte der Autoren auf der mobilen Website wird Zugriff auf das Beantworten-Werkzeug und andere Funktionen haben. [275]
• Das Zeichen = kann nicht in neuen Benutzernamen verwendet werden, damit Benutzernamen besser mit Vorlagen funktionieren. Vorhandene Benutzernamen sind nicht betroffen. [276]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 13 Dezember verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 14 Dezember. Auf allen Wikis ab 15 Dezember (Kalender).
• Das HTML-Markup, das von den Diskussionswerkzeugen genutzt wird, um Diskussionsmetadaten unter Abschnittsüberschriften anzuzeigen, wird nach diesen Überschriften eingefügt, nicht innerhalb von ihnen. Diese Änderung verbessert die Zugänglichkeit von Diskussionsseiten für Screenreader. [277]

Ereignisse

• Die vierte Ausgabe des Coolest Tool Award wird am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2022 um 18:00 MEZ online stattfinden! Die Veranstaltung wird auf dem MediaWiki-Kanal auf YouTube gestreamt und anschließend auf Commons hochgeladen.

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Wikidata weekly summary #551

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot
      • Task/s: Update population of Hungarian municipalities.
    • BjoeBot
      • Task/s: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
    • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
    • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #72, Rooms 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Fork of User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia
    • Reconciling a Mix’n’Match catalog to Wikidata via Google Sheets
    • Celebrating the Wikipedia and Wikidata Birthday in school
  • Papers
    • Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #101 - YouTube
    • LOD as a way of thinking in the era of digital humanities - a preliminary study on Wikidata/Wikibase practice (in Chinease) - YouTube
    • ESEAP 2022 - Wikidata workshop: Intro to Wikidata, Identifiers & Entity Explosion, OpenRefine & Biota - YouTube
    • What is the Wikidata database, how to contribute, how to write queries in SPARQL by Valerio Bozzolan (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap by Edward Betts - YouTube
    • How to create a wikidata entry for a journalist - YouTube
    • LOD is the future - Wikibase application of Rhizome, an independent digital art agency in New York (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Coolest Tool Award 2022 - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
  • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd got an update where it now will try to predict good statements to add to Wikidata from Wikipedia articles.
  • Writing SPARQL queries can be very challenging. You can find inspiration by browsing and searching in this dataset of 2,400 queries collected from Wikidata. (source)
  • The French Wikipedia now uses a Wikidata-based list for the pages on specific dates, without relying on ListeriaBot. Who was born on a December 19th and has an article in French? You now can have the answer thanks to a Wikidata query by going to the page 1er décembre on frwiki and clicking on the infobox link "Naissances du jour". This is a link to a Wikidata list provided by the query service. The query is generated by the template fr:Modèle:Naissances un jour du mois. This follows another such template used to find all persons with a certain surname on frwiki, used on all surnames pages and on some disambiguation pages, fr:Modèle:Liste des personnes ou_personnages par prénom. For the surname Victor (Q539581) (view with Reasonator, SQID) this generates on the page w:fr:Victor_(prénom) a query such as this one.
  • Wikidata now has more than 100,000,000 items! Exactly which item was the 100 millionth is unknown as of writing, but there are some clues for anyone who wants to dig into it.
  • Survey: What are your most important Wikimedia content partnerships tools in 2022? Closes on January 8, 2023.
  • Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January until Monday, Feb 6, 2023
  • There is a new website to collect contact information for heritage organizations in Georgia for the purpose of disaster response with the data coming from Wikidata.
  • Wikibase 1.38 release is delayed until January 2023
  • Job opportunities
    • Postdoc, PhDs, and technician opportunities related to Wikibase project at University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: This section is currently empty due to technical issues with the bot responsible for filling it. If you are interested in keeping track of new properties on Wikidata, you can check the property proposal page for updates.
  • New property proposals to review: RPG Site game ID,member of tribe, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Panjab Digital Library ID, Oh!FM-7 ID, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, model lexeme, format string, travel advisory category, location URL match pattern, Tabelog restaurant ID, service options, RetroAchievements ID, statut administratif, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, relative statement frequency, Mertens-Pack Number (MP3), Nintendo-Online ID, does not use, is not part of, object is, Nintendo World Report ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, ntower ID, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, digital equivalent of, property describes, Computer Science Ontology topic, BookWalker series ID (global version), Le Grenier du Mac ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Football skills! (source)
    • Concepts with more individuals having Mastodon IDs (source)
    • Mastodon follower/subscriber figures (source)
    • Lexeme senses which are described in Jaehoon Yeon and Lucien Brown's Comprehensive Grammar of Korean (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
  • Query Service:
    • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
    • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
    • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
    • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
  • mul language code:
    • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
    • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
  • Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
  • Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (phab:T272132)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:21, 19. Dez. 2022 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2022-51

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Tech News

• Wegen der Feiertage wird die nächste Ausgabe der Technischen Neuigkeiten erst am 9. Januar 2023 verschickt.

Letzte Änderungen

• Auf der Beitragsseite eines Benutzers kannst du nach Bearbeitungen mit einer Markierung wie 'zurückgesetzt' filtern. Nun kannst du auch alle Bearbeitungen filtern, die keine solche Markierung haben. Dies war Teil einer Anfrage im Rahmen der Community-Wunschliste 2022. [278]
• Es wurde eine neue Funktion für Entwickler von Helferleins genutzt, um Inhalt unterhalb des Titels von Artikelseiten einzufügen. Dies wird als stabile API betrachtet, die in allen Skins funktionieren sollte. Dokumentation ist verfügbar. [279]
• Eines unserer Test-Wikis läuft nun über eine neue Infrastruktur, die auf Kubernetes basiert (mehr lesen). Anfang 2023 werden weitere Wikis zu dieser neuen Infrastruktur wechseln. Bitte teste sie und informiere uns über Probleme. [280]

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche konnten alle Wikis für 9 Minuten nicht bearbeitet werden. Dies wurde durch ein Datenbankproblem verursacht. [281]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche oder nächste Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
• Das Wort "Beantworten" ist in manchen wie Arabisch ("ردّ") sehr kurz. Dies erschwert die Nutzung der Schaltfläche der Diskussions-Werkzeuge auf Diskussionsseiten. Bei diesen Sprachen wird ein Pfeil-Symbol hinzugefügt. Dies wird nur für Autoren sichtbar sein, die die Beta-Funktion aktiviert haben. [282] [283]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Bearbeitungen können durch die System-Software oder das System der Bearbeitungsfilter-Verwaltung automatisch "markiert" werden. Diese Markierungen verlinken auf eine Hilfeseite über die Markierungen. Bald wird es auch einen Link auf die Letzten Änderungen geben, damit du andere Bearbeitungen sehen kannst, die auf die gleiche Art markiert sind. Dies war eine Anfrage aus der Community-Wunschliste 2022. [284]
• Das Werkzeug-Team für Trust & Safety hat neue Pläne für den Aufbau eines Vertraulichen Meldesystems für Zwischenfälle geteilt. Das System wird es Autoren erleichtern, nach Hilfe zu fragen, wenn sie belästigt oder missbraucht werden.
• Die Echtzeit-Vorschau für Wikitext verlässt Beta und wird in der Woche vom 9. Januar 2023 als Funktion für alle Nutzer des Wikitext-Editors 2010 aktiviert. Es kann dann über die Werkzeugleiste im Wikitext-Editor 2010 genutzt werden. Die Funktion war der viertbeliebteste Wunsch in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2021.

Ereignisse

• Du kannst dich nun für den Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 anmelden, der vom 19.-21. Mai in Athen, Griechenland stattfindet. Du kannst dich auch bis zum 14. Januar für ein Stipendium bewerben.

Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.

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Wikidata weekly summary #552

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 3
      • Task/s: Automatically adds qualifiers number of records (P4876) and point in time (P585) to claims of Mix'n'match catalog ID (P2264).
    • Dexbot 16
      • Task: Delete empty items
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • BjoeBot (approved)
      • Task: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #73, Mystery theme #2

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How the "open world hypothesis" of knowledge graph affects model evaluation (in Chinese)
  • Papers
    • Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
  • Videos
    • Early demo of the Wikibase Export extension

• Tool of the week
  • Fediscope (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 2022 proof of concept of a Wikibase "fast import" API. Outcomes of this workshop have been published, along with the recorded video.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • prior to last week's status update: ‎MyAnimeList magazine ID, ‎Online Torwali Dictionary ID, ‎Google Product Taxonomy ID, ‎IRIS UNIBA author ID, ‎IRIS UNIFG author ID, ‎IRIS LUM author ID, ‎IRIS UNISALENTO author ID, ‎tuxDB game ID, ‎GCD issue ID, ‎Geograph Deutschland image ID, ‎ResearchGate journal ID, ‎Lygaeoidea Species File ID, ‎Beatport release ID, ‎Diskograf song ID, ‎Diskograf label ID, ‎INKR title ID, ‎BRUZZ topic ID, ‎negates property, ‎Kanjipedia kanji ID
    • since last week's status update: Adventure's Planet ID, Play:Right class ID, GBDB ID, MangaUpdates publisher ID, MangaUpdates author ID, grading system, KOBIS film festival ID, Bandcamp release ID, Anime-Planet people ID, Anime-Planet character ID, ‎Czech structural object ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Anime-Planet anime ID, Anime-Planet manga ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Cinematografo.it film ID (new), Cinematografo.it name or company ID (new), identifier French basketball championship (new schema), The Israeli Opera person ID (heb), Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, OpenStates person ID, ntower ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, ‎worldofsam ID, Twitter community ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, CSO topic ID, Expertes ID, MTV Germany music video ID, CCFr document ID, Crunchyroll series ID, Game-Rave ID, Dehkhoda ID, ‎membership number, impressum URL, Parliamentary Office number in United Kingdom, Parliamentary Archives ID in United Kingdom, Mac OS creator code, 18th Century Russian Dictionary ID, Play:Right company ID, Play:Right series ID, Little Academic Dictionary ID
  • New property proposals to review: Garuda journal ID, Sinta Journal ID, pixiv comic IDs, British Music Collection score ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Autori sardi ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, UVL source ID, British Music Collection composer ID Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Concepticon ID, Image stabilitzer, Strazha ID, N-Anime ID, Pocket Gamer ID, Image processor, Minimum focusing distance, Museo Egizio in Turin ID, amstrad.es ID, superclass of, Dark Patterns Games ID, Life stage, Tribal Council number, Objective, eBookJapan books ID, VG-lista song ID, VG-lista album ID, microtransaction.zone ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, use with article, Cambridge Dictionary entry, Cambridge Dictionary entry (American English), Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, MQWW poetID, record of, Classic Adventures Solution Archive game ID, MQWW workID, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, Jeju's culture and language ID, Strong's number, World Loanword Database word ID, World Loanword Database meaning ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of nonprofit organizations / NGOs on the fediverse that Wikidata knows about (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Dec. 24th) (source)
    • Alpha-3 codes for countries in Europe (source)
    • Location of paintings in the Paintings Department of the Louvre made by women source
    • Most frequent birth places for Italian SBN authors (source)

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:17, 27. Dez. 2022 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #553

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RKBot. Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
    • Andriy.vBot. Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.
    • Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places.
  • New request for comments:
    • Improving the performance of retrieving labels, descriptions and aliases

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 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.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #74, Urology

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting Preprints to Peer-reviewed Articles on Wikidata
    • The 10 best-known Catalans in the world
  • Papers
    • Fetching Automatic Authority Data in ILS from Wikidata via OpenRefine
  • Videos
    • Add Wikidata/Wikipedia Template to WikiTree Profile

• Tool of the week
  • OWL Map - a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase.Cloud has a new logo!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎NIP, ‎NSR doctor ID, ‎NSR stopplace ID, ‎Nintendo World Report ID, ‎Nintendo-Online ID, ‎Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, ‎Oh!FM-7 ID, ‎Olympedia venue ID, ‎Ozon person ID, ‎Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, ‎Plazi reference ID, ‎Pocket Gamer ID, ‎Programming Language Database ID, ‎RPG Site game ID, ‎RetroAchievements ID, ‎Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, ‎Sega-Saturn.net ID, ‎Strong's number, ‎Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, ‎UVL source ID, ‎UniProt Disease ID, ‎amstrad.es ID, ‎camera lens, ‎image processor, ‎image stabilitzer, ‎microtransaction.zone ID, ‎minimum focusing distance, ‎note.com user ID, ‎sampling rate, ‎service options
  • New property proposals to review: Podbay show ID, Biblissima Authority File, Walt Disney movie ID, NTV program ID, National Grid Balancing Mechanism Unit ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, United States House of Representatives ID, PR Times company ID, NPB umpire ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, ZAMP.hr ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, CiNii Research ID, Identificador del Catàleg de Patrimoni de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, SysTraitementEauxUsees, WikiRate company ID, The Numbers franchise ID, J.League referee ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, 1001Tracklists IDs, Ivi IDs, TV Maze person ID, MyAnimeList company ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Afisha person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Finnish hockey players whose child is also a hockey player (source)
    • Map of the birthplaces of Italian authors who died in 1952 (source)

• Development
  • The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a result, no development occurred.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:30, 3. Jan. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #554

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot 2. Task/s: Adding statements to plwikisource items with no statements.
    • RPI2026F1Bot 4. Task/s: Reconstruct npm dependencies.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RKBot (approved). Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
    • Andriy.vBot (approved). Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 10, 2023: Egon Willighagen will be introducing us to SARS-CoV-2 queries, a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
    • The full version of View it! Tool is out! The new user script uses structured data to display related media in any Wikimedia content pages—including Wikidata items—in an on-wiki image panel or gallery view. Please join the public launch and demo of the full version of this new tool on Thursday, January 12th, 5:00 UTC via Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) to learn more and discuss forthcoming editing features.
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 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.
    • About 2 months left to register for the first digital@IANLS workshop: Learn the basics of Wikidata and how to use it in your Neo-Latin research. Event is online, free, and open to all. More info on event and registration.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #75, Tools

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up approval process for new treatments.
    • Early Demo of Wikibase Export by Renat Shigapov and Professional Wiki
  • Papers
    • "Is GPT-3 a Good Data Annotator?" with experiments based on Wikidata - guided generation of labeled data.
  • Slides
    • Elena Simperl's keynote summary on Wikidata and knowledge engineering research.

