Benotzer Diskussioun:Robby
Archiv Bonjour, j'aimerais vous demander si il est possible que vous fassiez une page wikipédia pour moi. Je suis artiste. Peut être connaissez vous même déjà mon travail. Mon nom est Thomas Iser. Je ne suis pas familier avec wikipédia.. même si comme tout le monde je consulte régulièrement ce site. Le fait d'y être référencé est important pour moi. Je vous invite à faire une petite recherche sur mon travail il existe une multitude d'articles en ligne. Si vous acceptez je vous serais très reconnaissant et vous remercierez en conséquence. Bonne soirée.
Thomas Iser
Fro änneren
Hallo,
kennt Dir weg e Blèck op den User IP 87.65.83.203 gehaie?
D'Persoun ass net immens inklusiv ugehaucht vir daat mannst ze soen. Konstruktiv Kritik ass eppes guddes awer ewei den IP 87.65.83.203 sech matdeelt ass net onbdengt dei Zoort vu Milieu a Mateneen deen mir op Wikipedia schaafe wellen? Et wierkt reegelrecht abusif.
cf. Kommentarer "zréckgesat - nom Gepiddels war méi falsch wéi virdrun"; "An der Academie ass näischt ierflech. Wat e Quatsch"; "Dir braucht och net bei en Admin wéinst menger kräischen ze goen." --ContentForWiki (Diskussioun) 18:12, 8. Dez. 2020 (UTC)
Request for translation. Yanka Kupala and Yakub Kolas änneren
Warm greeting from Belarusian Wikipedia! This year we celebrate 130. birthday of Belarusian great poets en:Yanka Kupala and en:Yakub Kolas Could you help us to translate articles into your unique and honourable language? Thank you in advance! --Rymchonak 16:28, 14. Jan. 2012 (UTC)
Iwwersetzen änneren
Ass eppes wat méi séier muss iwwersat ginn? Oder soll ech mech un d'Schreifweis woen? Ech hunn do nämlech eng Maschinn kritt.
Et geet em Wikipedia:Artikelen, déi et op all Wikipedia sollt ginn. De Kueder
Sinn ech net schéin genuch fir eng Entwert oder einfach keen Intressi? De Kueder
Wa kee Maschinneniwwersetzunge wëll, da leschen ech se eben nees. De Kueder
E Kolleg vu mer huet eng Iwwersetzungsmaschinn programméiert, e wëll domat awer net méi weiderfueren an dofir huet e mer erlaabt fir se weiderzentwéckelen. Bei deenen Artikelen déi ech gelescht hunn ass déi Iwwersetzungsmaschinn zum Asaz komm. Leider ass se nach net perfekt an dofir hunn ech vill missen manuell nokorrigéieren. Awer am allgemengen hëlleft se besonnesch bei laangen Texter fir Zäit mam Iwwersetzen ze spueren. Dofir meng Froen, grad un iech well dir iech hei ëm d'Boten ze këmmeren schéngt. Wëll dës Wikipedia Iwwersetzungen aus dem däitschen? Wann jo, gëtt et Leit déi mer beim manuellen nokorrigéieren hëllefe wéilten? Wann jo, da géif ech déi Iwwersetzungsmaschinn ëmmer besser maachen bis datt souvill wéi méiglech automatesch geet. Ech hunn iech den Artikel "Molerei" als Beispill gemaach, wat d'Iwwersetzungsmaschinn momentan ouni iergend eng manuell Nokorrektur kann. Hutt dir Intressi un esou enger Iwwersetzungsmaschinn? De Kueder
- Moien
- Ech hu mer emol just déi zwéin éischt Sätz erausgepléckt: D'Molerei zählt nieft der Architektur, der Bildhauerei, der Grafik an der Zeechnung zu den klassesche Gattungen der Bildenden Konscht. Molerei ass d'Anbringen vu Farben mëttels Pinsel oder Spachtel oder aneren Gegenstände op enger Fläche.
- Wann ech mech net verzielt hunn, stinn an deenen 2 Sätz 12 Feeler. Do kan ee sech d'Fro stellen ob d'Nokorrektur net méi Aarbecht mécht, wéi direkt selwer richteg schreiwen. Et wier vläicht ubruecht nozekorrigéieren éier een esou eppes op d'Wiki setzt. Les Meloures 16:38, 14. Sep. 2008 (UTC)
- Nowend, ech kopéieren dës Diskussioun op de Stamminet, well se fir d'Allgemengheet intressant genuch ass. --Zinneke 18:38, 14. Sep. 2008 (UTC)
Ich hab die Antworten auf die Fragen hier hin geschrieben. --Purodha Blissenbach 20:25, 10. Feb. 2008 (UTC)
Liewe(n)smëttel änneren
Salut Robby. Tjo, onglécklecherweis bitt den DLW déi zwou Méiglechkeeten. Mer haten déi Fro schonns: Diskussioun:Liewensmëttel. --Cornischong 13:46, 19. Feb. 2008 (UTC)
Statistiken änneren
Salut Robby. Du këmmers dech ëm Statistiken. Ass där eng Méiglechkeet bekannt, fir d'Zuel vun de Besich op der lb-Wiki kënnen ze zielen? Op anere Websäite fënnt ee jo mol eng Zort Compteur. --Cornischong 02:01, 10. Mäe 2008 (UTC)
Email änneren
Hi, username rename can be easily done with the use of Special:Renameuser. This page has three fields. First one is the username to be renamed, second is the new username and third field is for the reason of the rename. If the following is inputed that would rename my account.
- Cool Cat
- White Cat
- User Request
-- Cat chi? 16:46, 15. Mäe 2008 (UTC)
- Is it possible for you to translate whats going on at Benotzer Diskussioun:Cornischong? -- Cat chi? 16:47, 15. Mäe 2008 (UTC)
Merci fir d'Kaart:-)) Les Meloures 23:51, 24. Mäe 2008 (UTC)
Merci, Robby, fir déi Formatéierung vun der Quell. Dat kéint mat sech bréngen, datt mer nom Kollektivcongé manner AusdeFangeregesuckeltes wäerte liesen. --Cornischong 10:49, 29. Mäe 2008 (UTC)
- An d'Geschicht, d'Geographie an de Sport sinn zu San José ënner d'Rieder komm:-)))--Cornischong 10:54, 29. Mäe 2008 (UTC)
Hallo Robby,
ich fand Deinen Namen in der Historie zu dem Artikel (und gerade eben in den letzten Änderungen). Der Artikel hat zwei Bilder, Bild:KinskiKlaus_(Autogrammkoart).jpg und Bild:KinskiKlaus.jpg. Die Lizenzen sind bei beiden "Fair use", soweit ich es verstehe. Wenn dem so ist, könntest Du die Bilder dann nach Commons hochladen, ich würde sie gerne dem deuteschen de:Klaus Kinski-Artikel zukommen lassen. Danke und Gruß Ulz, hier in lb unplugged als --80.129.31.187 19:19, 4. Mee 2008 (UTC)
A souwäit ech et verstinn, däerf ee keng Fair use Biller op Commons eroplueden [1]. An op d'de-wiki och net [2]. Just op der en-wiki, der lb-wiki an nach e puer aneren ass dat méiglech [3]. --Otets♣ 21:41, 14. Mee 2008 (UTC)
- Ach was gäb' ich drum, wenn ich Eure Sprache könnte... Gruß Ulz, hier in lb wieder unplugged 80.129.15.28 19:18, 15. Mee 2008 (UTC)
- Kuerz iwwersat: Fair use Bilder sind auf Commons und de-wiki nicht erlaubt, das wird also nix. --Otets♣ 20:28, 15. Mee 2008 (UTC)
Gudden Owend,
Well anscheinend net jiddereen Zäit huet fir d'Getalks ze liesen an op Froen ze reagéieren, a fir bei der Aktualitéit ze bleiwen, setzen ech emol jiderengem deen an de leschte 24 Stonnen aktiv war dës Info déi och um Staminet ze fannen ass op seng Säit.
De Playmisty hat dës Fro gestallt:
Referenz small -- kéint een dat nët an de Modell Referenz direkt aprogramméieren?).
Ech hunn du mol bei de franséschen an däitsche Nopere gekuckt wéi dat bei deene fonktionnéiert. Komescherweis ginn d'Referenzen do a Klengschrëft ugewissen wann se déi selwecht Programméierungszeeche wéi mir gebrauchen. U wat et läit, datt et bei ons a Grousschrëft ugewise gëtt, hunn ech awer net erausfonnt.
Dunn hunn ech probéiert fir eng eege Schabloun ze bastelen:
D'Resultat an den Ënnescheed gesitt der hei ënnendrënner mat der Syntaxt derbäi
<ref>De Pitt ass do</ref> mat ënnendrënner <references />
gëtt dat heite Resultat:[1]
- ↑ De Pitt ass do
<ref>De Pitt ass do</ref> mat ënnendrënner der neier Schabloun {{Referenzen}}
gëtt dat heite Resultat:[1]
Referenzen änneren
- ↑ De Pitt ass do
Les Meloures 20:28, 7. Jun. 2008 (UTC)
Salut,
Mail an der Këscht Les Meloures 20:12, 9. Jun. 2008 (UTC)
(beantragter) Bot 'LinkFA' änneren
Hallo Robby.
Was die Anzeige der 'Link FA' Angabe angeht, könnte ich eventuell helfen. Entweder per temporärem Admin-Status (die zu bearbeitenden .js / .css - Dateien sind leider nur Admins zugänglich) oder halt per vorbereiteten Änderungen und ggf. mehrfacher Hilfe durch einen Admin, der diese Änderungen dann entsprechend übernimmt.