• Tool of the week
  • Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Digital Dictionary of the German Language completed their first iteration of Lexicographical data donation to Wikidata. The number of German lexemes increased accordingly by 185000.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: travel advisory category, model lexeme, does not use
    • External identifiers: NIP, UniProt disease ID, DBpia journal ID, Garuda journal ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, DBpia publisher ID, Disused stations ID, MQWW poet ID, Nîmes cemeteries ID, REGON ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Sinta journal ID, Sinta author ID, SMA ID, Spiritains ID, Strazha ID, Tabelog restaurant ID, TV Maze person ID, utas.hu ID, VG-lista album ID, Afisha person ID, Catalogo storico ragionato degli scrittori sardi dal IV al XXI secolo ID, Macmillan Dictionary entry (British English), Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Wyndham hotel ID, VideoGameGeek series/franchise ID, Plex GUID, Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, Africultures structure ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, The Israeli Opera (English) person ID, J.League referee ID, PodLink ID, VG-lista song ID, Webtoon creator ID, WikiRate company ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Concepticon ID, Ès lettres ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, eBookJapan books ID, STEDT ID, Matrix room, British Music Collection score ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, Infopédia entry
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: change of, salary level, applies to property, protected entity, Wikidata property example for qualifiers
    • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, A Comparative Study of Modern Chinese and Cantonese ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Sens critique contributor ID, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, The Homicide Report person ID, Film.ru serial ID, identifiant SFMTA, California Birth Index person ID, esid, The Counted person ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Roblox experience ID
  • Query examples:
    • Pairs of opposites (source)
    • Ratio of paintings at the Museum of Brittany (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (2023.01.08) (source)
    • Cheeses named after towns (source)

• Development
  • REST API: Preparing the first release to test.wikidata.org on January 17th and to Wikidata on January 24th
  • Entity Schemas: Continuing to investigate and prototype technical approaches for version 2
  • Mismatch Finder: Working on giving mismatch providers access to the reviews of the mismatches they uploaded (phab:T304794)
  • Investigated how to best do language switching for the Query Builder and Mismatch Finder. So far they only support it by specifying the language via a URL parameter and not yet via the UI (phab:T324653)
  • Query Service:
    • Lexeme IDs now have tooltips so you can see the Lemma in the SPARQL code, similar as for Items and Properties (phab:T255245)
    • Fixed a bug where the y-axis label on a graph were misaligned and hard to read (phab:T325808)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Statements linking to a Sense now also show the language of the Lexeme to make it easier to see for example which language a translation statement refers to (phab:T207392)
    • Fixed a bug in the language dropdown on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
    • The Lemma of a Lexeme is now shown in the title of the revision history of the Lexeme as well (phab:T312660)
  • Vector 2022 theme: worked on making the search on Wikidata work in this new theme. You can test it on test.wikidata.org now and next week on Wikidata. (phab:T316093)
  • mul language code:
    • Continued investigation around how to handle language fallbacks on mobile, which is a blocker for adding this language code (phab:T323098)
    • Preventing the addition of descriptions for mul (phab:T313027)
  • Constraint violations: Working on also showing them to non-logged in users (phab:T272132)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:33, 9. Jan. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-02

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Du kannst Markierungen nutzen, um in den letzten Änderungen oder auf deiner Beobachtungsliste Bearbeitungen zu filtern. Nun kannst du Markierungen nutzen, um Bearbeitungen auszublenden, die du nicht sehen möchtest. Zuvor konntest du Markierungen nur nutzen, um sich auf die Bearbeitungen mit diesen Markierungen zu konzentrieren. [285]
• Spezial:Linkliste zeigt alle Seiten an, die auf eine bestimmte Seite verlinken. Es gibt nun einen Prototyp dafür, um diese Seiten alphabetisch zu sortieren. Du kannst dir die Diskussion im Phabricator-Ticket ansehen.
• Su kannst die Danke-Funktion nun in deiner Beobachtungsliste und von der Beitragsliste eines Benutzers aus nutzen. [286]
• Eine Wiki-Seite kann verschoben werden, um ihr einen neuen Namen zu geben. Du kannst beim Verschieben einer Seite nun ein ausklappbares Menü mit häufigen Gründen nutzen. Dadurch musst du die Erklärung nicht jedes Mal schreiben. [287]
• Matrix ist ein Chat-Werkzeug. Du kannst nun matrix: nutzen, um Matrix-Links auf Wiki-Seiten zu erstellen. [288]
• Du kannst in mehrsprachigen Wikis in den letzten Änderungen Übersetzungen herausfiltern. Dadurch werden Übersetzungsseiten nicht versteckt. Du kannst nun auch Unterseiten, die Übersetzungsseiten sind, ausblenden. [289]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die Echtzeit-Vorschau für Wikitext ist ein Werkzeug, das es Autoren ermöglicht, sich die Vorschau der Seite anzusehen, während sie den Wikitext bearbeiten. Es wird für alle Nutzer des Wikitext-Editors 2010 aktiviert. Du wirst es in der Werkzeugleiste des Editors finden.
• Aufgrund eines Wechsels der Haupt-Datenbank werden einige Wikis ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein. Dieser erfolgt am 10 Januar um 8:00 MEZ (betroffene Wikis) und am 12 Januar um 8:00 MEZ (betroffene Wikis).
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 10 Januar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 11 Januar. Auf allen Wikis ab 12 Januar (Kalender).

Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.

MediaWiki message delivery 02:05, 10. Jan. 2023 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: December 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue XII, December 2022

Headlines

Argentina report: Ongoing projects with open culture Croatia report: A YEAR in REarVIEW! Denmark report: Edit-a-thon on contemporary Danish artists from the former Yugoslavia India report: CIS-A2K launches GLAM projects in Aurangabad, Maharashtra Indonesia report: Digitalization in Deli Serdang and Yogyakarta; #1Lib1Ref Workshop; Structured Data Marathon Italy report: Museo Egizio - collection import New Zealand report: The Great Macron War, Critter of the Week, and West Couast Wikisource Nigeria report: WikiLovesLibraries Nigeria:An initiative beyond 1Lib1Ref for Librarians in Nigeria Poland report: The first European GLAM Coordinators online meet-up; New articles on the collection of Wawel Royal Castle; Results of Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 Portugal report: Wikibase in social sciences and Public Domain Day celebrations Spain report: Wikidata Birthday and ongoing projects Sweden report: Musikverket; Media literacy graphics; Reports for project and to project partners Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme: look back to 2022 Uganda report: GLAM in Uganda 2022 UK report: Khalili project year in review USA report: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: International Volunteer Day; ICP x Art + Feminism AvoinGLAM report: Introducing Wiki Loves Living Heritage Content Partnerships Hub report: Helpdesk; IGO/INGO Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: View it!: New FULL version is ready to launch WMF GLAM report: GLAM-Wiki Con 2023, DPLA's new Sloan Foundation funding, and more Calendar: January's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #555

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RenmBot 2. Task/s: The bot adds/edits labels/descriptions of Wikidata items in Ukrainian. At the beginning, the bot will correct "проект" to "проєкт" in descriptions. These changes are caused by Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Q56368731) (see en:Ukrainian orthography of 2019#Major changes to the 1993 orthography).
    • Bean49Bot 3. Task/s: Add parent astronomical body to asteroid belt asteroids, required by multiple constraints.
    • JhsBot 7. Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places. (approved)
  • Closed request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy (implemented)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 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.
    • Wikimedia Research Showcase on January 18. Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
    • Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour on Tuesday 17th January: Update on wikibase.cloud by Evelien Zandbergen, product manager for Wikibase.cloud at Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #76, Wikipedia
  • Past
    • LD4-Wikidata Group Call: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic, 10th January.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikimedia Israel and the Israel Film Archive bring Short films from Israel’s History to Wikidata
    • Deploying Wikidata to different graph databases and what works best: Blazegraph, QLever, QEndpoint, Amazon Neptune
  • Papers
    • Gender equality in library science and book history Italian journals: a focus on boards, authors and peer-reviewers
  • Videos/Audios
    • Mémoires minoritaires, mémoires LGBTI (French): Documenting Queer (LGBTIQ+) history on Wikipedia and Wikidata (Radio/Podcast) (source)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #102 - YouTube
    • Wikispore, Wikidata, and Small Wikis with Sam Wilson - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata with Alex Lum (2022) - YouTube
    • iPres 2022 - Long Paper 153: A Digital Preservation Wikibase - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Auhority Control data to Wikidata item - helps to create Wikidata Items based on authority control records.
  • A new Wikidata distributed game that populates instance of statements using a neural network.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can apply for a scholarship for Wikimania.
  • Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 is ongoing!
  • The upcoming steward elections are open for nominations.
  • Wikibase Suite: wmde.10 (Mediawiki 1.38) compatible release updates
  • Applications are open now for Wikidata Fellowship by Wikimedia Australia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: does not use: item or concept not used by the subject but that could have been expected, member of Roman tribe: Roman tribe in which one was inscribed
    • External identifiers: Infopédia entry, 1001Tracklists track ID, 1001Tracklists DJ ID, 1001Tracklists source ID, MyAnimeList company ID, MQWW work ID, Biblissima Authority File, Kitsu manga ID, Kitsu anime ID, CiNii Research ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, United States House of Representatives ID, ComicWalker content ID, The Numbers franchise ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: heir or beneficiary: people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title, disinherited: someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary, Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System: [none], 神奇宝贝百科页面标识符: article name on 52Poké Wiki, a Pokémon encyclopedia, value contains sense: qualifier to indicate the sense of a lexeme part of a monolingual text value, form applies to sense: this form is only or mainly applicable this sense, clan: [none]
    • External identifiers: Landgate Object ID, IRIS Trentino-South Tyrol IDs, IRIS Venice IDs, Sinta affiliation ID, Knowledge portal ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, MangaSeek IDs, Dicionário Priberam ID, Michaelis ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Léxico ID, Dicio ID, GamesRadar+ ID, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, norsk fangeregister soningsinstitusjon ID, Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ozhegov) ID, Great Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, AllMovie genre ID, Artlog person ID, Artlog institution ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of sub-categories of a Commons category (source)
    • Number of sitelinks to redirects by wiki (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Airports named after poets (source)

• Development
  • Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed
  • Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward
  • REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th
  • Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (phab:T207392)
  • Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (phab:T272132)
  • Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (phab:T326082)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:36, 16. Jan. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-03

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• Die URLs in den "Vorherige"-Links in der Versionsgeschichte enthalten nun diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] statt diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. Damit wird ein Problem behoben, bei dem Links auf falsche Versionsunterschiede verweisen, wenn in der Versionsgeschichte nach einer Markierung gefiltert wird. Aufgrund dieser Änderung werden möglicherweise manche Benutzerskripte nicht mehr funktionieren. [290]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 17 Januar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 18 Januar. Auf allen Wikis ab 19 Januar (Kalender).
• Einige Änderungen am Aussehen von Diskussionsseiten waren nur auf Seiten in den Namensräumen Diskussion: und Benutzer Diskussion: verfügbar. Diese werden auf weitere Namensräume wie Wikipedia Diskussion: ausgeweitet. In Nicht-Diskussions-Namensräumen wie Wikipedia:-Seiten werden sie weiterhin nicht verfügbar sein (z.B. in der Projektdiskussion). Du kannst deine Einstellungen ändern (Beta-Funktion). [291]
• Wenn in Wikisources bei einem Bild im Seite-Namensraum gezoomt wird, werden die Zoom-Einstellungen für alle Seiten im Seite-Namensraum gespeichert, die mit einer bestimmten Seite im Index-Namensraum verknüpft sind. [292]
• Der Skin Vector 2022 wird in der englischsprachigen Wikipedia der Standard für Desktopnutzer werden. Die Änderung wird am 18. Januar um 16:00 MEZ erfolgen. Erfahre mehr.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste im Jahr 2023, die Beitragende dazu einlädt, technische Vorschläge zu machen und für Werkzeuge und Verbesserungen abzustimmen, beginnt nächste Woche am 23. Januar 2023 um 19:00 MEZ. Du kannst damit beginnen, deine Vorschläge auf der CWS-Spielwiese zu entwerfen.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:08, 17. Jan. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #556

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

• Events
  • Past
    • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-01-18
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 24, 2023: We will be discussing plans for 2023, and requesting feedback and ideas for future programming. Based on a previous recommendation to host a discussion on advocacy for Wikidata within libraries, we will introduce and provide time to complete a short survey to foster conversation in a future Group Call. Please come ready to share your thoughts Agenda
    • Introductions to Wikidata, online meetings organized by Wikimedia Australia on January 25, 26 and 31

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Is there something better than Blazegraph for Wikidata?
  • Videos
    • [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
  • Podcasts
    • Civic Hacker Podcast: Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government

• Tool of the week
  • Romain de Bossoreille has generated a map named Space Industry around the World using data from The Space Devs, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [WMDE Survey for Wikidata data Reusers] Help us Improve Wikidata by Sharing Your Experience on Ontology Issues and Data Reuse Impact.
  • Second round of Research Fund proposals are under review. They include Wikidata related proposals. Your input is welcome!
  • Wikimedia Foundation's Community Survey: The proposals submission and discussion phase is open until February 6th.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Jeju's culture and language ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Film.ru serial ID, IRIS UNITN author ID, IRIS FBK author ID, IRIS-OpenPub author ID, Muse Open Archive author ID, ARCA author ID, Air Iuav author ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Knowledge portal ID, MangaSeek work ID, MangaSeek magazine ID, MangaSeek award ID, Oroklini Library ID, elexiko ID, Neologismenwörterbuch ID, Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch ID, Sprichwörterbuch ID, Kommunikationsverben ID, Kleines Wörterbuch der Verlaufsformen im Deutschen ID, PR TIMES company ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: attracts (organisms attracted by this taxon), salary level (level of someone's salary), change of (property this process changes), database contains records about (indicate the types of items that the database has records about)
    • External identifiers: Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Norwegian prisoner register detentioncamps ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Glitchwave character ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), Glitchwave platform ID, Spotify user ID (Jan 2023), Livres Hebdo author ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID, TikTok place ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, identifiant SFMTA, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Tribal Council number, Aragonario ID (6th version), Rate Your Music venue ID, Rate Your Music concert ID, Dicionário inFormal ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, TOOI identifier, Fonts In Use ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, Spreaker show ID, Sjøfolk Ship ID, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places that places in Rennes are named after (source)
    • Map of places named after a place in Rennes, color coded by distance of the place from Rennes (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: The new API is now available for testing on Test.Wikidata
  • Ontology issues: We finalized and published the survey to better understand which types of ontology issues are most problematic for reusers of our data.
  • Wikipedia and co: Fixing a regression where there is no entry in recent changes and watchlist when an Item is deleted that was connected to an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:33, 23. Jan. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-04

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• Letzte Woche waren für etwa 15 Minuten alle Wikis für angemeldete Benutzer und nichtgecachte Seiten nicht erreichbar. Dies wurde durch ein Timing-Problem verursacht. [293]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 24 Januar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 25 Januar. Auf allen Wikis ab 26 Januar (Kalender).
• Wenn du die Beta-Funktion für DiscussionTools aktiviert hast, werden auf den Diskussionsseiten weitere Informationen zur Diskussionsaktivität hinzugefügt. [294][295]
• Die Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste (CWS) im Jahr 2023, die Beitragende dazu einlädt, technische Vorschläge zu machen und für Werkzeuge und Verbesserungen abzustimmen, beginnt am Montag, dem 23. Januar 2023 um 19:00 MEZ.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:44, 24. Jan. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #557

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

• Events
  • A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (uses Wikidata as a main source)
  • Papers
    • Systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects
  • Videos
    • Interoperable Europe: First workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase

• Tool of the week
  • theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • AfLIA's online course Wikidata is open. Participation is free for all librarians, museums, archives and other information professionals in Africa. Call is open until 7th February 2023 (12 midnight GMT).
  • LetsQuiz is a new website generating quizzes using data from Wikidata.
  • from WMF Wishathon: The Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article Wish is complete and the work merged. It is available for testing in Beta, and will be deployed to users with the first train of 2023 scheduled for this week. Learn more about the gadget created at meta
  • Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
  • Status update on the 2022 Wikidata and Wikibase development plan
  • Development plan and activities for 2023 for Wikidata as a platform and the Wikibase ecosystem

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: applies to use with property (qualifier that specifies that the statement refers to usage with the property)
    • External identifiers: Dicionário Priberam ID, NPB umpire ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, addons.mozilla.org user, Packagist username, Hackage username, RubyGems username, PyPI username, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Glitchwave platform ID, Glitchwave character ID, Artlog artist ID, pixiv comic work ID, pixiv comic product ID, British Music Collection composer ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: place of resident registration at death (the place or administrative unit where the deceased person was registered as having his or her residence at the time of their death), has instance (thing(s) which this subject describes or encompasses, inverse property of P31), Norwegian media rating (In short, the Norwegian version of Denmark's Medierådet rating (P5970), an age rating system for motion pictures, video, internet and tv content), iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject), number of penalty kicks scored, precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
    • External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary entry, Professional shogi player number, Women's professional shogi player number, LPSA professional shogi player number, esid, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, authors.gr ID, GLANSIS ID, literatura.lv ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Enciclopedia dell'Italiano ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno e Avellino place ID, World Loanword Database word ID, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, Podbay show ID, Walt Disney movie ID, The Counted person ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, World Sailing sailor ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Mosfilm IDs, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID, DOSBox Compatibility ID, HAA member ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Modern descendants of the Achaemenes (Achaemenid dynasty of rulers of Persia, 7th century BCE)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
  • Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
  • Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
  • Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
  • Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 20:13, 30. Jan. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-05

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche konnten sich einige Benutzer für etwa 15 Minuten nicht anmelden oder Seiten bearbeiten. Dies wurde durch ein Problem bei der Sitzungsspeicherung verursacht. [296]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 31 Januar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 1 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 2 Februar (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Wikis, die lokalisierte Nummerierungsschemata für Einzelnachweise nutzen, müssen neues CSS hinzufügen. Dies wird dabei helfen, Nummern von Einzelnachweisen in allen Lese- und Bearbeitungsmodi auf die gleiche Art anzuzeigen. Wenn dein Wiki dies lieber selber machen möchte, siehe bitte die Details und Beispiel-CSS, das kopiert werden kann und füge dein Wiki zur Liste hinzu. Andernfalls werden die Entwickler ab der Woche vom 5. Februar direkt helfen.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:03, 31. Jan. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-06

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Beim Skin Vector 2022 können unangemeldete Benutzer, die die Umschaltfunktion für die vollständige Bildschirmbreite verwenden, ihre Einstellung auch nach dem Neuladen von Seiten und dem Öffnen neuer Seiten sehen. Dies trifft nur auf Wikis zu, in denen Vector 2022 der Standard ist. [297]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 7 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 8 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 9 Februar (Kalender).
• Bisher haben wir angekündigt, wenn manche Wikis aufgrund eines Wechsels ihrer Haupt-Datenbank für ein paar Minuten im Lesemodus sein werden. Diese Änderungen werden in Zukunft nicht mehr angekündigt, da die Zeiten, in denen die Wikis im Lesemodus sind, nicht mehr signifikant sind. Änderungen werden weiterhin um 8:00 Uhr MEZ an Dienstagen und Donnerstagen erfolgen. [298]
• Angemeldete Benutzer werden in allen Wikis im Skin Vector 2022 Links mit Bezug zur Seite, wie "Links auf diese Seite", in einem neuen Seitenmenü sehen. Es wird auf der anderen Seite des Bildschirms angezeigt. Diese Änderung ist bereits in der tschechischen, englischen und vietnamesischen Wikipedia erfolgt. [299]
• Die Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023 wird bis Montag, den 6. Februar 2023 um 19:00 Uhr MEZ neue Vorschläge akzeptieren. Vorschlagende sollten bis dahin alle Bearbeitungen erledigt haben, damit Zeit für Übersetzungen und Überprüfung bleibt. Die Abstimmung beginnt am Freitag, dem 10. Februar.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Helferleins und Benutzerskripte werden geändert, um auf dem Desktop und auf mobilen Seiten geladen zu werden. Zuvor wurden sie nur auf dem Desktop geladen. Es wird empfohlen, dass Wiki-Administratoren die Gadget-Definitionen vor dieser Änderung prüfen und für Helferleins, die nicht auf mobilen Seiten geladen werden sollen, skins=… hinzufügen. Weitere Details sind verfügbar.

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MediaWiki message delivery 11:19, 6. Feb. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #558

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BiodiversityBot 3 Task/s: TreatmentBank (Q54857867) is a CC0 resource that contains data on taxonomic treatments, treatment citations, figures, tables, material citations and bibliographic reference. It contains valuables links mapping scholarly articles, taxa and taxonomic treatments. This bot task involves linking research papers on taxa to taxa and related taxonomic treatments.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot 4 Task/s: Add Springer Nature person ID and Springer Nature article ID by moving from exact match property.
    • Cmtqwikibot Task/s: Adds country of origin (P495) Canada (Q16), with qualifier located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) Quebec (Q176) and reference stated in (P248) CineTV (Q41001657) to works in Quebec.
    • SakuraBot Task/s: interwiki maintenance
    • JhsBot 7 Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 7, 2023: We thought we'd try something different next week, in honor of Valentine's Day month: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project or just what you like to edit when you have time. We'd love to have an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so and share your screen, with no need for formal slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
    • Wiki for Refugees Editathons on the 4th and 11th of February 2023 (Wikimedia Uganda)
    • Black History Month 2023: University of Toronto (February 8th)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #79, Archaeology (see previous challenges: Random concepts #2, Spices)
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live Sessions (2023.01.26)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Diff blog: Summary of the results of a recent survey on Wikimedia content partnerships tools by WMSE. The detailed report is available on meta.wikimedia.org and as a PDF on Wikimedia Commons.
    • A Game of Data
    • 'wikishootme' Is Like a Real World Version of Pokémon Go
    • Turn the AC on, by Magnus Manske
  • Papers
    • Unsupervised Entity Linking with Guided Summarization and Multiple-Choice Selection (Uses GPT-3 and Wikidata)
    • Visibility Matters: Giving Credit Where It's Due in Natural History Collections, Siobhan Leachman, The Linnean, December 2022
    • Falcon 2.0: An Entity and Relation Linking Tool over Wikidata
    • The URW-KG: a Resource for Tackling the Underrepresentation of non-Western Writers
    • From unstructured texts to semantic story maps
  • Videos
    • Wikimentor Africa - Creating a website based on Wikidata, without development skills day two (in French) - Part1, Part 2
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, FOSDEM 2023 - YouTube
    • Etymology and Wikidata on OpenStreetMap -YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing: #103, #104
    • Working with ISBNs (in Italian) - 3 part YouTube playlist
    • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
    • Managing Wikimedia Projects through Wikidata: Geert Van Pamel- Wikimedia Belgium - YouTube
    • SEMIC Talks: Wikibase with Dennis Diefenbach - YouTube
  • observablehq
    • Garden Phylogeny - NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca
  • other
    • One way to design a system to be a good external identifier in Wikidata by Salgo60

• Tool of the week
  • Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day.
  • User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
  • Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023, open until Fri, 17 Feb 2023.
  • Maintenance on ElasticSearch. As part of this, some Wikibase.Cloud functionality might be disrupted.
  • Reminder that the deadline for the Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Wikidata is approaching (but extended)! Get your journal papers ready for the 14.02.23
  • Wikidata surpassed 1 million Lexemes with the addition of etymologi (L1000000)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Happy Planet Index score (The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), digital equivalent of (the subject is the digital equivalent of what?)
    • External identifiers: Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Roblox experience ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), RISM siglum, N-Anime anime ID, N-Anime seiyū ID, Livres Hebdo author ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID, Artlog institution ID, Barcelona City Council Heritage Catalog identifier, TikTok place ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, AllMovie genre ID, authors.gr ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature), footnote (for use in the references section of statements: to state which footnote of the source material supports the claim in question), agent of action (thing that does the action), natural enemy (One of the causes of death of this living creatures referred to in this item, which is eaten by that creature), change of (property this process changes), object of action (thing an action is done to), variety of sense (dialect, variety or register of language that the sense applies to), bust/waist/hip measurements (chest measurement; aliases: bust measurement), usage label (list of sets of context label property (Q116547761) (language style (P6191), field of usage (P9488), has quality (P1552), variety of form (P7481), location of sense usage (P6084)). Other individual context label property (Q116547761) statement will be treated as and with this statement.), thesaurus' properties (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
    • External identifiers: Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, The Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, Iowa legislator ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Museu Paulista objects ID, Facebook numeric ID, Qobuz album ID (Feb 2023), Patreon user numeric ID, Kulturenvanteri.com, beniculturali.it place ID, Russian Second League player ID, TVer IDs, NPD field-ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of disasters by type (source)
    • Maps of museums in Malaysia (source)
    • Map with place names that gave names to places in Riga (source)
    • Area of sovereign states without a river (source)
    • Wikidata properties whose URL format matches some format (source)
    • People born in the Vatican (https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1613861217440866306 source)
    • Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (source)
    • Memes (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 4, 2023) (source)

• Development
  • REST API: adding a new GET /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions endpoint (phab:T327881)
  • Lua: added two Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378) that make it easier to get this data on Wikipedia and co
  • Lexicographical data: added documentation for the WikibaseLexeme JSON structure (phab:T201489)
  • Action API: fixed a bug that prevented the wblistentityusage API module from being used as a generator (phab:T254334)
  • Dates: working together with Matěj Suchánek to fix date parsing issues in Czech (phab:T221097)
  • Constraints: working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand why a constraint violation is happening and how to fix it (phab:T219037)

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 GLAM: January 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue I, January 2023

Headlines

Albania report: Wikipedia Birthday in Tirana, Albania Belgium report: DESINGEL arts centre and Wikimedia platforms Brazil report: Open Midiateca: Licensing and analysis of collections of Midiateca Capixaba Colombia report: Let's celebrate public domain day 2023 Finland report: Photo walks for Wiki Loves Monuments and rephotography Indonesia report: Public Domain Day in Indonesia; #1Lib1Ref Campaign and Workshop Italy report: Wikimedia Italy's calls for free knowledge Netherlands report: Opening old books at Maastricht University Poland report: GLAM stepping into 2023; New “did you know” articles on the collection of Wawel Royal Castle Spain report: #1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Tekniska museet makes 3000 polar images available on Commons Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: National Trust and cultural diversity USA report: Effie Kapsalis remembered; Mathematicians + Wikipedia; Wikipedia Day 2023; San Diego meetup Content Partnerships Hub report: Report of survey about Wikimedia content partnerships tools Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: View it! Editing Functionality: Final Update! Calendar: February's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #559

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • CJMbot (CJMbot lets users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside this file is then validated and processed. New items wil be created based on the data in the CSV file and existing items wil updated by adding statements and references).
    • RPI2026F1Bot 5 Task/s: Import dependency and version data from PyPi

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikibase Working Hour February 13, 2023. The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase: The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, Steve will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, Steve will conclude by describing how he's used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons. Registration link
    • Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, February 22 and 24, 2023. This two-part workshop presented by CAPACOA will explain how to upload performing arts production photos to Wikimedia Commons and how to document credits in Wikidata.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #80, Work

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata: Observable notebook which explores social reproduction by occupation in France.
    • Data analytics for your list of created articles in The Signpost, February 4, 2023
    • DigAMus goes Wikidata
    • Papers
  • Transformer Based Geocoding
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #105 - YouTube
    • Demo of the Wikibase Export extension - YouTube
    • FOSDEM 2023
      • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (Software for adding links between open data projects)
      • Public Transport Data in KDE Itinerary (Querying realtime journey data and dissecting ticket barcodes)
  • observablehq
    • Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata
  • other
    • Wikipedias in the languages of Russia/Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • User:So9q/openalex-search-link-on-lexemes.js is a userscript that adds a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Graph Builder released a major update, introducing new layouts and visualization ideas. You can read the full changelog here.
  • The new Service Level Objective for the Wikidata Query Service has been implemented: the current aim is to maintain a 95% uptime based on a 90 day rolling window. You can read the full announcement here.
  • Observablehq.com recently introduced a system of tags. Anyone authoring a notebook using data from Wikidata can add the #Wikidata tag: https://observablehq.com/tag/wikidata?filter=recent.
  • a.gup.pe provides group features for Mastodon. @wikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata in general. @querywikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata queries. Anyone can join those groups simply by following them in Mastodon. Anyone can share a message with all members of those groups by mentioning them in a publication in Mastodon or any other application of the Fediverse.
  • The hashtag #Wikidata can be used to tag all publications related to Wikidata in Mastodon. Anyone can find recent publications using this tag using the search feature: https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata.
  • @wikidata@wikis.world is the official Mastodon account of the Wikidata project.
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata. The voting phase is open until February 24th.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: said to be the same as (lexeme) (some source considers this lexeme to be the same lexeme or a spelling variant of another lexeme)
    • External identifiers: Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), federal identifier of street, DOSBox Compatibility ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Professional shogi player number, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID, Dicio ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, GLANSIS ID, Léxico ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Zoning symbol (planing zone of the municipality/region/state that applies to the subject), INEP ID, CulturaEduca ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), Manantiales y Fuentes de Andalucia (id for Springs and Fountains of Andalucía)
    • External identifiers: Hultschiner Soldaten ID, STS program ID, SACEM ID, IATE entry ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, IRIS UNIPD author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of literary works (Q7725634) by language (P407) in descending order (source)
    • Humans that have a 'relationship' with University of Leeds (source)
    • Railway stations named after literary works (source)
    • Week 6, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Free software grouped by programming language and instance of (source)