Was meinen Bot angeht - sobald dieser die Alemannische Wikipedia abgearbeitet hat, kann ich ihn hier starten. Die 10 edits/Tag sind allerding kritisch.... (Nein, nicht wirklich, aber ich fürchte, die macht der Bot innerhalb weniger Minuten, wenn ich von den anderen Wikipedien aus schließen darf). Sollte aber machbar sein. (Normalerweise liefere ich ja 25 Edits und warte dann auf den Bot-Status.... aber wenn's hier 4 * 10 sein sollen, ist's mir auch recht)
--Guandalug 18:00, 15. Jun. 2008 (UTC)
- Okay, I hab was. Die Zeilen aus Benotzer:Guandalug/monobook.css gehören in die Datei MediaWiki:Common.css (damit wird der Stern ja erst definiert), und die Funktion 'LinkFA' in MediaWiki:Common.js hat auch noch einen Bug - mit meiner Version 'myLinkFA' (in Benotzer:Guandalug/monobook.js) geht es. Mit diesen Änderungen funktioniert das ganze mit den Auszeichnungen dann mindestens für die Monobook und den Stil 'simple', die 'anderen' Skins brauchen vermutlich eine ganz andere Behandlung (siehe de:MediaWiki:Common.js, da ist mehr zu tun). --Guandalug 07:06, 16. Jun. 2008 (UTC)
- An e puer Stonne misst déi nei CSS Versioun am System dra sinn, da gesi mer op et eppes gedingt huet. --Otets♣ 00:16, 18. Jun. 2008 (UTC)
Kantonskëschten änneren
Salut Robby
Maach der net zevill Aarbecht mat de coden an de Cantonskëschten. Déi ginn all ersat. Ech brauch net mé Zäit fir de nei Këscht drann ze setzen wéis du mam Kierze vum code. Les Meloures 09:10, 23. Jun. 2008 (UTC)
Fotoen änneren
Salut Robby,
Beim Nokucke vun den nd-lizenzéierte Biller hunn ech festgestallt, datt dës zwee Biller déi vum Conischong eropgeluede goufen déi ëmstridde Lizenz CC-by-nc-nd/3.0 hunn. Well mer net wëssen op de Cornischong déi Biller virum Eroplueden verschafft huet an doduercher d'Recht huet fir hinnen déi Lizenz ze ginn, déi hie fir gutt fënnt, wier et am beschten du géifs déi Biller frësch mat enger wikikompatibler Lizenz eroplueden, datt mer se ersetze kënnen. Merci am Viraus. Les Meloures 09:25, 28. Jun. 2008 (UTC)
Ass erledigt --Robby 22:55, 28. Jun. 2008 (UTC)
Einladung änneren
Als Administrator hast Du nun die Möglichkeit #wikimedia-admin, den Cross-Wiki-Koordinations-Kanal fuer Wikimedia-Administratoren zu betreten. Jedes Mitglied dieses Kanals kann Dich vorrübergehend einladen, aber um einen permanenten Zugang zu erlangen, muss dieser Dir von einem einem Betreiber des Kanals eingerichtet werden. Bitte komme in den Kanal #wikimedia und bitte um Zutritt.
Jeder Administrator von jedem Projekt ist willkommen und es ist ein guter Ort für Cross-Wiki-Koordination gegen Vandalen und für Spambekämpfung. Es ist ebenfalls praktisch für neue Administratoren, etwas erfahrenere Admins in Echtzeit kontaktieren zu können und Hilfe bei komplizierteren Admintätigkeiten erfragen zu können, wie z.B. das Zusammenführen/Trennen der Versionsgeschicht, Importieren via Special:Import.
- Bitte die Benutzeroberfläche nur auf betawiki: übersetzen und Bilder vornehmlich auf commons: hochladen.
Vielen Dank
Liebe Grüße, --Spacebirdy 23:40, 1. Aug. 2008 (UTC)
Gléckwënsch änneren
Häerzlech Gléckwënsch fir deng nei Responsabilitéiten. --Pecalux 06:01, 2. Aug. 2008 (UTC)
Fotografen änneren
Bonjour,
Il me semble que vous êtes intéressé par la photographie.
Seriez-vous prêt à travailler avec moi pour compléter la catégorie fr:Catégorie:Photographe luxembourgeois ou toute autre ? Vous pourriez traduire en français (même approximatif) et je corrigerais. Cordialement, Jatayou 15:04, 28. Aug. 2008 (UTC)
Interwiki link sort order änneren
Wat ech dem Malafaya geschriwwen hu stëmmt jo nach ëmmer, gell? --Otets♣ 15:24, 9. Sep. 2008 (UTC)
- This question arised in Pywikipediabot Bug tracker. Apparently there are a few "new" languages for which the sorting order hasn't been updated for LB specific order (languages such as sah, myv, ext, gan....). Do you have a list such as this one? Malafaya 17:35, 9. Sep. 2008 (UTC)
Jo, mee wéi de Fransous géif soen, dat ass d'Mier fir ze drénken. Mëttlerweil sinn et eng 260 Sproochen a bis ewell hunn ech scho méi wéi zwou Dose fonnt déi falsch stinn, dobäi hunn ech mech mol nach guer net un déi exotesch Schrëftzeechen erugewot. Enfin, dofir huet ee jo nach de Weekend. ;-) --Otets♣ 22:20, 11. Sep. 2008 (UTC)
Kucken dat nach, mee momentan ass mäin Haaptcomputer en panne, dat mécht d'Saach net grad méi einfach. --Otets♣ 18:47, 19. Nov. 2008 (UTC)
Bitte, du könntest in Luxemburger die Artikel Martin Weinek und Kaspar Capparoni übersetzen? Ich danke dir vorzeitig. änneren
Gutes Tag zu dir und Grüßen von Campora San Giovanni. Ich schreibe dich bezüglich dieser zwei Artikel, wenn bitte du könntest sie in Luxemburger übersetzen, sie handeln von zwei Schauspielern von einer bekannten Fernseh Reihe in Europa: Kommissar Rex. Das sind Martin Weinek und Kaspar Capparoni; Weinek ist der Veteran der österreichischen Reihe, es ist jetzt das neue Gesicht der Reihe italienischer, sowie hervorragender Weinbauer und Land Unternehmer. Capparoni ist der new entry der Reihe, aber es arbeitete schon für andere wichtige Kino Produktionen. Natürlich werde ich den Gefallen erwidern, da werde ich einige Biographien oder einen Artikel von Geografie übersetzen: in Italienisch, Spanier und Sizilianer, in, wieviel ich bin Biograph und Geograph auf der Wikipedia Italienerin. Ich danke dir vorzeitig in die Erwartung von deiner gewißen Antwort, und ich verbleibe auch mit den Grüßen von Campora San Giovanni, mein Geburts Dorf. Danke noch--Lodewijk Vadacchino 09:31, 15. Sep. 2008 (UTC)
Kontefusioun änneren
Du kenns dech jo an den Déifte vun der Software nach am beschten aus, op "Wikipedia:Ech_hunn_eng_Fro#Accounts_mergen" ass eng relativ technesch Fro. --Otets♣ 00:27, 24. Sep. 2008 (UTC)
Bürokrat änneren
Glückwunsch. Du hast jetzt deine Knöpfe. Falls du Fragen hast, kannst du gern auf den Adminkanal im IRC kommen (#wikimedia-admins auf dem Server freenode.net) (das gilt natürlich auch für alle anderen Admins). Beste Grüße, Thogo (Diskussion) 12:14, 1. Okt 2008 (UTC)
Ptbotgourou änneren
Bonjour, ce serait avec plaisir mais... j'ai déjà fait la demande le 25 septembre ici. Merci quand même de m'avoir informer ;-) --Gdgourou 21:55, 1. Okt 2008 (UTC)
- Pas de souci. --Gdgourou 21:59, 1. Okt 2008 (UTC)
Testmessage änneren
Has de uewen den orangen Text um Begréissungsschierm gesinn? --Pecalux 13:15, 13. Okt 2008 (UTC)
Interwiki-Linken änneren
Moie Robbi,
Bei mir ginn d'Interwiki-Linke net méi korrekt ugewisen: Si sti net méi am lénkse Rand vum Ecran mee ënnert dem Textkierper an se sinn net verlinkt (dat heescht se si rout). Ass et bei dir d'selwecht? Kanns du do eppes ënnerhuelen? --Pecalux 04:56, 25. Okt 2008 (UTC)
- Salut Pecalux,
- De Problem besteet bäi mir elo net méi (ech hunn et mat 5 veschiddene Browser nogekuckt: Chrome 0.2.149.30, Netscape 9.0.0.3, Opera 9.61 Internet Explorer 7 a Mozilla Firefox 3.1. Beta 1 ). Ech huelen unn datt de Problem duerch eng nei Versioun vun der MediaWiki-Software gelee huet. Mir hunn nämlech elo d'Versioun 1.14alpha (r42531)' wärend mir nach gëschter Owend eng aner Versioun haten (1.14alpha (r41xxx)'). Warscheinlech war an däer Versioun déi zu dem Zäitpunkt wou's Du dëse Feeler gemierkt hues eng Software version mat engem Feeler oder et war e Feeler an iergendenger interner Astellung vun der Software.
- Trotzdem merci fir d'Informatioun. Et wier just och nach nëtzlech bäi esou Informatiounen ëmmer unzeginn watfir en Internet Browser datt e benotzt huet wëll an eenzelne Fäll kann et och just e Browser sinn den d'Säiten net esou uweist wéi dat vun den Entwéckler geplangt ass.
- Ech hoffen dat ass net zevill technesch an einigermosse verständlech --Robby 06:36, 25. Okt 2008 (UTC)
- Rebonjour,
- 1. Deng Äntwert war tiptop verständlech.