• Development
  • [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing - Thank you Matej for moving this forward!
  • REST API:
    • Went over the feedback on the first release and deciding on the next routes to add
    • Added a new endpoint for getting descriptions (phab:T327881)
    • Worked on throwing exceptions when something goes wrong (validation failed, Item not found, etc.) instead of returning an error response object (phab:T327527)
  • Entity Schemas: Finished the technical exploration that will unblock the next steps for actual development
  • Query Service: Changed URLs with URL-encoded characters to be shown un-encoded for better line-breaks and readability (phab:T327514)
    • Query Builder:
    • Adding support for a few additional datatypes (phab:T328528)
    • Adding a basic language selector to make it easier to switch the language of the page (phab:T328764)
  • Constraint checks: Working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand how to fix a violation on a statement (phab:T219037)
  • Search: Exploring design options for how to make it easier to search for entities other than Items (phab:T327507)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) MediaWiki message delivery (Diskussion) 19:43, 13. Feb. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-07

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• In Wikis, in denen kontrollierte Bearbeitungen aktiviert sind, werden Änderungen an der Lotsenliste von Lotsen, die automatische Kontrollierer sind, nicht als kontrolliert markiert. Dies wird später in dieser Woche behoben. [300]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 14 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 15 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 16 Februar (Kalender).
• Das Antwort-Werkzeug und andere Teile der Diskussionswerkzeuge werden allen Autoren zur Verfügung gestellt, die die mobile Ansicht nutzen. Du kannst mehr über diese Entscheidung lesen. [301]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Am 1. März können alle Wikis für einige Minuten nicht bearbeitet werden. Dies ist für 15:00 MEZ geplant. Weitere Informationen dazu werden in den nächsten Wochen in den Technischen Neuigkeiten und in den einzelnen Wikis veröffentlicht. [302][303][304]

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:46, 14. Feb. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #560

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
    • Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
    • MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
    • Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
    • If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog posts
    • New extension: Wikibase Export
    • BHL is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
  • Videos
    • Wikibase Export demo - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata using your smart phone (Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Social reproduction in the French cinema: Occupations of the parents

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/DisplayColourSwatches.js is a userscript that adds color swatches under color statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog Series on Wikibase Community via Tech-News
  • Freelance technologists are needed to import personal profiles for politically exposed people (PEPs) into Wikidata
  • The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on February 24. Don't forget to vote for Wikidata proposals!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • stamp perforation (type of perforation for a series of stamps)
      • Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) value of a country)
      • transcribed by (person who has made a copy of a manuscript text)
    • External identifiers: Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Museu Paulista objects ID, Spreaker show ID, TVer series ID, TVer tarento ID, Padua Research Archive author ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Fonts in Use ID, Rate Your Music venue ID, beniculturali.it place ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno place ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Mosfilm movie ID, Mosfilm person ID, Adventure Game Studio game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Syoboi Calendar series ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), La grammatica italiana ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Sky News topic ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID
  • Query examples:
    • Historical timeline of WorldPride events: (2000 in Rome to 2023 in Sydney) (source)
    • Which glaciers have been named after Moby Dick characters?
    • Free software grouped by licenses (source)
    • German nouns with unparseable combines statements
    • Grammatical features used on English nouns and proper nouns

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (phab:T325647, phab:T327881)
    • Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (phab:T309021)
  • Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
  • Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (phab:T102840)
  • Query Builder:
    • Adding support for additional data types (phab:T328528)
    • Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
  • Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (phab:T219037)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:18, 20. Feb. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-08

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche haben unvorhergesehene Komplikationen bei der geplanten Wartung der Cloud-Dienst das Team dazu gezwungen, alle Tools für 2 bis 3 Stunden abzuschalten, um die Korruption von Daten zu verhindern. Es wird daran gearbeitet, ähnliche Probleme in Zukunft zu vermeiden. [305]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 21 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 22 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 23 Februar (Kalender).
• Die Abstimmungsphase für die Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023 endet am 24. Februar um 19:00 MEZ. Die Ergebnisse der Umfrage werden am 28. Februar bekanntgegeben.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Am 1. März können alle Wikis für einige Minuten nicht bearbeitet werden. Dies ist für 15:00 MEZ geplant. Weitere Informationen dazu werden in den nächsten Wochen in den Technischen Neuigkeiten und in den einzelnen Wikis veröffentlicht. [306][307][308]

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:55, 21. Feb. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #561

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
    • ScikingBot (Task/s: The bot is going to fix interwiki links for the Lombard Wikipedia)
    • fromCrossrefBot (Task/s: Importing licenses for 1.45 million CC licensed papers from the Crossref April 2022 dump.)
  • Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
    • MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 1st, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
    • Eager to discover the potential of Wikidata and Wikibase for semantics? SEMIC is organising a series of workshops that are very much hands-on. Join the first workshop online on 24 January 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Webex. Register for the first event via this link!
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 March 3rd - 4th
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #82, Restaurant
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live Session: February 2023 log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
    • CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
    • TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Inconsistencies on WDQS data - data reload on WDQS
  • Survey Results: Wikibase.Cloud user research. The goal of the research was to uncover usergroups and usecases.
  • Wikibase Suite Survey is now open! The goal is to understand what role Wikibase plays in your organization and identify what you need from Wikibase based on how you currently make use of it.
  • Wikibase.Cloud logo is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Senior Product Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Product Manager Wikibase Product Platform

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • Norwegian media rating (age rating system for motion pictures, video and tv content used in Norway)
    • External identifiers: National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID, SACEM Museum artist ID, WSJ article ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, World Sailing sailor ID, WiKirby ID, SFMTA ID, Full Fact ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new), Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new), Rate Your Music concert ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • rebuilt (year or date when the structure was reconstructed, rebuilt, repurposed or replaced by similar one (if the new and old structures have separate items, use P167/P1398 links instead))
    • External identifiers: Faber Music composer ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Wise Music Classical catalogue ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, L’Équipe team ID, encyclopedia.com.ua ID, L’Équipe coach ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of lighthouses in South America (source)
    • List of countries sorted by life expectancy (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (phab:T309021)
    • We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (phab:T329606)
  • Query Builder:
    • We added support for additional datatypes. Lexeme (phab:T329204), Sense (phab:T329206) and URL (phab:T329824) are already available now. Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207) are in progress.
    • We continued the work on making it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
  • Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (phab:T219037)
  • We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (phab:T102840)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:53, 27. Feb. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-09

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche gab es in einigen Teilen der Welt Probleme mit dem Laden von Seiten für 20 Minuten und mit dem Speichern von Bearbeitungen für 55 Minuten. Diese Probleme wurden durch ein Problem mit unseren Cachingservern aufgrund unvorhergesehener Ereignisse während einer routinemäßigen Wartungsaufgabe verursacht. [309][310]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 28 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 1 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 2 März (Kalender).
• Alle Wikis werden am 1. März einige Minuten lang nur Lesezugriff haben. Geplant ist dies für 15:00 MEZ. [311]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:45, 28. Feb. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #562

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Mbchbot 3 (Task/s: Adding missing YouTube channel ID (P2397) statements to YouTube handle (P11245) claims that are missing that mandatory qualifier)
    • MidleadingBot 4 (Task/s: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
    • Biondibot (Task/s: Import us patent from a csv file)
    • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 7, 2023: Lydia Pintscher and Silvan Heintze will tell us about the new Wikidata REST API and Silvan will demonstrate some of its aspects. Agenda
    • Do you want to present at Wikimania 2023? Program submissions are open now until the end of day Tuesday 28 March.
    • Wiki Workshop 2023 Call for Papers. The call is for extended abstracts (2 pages) of ongoing or completed work. The deadline is March 23.
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: Call for projects & sessions is now open! The deadline to submit sessions is April 4th. The final schedule will be made public on April 15th.
    • Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
    • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - 8 March 2023, on YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • This app places on a world map all the places that have their Wikipedia page
    • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2022 edition
    • WikiData on Video Games
    • Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
  • Papers
    • Two years of explicit CiTO annotations (Q116676168), include how Wikidata and Scholia visualize citation typing annotations explain why research is cited
  • Videos
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 recorded livestreams: Day 1; Day 2
    • Wikidata for History of Science projects, by Martin Poulter - YouTube
    • How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia via categories - YouTube
    • How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia 2 - YouTube
    • LD4P3 - Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata - YouTube
    • Extracting political data & relations from Wikidata - YouTube
    • Operation of Wikidata and its centralized management of metadata linked to multiple databases (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata and higher education and research libraries (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WMDE Wikibase.Cloud team is currently seeking individuals who are interested in participating in interviews regarding the pressing issue of data modeling. Please reach out if you'd like to participate.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • Lighthouse Directory page (group string for the item in The Lighthouse Directory)
      • colocated with (event sharing location, facility or organization with another, typically larger event)
    • External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary ID, HAA member ID, Spotify user ID, Vintage Fashion Guild label, Biographical Dictionary of Emigrants of Georgia ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, Swiss Games Garden game ID, ERA ID, Sky News topic ID, Russian Second League player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: FLOW ID, Electrodoc person ID, electrocd artist ID, Wattpad username, Virksomme ord ID, Identifier for an item in the norwegian database for political adresses ID, Kinoglaz film ID, DBpia article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Railway bridges in Germany and Austria (source)
    • Number of deaths in train wrecks per country (source)
    • Pairs of people who both have an English #Wikipedia article and are married to one another (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (phab:T309021)
    • We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T327882)
    • We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (phab:T330252)
  • Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
  • Query Builder:
    • We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T328764)
    • We have added support for the datatypes for Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207)
  • Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (phab:T321543)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:52, 6. Mär. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-10

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023 ist beendet. Community Tech hat die Ergebnisse der Umfrage veröffentlicht und wird im April 2023 Neuigkeiten dazu veröffentlichen, was als nächstes passiert.
• In Wikis, die LanguageConverter nutzen, um mit verschiedenen Schreibsystemen umzugehen, wurden bei Artikel mit speziellen Regeln für die Umwandlung in Wikitext (hauptsächlich in der Chinesischen Wikipedia) diese Regeln im Inhaltsverzeichnis inkonsistent angewendet, insbesondere im Skin Vector 2022. Dies wurde nun behoben. [312]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 7 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 8 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 9 März (Kalender).
• Ein Such-System wurde zu den Einstellungen hinzugefügt. Dies wird es dir erleichtern, unterschiedliche Optionen zu finden. Bald wird dies auch auf mobilen Geräten funktionieren. [313]

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This Month in GLAM: February 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue II, February 2023

Headlines

Albania report: I Edit Wikipedia Online Campaign 2023 Belgium report: Public Domain Day Belgium 2023 Brazil report: GLAM-Wiki initiatives in Brazil spark academic investigation Croatia report: Activities during first two months of 2023 Indonesia report: Launching of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts; Bincang GLAM continues Italy report: New project and collaboration in February Kosovo report: I Edit Wikipedia Online Campaign 2023 New Zealand report: Wikidata and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Wellington WikiCon 2023 and Auckland Museum local suburb project funding Poland report: The European GLAM Coordinators online meet-up; GLAM-Wiki workshop at the Wawel Royal Castle State Art Collection; Wikimedians-in-residence online meet up Sweden report: 100 000 Bildminnen; Report from The Association of Swedish Museums; Wikipedia for all of Sweden; ArkDes edit-a-thons UK report: In Memoriam Jo Pugh / Cultural Diversity USA report: Black History Month and More Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Wiki Loves Living Heritage launches 17 March 1pm UTC WMF GLAM report: Gender, language, and living heritage events in collaboration with affiliates Calendar: March's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #563

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
    • Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
    • HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
  • New request for comments:
    • Wikidata as fans resources

• Events
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
  • Past
    • Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
    • The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
    • Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
    • The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity
  • Papers
    • How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter
  • Podcasts
    • WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.

• Tool of the week
  • Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID
  • Query examples:
    • Notable milkmaids
    • Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany (source)
    • What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? (source)
    • World map according to shared borders (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 10, 2023) (source)

• Development
  • Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
  • EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
  • REST API:
    • We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
    • We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:08, 13. Mär. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-11

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 14 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 15 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 16 März (Kalender).
• Ab Mittwoch erhalten einige Wikipedien die Link-Vorschlagsfunktion (Chabacanosprachige Wikipedia, Min-Dong-Chinesische Wikipedia, Tschetschenische Wikipedia, Cebuanosprachige Wikipedia, Chamorrosprachige Wikipedia, Cherokeesprachige Wikipedia, Cheyennesprachige Wikipedia, Zentralkurdische Wikipedia, Korsischsprachige Wikipedia, Kaschubische Wikipedia, Kirchenslawische Wikipedia, Tschuwaschische Wikipedia, Walisische Wikipedia, Italienischsprachige Wikipedia). Dies ist Teil der progressiven Einführung des Werkzeugs in weitere Wikipedien. Die Gemeinschaften können konfigurieren, wie diese Funktion lokal funktioniert. [314][315]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:17, 14. Mär. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #564

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
  • Papers
    • Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
  • Videos
  • Notebooks
    • Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.