- 2. Ech schaffe mam IE 7.
- 3. Alles fonktionnéiert nees normal.
- Merci fir deng Informatiounen. --Pecalux 09:59, 25. Okt 2008 (UTC)
Salut Robby,
Kanns de mol an de Systemmessagen nokucken, do ass e Schreiffeeler dran (warscheinlech an iergendenger Informatioun déi mam Läschen ze dinn huet).
Ech huelen emol un dat de Cornischong dat Hei gemengt huet.
Et dréint sech ëm stong dat misst op stoung geännert ginn. Merci am Viraus
Disclaimer änneren
Moien, kuck emol bei Geleeënheet hei. --Zinneke 18:15, 11. Dez. 2008 (UTC)
Muro Bot änneren
OK. Thank you very much! Muro de Aguas 15:54, 22. Dez. 2008 (UTC)
Category -> Kategorie änneren
Hi Robby. Just confirming things on-wiki. I am going to put SieBot to work on replacing category namespace names. There is some risk involved, and to mitigate that, I will confine SieBot to making 2 types of replacements: "[[Category:" -> "[[Kategorie:" and "[[:Category:" -> "[[:Kategorie:". This means that not all possible uses will be replaced, but the remaining ones will be rare. Cheers! Siebrand 17:20, 23. Dez. 2008 (UTC)
- Should be done now. Siebrand 23:06, 23. Dez. 2008 (UTC)
Salut Robby,
Dat mat dem Css fonktionnéiert,
Ech ginn deen aneren och elo nach änneren.
Les Meloures 23:34, 1. Jan. 2009 (UTC)
Salut,
Kanns de mol kuerz ubimmelen Les Meloures 22:15, 2. Feb. 2009 (UTC)
Stalking eines dewp-Trolls änneren
Hi Robby. Könntest du bitte diese Änderung aus der Versionsgeschichte löschen? Ein dewp-Troll, der schon seit längerem einem dewp-Admin hinterherschnüffelt, benützt das, um das zu verbreiten. Danke, --Thogo (Diskussion) 20:27, 8. Feb. 2009 (UTC)
BodhisattvaBot änneren
Hi Robby, there is an open req for botbit from last year, i did some test edits then, do i need to do some more? Cheers ;o) --Dalibor Bosits 16:39, 28. Feb. 2009 (UTC)
- Hey Robby, thanks for botbit and leaving me a msg, best regards stay well ;o) --Dalibor Bosits 10:40, 1. Mäe. 2009 (UTC)
- Salut,
- Ech hat gemierkt, e konnt just een net maachen, well d'Säit blockéiert war. Ech hunn em geschriwwen datt ech dee manuell g'ännert hätt. Ech warde bis mar well d'Cache ass nach net eidel wéinst anere Schablounen. Wann da kee link méi drop ass kann ech läschen. Merci fir d'interventioun. Les Meloures 00:44, 25. Mäe. 2009 (UTC)
- Salut Robby,
- Ech wees. D'Kategorie Musekgruppen ouno S hat ech ugefaangen eidel ze maachen, an anengems d'Gruppeen an hir Länner ze tässelen. Do ass den Installateur komm well mer e Stopp an der Leitung haten, an ech hu missen ophalen. Ech bekëmmere mech an den nächsten Deeg drëm. Sou séier wéi ech se gesënnert kréie, gëtt déi Kategorie automatesch eidel gemaach an duerno geläscht. Mar sinn ech net do bis owes.
Globefabrikant änneren
Gudden Owend Robby, datt ech alleng dra schreiwen an dës Kategorie ass jo wuel selbstverständlech, et ass keen aneren do, deen dës Artikele schreift. Mä irgendwann muss een esou Kategorien ufäbken, well et kommen der bestëmmt nach no, wann net haut da muar. Dofir muss net direkt alles geläscht ginn. Ech schreiwen zënter 2006 an d´Wiki, also net nëmmen Haut a Muar. Esou änlech Momenter kommen bestëmmt an Zukunft der nach, sorry, awer ech wollt Dir dat just matdeelen. --SITCK 21:25, 26. Abr. 2009 (UTC) Äntwert op der Diskussiounssäit vum Benotzer:SITCK --Robby 21:33, 26. Abr. 2009 (UTC)
Translation Request änneren
Hi! Could you translate and add this article into your wonderful wikipedia? You can reach me here. Thanks. With Kind Regards --Warayupay 18 jen 2009 à 09:49 (UTC)
Tacloban
Tacloban is a port city in the Philippines. It is approximately 360 miles southeast of Manila. It is the capital of the province of Leyte. It is also the regional center of Eastern Visayas.
Commons: Category:Tacloban City – Biller, Videoen oder Audiodateien |
User:Robby on Commons änneren
I am requesting an usurp on Commons. I do not yet have a username on Commons. Robby 21:42, 23. Jun. 2009 (UTC)
- Gudde Mojen Robby, villmols merci fir däi gudde Rot, et huet geklappt, mäi User-Numm funktionnéiert elo och op Commons. --Christian Ries 06:08, 25. Jun. 2009 (UTC)
User:Robby on en-wikipedia änneren
I am requesting an usurp on en.wikipedia. My current username on en.wikipedia is LURobby --Robby 22:13, 23. Jun. 2009 (UTC)
Benotzer:Robby auf de-Wikipedia änneren
Ich beantrage die Übernahmen des Benutzernamens Robby auf de.wikipedia. Ich abe bisher noc keinen Benotzernamen auf de.wikipedia --Robby 18:08, 24. Jun. 2009 (UTC)
Salut, kanns de w.e.g. emol bimmelen? Les Meloures 17:26, 25. Jul. 2009 (UTC)
- Moien,
- Et ass eng Mail an denger Këscht. Les Meloures 18:12, 28. Jul. 2009 (UTC)
Mëtteg Robby,
Hat dir eng Mail geschéckt. Ass dat fir den Owend nach ok? --Alexandra 14:00, 12. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
Wrong interwiki änneren
Hello LuRobby, This edit is wrong: [4]. This leads to the wrong template page on the other wiki. Please take more care in adding the right interwiki tot the right page. Thank you. Greetings - nl:Gebruiker:Romaine/Handtekening 15 aug 2009 19:15 (CEST)
- Sorry, but On this toic I do not agree with you. --RobbyBot 17:20, 15. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
- Moie Robby
- Du krus eng Mail Les Meloures 20:25, 15. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
User:Robby on simple-wikipedia änneren
I am requesting an usurp on simple.wikipedia. My current username on simple.wikipedia is LuRobby --Robby 15:20, 23. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
User:Robby on es-wikipedia änneren
I am requesting an usurp on simple.wikipedia. --Robby 08:24, 24. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
User:Robby on pt-wikipedia änneren
I am requesting an usurp on pt.wikipedia. --Robby 14:13, 24. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
User:Robby on it-wikipedia änneren
I am requesting an usurp on it.wikipedia. --Robby 21:12, 24. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
- hello, do you are speak Italian??:) --SurdusVII [LIS] 06:53, 26. Sep. 2015 (UTC)
- No, I'm just able to understand roughly written Italian.--Robby (Diskussioun) 07:09, 26. Sep. 2015 (UTC)
User:Robby on ro-wikipedia änneren
I am requesting an usurp on ro.wikipedia. My current username on ro.wikipedia is LuRobby --Robby 23:07, 25. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
User:Robby on hu-wikipedia änneren
I am requesting an usurp on hu.wikipedia. --Robby 08:47, 26. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
Nonkilling änneren
Hi Robby! I was wondering if you would help me creating an article for "nonkilling" in Lëtzebuergesch. The English version is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonkilling (but the first paragraph -or line even- would do!). There is a German NGO that also uses the term: http://www.nonkilling.de Thank you in advance! --Cgnk 22:21, 27. Aug. 2009 (UTC)
Usurpation on it.wiki änneren
Just done, best regards! --Vituzzu 11:05, 6. Sep. 2009 (UTC)
Jayvdb rename request änneren
Hi, could you please rename my account to "John Vandenberg". see meta:User_talk:John_Vandenberg#global_rename_confirmation. Thank you. Jayvdb 06:56, 12. Sep. 2009 (UTC)
Translation request änneren
Hi Robby! Would you be so kind to help me translate this article (or the German version) into the wonderful Luxembourgish language? Please. It's about a Chinese philosopher and is listed as one of the articles every Wikipedia should have. If you think that article is too long, here is a short version: "Confucius was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese thought and life. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity." Thanks a lot, and bset regards:)--Amaqqut 04:47, 19. Okt. 2009 (UTC)
Artikel "Jacques-Gustave Lessel" änneren
Moien,
"ech huelen un dat sollt 1886 an net 1986 sinn". Natierlech! Dat war e Lapsus vu mir. Merci fir d'Verbesserung.--Fliedermaus 16:49, 22. Dez. 2009 (UTC)
Erëm do
Um Spaweck änneren
Salut,
ech verstinn däin Punkt, ech hun och gesinn dass op deenen meeschten Artikelen Um Spaaweck benotzt gëtt. Trotzdeem fannen ech dass di Expressioun sech extrem dämlech unhéiert a menger Meenung no zimmlech lächerlech erriwwer kennt, wéi wann een einfach ze haart géif probéieren fier alles ze iwwersetzen. Ech hunn ech déi Expressioun nach ni benotzt (weder beim Schwätzen, nach op Wikipedia-lb), an ech hun och schon genuch Artikelen ugeluecht, wou daat bis elo nach nët geännert ginn ass. Ech perséinlech gëif dës Expressioun ni benotzen, a fannen och nët dass all Klengegkeet op Wikipedia muss standariséieren ginn. Op däitsch heescht et jo och nët im Netz...
Duerfir, mat allem Respekt, sëtzen ech deng Ännerung erëm zeréck, an wier frou, wann dëst och esou géif bleiwen.
(P.S. Et ass schwiereg, verschidde Saachen schrëftlech erriwwerzebrengen, ech hoffen, daat huet sech elo net onfrëndlech unhéieren...)
- Ech sinn der Meenung datt et fir Notzer vun der Wikipedia méi kloer ass wann ëmmer déi selwecht Begrëffer benotzt ginn. Ob dat elo "Um Spaweck" oder "Linken a Quellen" heescht sollt esou eenheetlech wéi méiglech sinn. Dofir soll och wann ee Benotzer virschléit esou ee Bgrëff duerch een aneren z'ersetzen dat op Wikipedia:De Staminee diskutéiert ginn. Wann et dann do zu engem Accord kënnt da sollt no menger Iwwerzeegung dat dann och esou séier wéi méiglech an allen Artikelen geännert ginn.
- Wann een dat net esou mécht da riskéiert een datt et zou de sougenannten editwars kënnt wou zwee oder méi Benotzer ëmmer nees een deem aneren seng Ännerungen zerécksetzen. Op deene meeschten Wikien féiert datt dann dozou datt een oder déi zwee betraffe Benotzer gespaart ginn. An dat ass da sécher fir keen eng gutt Léisung. dofir nach enger mäi Virschlag fir op der Säit De Staminee dee Sujet ze diskutéieren fir en Accord ze fannen.
--Robby 17:28, 1. Mee 2010 (UTC)
P.S. et gëtt och eng ganz Rei Begrëffer déi op der lb-Wikipedia benotzt ginn déi ech esou am alldeeglech och virdrun nach ni héieren hat a perséinlech am Alldag och ni benotzen.
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Hey, ech hunn déi Saach mat der Email nach net ganz verstaanen, mee ech hun lo mol meng Email Address aginn (ech muss mir daat mol nach eng Kéier méi genau ukukken). Waat den Staminee ugeht, daat ass an da Réi, et hunn elo just keng Zäit, fier mech méi serieux domat ze beschäftegen, daat machen ech dann eng Kéier sou géint Mëtt Mee, ok?
Merci awer dass du geäntwert hues an schéinen Owend nach:)
Kontakt änneren
Ech hunn eis Wikipedia:Kontakt Säit à jour gesat, mat deer als neie Bürokrat. Dee Moment géifen dech da Journaliste kontaktéieren, wa se dann déi Säit liesen a behäerzegen. Wann dat net an dengem Sënn sollt sinn an en aneren Admin léiwer esou eng Kontaktpersoun wëll sinn, da kanns de et jo nach ëmmer ëmänneren. --Otets♣ 22:16, 16. Jul. 2010 (UTC)
Geo-CSS änneren
Ech wollt der just Bescheed soen, datt ech eppes Klengs bei "MediaWiki:Common.css" derbäigesat hunn, fir datt sech eng Geokoordinateschabloun uerdentlech uweise léisst (vun dräi Ausgabemodi der zwee doutgeschalt). --Otets♣ 00:36, 28. Jul. 2010 (UTC)
Salut,
Mail an der Këscht. Les Meloures 21:53, 7. Aug. 2010 (UTC)
Help with Luxembourgish Wiktionary logo änneren
Hello Robby. I'm currently collecting project names and slogans as a part of a logo cleanup. Would you mind translating/confirming the following phrases for the Wiktionary logo?
- Wiktionary = Wiktionnaire
- the free dictionary = ?
Please put your translation on my Meta-Wiki talk page. Thanks in advance for your help! Cbrown1023 diskussioun 21:39, 10. Aug. 2010 (UTC)
Léiwen Här Robby,
Merci, datt Dir bei menger leschter "Kreatioun" ("Belsch" - Evolutioun vum Begrëff) méi genee oder sécher signaléiert hutt, datt do nach ee géng dru schaffen. Ech sinn elo an der Haaptsaach fäerdeg, an Dir kënnt d'Warnschëld gäre weghuelen. Villmols merci! Chris
Allerlee vum Otets änneren
Solle mer beim Dönitz net eng aner Foto huelen, z.B. Donitz.jpg oder Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1976-127-06A,_Karl_Dönitz.jpg? Op deer déi elo am Artikel ass gesäit en iergendwéi esou al aus, ech hätt en net erëmerkannt. --Otets♣ 00:06, 13. Aug. 2010 (UTC)
- Ech gesinn do guer kee Problem fir déi Photo ze wiesselen --Robby 06:18, 15. Aug. 2010 (UTC)
Bimmel emol w.e.g Les Meloures 20:40, 26. Aug. 2010 (UTC)
Dem MGA73 säi Bot änneren
Moie Robby, de MGA73 huet eng Demande fir säi Bot gemaach, fir dass e ka Schablounen bei déi Biller bäisetzen, déi keng hunn, resp. wou d'Lizenz just als Text do steet. Kinns Du him dat erlaben (falls néideg, nodeems de gekuckt hues ob alles an der Rei dermat ass)? Dat waer eis eng wertvoll Hëllef. Bescht Gréiss, --Zinneke 13:23, 31. Aug. 2010 (UTC)
May I kindly ask for your help? änneren
Dear Robby,
My name is Wojtek Czombik and I am an editor of Polish Wikipedia. As a participant of a "Degree Confluence Project" I would like to kindly request your help. I chose you from these users of Luxembourgish Wikipedia that are native speakers of Luxembourgish language. I would like to assure you that the matter is not-commercial in any way and that it is related both to Wikipedia and your country.
First let me make a short introduction:
There is a web project called "Degree Confluence Project" (http://www.confluence.org/). The idea is "to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, along with a narrative describing the adventures it took to get there are then posted on the web site. This creates an organized sampling of the world." (http://www.confluence.org/infodcp.php#goals). Of course, the exact points of intersections are located using GPS receivers.
I have been participating in the project since 2004 and it has brought me a lot of fun and let me visit many interesting places. So far I have visited more that 100 different "degree confluences" (that term stands for "the exact spot where an integer degree of latitude and an integer degree of longitude meet") – my visits are described at http://www.confluence.org/visitor.php?id=7411. In Polish Wikipedia I created an article about the Degree Confluence Project.
During my journey to Luxembourg in April I visited "the one and only" confluence point in your country 50N 06E (http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=50&lon=6), located near Wilwerwiltz-Enscherange and according to the project rules I have prepared a short narrative describing my way there. The narratives are usually in English, but as it was my first confluence visit in Luxembourg, I though it would be nice to provide a Luxembourgish version as well.
The narrative in the language of the host country I have already provided for my first visits in Germany, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Slovakia, and Austria. Of course I don’t speak all these languages – I used to ask native speakers from those countries for the translation (some of them were editors of Wikipedia, too).
And now I have come with such a request to you:-) Would you please be so kind and translate the narrative from German or English into Luxemburgish? It is not very long – some 900 words. English, German, and Polish versions are available at http://wojtek_c.republika.pl/DCP/50N06E.htm. Of course, I can also send these texts in a file, but then I would need your e-mail address. My address is wojtek_c (at sign) op.pl, we may also communicate in Wikipedia – through the discussion page.
I am sorry for troubling you, but I don’t know personally anyone who would speak Luxemburgish. It came to my mind that a fellow-editor from Luxemburgish Wikipedia would perhaps agree to help me. I would really appreciate your help and would like to thank you very much for it in advance. But if it causes any problem - just let me know and forget about my request - it is nothing that important.
Once again - I am sorry for troubling you and thank you very much for your help. I hope you will not find my request too insolent...
Best regards,
Wojtek Czombik --Wojtek C 18:06, 30. Okt. 2010 (UTC)
Hallefautomatesch Ersetze vu Schablounekategorien änneren
Salut Robby, Du has mir eng Kéier am Zuch erzielt, datt en Tool fir d'hallefautomatesch Ersetzen géing op der lb-wiki installéiert ginn resp. existéieren. Kanns Du mir deen w.e.g. uginn. Ech wëll bei de Schablounekategorien opraumen an et missten eng Rei Ënnerkategorien ëmgenannt ginn, sou datt déi Kat-Hiweiser missten op all de betraffene Schablounen ersat ginn. Merci am viraus, --Christian Ries 09:12, 5. Nov. 2010 (UTC)
- Salut Christian, ech hat mech deemools op den Tool de:Wikipedia:AWB bezunn, deen awer net op der Wiki selwer mä op dem Computer vum Benotzer installéiert gi muss. Bis elo hunn ech et just hi kritt fir den an engem manuelle Modus a Betrib ze huelen (dat erméiglecht awer och sco bis zu 4 Säite pro Minutt z'ännere wann ee sech op eng Ännerung limitéiert) mat beschte Gréiss a villmols Pardon fir den Delai an der Äntwert --Robby 17:45, 21. Nov. 2010 (UTC)
- Salut Robby, merci fir d'Äntwert. Ech probéieren et dann eng Kéier aus, wann ech méi Zäit hunn. --Christian Ries 18:12, 21. Nov. 2010 (UTC)
Mjbmrbot änneren
Hi, Thank you so much for grant me bot flag:-) Mjbmr Talk
15:00, 5. Nov. 2010 (UTC)
D'Plo mat der Oplo änneren
Moie Robby,
ech hat an der Tabell d'Oploen express erausgeholl, well dat eng zimmlech kontrovers Geschicht ass (Drock- vs Verkaafs- vs Pimoldaum-Oplo), an och nëmme vun e puer iwwepréift bekannt ass, a sech vu Semester zu Semester ännert. Aus deem Grond giff ech dat hei ganz ewechloossen. Ass eng Oplo bekannt, kann een se am Artikel ernimmen (wéi dat zB bei Wort, Tageblatt, asw de Fall ass).