• Tool of the week
  • User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the WDQS current state and summarizes the suggestions with the most impact we’re exploring now, with a few in-progress.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: STS program ID, Electronic library encyclopedia.com.ua, Deutsche Synchronkartei person ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, Syoboi Calendar series ID, Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, Moscow University Herbarium ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, IRIS UNICAMPUS author ID, IRIS UNIECAMPUS author ID, IRISanRaf author ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, NTV program ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, Wise Music Classical work ID, IATE ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Rate Your Music work ID, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID, Epson Tour player ID, Digital Bhashakosha page number, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, Electrodoc person ID, Archivarta ID, CassiOpeA author ID, IRIS UNIROMA2 author ID, IRIS UNIROMA3 author ID, Sjøhistorie ship ID, electrocd artist ID, köztérkép ID, ForPost person ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Ivi title ID, Ivi person ID, Saint Petersburg Conservatory person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • system requirements (system requirements for video game or software)
    • External identifiers: Brazzers ID, Universo del corpo ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Tekstowo.pl artist ID, Tekściory artist ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, BSDB player ID, The Athletic team ID, The Athletic player ID, GSAFD ID, Feminae ID, IFTTT service ID, stock keeping unit, Federiciana ID, LIBRA Unine ID
  • Query examples:
    • Lexeme with a Sense related to a geolocated Item (source)
    • Highest TV seasons numbers (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
  • Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (phab:T214002)
  • Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
  • REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (phab:T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:54, 20. Mär. 2023 (CET)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-12

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche gab es bei manchen Benutzern Probleme mit dem Laden von Vorschaubildern. Dies lag an fehlerhaft gecacheten Bildern. [316]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 21 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 22 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 23 März (Kalender).
• Ein Link auf die Seite Spezial:Verwaltung Benutzerkonten-Zusammenführung eines Benutzers wird auf Spezial:Beiträge erscheinen — manche Benutzerskripte, die diesen Link bisher hinzugefügt haben, können Konflikte auslösen. Die Funktion belegte Platz 17 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023.
• Das Bearbeitungsfenster für Spezial:Missbrauchsfilter wird standardmäßig größer sein und die Größe kann verändert werden. Die Funktion belegte Platz 80 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023.
• Es wird für Administratoren beim Entsperren eines Benutzers die Möglichkeit geben, dessen Benutzerseite zur eigenen Beobachtungsliste hinzuzufügen. Dies funktioniert sowohl über Spezial:Freigeben als auch über die API. [317]

Treffen

• Du kannst am nächsten Treffen mit den Teams für die mobilen Wikipedia-Apps teilnehmen. Während dem Treffen werden wir die aktuellen Funktionen und den zukünftigen Fahrplan diskutieren. Das Treffen findet am 24. März um 18:00 MEZ statt. Siehe Details und wie man teilnimmt.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:24, 21. Mär. 2023 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #565

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
    • WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
    • Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
    • Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
    • Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
    • Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
    • How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
  • Notebooks
    • Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.

• Tool of the week
  • Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED Attainment (ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label.)
      • first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit (source)
    • Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19:56, 27. Mär. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-13

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Bedingungsgrenze für Missbrauchsfilter wurde von 1000 auf 2000 erhöht. [318]
• Manche Aktionen von globalen Missbrauchsfiltern werden nicht mehr auf lokale Projekte angewendet. [319]
• Desktop-Nutzer können nun Diskussionsseiten abonnieren, indem sie auf den Link Abonnieren im Menü Werkzeuge klicken. Wenn du eine Diskussionsseite abonnierst, erhältst du Benachrichtigungen, wenn auf dieser Diskussionsseite neue Themen begonnen werden. Diese Funktion ist unabhängig von deiner Beobachtungsliste und dem Abonnieren einer einzelnen Diskussion. [320]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 28 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 29 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 30 März (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Du wirst den visuellen Versionsunterschied in allen Versionsgeschichten in Wiktionarys und Wikipedien auswählen können. [321]
• Der alte Dienst für mobile Inhalte wird im Juli 2023 abgeschaltet. Entwicklern wird empfohlen, vorher auf Parsoid oder zu einer anderen API zu wechseln, um den Weiterbetrieb des Dienstes sicherzustellen. [322]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:11, 28. Mär. 2023 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #566

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
    • IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
    • MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))

• Events
  • Past
    • Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
    • WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
    • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, Bones)
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
    • Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base
  • Papers
    • In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
    • Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
    • A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
    • Can you trust Wikidata?
  • Videos
    • Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
    • Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
    • WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
    • A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
    • Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
    • Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Statistics on Wikidata property scopes

• Tool of the week
  • User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • student retention rate (Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year)
    • External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Authors from Latin America born today (source)
    • Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
  • REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:25, 3. Apr. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-14

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Das System zur automatischen Erstellung von Kategorien für die Babel-Erweiterung hat mehrere wichtige Änderungen und Korrekturen erhalten. Eine davon erlaubt es dir, bei der Erstellung Vorlagen für automatische Kategorienbeschreibungen einzufügen, wodurch du die neuen Kategorien kategorisieren kannst. [323][324][325][326][327]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 4 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 5 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 6 April (Kalender).
• Einige ältere Webbrowser werden ab dieser Woche nicht mehr JavaScript nutzen können. Dies betrifft hauptsächlich Nutzer von Internet Explorer 11. Wenn du auf deinem Computer einen alten Webbrowser hast, kannst du versuchen, ihn auf eine neuere Version zu aktualisieren. [328]
• Das veraltete Modul jquery.hoverIntent wurde entfernt. Dieses Modul konnte von Helferleins und Benutzerskripten genutzt werden, um eine künstliche Verzögerung der Antwort eines JavaScripts auf ein Hover-Ereignis zu erzeugen. Helferleins und Benutzerskripte sollten stattdessen nun jQuery hover() oder on() nutzen. Beispiele finden sich im Migrationsleitfaden. [329]
• Einige der Links auf Spezial:Spezialseiten werden neu sortiert. Es wird eine deutlichere Trennung zwischen Links mit Bezug zu allen Benutzern und Links mit Bezug zum eigenen Benutzerkonto geben. [330]
• Du wirst die Antworten-Schaltfläche auf archivierten Diskussionsseiten mut dem neuen magischen Wort __ARCHIVEDTALK__ ausblenden können. Es wird auch eine neue CSS-Klasse .mw-archivedtalk geben, um die Antworten-Schaltfläche in einzelnen Abschnitten auf einer Seite zu verstecken. [331][332][333]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Vega-Software, die Datenvisualisierungen wie Graphen auf Seiten erzeugt, wird in Zukunft auf die neueste Version aktualisiert. Graphen, die noch die sehr alte Syntax der Version 1.5 nutzen, funktionieren dann möglicherweise nicht mehr richtig. Die meisten vorhandenen Nutzungen wurden gefunden und aktualisiert, aber du kannst bei der Überprüfung und beim Aktualisieren der lokalen Dokumentation helfen. Beispiele dafür, wie man diese Graphen findet und repariert, sind verfügbar.

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Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-15

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Im Visual Editor können Bildbeschreibungen in Galerien nun bearbeitet werden ohne den Galeriedialog zu öffnen. Diese Funktion belegte Platz 61 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [334]
• Du kannst nun Benachrichtigungen erhalten, wenn ein anderer Benutzer deine Benutzerseite bearbeitet. Siehe die Option "Bearbeitungen auf meiner Benutzerseite" in deinen Einstellungen. Diese Funktion belegte Platz 3 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [335]

Probleme

• Es gab ein Problem, weshalb alle Arten von CentralNotice-Bannern angemeldeten Benutzern gezeigt wurden, auch wenn sie bestimmte Arten von Bannern ausgeschaltet haben. Dies wurde nun behoben. [336]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 11 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 12 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 13 April (Kalender).
• Ab Mittwoch erhalten einige Wikipedien die Link-Vorschlagsfunktion (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Dänischsprachige Wikipedia, Dinkasprachige Wikipedia, Niedersorbische Wikipedia, Ewesprachige Wikipedia, Griechischsprachige Wikipedia, Emilianische Wikipedia, Esperantosprachige Wikipedia, Estnische Wikipedia, Baskische Wikipedia, Extremadurische Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulsprachige Wikipedia, Finnischsprachige Wikipedia, Võrosprachige Wikipedia, Fidschisprachige Wikipedia, Färöische Wikipedia, Frankoprovenzalische Wikipedia, Nordfriesische Wikipedia, Friaulische Wikipedia, Irischsprachige Wikipedia, Wikipedia auf Französisch-Guayana-Kreolisch, Schottisch-Gälische Wikipedia, Galicischsprachige Wikipedia, Gilakisprachige Wikipedia, Guaranisprachige Wikipedia, Goa-Konkanisprachige Wikipedia, Gotische Wikipedia, Gujaratisprachige Wikipedia, Manxsprachige Wikipedia). Dies ist Teil der progressiven Einführung des Werkzeugs in weitere Wikipedien. Die Gemeinschaften können konfigurieren, wie diese Funktion lokal funktioniert. [337][338]

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This Month in GLAM: March 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue III, March 2023

Headlines

Albania report: WikiGap Tirana 2023, Albania Argentina report: Starting the year at WMAR Australia report: Know My Name edit-a-thon at the National Gallery of Australia Brazil report: Wiki Loves Pará, Women's month and a huge upload for biologists Estonia report: From Ruhnu to Vääna a.k.a. Winterspring in WMEE France report: Residency at the Brittany Museum Indonesia report: Javanese Wikisource Competition; 5 More Bincang GLAMs; GLAM Socialization to University of Sriwijaya Italy report: GLAM Spring Kosovo report: Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Istog New Zealand report: Auckland War Memorial Museum Local Suburb Project updates Poland report: GLAM meet-ups, Wikiresidencies and GLAM partners contributiong to editing contest Serbia report: GLAM in March Sweden report: Photo memories from three industrial towns; Update from the archives; ArkDes edit-a-thons Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: Khalili Foundation USA report: Projects and activities in March Wikidata report: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: The Ethics of Open Sharing Calendar: April's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #567

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
    • BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
    • Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata
    • How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
    • Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
    • Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items
    • The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
    • Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins
    • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections
  • Papers
    • Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
    • Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube
    • SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube
    • Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube
    • [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • information sign (property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board)
      • location URL match pattern (regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against)
    • External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form)
      • part of other combined lexeme (qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme)
    • External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Superheroes with a degree in the humanities (source)
    • Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) (source)
    • People with far apart reported death dates (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T332139)
  • Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (phab:T328148)
  • REST API:
    • We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (phab:T323813)
    • The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:18, 11. Apr. 2023 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #568

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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 Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
  • Papers
    • Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; English-language edition, Édition en langue française
    • Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
  • Videos
    • Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube
    • "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube
    • IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Notebook
    • Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
  • Twitter thread
    • How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there

• Tool of the week
  • Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon is out (announcement and details)
  • Christos started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID, Team Fortress Wiki ID, Federiciana ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Aisberg author ID, OPENBS author ID, Bicocca Open Archive author ID, IRInSubria author ID, cybersport.ru player ID, Boomplay album ID, IRIS HUNIMED author ID, IRIS UNISR author ID, PubliCatt author ID, FantLab dictor ID, Portráidí ID, Kulturenvanteri.com ID, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID, Musée Fabre ID, Musées Grand Est ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Shipbucket drawing ID
  • Query examples:
    • ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)
    • Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward
  • Newest database reports:
    • Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139)
  • QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (phab:T328764)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (phab:T323813)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:59, 17. Apr. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-16

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Du kannst nun über die Schaltfläche für die neue Funktion "Artikel in der Nähe anzeigen" Artikel in der Nähe auf einer Kartographer-Karte sehen. Sechs Wikis haben diese Funktion seit Oktober getestet. [339][340]
• Die Seite Spezial:GlobaleBeobachtungsliste hat nun für jeden Eintrag einen Link "Seite als gelesen markieren". Diese Funktion belegte Platz 161 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [341]

Probleme

• In Wikimedia Commons wurden einige Vorschaubilder nicht korrekt ersetzt, nachdem eine neue Version des Bildes hochgeladen wurde. Dies sollte im Lauf der Woche behoben werden. [342][343]
• In den letzten Wochen hatten einige externe Werkzeuge inkonsistente Probleme mit dem Anmelden über OAuth. Dies wurde nun behoben. [344]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 18 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 19 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 20 April (Kalender).

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Wikidata weekly summary #569

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)
  • New request for comments:
    • Creating properties which link to an archived website

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
  • Past
    • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-04-19

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How to put an end to best book lists once and for all
  • Papers
    • Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata (Documenting Queer History on Wikidata - French), John Samuel, Panel: Queer Data : les plateformes numériques d'archives, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris, 23 April 2023
    • Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
  • Videos
    • Using PetScan and Wikidata Terminator, Mooré Wikimedia Community (in Mooré)
    • Wikidata Atlas: Putting Wikidata on the Map
  • Notebooks
    • Probability of having notable parents by occupation and gender
    • Living with Machines: Toponym recognition and resolution — input and output exploration
  • Twitter thread
    • Average number of words in Wall Street Journal articles by author gender

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase newbie docs are here (to help to onboard new Wikibase users easier).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • handled, mitigated, or managed by (approach or method that can be used to address an issue or problem)
      • holds diplomatic passport of (country of the diplomatic passport held by the person)
    • External identifiers: Dailymotion video ID, Databáze sérií ID, Universo del corpo ID, Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, AML ID, AniList character ID, Amarkosh ID, Moly.hu author ID, Podcast Index ID, SINTA affiliation ID, Hall of Light developer ID, Hall of Light publisher ID, Hall of Light artist ID, Kinoglaz person ID, Michaelis ID, Kino1TV ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: KPU Plant Database ID, SoccerPunter team ID, HAL non-registered author ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Dizionario dei prodotti DOP e IGP ID
  • Query examples:
    • Administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
    • Rivers in France over 50 km long (source)
    • List of mental disorders (source)
    • Paintings once owned by Red Flag Names (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 16, 2023) (source)
    • Place of birth of humans with Github username (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)
  • EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (phab:T332139)
  • Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:25, 24. Apr. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-17

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Das Menü zur Datumsauswahl auf Seiten wie Spezial:Beiträge wird nun Jahresbereiche in der aktuellen und in der vergangenen Dekade anzeigen, statt in der aktuellen und in der nächsten Dekade anzeigen. Diese Funktion belegte Platz 145 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [345]

Probleme

• Aufgrund von Sicherheitsproblemen mit der Graph-Erweiterung wurden Graphen in allen Wikimedia-Projekten abgeschaltet. Die Teams der Wikimedia Foundation arbeiten an einem Plan, um auf diese Schwachstellen zu reagieren. [346]
• Es war mehrere Tage lang nicht möglich, bestimmte Bearbeitungen in der mobilen Version eines Wikis zu speichern. Dies wurde behoben. [347][348][349]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Alle Wikis werden am 26. April einige Minuten lang nur Lesezugriff haben. Geplant ist dies für 16:00 MESZ. [350]
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 25 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 26 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 27 April (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Das Bearbeitungsteam plant einen A/B-Test für eine Analyse der Benutzerfreundlichkeit in Bezug auf das Diskussionsseiten-Projekt. Die geplanten Messungen sind verfügbar. Dein Wiki kann zur Teilnahme eingeladen werden. Bitte schlage Verbesserungen am Messplan auf der Diskussionsseite vor.
• Der Entwurf für den Jahresplan der Wikimedia Foundation 2023/2024 kann bis zum 19. Mai kommentiert werden. Der finale Plan wird im Juli 2023 im Meta-Wiki veröffentlicht.

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Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-18

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Werkzeuge Who Wrote That?, XTools-Autorschaft und XTools-Blamer zur Anzeige der Autorenschaft unterstützen nun die französischsprachige und die italienischsprachige Wikipedia. Weitere Sprachen werden in naher Zukunft hinzugefügt. Dies ist Teil von Platz 7 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [351][352][353]
• Das Werkzeug Video2commons wurde aktualisiert. Damit wurden mehrere Probleme mit Bezug zum Hochladen von YouTube behoben. [354]
• Die Seite Spezial:Einstellungen in der mobilen Ansicht wurde neu designt. Das neue Design erleichtert es bei schmalen Bildschirmen, sich die verschiedenen Kategorien und Einstellungen anzusehen. Du kannst nun auch über einen Link im Einstellungsmenü in der Seitenleiste der mobilen Ansicht auf die Seite zugreifen. [355]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 2 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 3 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 4 Mai (Kalender).

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Wikidata weekly summary #570

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
    • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))

• Events
  • Upcoming events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 2, 2023: Fudie Zhao will be presenting on Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Agenda
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #90, Sewing
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session (April 2023)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Creating Map Visualizations with Wikidata and Python, 24 April 2023, Jelle Vankerkvoorde
  • Videos
    • Open data and Wikidata: revolutionizing scientific research (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #109 - YouTube
    • Using MixandMatch gadget - YouTube
    • Back having fun with lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
    • EMWCon Spring 2023 -YouTube
      • Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content with Wikidata
      • Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so)
  • Workshops
    • Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata Workshop at Vorlage:Q
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
    • Wikimentor Africa workshop - Learn how to report bugs, make feature requests and manage your tasks

• Tool of the week
  • Twitter Wikipedia Badge - is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (code, Tweet)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Channel One Russia Worldwide program ID, LSJ Wiki ID, Wastewater treatment plant in France ID, Musées Grand Est ID, INSPIRE-HEP literature ID, Musée Fabre ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Technic Platform modpack ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus root id
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Akadem organization ID, mosff.ru player ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Diritto on line ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, BSWW player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of where the presidents of BCALA were educated (source)
    • Number of Wikipedia sitelinks for Art Looting Investigation (source)
    • Family relationships of New Zealand MPs (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Piano Rolls

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like phab:T335578 and phab:T335581.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:49, 2. Mai 2023 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #571

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
  • Papers
    • Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
    • The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
  • Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • character in this lexeme (character(s) this lexeme consists of)
    • External identifiers: none
  • Query examples:
    • Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line (source)
    • Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title (source)
    • Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle (source)

• Development
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
  • Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
  • Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (phab:T323813)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 19:57, 8. Mai 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-19

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• In der letzten Woche hat Community Tech erste Neuigkeiten zur Bereitstellung besserer Versionsunterschiede veröffentlicht. Dies war Platz 1 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2022. Diese Neuerung fügt Legenden und Tooltips für Inline-Versionsunterschiede hinzu, sodass Benutzer, die sich nicht mit den blauen und gelben Hervorhebungen auskennen, besser erkennen können, welche Art von Bearbeitung vorgenommen wurde.
• Wenn du ein Bild schließt, das über den MediaViewer angezeigt wird, wirst du nun zurück auf die Wiki-Seite gelangen, statt in deinem Browserverlauf zurückzugehen. Diese Funktion belegte Platz 65 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [356]
• Die Erweiterung SyntaxHighlight unterstützt nun wikitext als ausgewählte Sprache. Alte Alternativen, die genutzt wurden, um Wikitext hervorzuheben, wie html5, moin und html+handlebars, können nun ersetzt werden. [357]
• Das Laden von vorab definierten Texten auf neuen Seiten/Abschnitten unterstützt nun lokalisierte Nachrichten der MediaWiki-Benutzeroberfläche. Hier ist ein Beispiel in der Tschechischsprachige Wikipedia, das preload=MediaWiki:July nutzt. [358]

Probleme

• Update zur Graph-Erweiterung: Entwickler der Foundation haben die Aktualisierung der Visualisierungssoftware auf Vega5 abgeschlossen. Vorhandene Community-Graphen, die auf Vega2 basieren, sind nicht mehr kompatibel. Gemeinschaften müssen lokale Graphen und Vorlagen und geteilte Lua-Module wie de:Modul:Graph aktualisieren. Das Vega-Portierungshandbuch bietet die umfangreichsten Details zur Migration von Vega2 und hier ist eine Beispielmigration. Vega5 wurde gerade auf mediawiki.org aktiviert, um Gemeinschaften eine Testumgebung zur Verfügung zu stellen. [359]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 9 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 10 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 11 Mai (Kalender).
• Bisher wurden alle neuen OAuth-Apps manuell geprüft. Ab dieser Woche werden Apps, die nur die Identifizierung oder grundlegende Autorisierungen nutzen, keine Prüfung mehr erfordern. [360]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Im nächsten Jahr wird MediaWiki damit aufhören, IP-Adressen zu nutzen, um unangemeldete Benutzer zu identifizieren und wird damit beginnen, automatisch einzigartige temporäre Benutzernamen zuzuweisen. Lies mehr auf IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. Du kannst an der Diskussion über das Format der temporären Benutzernamen teilnehmen. [361]
• Es wird einen A/B-Test in zehn Wikipedias geben, in denen der Skin Vector 2022 der Standard-Skin ist. Die Hälfte der angemeldeten Desktop-Nutzer wird eine Benutzeroberfläche sehen, bei der unterschiedliche Teile der Seite stärker voneinander getrennt sind. Du kannst mehr dazu lesen. [362][363]
• jquery.tipsy wird aus dem MediaWiki-Kern entfernt werden. Dies wird einige Benutzerskripte betreffen. Viele Zeilen mit .tipsy( können auskommentiert werden. OO.ui.PopupWidget kann genutzt werden, damit Dinge so funktionieren wie vorher. Du kannst mehr darüber lesen und erfahren, wie man defekte Skripte findet. [364]

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This Month in GLAM: April 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue IV, April 2023

Headlines

Albania report: International Roma Day Edit-a-thon in Albania, 2023 Brazil report: "Every Book its Public" Campaign and Strategic Committee on Libraries Czech Republic report: What's new at GLAM in the Czech Republic Indonesia report: GLAM Mini Grants; Structured Data Marathon VIII; Wikisource Online Workshop Italy report: Bridges between Wikimedia and culture New Zealand report: BHL Whitepaper and outreach for Citizen Science Month and WeDigBio, Auckland Museum suburbs project update, New Zealand Women in Architecture Wikidata Project Poland report: Another meeting of EU GLAM Coordinators; Guided tours for Wikipedians in museums in Krakow; Presentation on Art in Wikipedia; Online training on the basics of copyright law; Polish monuments among the top winners of WLM Sweden report: ISOF workshop; More articles from students; SAAB veterans shared their knowledge during metadata edit-a-thon; ArkDes edit-a-thons UK report: Democratising knowledge and cultural diversity USA report: Into the Wikiverse; Earth Day 2023 Bushwick Content Partnerships Hub report: Wikipedia day pitches by FAO and IEA Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Activities are starting! WMF GLAM report: Biodiversity Heritage Library whitepaper and the #1Lib1Ref campaign Calendar: May's GLAM events

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Wikidata weekly summary #572

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
    • TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
    • Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
    • Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube
    • ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube
    • Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch
  • Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School?

• Tool of the week
  • tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
  • re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme)
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID
  • Query examples:
    • Name of languages ​​containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
    • Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
    • Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
    • Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
  • mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 12:18, 15. Mai 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-20

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• Einzelnachweise, die automatisch basierend auf ihrer ISBN generiert werden, funktionieren derzeit nicht. Dies betrifft Einzelnachweise, die über die automatische Funktion des VisualEditor erstellt werden und die Nutzung der Citoid-API in Helferleins und Benutzerskripten. Es wird daran gearbeitet, die Funktion wiederherzustellen. [365]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 16 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 17 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 18 Mai (Kalender).
• Ab Mittwoch erhalten einige Wikipedien die Link-Vorschlagsfunktion (Gorontalischsprachige Wikipedia, Haussasprachige Wikipedia, Hakka-Chinesische Wikipedia, Hawaiische Wikipedia, Fidschi-Hindisprachige Wikipedia, Kroatische Wikipedia, Obersorbische Wikipedia, Haiti-Kreolische Wikipedia, Interlinguasprachige Wikipedia, Occidental-Interlinguesprachige Wikipedia, Igbosprachige Wikipedia, Ilokanosprachige Wikipedia, Inguschischsprachige Wikipedia, Idosprachige Wikipedia, Isländische Wikipedia, Inuktitutsprachige Wikipedia, Jamaikanisch-kreolischsprachige Wikipedia, Javanische Wikipedia). Dies ist Teil der progressiven Einführung des Werkzeugs in weitere Wikipedien. Die Gemeinschaften können konfigurieren, wie diese Funktion lokal funktioniert. [366]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Es gibt ein kürzlich gebildetes Team bei der Wikimedia Foundation, das sich auf das Experimentieren mit neuen Werkzeugen konzentriert. Derzeit arbeitet es an der Entwicklung eines Prototyps eines ChatGPT-Plugins, das es ermöglicht, bei von ChatGPT generierten Informationen anzugeben, dass diese aus den Wikimedia-Projekten stammen.
• Entwickler von Helferleins und Benutzerskripten sollten jquery.cookie durch mediawiki.cookie ersetzen. Die Bibliothek jquery.cookie wird in etwa einem Monat entfernt und Mitarbeiter werden ein Skript ausführen, das alle verbliebenen Verwendungen ersetzt. [367]

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Wikidata weekly summary #573

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

• Discussions
  • CEUR-WS (Task: CEUR-WS Semantification bot to be used on publishing Workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org)
  • AcmiBot (Task: Sync links with ACMI API)

• Events
  • Past: The Wikimedia Hackathon took place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. Several Wikidata-related projects were presented during the showcase (notes, replay). You can also find more documentation on this page.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Melanie Conroy, Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata; Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2023May 11, 2023.
  • Videos
    • Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project, Presentation by Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
    • Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata, Presentation by John Samuel on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
    • Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project, Presentation by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023
  • “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata, Discussion by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)

• Tool of the week
  • CreateNewEntity.js got improved to support up to 11 languages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is launching a laptop donation program to support Wikidata contributors with limited access to technology. If you've been actively contributing to Wikidata for at least a year, you can request a free laptop to support your work. WMDE Hardware Donation Program#Applying
  • Wikibase.Cloud data modeling research has been published. It shows user flows and pain points in the Data Modelling experience of Wikibase Cloud users in Q1/2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID, ‎Xbox Games Store ID (Xbox 360), Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Global Smash Roster fighter ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Qualigeo ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • population by ethnic group (Part of a larger population isolated for statistical analysis)
      • points of bonus (point of bonus in a tournament, given according some conditions (such as minimum number of goals...))
    • External identifiers: Israel Composers' League composer ID, Stage 32 profile ID, kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, Radiomuseum.org company ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry
  • Query example: Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked (source)

• Development
  • We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (phab:T332739)
  • We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
  • We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
  • We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (phab:T337081)
  • We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:52, 22. Mai 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-21

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Der Zeitraum der "letzten Bearbeitungen" für Beobachter von Seiten beträgt nun 30 Tage. Vorher waren es 180 Tage. Dies war ein Vorschlag in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste. [368]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Ein verbessertes Einfluss-Modul wird in Wikipedias verfügbar sein. Das Einfluss-Modul ist eine Funktion für Neulinge auf ihrer persönlichen Homepage. Es zeigt die Anzahl ihrer Bearbeitungen, wie viele Leser die von ihnen bearbeiteten Artikel haben, wie viele Dankeschöns sie erhalten haben und ähnliche Dinge. Es kann auch über Special:Impact aufgerufen werden. [369]
• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 23 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 24 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 25 Mai (Kalender).