Ech proposéieren deemno, se nees ewech ze maachen.
Zinneke 13:04, 5. Feb. 2011 (UTC)
Moien,
Dat war eng Aktioun vun der Verschlëmmbesserungs-IP. Ech huelen se mol erëm eraus. --Les Meloures 20:15, 5. Feb. 2011 (UTC)
Moien,
Luuss emol vläicht eng Kéier dohinner. Merci am Viraus -- Les Meloures 09:04, 21. Feb. 2011 (UTC)
2011 Board Elections änneren
Hello! I see you helped with translating the 2009 board election pages into Luxembourgish, and was wondering if you'd be able to help translating them this year as well, or maybe help find someone who can? We have tried to keep as much as possible similar to the 2009 pages, so the election pages shouldn't be that much work. The translation coordination page can be found at m:Board elections/2011/Translation. Thanks, Jon Harald Søby 15:36, 30. Abr. 2011 (UTC)
NowCommons änneren
Hi! When you delete the local files with a "NowCommons" it would be nice if you also "check" the file on Commons (cleanup and remove the "BotMoveToCommons template". Just click the link and fix what needs to be fixed:-) --MGA73 17:34, 5. Jun. 2011 (UTC)
About Wiktionary Luxembourg änneren
Gudde Metteg Robby,
I'm there to recruit somebody to work on the Wiktionary project... There is now no active community and this project still needs to grow up. The bases have been set by Les Meloures, Ooswesthoesbes and me, but the project needs now some content.
That's why I'm adding pages in different languages, but I'm not very sure of the translated words in Luxembourgish. You will help a lot if you can give me a list of words and their translation in Luxembourgish, and check the work I do to be sure there are no mistakes.
Thanks by advance. -- Quentinv57 13:36, 7. Jun. 2011 (UTC)
ad. Link op en anersproochige Schwëstersite änneren
Gudden Owend,
Ech soë villmols merci fir den Tipp. Sen nach net bies laang dobei, an hu nach net di niddig Übung, duerfir sen ech iwwer all Hëllef fru. mbG --Telegraphroad 21:23, 18. Jun. 2011 (UTC)
SUL änneren
Confirmation de demande d'usurpation pour fr.wiki. --Robby 16:55, 23. Jun. 2011 (UTC)
Redirect änneren
Wann ee momentan eng Säit réckelt an eng Viruleedung zouléisst, da kënnt an de Quellcode "Weiterleitung" stoen. Ech hunn elo net fonnt, wou ech dat op Lëtzebuergesch oder op d'mannst op Englesch ännere kéint. Weess du do vläit méi? --Otets♣ 02:23, 18. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
- Dat läit dorun datt ech bis elo vir all déi Fonctiounen déi op englesch als 'magic words' bezeechent ginn nach net mat den Iwwersetzungen op dëser Säit ugefaang hunn. A vue datt et dowéint nach keng lëtzebuergesch Versioun fir déi 'magesch Wierder' gëtt hëllt d'Media Wiki Software d'Ersatzsprooch fir lëtzebuergesch wat (zumindest fir den Ament) däitsch ass. --Robby 11:37, 18. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
- Ech hunn dat elo mat "Viruleedung" iwwersat, nodeems datt ech gesinn hunn datt mer och eng "Viruleedungssäit" hunn. Wann s du déi Iwwersetzung gutt fënns, dann ersetzen ech am Laf vum Dag déi puer honnert Versiounen op Preisesch mat eiser neier Versioun. Just, wéini iwwerhëlt eise Server déi Ännerunge vun translatewiki, well bei mengem Test mat "Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange" geet et nach net direkt? --Otets♣ 08:52, 24. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
- Dat dauert normaler weis bis zu 72 Stonnen - dofir ass nämlech eng Interventioun vun engem Techniker noutwendeg an déi gëtt normalerweis eemol pro Dag gemaach. Dat misst also normalerweis muer am Laf vum Dag bei eis fonctionnéieren. --Robby 15:37, 24. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
- Ech hunn dat elo mat "Viruleedung" iwwersat, nodeems datt ech gesinn hunn datt mer och eng "Viruleedungssäit" hunn. Wann s du déi Iwwersetzung gutt fënns, dann ersetzen ech am Laf vum Dag déi puer honnert Versiounen op Preisesch mat eiser neier Versioun. Just, wéini iwwerhëlt eise Server déi Ännerunge vun translatewiki, well bei mengem Test mat "Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange" geet et nach net direkt? --Otets♣ 08:52, 24. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
- Do ass de Wuerm dran, dat klappt ëmmer nach net. Hues du eng Anung wourun dat kéint leien? --Otets♣ 11:35, 30. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
- Ech huelen un datt dat awer demnächst klappe misst. Et ass fir mech kloer datt dat déi richteg Plaz ass fir dat z'iwwersetzen esou wéi dat och vun dëser Säit ervirgeet. Wat awer manner kloer ass a wat fir Ofstänn déi Iwwersetzungen an d'MediaWiki Software iwwerholl ginn. Méi dozou a besonnesch wat an der Lescht do gemaach gouf kann een op dëser Säit gesinn, och wann dat am Ufank e bësse méi schwiereg ze liesen ass. Ech gin dovun aus datt dat an den nächsten Deeg klappe misst. Ech versichen dat emol weider am Aen ze behalen. --Robby 15:12, 30. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
- Do ass de Wuerm dran, dat klappt ëmmer nach net. Hues du eng Anung wourun dat kéint leien? --Otets♣ 11:35, 30. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments in Luxembourg änneren
Hello Robby, As you are an active user on lb-wiki, I write to you. At the moment users from nl-wiki and fr-wiki are organizing Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium, part of an intentional contest with the aim to get more photos of cultural heritage in the countries who are participating. In the countries in the area, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Switzerland, Wiki Loves Monuments is organized, but in Luxembourg nothing has been organized, maybe due the limited users and no present chapter who can organize. As Belgium is often working together with Luxembourg, the organizing committee of Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium thinks it is a good idea to combine the both countries and organize Wiki Loves Monuments for both Belgium and Luxembourg in one competition together. For us it is not much extra work, as we already were working for a website that covers Dutch, French and German (also for the German speaking parts of Belgium). Also we noticed that lb-wiki already has all the monument lists there are needed. The question we have is if you want to help us a bit with the organization of Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium and Luxembourg, especially with writing to the media to get media attention. Do you want to help with Wiki Loves Monuments and/or participate in the organization? Please let us know. See also the message in De Staminee. Greetings - Romaine 15:07, 21. Jul. 2011 (UTC)
Mohamed ElGedawy → محمد الجداوي änneren
Hi, I want to change my name from: "Mohamed ElGedawy" to: "محمد الجداوي", Because i have changed my username on many wikipedias.--Mohamed ElGedawy 07:12, 14. Aug. 2011 (UTC)
- done --Robby 08:40, 14. Aug. 2011 (UTC)
Marie Muller änneren
Moien,
Just kuerz dëst: d'Marie Muller huet mir séngerzäit geschriwwen: “...ech hunn schon emmer Muller gehescht. Och an Daitschland...”
Nach eng friddlech Hënt! --Jwh 23:26, 21. Sep. 2011 (UTC)
- villmools merci. Ech hunn den '"' eliminéiert --Robby 23:57, 21. Sep. 2011 (UTC)
Salut Robby,
Haut den Owend a mar net do. E Freiden den Owend um Stamminet zu Bonn. --Les Meloures 16:18, 17. Okt. 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I asume you took the photo but better safe than sorry:-) Perhaps you could change the license to {{self|GFDL...? --MGA73 20:47, 17. Dez. 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed I took the photo myself and I changed the licence to self-GFDL (as recommanded) --Robby 22:16, 17. Dez. 2011 (UTC)
User:Robby on en.wikibooks änneren
I am requesting an usurp on en.wikibooks. --Robby 16:23, 18. Dez. 2011 (UTC)
- The request has been completed. QuiteUnusual 18:14, 18. Dez. 2011 (UTC)
Username rename request: White Cat -> とある白い猫 änneren
I'd like to request a username rename per SUL. -- Cat chi? 13:27, 19. Feb. 2012 (UTC)
- Done --Robby 14:12, 19. Feb. 2012 (UTC)
Robert Stumper änneren
Salut, zu denger Fro iwwer de Robert Stumper als Futtballspiller: ech weess näischt doriwwer. Wann een déi Informatiounen huet, dann ass et de Jamcelsus.:-) --Cayambe (Diskussioun) 17:19, 3. Mäe. 2012 (UTC)
Moie Robby, luuss emol op déi Diskussiounssäit; de Gebuertsdatum, deen s De uginn has, schéngt anere Quellen no e Strapp éischter gewiescht ze sinn. Oder gëtt et nach eng Niëss/Cousine an der Jacoby-Famill déi och Kënschtlerin war?--Zinneke (Diskussioun) 11:12, 21. Mäe. 2012 (UTC)
Systemmessagen änneren
Moie Roby! Bei de rezenten Ännerunge gesinn ech zweemol ënnertenaner de Saz "Op dëser Säit kënnt Dir déi rezent Ännerungen op Wikipedia gesinn." An op Commons bei der Lizenz/Erlabnes misst Kéier groussgeschriwwe ginn ("Dëse Fichier nach eng kéier benotzen"). Weess du wéi een dat ännere kann? --Otets♣ 14:32, 1. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
- Beim Saz deen zweemol do steet hëlleft just op déi nächst Aktualisatioun vun der Software (Versioun) ze waarden esou e Bug ass och fréier alt scho virkomm. Wat den Text ugeet vu Commons esou ass dat entweder op enger spezieller Säit op Commons oder op der Translatewiki. Ech versichen dat nozekucken an ze verbesseren. --Robby (Diskussioun) 16:03, 1. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
- op Translatewiki gouf aus kéier elo Kéier gemaach an elo musse mar nach just waarde bis dat bei eis an der Rei ass. --Robby (Diskussioun) 16:12, 1. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
- Super, Merci!!! --Otets♣ 16:14, 1. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
- op Translatewiki gouf aus kéier elo Kéier gemaach an elo musse mar nach just waarde bis dat bei eis an der Rei ass. --Robby (Diskussioun) 16:12, 1. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
Eppes ganz bosseges: Ech sinn nach e "Benotzer" mat "o", mee wann ech "Benotzer:Les_Meloures", "Benotzer:Zinneke" oder "Benotzer:Robby" aginn, da kënnt "Benutzer" dohistoen. --Otets♣ 07:42, 19. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
Dat mam "Benutzer" ass nach ëmmer dselwecht. Eppes anescht ass mer awer och nach opgefall, an zwar op Commons, "int:license" gëtt "Lizenzéiert:". Kéint een dat net einfach just "Lizenz" nennen, oder op d'mannst den Doppelpunkt ewechhuelen? --Otets♣ 13:05, 21. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
- De Problem 'Benotzer' <-> 'Benutzer' besteet schonn zënter e puer Méint. Bis elo konnt ech nach net zu 100 Prozent feststellen ob et sech ëm ee Feeler an der Software handelt wou d'Ersazsprooch (de fir lb) vun der Software geholl gëtt oder ob nach iergendwou e Message steet deen ech beim iwwersetzen iwwersinn hunn.