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18:52, 22. Mai 2023 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #578

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

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Mike Peel shares his experience mentoring Wikimedia projects through FOSS outreach programs

• Tool of the week
  • TalkPageHeader.js shows the talk page header for languages other than English.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
  • The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • time of periapsis (the time at which the orbit of an object in space, typically a planet or a satellite, goes through its periapsis)
      • matched by identifier from (this external ID was added because the following link was presented in both the external database and the Wikidata item)
    • External identifiers: Diritto on line ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED Attainment (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
      • ISCED category orientation (International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program)
      • Learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
    • External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, BFM.ru persons ID, Open Yearbook org id
  • Query examples:
    • Count comparison of England, Scotland and Wales items claiming to be a human settlement as well as a parish (source)
    • Twins at Eurovision (source)

• Development
  • Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
  • Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:48, 29. Mai 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-22

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Einzelnachweise können dank der ISBN-Suchen von Zotero wieder automatisch hinzugefügt werden. Die aktuellen Datenquellen sind die Library of Congress (Vereinigte Staaten), die Bibliothèque nationale de France (Französische Nationalbibliothek) und K10plus ISBN (Deutsches Repositorium). Zusätzliche Datenquellensuchen können Zotero vorgeschlagen werden. Die ISBN-Bezeichnungen in der automatischen Funktion des VisualEditors werden später in dieser Woche wieder erscheinen. [370]
• Die Seite Spezial:Beobachtungsliste bearbeiten verfügt nun über die Option "Alle Häkchen setzen", um alle Seiten in einem Namensraum auszuwählen. Diese Funktionsanfrage belegte Platz 161 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [371]

Probleme

• Anfang des Monats funktionierte "Links hinzufügen" in der Werkzeugleiste ein paar Tage lang nicht richtig. Dies wurde nun behoben. [372]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 30 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 31 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 1 Juni (Kalender).
• Der VisualEditor wird in dieser Woche in kleinen und mittelgroßen Wikis auf ein neues Backend wechseln. Große Wikis werden in den nächsten Wochen folgen. Dies ist Teil der Bemühungen, Parsoid in den MediaWiki-Kern zu verschieben. Die Änderung sollte keine bemerkbar Auswirkung auf Benutzer haben. Solltest du allerdings feststellen, dass es bei der Benutzung des VisualEditors lange Ladezeiten oder andere ungewöhnliche Vorkommnisse gibt, melde dies bitte im hier verlinkten Phabricator-Ticket. [373]

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Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-23

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Erweiterung RealMe erlaubt es dir, URLs auf deiner Benutzerseite für Mastodon und ähnliche Software als verifiziert zu markieren.
• Einzelnachweise und Fußnoten können nun bei Nutzung des Visual Editors von der Liste der Einzelnachweise aus bearbeitet werden. Diese Funktion belegte Platz 2 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [374]
• Zuvor konnten unbeabsichtigt deine Einstellungen für "Ergebnisse nach Seite gruppieren" geändert werden, wenn du auf einen Link einer anderen Person für die letzten Änderungen mit angewendeten Filtern geklickt hast. Dies wurde nun behoben. [375]

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche haben manche Werkzeuge und Bots aufgrund von Problemen mit der Datenbank-Replizierung veraltete Informationen ausgegeben und waren möglicherweise während der Behebung gar nicht verfügbar. Diese Probleme wurden nun behoben. [376]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 6 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 7 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 8 Juni (Kalender).
• Bots werden nicht mehr davon abgehalten, Bearbeitungen vorzunehmen, wenn darin enthaltene URLs mit der Spam-Blacklist übereinstimmen. [377]

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Wikidata weekly summary #579

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

• Events
  • Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
  • Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.

• Tool of the week
  • IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject)
      • visited by (organisms attracted by this plant taxon and reported to visit it)
      • Mastodon instance URL (the mastodon instance of/about the subject)
      • beforehand owned by (person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
      • afterward owned by (person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
      • solubility product constant (equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution)
      • funded by grant (title or name of the grant funding this item)
    • External identifiers: stats.fm artist ID, Zeno.org ID, World Arachnid Catalog ID, Springs and Fountains of Andalucía ID, TMDb collection ID, TMDB company ID, WGA work ID, Peacock ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
    • External identifiers: Identifiant "Politique pappers", Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID, Holarse, wiki.ubuntuusers.de article ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Kialo ID, PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), PesticideInfo chemical ID, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage ID, Image Duplicator ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Musées Occitanie ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
  • Newest database reports:
    • External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (phab:T337720)
  • Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (phab:334682)
  • Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (phab:T335857)
  • EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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This Month in GLAM: May 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue V, May 2023 Headlines From the team: E-mail account issue Albania report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Shëngjin, Albania, 2023 Australia report: Improving Wikipedia pages about Australian women filmmakers at ACMI Brazil report: First GLAM-Wiki partnership from Pará Finland report: Adding authority control templates with Pywikibot India report: Digitization of Behar Herald starts in Patna Indonesia report: Wikisource Workshop in Madura; Outreach to Bandung; Indonesian Wikisource Competition Italy report: Open access from North to South Kosovo report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon 2023 New Zealand report: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon and Auckland suburb updates Philippines report: Wikisource promotion at UNC Museum Sweden report: Air travel and city streets Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme Uganda report: These last few months in Uganda UK report: Promoting cultural diversity on Wikipedia USA report: A Spotlight on Black Women Birders; DC Nobel Solution Sessions; Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery; Anthropology and Community Connections; SAGE edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; Into the Wikiverse: AANHPIs in Science Fiction and Pop Culture; Queering Wikipedia 2023 Special story: Help Wikimedia Map Your Efforts to Improve Copyright! GLAM Wiki conference report: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023: Announcing the venue & scholarship application process open Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Photo contests WMF GLAM report: WILMA, DPLA + SDAW, and BHL whitepaper updates Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #580

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

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
  • Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata
  • Creating Bengali Freebase Using Wikidata
  • Probability of having notable parents by country of citizenship

• Tool of the week
  • narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • quality is the result of process (quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces)
    • External identifiers: theCrag ID, ‎SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED field (mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education)
      • Romanian river code (River codes from ApeleRomâne)
    • External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID
  • Query examples:
    • Terminus stations of the Transilien railroad network (source)
    • List of children of Johann Sebastian Bach (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished work on accessing data for Properties (phab:T337720)
    • We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (phab:T338138)
  • You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (phab:T171140)
  • Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (phab:T335754)
  • EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:59, 12. Jun. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-24

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Werkzeuge Who Wrote That?, XTools-Autorschaft und XTools-Blamer zur Anzeige der Autorenschaft unterstützen nun die niederländischsprachige, deutschsprachige, ungarischsprachige, indonesischsprachige, japanischsprachige, polnischsprachige und prtugiesischsprachige Wikipedia. Dies war Platz 7 in der Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2023. [378]
• Das Vorschau-Panel für die Suche wurde in vier Wikipedias (katalanischsprachige, niederländischsprachige, ungarischsprachige und norwegischsprachige) eingeführt. Das Panel zeigt ein Bild mit Bezug zum Artikel (wenn vorhanden), die ersten Abschnitte des Artikels, verwandte Bilder (aus der Mediensuche auf Commons) und die Schwesterprojekte, die mit dem Artikel verknüpft sind. [379]
• Die Erweiterung RealMe erlaubt es Administratoren nun, URLs für jede Seite für Mastodon und ähnliche Software zu verifizieren. [380]
• Die Standard-Projektlizenz wurde offiziell auf CC BY-SA 4.0 aktualisiert. Die Software-Nachrichten wurden aktualisiert. Gemeinschaften können alle Erwähnungen der alten Lizenz CC BY-SA 3.0 in Richtlinien und auf zugehörigen Dokumentationsseiten aktualisieren. [381]

Probleme

• An drei Tagen im letzten Monat wurde auf einigen Wikipedia-Seiten beim Bearbeiten mit dem VisualEditor oder den Diskussionswerkzeugen unbeabsichtigt während der Bearbeitung __TOC__ (oder die lokalisierte Form) hinzugefügt. Es gibt eine Liste betroffener Seiten sortiert nach Wikis, die möglicherweise noch behoben werden müssen. [382]
• Derzeit funktioniert die Funktion "Diese Seite standardmäßig sortieren als" des VisualEditor nicht. Vorhandene {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}-Schlüsselwörter erscheinen im VisualEditor fälschlicherweise als fehlende Vorlagen. Die Entwickler prüfen, wie dies behoben werden kann. In der Zwischenzeit wird denjenigen, die den Standard-Sortierschlüssel einer Seite bearbeiten möchten, empfohlen, zur Quelltextbearbeitung zu wechseln. [383]
• In der letzten Woche hat eine Aktualisierung des Löschformulars möglicherweise einige Helferleins und Benutzerskripte beeinträchtigt. Wenn du das Feld für den Löschgrund verändern (leeren) musst, ersetze #wpReason durch #wpReason > input. Siehe eine Beispielreparatur. [384]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 13 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 14 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 15 Juni (Kalender).
• Der VisualEditor wird in der englischsprachigen Wikipedia am Montag und in allen anderen großen Wikis am Donnerstag auf ein neues Backend wechseln. Die Änderung sollte keine bemerkbare Auswirkung auf Benutzer haben. Solltest du allerdings feststellen, dass es bei der Benutzung des VisualEditors lange Ladezeiten oder andere ungewöhnliche Vorkommnisse gibt, melde dies bitte im hier verlinkten Phabricator-Ticket. [385]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Vom 5. Juni bis zum 17. Juli hält das Sicherheitsteam der Foundation eine Konsultation mit Beitragenden zu einem Richtlinien-Entwurf zur Nutzung von Drittanbieter-Ressourcen in Helferleins und Skripten, die von Freiwilligen entwickelt werden, ab. Rückmeldungen und Vorschläge werden auf der Richtlinie für Drittanbieter-Ressourcen im Meta-Wiki sehr geschätzt.

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Wikidata weekly summary #581

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention)
    • TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open.
    • The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page.
    • The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
    • Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register
    • GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open. Deadline is June 30, 2023.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Using Wikidata Lexemes and Items to Generate Text from Abstract Representations
    • The Wikipedia Republic of Literary Characters
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube
    • Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata, How to Create a Wikidata Item, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items
    • Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube
    • Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube
    • Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube
    • Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities?, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases
    • OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube
    • Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube
    • Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube
    • KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube
    • SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Analysing the profile of people invited to France Inter's Matinale using Wikidata
    • Wikidata Queries
    • Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article
    • Charleroi Streets Gender Inequality
    • Citation Factory
  • Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement with Natural History Collections

• Tool of the week
  • Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series
  • Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • satellite view (image of the subject taken from outer space)
    • External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID, KPU Plant Database ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID, documenta archiv ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Israel Composers' League composer ID, Alabama Authors ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • HyperTextAPI
      • Gottstein code (Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant)
      • altesdresden.de object (altesdresden.de object)
      • Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي
      • Moroccan administrative geographical coding
    • External identifiers: COSL profile ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, NBC Olympics Athlete ID, European Bridge League ID, research.com ID, ComingSoon.it TV IDs, Team France profile ID, FIGC player ID, Theapolis theater ID, Theapolis actor ID, AVP player ID, Volleyball Canada ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, Korean Tour player ID, Austadiums ID, DEL player ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID
  • Query examples:
    • Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? (source)
    • Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann (source)
    • List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID (source)
    • British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions (source)
    • Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account (source)
    • [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge
    • [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of March 5, 1902?

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
    • We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
  • EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
  • mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T329655, phab:T316767)
  • Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 19:23, 19. Jun. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-25

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Flame-Graphen sind nun in WikimediaDebug verfügbar. [386][387]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
• Der VisualEditor besitzt nun ein Such-Popup für die Werkzeugleiste, das durch Eingabe von \ oder durch Drücken von ctrl + shift + p aktiviert werden kann und das dir schnellen Zugriff auf die meisten Werkzeuge bietet, die im Editor verfügbar sind. [388][389]

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Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-26

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Module der Action API und Spezial:Weblinksuche werden nun zu allen prop=extlinks-Antworten für nackte Domänen ein abschließendes / hinzufügen. Dies ist Teil der Arbeiten zur Entfernung von Duplikaten in der Datenbanktabelle externallinks. [390]

Probleme

• In der letzten Woche hat die Suche auf Commons und Wikidata für 23 Stunden nicht funktioniert. [391][392]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 27 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 28 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 29 Juni (Kalender).
• Der Skin Minerva wendet nun mehr vordefinierte Styles auf die CSS-Klasse .mbox-text an. Dies ermöglicht die Unterstützung von mbox-Vorlagen, die divs statt Tabellen nutzen. Bitte stelle sicher, dass die neuen Styles keine Auswirkungen auf andere Vorlagen in deinem Wiki haben. [393][394]
• Helferleins werden nun standardmäßig in der Desktop-Ansicht und in der mobilen Ansicht geladen. Zuvor wurden Helferleins standardmäßig nur in der Desktop-Ansicht geladen. Die Änderung dieses Standards mit dem Parameter |targets= ist ebenfalls veraltet und sollte nicht genutzt werden. Du solltest entweder dafür sorgen, dass die Helferleins auch in der mobilen Ansicht funktionieren oder sie anhand des Skins (mit dem Parameter |skins= in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) deaktivieren, statt dies davon abhängig zu machen, ob der Benutzer die mobile oder die Desktop-Webseite nutzt. Als vorübergehende Lösung werden Helferleins, die in der mobilen Ansicht Fehler erzeugen, von den Entwicklern für den Skin Minerva deaktiviert. [395]
• Alle Namensraum-Tabellen haben nun standardmäßig den gleichen Browser-Zugriffsschlüssel. Zuvor mussten die Zugriffsschlüssel für benutzerdefinierte und von Erweiterungen definierte Namensräume manuell im Wiki festgelegt werden, was nicht mehr erforderlich ist. [396]
• Das Überprüfungsformular der Erweiterung Flagged Revisions nutzt nun die standardisierten Komponenten der Benutzeroberfläche. [397]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• In den nächsten Wochen wird sich in Wikis der Gruppe 2 ändern, wie Medien in der HTML-Ausgabe des Parsers strukturiert sind. Diese Änderung verbessert die Zugänglichkeit von Inhalten. Du musst möglicherweise das seitenweite CSS oder Benutzerskripte und Helferleins aktualisieren. Es gibt Details dazu, welcher Code geprüft werden sollte, wie man den Code aktualisiert und wo man zugehörige Probleme melden kann. [398]

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Wikidata weekly summary #582

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 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.
    • Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th.
    • WikiIndaba 2023 Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Dude, where are my pictures?
    • BiCIKL is linking people unambiguously and efficiently to their work
    • Understanding Knowledge Graphs: A Beginner’s Guide
  • Videos
    • re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube
    • Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
    • Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
    • Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
    • Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube
    • From authority control to identity management - YouTube
    • DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube
    • Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube
    • Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
    • KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
  • Surveys
    • Results of the WMDE survey on ontology issues reusers are facing
  • Notebooks
    • Explore people having notable parents

• Tool of the week

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), Professor at Cologne univ. ID, Numista ruling authority ID, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • 諱 ()
      • Date of declaration as a town (The date when a settlement is declared a town)
      • Loss of town status (Date of loss of town rank)
    • External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Alienor.org ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, XWord Info author ID, WKF ranking ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, etymologiebank.nl ID
  • Query examples:
    • Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) (source)
    • List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page
    • (history) Where were the borders crossing between {{Q|Q16957}} and {{Q|Q713750}} ?
    • Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject University of Washington Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community.
    • WikiProject New York Public Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383)
  • EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
  • Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
  • mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T339103, phab:T329655, phab:T329655)
  • Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 20:33, 26. Jun. 2023 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #583

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023. Scholarship applications are now open.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour July 7, 2023: Let's collaborate to upgrade our community infrastructure! We'll transfer notes and content from Google Docs to our WikiProject subpages. We'll be practicing our Wiki markup skills and learning to manage Wikidata Project pages Event page
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #99, Breast milk (Challenge started on 2023-07-03 12:01:21)
  • Past: The “Games & Literature” conference took place June 28th-30th at German Literature Archive Marbach (Q1205813), several sessions mentioned Wikidata (see for example Why we thought it was a good idea to build a DACH games database).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • EduWiki 2023 Wikidata for Education - YouTube
    • EduWiki 2023 Wikidata in Secondary School Classrooms - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Visualizing all Tour de France's yellow jersey wearers. See also, all notebooks about the Tour de France.