- op Translatewiki hunn ech aus 'lizenzéiert:' 'Lizenz' gemaach. Dat misst also an e puer Deeg änneren. --Robby (Diskussioun) 14:19, 23. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
Rename änneren
Hi! I'd appreciate it if you could rename me to Mh7kJ. I am renaming globally. See here for confirmation. Thank you! -Orashmatash (Diskussioun) 17:44, 15. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
- done. --Robby (Diskussioun) 21:51, 15. Jun. 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I'm sorry if this is not the right place to request it, but I request renaming my following accounts:
- محمد الجداوي → Avocato
- GedawyBot → AvocatoBot
- Confirmation link: [5]
- Reason: Privacy reasons
Please, delete all my userpages and talk pages of these accounts before renaming and I will create them later .Thanks in advance.--M.Gedawy 12:29, 15. Jul. 2012 (UTC)
- done --Robby (Diskussioun) 12:50, 15. Jul. 2012 (UTC)
Regionalsprachen-Workshop auf der WikiConvention 2012 änneren
Hallo Robby,
Auch dieses Jahr wird es auf der WikiConvention 2012 in Dornbirn/Österreich (31.08.-02.09.2012) wieder einen Workshop zum Thema "Wikipedien in kleinen Sprachen" geben.
Viele Grüße, --Holder (Diskussioun) 05:48, 26. Jul. 2012 (UTC)
__Staark Wiederen, d'Leitung ass futti. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 20:59, 28. Jul. 2012 (UTC)
Merci fir d'Verbesserungen
Translation request änneren
Hello Robby, Perhaps you can translate some lines for Wiki Loves Monuments again? See Benutzer_Diskussion:Zinneke#footer. Thanks! Greetings - Romaine (Diskussioun) 16:14, 19. Aug. 2012 (UTC)
- Done --Robby (Diskussioun) 16:45, 19. Aug. 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks!!:-) Romaine (Diskussioun) 17:14, 19. Aug. 2012 (UTC)
- Another one, see: Benutzer_Diskussion:Zinneke#Translation_request_2. Romaine (Diskussioun) 18:55, 22. Aug. 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks!!:-) Romaine (Diskussioun) 17:14, 19. Aug. 2012 (UTC)
Vakanz änneren
Salut Robby, erëm do --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 19:58, 8. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
Files on Commons änneren
Hi.
I noticed that you are also working on the files uploaded by Cornischong:-)
To begin with I sometimes suggested just to delete the local version and keep the original version on Commons. But often the deletion was disputed because Cornischong had improved the file.
I decided to move all the files to Commons to make things easier. That way we can simply fix what needs to be fixed and delete the local file. And more users can help us check.
You are most welcome to visit Commons:Category:Files originally uploaded by Cornischong - needs to be checked and help check the files. --MGA73 (Diskussioun) 11:33, 9. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
- Hi MGA73,
- Concerning the improved files I would just like to add that in quite some cases the improvements are (according to my opinion) quite marginal. In some cases e.g. and I cannot detect any difference and I will suggest to simply delete the copy created by Cornischong.
- According to my available time I will assist in checking the files on Commons and deleting the files here on lb-Wikipedia. --Robby (Diskussioun) 19:13, 9. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
- The only change I can see is a crop of the bottom of the photo. Enough to keep both versions? Well I think it is a matter of taste. Since time is a problem I decided to try this approach because I think it will save time. --MGA73 (Diskussioun) 20:51, 9. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
"Huelt mat del um weltconcour fir wik organisation ze onnerstetzen merci am viraus Wikipedia !" änneren
Moie Robby,
Dëse Banner steet zënter den Owend op menge Säiten (an ech huelen un net nëmme bei mär). Kinnst Du, wanns De d'Méiglechkeet häss, emol inokucken, wat do schif gelaf ass? --Zinneke (Diskussioun) 21:47, 20. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
- Salut Zinneke,
- ech hunn dat och elo grad gesinn. Dat klengt zimmlech koppeg. Ech versichen deem da mol op de Grond zegoen, --Robby (Diskussioun) 11:02, 21. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
- Salut Zinneke,
- Ech hunn deem deen deen Text verbrach huet emol eppes op seng Diskusiounssäit op Meta geschriwwen Kuck hei. --Robby (Diskussioun) 11:22, 21. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
- De Problem ass geléist. --Robby (Diskussioun) 05:51, 22. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
- Tipptopp, merci! --Zinneke (Diskussioun) 08:34, 22. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
- De Problem ass geléist. --Robby (Diskussioun) 05:51, 22. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
RE. änneren
From what I just test, the bot doesn't think {{Homonymie Persounen}} is a disambig template. Then I compare it with other wikis, and it seems lb's doesn't has a 'disambig' id....It may be a bug of pywikipediabot, but I think it should be fixed locally.--Justincheng12345 (Diskussioun) 16:42, 29. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
- I checked once more, and it should be a bug of pywikipediabot, and nothing about the id. For a quick solution, use Homonymie,Disambig or Homonymie Ofkierzungen. For the long term one, I will report the bug. And, lastly, thanks.--Justincheng12345 (Diskussioun) 16:58, 29. Sep. 2012 (UTC)
Übersetzungsbenachrichtigung: FDC portal/Proposals/CentralNotice2012 änneren
du erhältst diese E-Mail, da du dich als Übersetzer(in) für Lëtzebuergesch auf Meta registriert hast. Die Seite FDC portal/Proposals/CentralNotice2012 ist zum Übersetzen vorhanden. Du kannst sie hier übersetzen:
D'Prioritéit vun dëser Säit ass héich. Den Delai fir dës säit z'iwwersetzen ass den 2012-10-15.
Deine Hilfe wird sehr geschätzt. Übersetzer wie du helfen dabei, dass Meta als wirklich mehrsprachige Gemeinschaft fungiert.
Vielen Dank,
die Übersetzungskoordinatoren von Meta, 08:08, 14. Okt. 2012 (UTC)Import von Artikeln änneren
Kannst du mal die Artikel die user:SITCK gemacht hat überprüfen und evlt importieren? Er hat etliche Artikel aus der de wp übersetzt (z.B. HD 98800 und Kepler-47) aber da ihr keinen Import habt ist es bei euch wohl relativ schwer Imports zu requesten.--Sanandros (Diskussioun) 14:06, 10. Nov. 2012 (UTC)
Zugriffsstatistik änneren
Hallo Robby,
es gibt bekanntlich das Zugriffsstatistiktool auf http://stats.grok.se. Man kann das auch so in die Wikipedia setzen, dass es auf jeder Seite verlinkt ist. Wenn man auf MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright folgenden Abschnitt oben einfügt (kann nur ein Admin), dann findet man auf jeder Seite ganz unten zwischen dem Datum der letzten Änderung der Seite und dem Copyright-Hinweis einen Link zur Zugriffsstatistik dieser Seite:
<a class="external" href="http://stats.grok.se/lb/latest30/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}" rel="nofollow">Abrufstatistik</a><br><br>
Den Ausdruck "Abrufstatistik" muss man natürlich noch ins Luxemburgische übersetzen.
Viel Spaß damit!
Herzliche Grüße, --Holder (Diskussioun) 07:39, 19. Nov. 2012 (UTC)
- Danke für den Hinweis Holder, das wurde in der Zwischenzeit schon so eingestellt. Beste Grüẞe Robby (Diskussioun) 18:30, 19. Nov. 2012 (UTC)
- Ach, schau an, ich hatte bisher Alemannisch als Sprache in meinen Einstellungen eingestellt, da sieht man das dann nicht. Viele Grüße, --Holder (Diskussioun) 05:55, 20. Nov. 2012 (UTC)
- Danke für den Hinweis Holder, das wurde in der Zwischenzeit schon so eingestellt. Beste Grüẞe Robby (Diskussioun) 18:30, 19. Nov. 2012 (UTC)
- Misst et net "Ofruffstatistik" sinn, mat 2 "f" an der Mëtt? --Otets♣ 15:37, 19. Nov. 2012 (UTC)
- jo dat ass och elo scho geännert. --Robby (Diskussioun) 18:12, 19. Nov. 2012 (UTC)
- Super, Merci! --Otets♣ 10:06, 20. Nov. 2012 (UTC)
Persönliche Bekanntschaften änneren
Hallo Robby, Now you can at de:Wikipedia:Persönliche Bekanntschaften/neue Anfragen rückbestätigen, see also: https://toolserver.org/~wppb/web/user/name=Robby It would be nice if we can enrol this tool to Luxembourg and Belgium as well. Can you promote it to the other users from Luxembourg? Greetings - Romaine (Diskussioun) 15:10, 2. Dez. 2012 (UTC)
- Moien, hu mech emol do ugemellt. Du kanns jo da Jenni a Menni bestätegen, datt ech wierklech existéieren ;-) --Zinneke (Diskussioun) 23:45, 2. Dez. 2012 (UTC)
- I try to enrol this tool to Belgium. The broader the user base who signed up, the easier it is to confirm other users as we need try confirming users each time. Greetings - Romaine (Diskussioun) 10:37, 3. Dez. 2012 (UTC)
- Mär sinn eis jo nach virun 1-2 Woche kuerz iwwert de Wee gelaf, ech liewen also och nach perséinlech. --Otets♣ 11:16, 3. Dez. 2012 (UTC)
- I try to enrol this tool to Belgium. The broader the user base who signed up, the easier it is to confirm other users as we need try confirming users each time. Greetings - Romaine (Diskussioun) 10:37, 3. Dez. 2012 (UTC)
Article requests änneren
Thanks for the welcome, Robby!
Do you do article requests or know someone who does? Thanks WhisperToMe (Diskussioun) 01:59, 27. Dez. 2012 (UTC)
Vugar 1981 → NKOzi änneren
I would like my username changed from Vugar 1981 to NKOzi. Thanks. --Vugar 1981 (Diskussioun) 11:17, 18. Jan. 2013 (UTC)
- done --Robby (Diskussioun) 13:19, 18. Jan. 2013 (UTC)
Entschëllegt änneren
Bonjour,
Ech hat gemengt bei deene Wierder wäre sech déi meescht Leit eens, ech entschëllege mech fir dee Chaos.
Mat beschte Gréiss,
Soued031
Ech hätt eng Fro kéint ech dann op där Säit schreiwen all Wierder déi just eng "f"-Graphie hunn? AN ënner anerem och eng Propos maache wéi ee sou Wierder kéint schreiwen?
- Sécher kann een op där Säit (an eventuell och en Hiweis op de Stamminee) dat dohisetzenfir datt et diskutéiert ka ginn. Sollt et dann zu kengem Accord kommen da sollt een et no menger Meenung net änneren. --Robby (Diskussioun) 15:15, 2. Mäe. 2013 (UTC)
- Sécher dat kann ech gutt verstoen. Ech hat ëmmer virdru gekuckt wéi eng Schreifweis am dacksten op der Wikipedia virkënnt... an ech hat gemengt dat géif d'Meenung vun de Wikipedianer reflektéieren. Da maachen ech dat mol, nach villmools Merci --Soued031 (Diskussioun) 15:30, 2. Mäe. 2013 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 16:50, 3. Mee 2013 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 16:50, 3. Mee 2013 (UTC)
Files on lb-wiki änneren
op de Staminee kopéiert; betrëfft jiddereen.
Bonjour Robby, et merci pour l'aide en cette page que j'ai crée. Grazie! Rei Momo (Diskussioun) 08:39, 3. Jul. 2013 (UTC)
Darkicebot änneren
Could you please remove the bot flag from my bot, User:Darkicebot? It will not be active. Thanks, Razorflame (Diskussioun) 01:19, 25. Jul. 2013 (UTC)
- The bot flag has been removed. --Robby (Diskussioun) 10:24, 31. Jul. 2013 (UTC)
Thank you änneren
Hello Robby, Thanks for the translation! Romaine (Diskussioun) 14:42, 3. Aug. 2013 (UTC)
WikiCon 2013 änneren
Hallo Robby.
Von 22. bis 24. November findet in Karlsruhe die WikiCon 2013 statt. Ich werde dort einen Workshop zum Thema "Wikipedien in kleinen Sprachen" organisieren. Du bist herzlich eingeladen, nach Karlsruhe zu kommen und mitzudiskutieren, würde mich freuen, Dich wieder zu treffen. Die offizielle Anmeldung läuft bis zum 23. Oktober. Vielleicht kannst Du hier ja noch andere ansprechen, die sich dafür interessieren könnten.
Gruß, --Holder (Diskussioun) 06:23, 7. Okt. 2013 (UTC)
- Hallo Robby. Falls Du dich noch kurzfristig entschließen solltest: der Workshop zu den kleinen Wikipedien findet am Samstag, 23.11. um 11.00 Uhr statt. --Holder (Diskussioun) 21:00, 13. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
Roland Gelhausen änneren
Moien,
hunn elo grad probéiert, eng Foto vum Roland Gelhausen eropzelueden. Leider war en der Drop-Down-Lëscht op der Spezialsäit keng Lizenz (méi?) dran fir unzewiëlen. Ausloggen an/oder eng nei Internet-Sessioun opzemaachen huet näischt bruecht, sou dass déi Foto do elo ouni Text a Lizenz erop gelueden gouf.
Si misst jo normalerweis geläscht ginn, oder gëtt et eng Méiglechkeet, déi Infoen nodréiglech nach bäizesetzen?
Bescht Gréiss,
Claude Schomer (Diskussioun) 21:34, 12. Okt. 2013 (UTC)Claude
- Moien Här Schomer, ech erlabe mer, Iech am Robby senger Plaz z'äntweren:
- Jo, Dir kënnt d'Infoen nodréiglech bäisetzen. De Fichier huet den Numm Fichier:Roland Gelhausen.JPG. Do einfach op "Änneren" klicken an dann dat hei era-copy-pasten an ofspäicheren (Dir musst dann agelogged sinn, datt ee gesäit datt Fichier an Text vun deem selwechte sinn):
*'''Sujet''': De [[:lb:Roland Gelhausen|Roland Gelhausen]] [wéini, wou?] *'''Auteur''': {{own}} - selwer gemaach vum [[User:Claude Schomer]] *'''Lizenz''': CC-BY-SA 3.0/LU {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0-lu}}
- ... an dann ofspäicheren. Merci fir d'Bild, ech setzen et dann dono an den Artikel an. Falls Der nach anerer hätt, kënnt Der se direkt iwwer den "Upload wizzard" eroplueden, do setztz sech d'Schabloun mat Lizenz automatesch an, an d'Bild kënnt op Commons, vuwou et och an anere Wikipediaversiounen agebaut ka ginn. Link op den Uploadwizzard:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
- Bescht Gréiss, --Zinneke (Diskussioun) 08:00, 13. Okt. 2013 (UTC)
- Merci fir déi séier, a komplett Äntwert a menger Plaz. --Robby (Diskussioun) 10:50, 13. Okt. 2013 (UTC)
Benutzername ändern änneren
Hallo! Könnten Sie bitte meinen Account zu "Moscow Connection" umbenennen? Ich brauche es für SUL.
- Benutzername Alt: Moscowconnection
- Benutzername Neu: Moscow Connection (global account manager)
- Zur Überprüfung: 1. Umbenennung in Enwiki; 2. Ein Dank von Moscow Connection für die Umbenennung.
Vielen Dank! --Moscowconnection (Diskussioun) 05:55, 20. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
- Die Umbennung ist soeben erfolgt. mbG --Robby (Diskussioun) 12:16, 20. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
Geschirkëscht änneren
Just eng kleng Fro, firwat heescht d'Geschirkëscht net méi esou wéi fréier? An der Rei, Geschir ass eng méi genee Iwwersetzung vun Tools, mee vu datt een dat Déngens opklappe muss wéi eng Geschirkëscht fir un d'Geschir ze kommen huet dat awer relativ gutt gepasst, an et konnt een et och net verwiessele mat engem Service (dt Geschirr). Wisou eis Iwwersetzung, egal op elo Geschirkëscht oder Geschir, awer dann elo trotzdeem nach en englescht Wuert "Tools" derbäi muss hunn, dat verstinn ech awer guer net méi. --Otets♣ 14:10, 20. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
- Dat ass relativ einfach ze erklären: Den 20. Oktober 2013 gouf op Translawiki.net (do wou d'Iwwersetzunge vun der Mediawiki Software) gemaach ginn an der englescher Originalversioun vun där Software d'Ännerung vum Message MediaWiki:Toolbox/qqq vun 'toolbox' op 'tools' geännert an doropshin huet de Benotzer 'FuzzyBot' vun Translatewiki.net all Sproochversioune vun deem Message esou markéiert datt een do gesi konnt datt dee Message vun der Software geännert gouf. doropshinn hunn ech dann de Message op lëtzebuergesch vu 'Geschirkëscht' op 'Geschir' geännert well ech mir dobäi awer net sécher war hunn ech (wéi bäi méi kriddelegen Iwwersetzungen méi dacks) denenglesche Begrëff a Klameren hannendru gesat. Esou vill zur Erklärung.
- Ech wollt awer och nach dorophiweisen datt ech kee Monopol op d'Iwwersetzungen vun der Software hunn a frou wier wa méi Leit sech un där Iwwersetzung bedeelege géifen. Ech schloen och vir do (zum Beispill op der Diskussiounssäit vum Portal fir déi lëtzebuergesch Iwwersetzungen oder op der Diskussiounssäit vum jeweilege Message also hei zum Beispill op der Diskussiounssäit vum MediaWiki Message Toolbox esou froen ze diskutéieren. --Robby (Diskussioun) 17:58, 23. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
- P.S. Well dëst vun allgemengem Interessi sikéint kopéieren ech dës Diskussioun emol op Wikipedia:De Staminee.