• Tool of the week
  • m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
  • Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
  • Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
      • record of (signal over time this object is a physical representation of)
      • orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement described using score notation)
      • type of document(s) held (used to specify the type of document(s) contained in an archival collection or documentation file)
    • External identifiers: French sports venue number, Challenges billionaire ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, mosff.ru player ID, Austadiums ID, Akadem organization ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia.com ID, QLIT ID, Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Kartvelologists of Georgia ID, Politique pappers identifier, altesdresden.de object ID, BFM.ru person ID, beachsoccer.com player ID, National Science Foundation award, BIBFRAME Hub ID, elibrary.ru article ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris work ID, Radiomuseum company ID, BSDB player ID, NBC Olympics athlete ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • elected on (Date when a person was elected to a {{P|P39}}, in difference to {{P|P580}} (= {{Q|Q28530236}}). {{P|P2715}} cannot always be applied.)
      • collage combines images (collage composed of images)
      • Nigerian registered company (RC) id (RC number (Registration Number), identifier assigned to a business by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria)
      • Cent cols (A property to link Wikidata entries to the dedicated pages of each pass by the Cent Cols)
      • Phonographic copyright (identifier for phonographic copyright)
    • External identifiers: myjewishitaly.it ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Lemmy community identifier, Mythoskop ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara settlement ID, LFG player ID, Flashpoint database ID, Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, Wikibase World identifier, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, National Library of Colombia authority ID, CNR ExploRA author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subject areas of journals that have published papers about the replication crisis (by User:Zeromonk and User:MartinPoulter)
    • Count of games published in ROM format per platform per year, 1995-1997 (source)
    • Countries with similar populations
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Conflation aims to identify and untangle conflated items.
    • WikiProject Scotland's Accused Witches aims at producing structured data documenting witchhunts, and prosecuted Scotland's accused witches on Wikidata using the University of Edinburgh's landmark Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736).

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
    • We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
  • Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
  • mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:00, 3. Jul. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-27

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Im Rahmen der Umsetzung des Wunschlistenvorschlags für Audiolinks, die beim Anklicken abgespielt werden, können kleine Wikis nun den Inline-Audioplayer nutzen, der durch die Erweiterung Phonos implementiert ist. [399]
• Ab dieser Woche werden alle Helferleins automatisch auf mobilen und Desktop-Seiten geladen. Wenn du Probleme bei Helferleins in deinen Wikis feststellst, passe bitte die Helferlein-Optionen in deiner Helferlein-Definitionsdatei an. [400]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 4 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 5 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 6 Juli (Kalender).

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This Month in GLAM: June 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #584

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 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.
    • LD4 conference (YouTube)
      • Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog- Tuesday, July 11, 2:30pm EST
      • Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas - Tuesday, July 11, 11:30am EST
      • Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) - Tuesday, July 11, 11am EST
      • WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration - Wednesday, July 12, 11:00 am - 11:30 am
      • 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 Wednesday, July 12, 10:00 am - 10:30 am ET
  • Ongoing
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #100, Ants (Challenge started on 2023-07-10 12:01:24)
  • Past
    • Sailesh Patnaik presents Wikidata for Education at the July session of the Network of Open Orgs - YouTube
      • Wikidata Online Course - Cohort 1 graduation - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A volunteer-based initiative is flourishing in Arabic Wikipedia: Reliability enhanced with +10k citations added
    • Wikidata Map in 2023
  • Videos
    • How to create a Wikidata Lexeme with ease - Beginner's Guide (in Twi and English) YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
  • HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Overview of potential solutions regarding survey on ontology issues reusers are facing have been published. Are there important pieces missing? Is there something you disagree with? Generally sounds sensible? Do add your thoughts.
  • Wikidata development plan for Q3 has been updated. Wikidata:Development_plan

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • 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
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • excavated by (person who has conducted an archaeological excavation of a historic site)
      • 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 ()
    • External identifiers: Antenna Structure Registration Number, BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, Gameswelt 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
  • Query examples:
    • Week 26, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Portraits of queer men people
    • World Universities on Mastodon (source)

• Development
  • Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions and are looking for input on them now.
  • mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (phab:T316767)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356, phab:T338383)
  • Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (phab:T327510)
  • WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (phab:T321967)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:06, 10. Jul. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-28

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Vorschlagsfunktion für Bilder auf Abschnittsebene wurde in sieben Wikipedias eingeführt (Portugiesisch, Russisch, Indonesisch, Katalanisch, Ungarisch, Finnisch und Norwegisches Bokmål). Die Funktion empfiehlt Bilder für Artikel auf der Beobachtungsliste des Beitragenden, die gut zu den einzelnen Abschnitten dieser Artikel passen.
• Globale Missbrauchsfilter wurden in allen Wikimedia-Projekten außer der englischsprachigen und japanischsprachigen Wikipedia (die dies nicht wollten) aktiviert. Diese Änderung wurde aufgrund einer globalen Umfrage vorgenommen. [401]
• Spezial:BlockedExternalDomains ist ein neues Werkzeug für Administratoren bei der Bekämpfung von Spam. Es bietet eine klare Oberfläche für die Sperrung einfacher Domänen (und ihrer Subdomänen), ist einfacher durchsuchbar und kann von der Software schneller auf jede Bearbeitung des Wikis angewendet werden. Es unterstützt nicht reguläre Ausdrücke (für komplexe Fälle), nicht die Übereinstimmung mit URL-Pfaden und nicht die MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, ersetzt jedoch die meisten Funktionen der vorhandenen MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Es gibt ein Python-Skript für die Migration aller einfachen Domänen in dieses Werkzeug und weitere Details zu den Funktionen finden sich in der Dokumentation des Werkzeugs. Es ist in allen Wikis außer dem Meta-Wiki, Commons und Wikidata verfügbar. [402]
• Die Erweiterung WikiEditor wurde aktualisiert. Sie enthält einige der am häufigsten genutzten Funktionen bei der Bearbeitung von Wikitext. In der Vergangenheit konnten viele ihrer Nachrichten nur von Administratoren übersetzt werden, aber nun können sie alle Übersetzer im Translatewiki übersetzen. Bitte prüfe den Status der Lokalisierung von WikiEditor in deiner Sprache und vervollständige die Übersetzung, wenn die "Vollständigkeit" für deine Sprache unter 100% liegt. Siehe eine detailliertere Erklärung.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 11 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 12 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 13 Juli (Kalender).
• Das Standard-Protokoll für Spezial:Weblinksuche und die API-Gegenstücke wurde von http auf http und https geändert. [403]
• Spezial:Weblinksuche und seine API-Gegenstücke werden nun nach der gesamten URL suchen, die bei der Abfrage angegeben wird. Zuvor wurden nur die ersten 60 Zeichen genutzt. Diese Funktion wurde vor fünfzehn Jahren beantragt. [404]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Es gibt ein Experiment mit einem ChatGPT-Plugin. Dies soll Benutzern zeigen, woher die Informationen stammen, wenn sie Informationen aus Wikipedia lesen. Es wurde von Mitarbeitern der Wikimedia-Stiftung und anderen Wikimedianern getestet. Bald können alle Nutzer des ChatGPT-Plugins das Wikipedia-Plugin nutzen. Es handelt sich um das gleiche Plugin, das in den Technischen Neuigkeiten 2023-20 erwähnt wurde. [405]
• Es gibt eine Diskussion über eine vorgeschlagene Richtlinie für Ressourcen von Drittanbietern. Der Vorschlag wird sich auf die Nutzung von Drittanbieter-Ressourcen in Helferleins und Benutzerskripten auswirken. Basierend auf den bisher eingebrachten Ideen behandelt die Richtlinie einige der Risiken beim Laden von Drittanbieter-Ressourcen über Benutzerskripte und Helferleins, einige beste Vorgehensweisen und Anforderungen für Ausnahmen, wie Code-Transparenz und Überprüfbarkeit. Deine Rückmeldung und Vorschläge sind bis zum 17. Juli 2023 auf der Diskussionsseite der Richtlinie sehr willkommen.

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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 (phab:T327510)
  • EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab: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 (phab: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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:53, 17. Jul. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-29

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Wir bedienen jetzt 1% des globalen Benutzerverkehrs über Kubernetes (du kannst dir weitere technische Details durchlesen). Wir planen, diesen Prozentsatz regelmäßig zu erhöhen. Du kannst den Fortschritt dieser Arbeit verfolgen.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 18 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 19 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 20 Juli (Kalender).
• MediaWiki-Systemnachrichten werden nun nach verfügbaren lokalen Rückfallmöglichkeiten suchen, statt immer die von der Software definierte Standard-Rückfallmöglichkeit zu nutzen. Das bedeutet, dass Wikis nicht mehr jede Sprache in der Rückfallkette einzeln überschreiben müssen. Beispielsweise müssen in der englischsprachigen Wikipedia keine Unterseiten für en-ca und en-gb erstellt werden, die die Basisseiten einbinden. Dies erleichtert es, lokale Überschreibungen zu verwalten. [406]
• Die action=growthsetmentorstatus-API wird mit der neuen MediaWiki-Version veraltet sein. Bots oder Skripte, die diese API anrufen, sollten nun die action=growthmanagementorlist-API nutzen. [407]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:06, 18. Jul. 2023 (CEST)

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: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (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 (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
  • mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab: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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat(WMDE) 17:41, 24. Jul. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-30

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Die Wikimedia Foundation hat am 18. Juli eine Umfrage über den Prozess technischer Entscheidungen für Personen, die technische Arbeit erledigen, die sich auf von der Foundation oder von Partnern betriebene Software verlässt, gestartet. Wenn dies auf dich zutrifft, nimm bitte an der Umfrage teil. Die Umfrage ist für drei Wochen geöffnet bis zum 7. August. Du kannst weitere Informationen in der Ankündigungs-Email auf wikitech-l finden.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 25 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 26 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 27 Juli (Kalender).

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MediaWiki message delivery 04:18, 25. Jul. 2023 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #587

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

• 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: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (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 (phab:T339356) (new route)
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab: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 (phab: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 (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
  • mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab: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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:44, 31. Jul. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-31

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Das Synchronizer-Werkzeug ist jetzt verfügbar, um Lua-Module in verschiedenen Wikimedia-Wikis synchron zu halten, zusammen mit einer aktualisierten Dokumentation für die Entwicklung globaler Lua-Module und -Vorlagen.
• Der Markierungs-Filter auf Spezial:Neue Seiten und in den Versionsgeschichten kann nun zum Ausschließen von Ergebnissen verwendet werden. Beispielsweise kannst du Bearbeitungen verstecken, die mit einem automatisierten Werkzeug vorgenommen wurden. [408][409]
• Das experimentelle Wikipedia-ChatGPT-Plugin kann nun von ChatGPT-Nutzern verwendet werden, die Plugins nutzen. Du kannst an einem Videoanruf teilnehmen, wenn du über dieses Experiment oder ähnliche Arbeiten sprechen möchtest. [410]

Probleme

• In den letzten zwei Wochen war es nicht möglich, PDFs für Seiten zu generieren, deren Seitentitel nicht-lateinische Zeichen enthält. Dies wurde nun behoben. [411]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 1 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 2 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 3 August (Kalender).
• Ab Mittwoch erhalten einige Wikipedien die Link-Vorschlagsfunktion (Georgische Wikipedia, Karakalpakische Wikipedia, Kabylische Wikipedia, Kabardinische Wikipedia, Kabiyéischsprachige Wikipedia, Kikuyusprachige Wikipedia, Kasachische Wikipedia, Khmersprachige Wikipedia, Kannadasprachige Wikipedia, Kaschmirisprachige Wikipedia, Kölschsprachige Wikipedia, Kurdischsprachige Wikipedia, Kornische Wikipedia). Dies ist Teil der progressiven Einführung des Werkzeugs in weitere Wikipedien. Die Gemeinschaften können konfigurieren, wie diese Funktion lokal funktioniert. [412]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:52, 1. Aug. 2023 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #588

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

• 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 phab: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 [[Wikidata: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 (phab:T324235)
    • We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (phab:T339924, phab:T339921, phab:T339925, phab:T343231)
    • We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab: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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:05, 7. Aug. 2023 (CEST)

Technische Neuigkeiten: 2023-32

Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Autoren können in der mobilen Ansicht nun eine ganze Seite auf einmal bearbeiten. Um die Funktion zu nutzen, aktiviere "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in deinen Einstellungen und nutze die Schaltfläche "Ganze Seite bearbeiten" im Menü "Mehr". [413]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 7. Aug. 2023 (CEST)

Einladung: Virtuelle Treffen der Technischen Wünsche

Hallo. Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter der Technischen Wünsche abonniert hast.

Das Team Technische Wünsche lädt herzlich ein zu zwei virtuellen Veranstaltungen, die vorerst regelmäßig stattfinden:

Die virtuelle Sprechstunde des Reparatursommers. Falls du technische Werkzeuge (Helferlein, Vorlagen, Tools, Bots, …) reparieren möchtest, Fragen hast oder nicht weiterkommst, versuchen die Programmiererinnen und Programmierer aus dem Team Technische Wünsche hier weiterzuhelfen. Diese Sprechstunde findet vorerst alle zwei Wochen statt, und der nächste Termin ist diesen Donnerstag um 18:00.

Der Technische-Wünsche-Treff. Dieses Treffen richtet sich an alle, die sich dafür interessieren, was bei den Technischen Wünschen gerade passiert. Einmal im Monat stellt das Team Technische Wünsche vor, woran es gerade arbeitet, und möchte sich dann mit euch darüber austauschen. Technikkenntnisse sind hierfür ausdrücklich nicht notwendig. Der nächste Termin ist diesen Donnerstag um 19:00, also direkt im Anschluss an die virtuelle Sprechstunde.

Zur Übersicht über alle Termine

Wir freuen uns auf dich. Für das Team Technische Wünsche: Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (Diskussion) 17:42, 22. Aug. 2023 (CEST)