Kuck emol änneren
do. Merci, --Zinneke (Diskussioun) 15:57, 27. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
Nummännerung änneren
Moie Robby,
Wéi wier et mat "NeieBlannen"? Merci, Jean Beurlet 15:56, 28. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
- Salut,
- d'Nummännerung ass gemaach. D'alogge mat deem neie Benotzernumm an deem ale Passwuert misst elo funktionéieren. Wa gewënscht muss d'Ëmbennen och nach an deenen anere Sproochversioune ugefrot ginn, wann Dir wëllt dat Är al Beiträg och do ënner dem neie Benotzernumm figuréieren. Wann net dann entsteet iwwer d'Funktioun SUL automatesch an deene Sproochversiounen e Benotzerkont mam neien Numm esou wéi en aus der lb-Wiki iwwerholl gëtt. WannDir nach weider Froen dozou hutt dann zéckt net Iech ze mellen. Mat beschte Gréiss --Robby (Diskussioun) 22:19, 28. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
Merci villmols! NeieBlannen 12:53, 29. Nov. 2013 (UTC)
Bonjour Robby, commen va tu? Merci pèour l'aide en re-lire et corriger cette page.
Je ne suis pas de LB maternelle, et je te demande, s'il te plait, un petit aide pour le future, se tu es disponible. Je creerà pour toi des page en IT, ou PT.
Merci encore
Rei Momo (Diskussioun) 12:04, 13. Dez. 2013 (UTC)
Comment translation änneren
Hey Robby, if you have time, could you give me an idea what the two commenters in this section have said? My autotranslator gives me an idea, but I want to be sure what's exactly been expressed. If you don't have time, no problem. PEarley (WMF) (Diskussioun) 18:07, 17. Dez. 2013 (UTC)
- The first reply is the suggestion to approach the press in order to promote this tool once it will have arrived in lb-wikipedia.
- The second comment agreesbut suggests to wait till the tool will bemore stable.Then there is a description of what this users tried and that he then got a freeze in his browser (IE) an then he got a messagefrom VE quoting his browser was not supported and so he decided to go to bed.
I hope this short translationis sufficient for you.
- Concerning my own experience with VE I agree with the second user that we have to continue to use it before we should make any promotion for the tool.According to my own experience I guess there remain some behaviours to be changed before promoting it in publican there I would like tomention especially Bug 48560 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48560
- Thank you for this, Robby. IE support is still poor, but we are working on making sure the most recent versions work properly. Older versions, (7 and older) are very difficult to work with. E schéine Chrëschtdag an e glécklecht neit Joer vun Canada, PEarley (WMF) (Diskussioun) 17:52, 24. Dez. 2013 (UTC)
Datum, Zäit a Plaz vum Wiki-Iesse sti fest. änneren
Wikipedia:De_Staminee#Gebongt. Hoffen Du kanns och kommen.
Request for username change: Hosiryuhosi -> Rxy änneren
Hello. Could you please change my username?
- Current username: Hosiryuhosi
- Target username: Rxy
- Reason: I want to change my current username to short username at WMF wikis globally. Note: Global account "Rxy" is my account (confirm). I'm sorry for request to here. I can't find request page. Thanks. --Hosiryuhosi (Diskussioun) 07:12, 12. Mäe. 2014 (UTC)
- Done (Indeed we don't have a special page for such requests).Robby (Diskussioun) 21:53, 12. Mäe. 2014 (UTC)
Sablon änneren
Hei ass en: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Sablon_(Moselle) --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 15:42, 26. Abr. 2014 (UTC)
- Ech hat ewell 2011 de Link an deem Sënn am Artikel gemaach. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 16:53, 26. Abr. 2014 (UTC)
Salut Robby!
Kriss du dee Link nees uewe lénks dran? All Kéier op d'Haaptsäit ze trëppelen an do och nach bis ënnen ze scrolle bereet keng sou richteg Freed, cf. och d'Diskussioun um Staminee.
Bei anere Sproochen ass d'Communautéitssäit nach ëmmer permament lénks ze erreechen. Merci am Viraus! --Jwh (Diskussioun) 19:00, 26. Abr. 2014 (UTC)
Luxemburgische Artikel in Wikidata änneren
Hallo Robby,
jetzt habe ich einmal alle Artikel aus der luxemburgischen Wikipedia, die noch nicht in Wikidata waren, dorthin exportiert. Es wird ein paar Doubletten geben: Es gab Artikel wie "Äerzbistum Lëtzebuerg" oder "David Wagner", die gar keine Sprachlinks hatten, oder "Duma", wo die Sprachlinks noch im Artikel standen. Mit der Zeit werden sich aber auch diese Fehler finden.
Was ich auch gemacht habe, ist, über die "Kategorie:Gebuer (20. Joerhonnert)" allen Artikeln, wo's noch gefehlt hat, die Aussage "ist ein"-"Mensch" zuzuordnen. Es waren fast 2000 Artikel, die jetzt in Wikidata als Biografie erkannt werden.
Geholfen hat dabei http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html . Auch hier ist die Bedienung recht einfach. Wenn Interesse und Fragen bestehen, erkläre ich das gerne kurz. -- Pütz M. (Diskussioun) 12:23, 6. Mee 2014 (UTC)
- Hallo Pütz M.
Dank für diesen massiven Import insbesondere für das Hinzufügen der Aussage "ist ein" - "Mensch". Ich schlage vor dies auch für die Kategorie:Gebuer ? durchzuführen.
- Hallo Robby,
- Das alles sehr gerne gemacht ....
- Zum weiteren Import gebe ich lieber eine technische Anleitung. Je mehr User mit dem Instrumentarium vertraut sind, desto besser gedeiht Wikidata. Es ist auch wirklich einfach.
- http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html unterstützt einen beim Hinzufügen vieler Aussagen.
- Man muss nur in Category eine geeignete Kategorie eingeben, über die man arbeiten will, also zum Beispiel "Gebuer (19. Joerhonnert)", rechts daneben dann noch bei on die "lb"."wikipedia" einstellen. Optional kann man das auch bei language machen. Klickt man dann auf Run, erhält man unter Item List nach ein bisschen Wartezeit alle Artikel aus der Kategorie, momentan 1829.
- Die Artikel, die man bearbeiten will, muss man mit dem Ausfüllkästchen davor markieren. Das geht entweder einzeln oder mit dem All darüber. Klickt man dann auf Claim, kann man an alle markierte Items die gleiche Aussage setzen, also z.B. P "31" (=ist ein(e)) Q "5" (=Mensch). Oder P "21" (=Geschlecht) Q "6581097" (=männlich). Wenn es die Aussage noch nicht gibt, setzt Autolist sie dazu, ist sie schon vorhanden, ist es nicht schlimm, dann passiert gar nichts.
- Man muss nur davor bei der Auswahl der Items ein bisschen aufpassen und nicht wild drauf losklicken. Die Anwendung kann immer nur das erkennen, was zuvor in die Kategorie gesteckt wurde. Da sind auch manchmal Listen oder fiktive Charaktere drin. Die bekommen natürlich kein Q5 (=Mensch).
- Wichtig noch vorab: Um mit Autolist arbeiten zu können, muss man erst einmal WIDAR (http://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/index.php) per Klick auf Authorize erlaubt haben, unter seinem Benutzerkonto Bearbeitungen zu machen.
- Einfach einmal ausprobieren. Dann merkt man selbst, wie einfach das eigentlich ist.
- Wenn das klappt, stelle ich in der zweiten Lektion gerne noch das Arbeiten mit Filtern kennen.
- Für Rückfragen einfach mich unter Wikidata kontaktieren. -- Pütz M. (Diskussioun) 10:25, 7. Mee 2014 (UTC)
Usurp request änneren
User:Xania Usurp request I am User:Xania, SUL on over 100 projects, administrator and checkuser at en.wikibooks. I will add a message to my user talk page at en.wikibooks to prove my identity.--109.117.255.196 23:12, 6. Jun. 2014 (UTC)
- I've changed the username of lb-user:Xania, who never made any contribution on lb-wikipedia to User:Xania (usurped), so that you should now be able to create a useraccount with the name Xania. best regards --Robby (Diskussioun) 05:20, 8. Jun. 2014 (UTC)
Geohack änneren
Salut Robby, eis Koordinate funktionéieren net méi.
Wann een drop klickt kritt een dës Säit http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?language=de¶ms=49_14_25.01_N_00_16_00.61_W_{{{9}}}
Kenns du vläicht een deen eppes do kann ënnerhuelen? --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 08:25, 9. Jun. 2014 (UTC)
Bonjour de caselle Landi, chér Robby, comment allez-vous?
De temps en temps j'ouvre des page en la Wikipedia LB. Je vous demande la gentilesse de quelque minute de votre temp pour relire cettes deux pages. Il y on a dejà une petite biographie en Français, mais c'etait retirée.
Merci pour votre aide. Je suis disponible à creer des petites page en Italien ou Portugais.
Hi, could you please remove bot status from my bot JhsBot? I only used it for interwiki on this wiki, and since we now have Wikidata, the bot is obsolete. Thanks in advance! Jon Harald Søby (Diskussioun) 14:54, 17. Aug. 2014 (UTC)
- Done! --Robby (Diskussioun) 15:06, 17. Aug. 2014 (UTC)
An important message about renaming users änneren
Dear Robby, My aplogies for writing in English. Please translate or have this translated for you if it will help. I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.
As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.
Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.
The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.
Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.
In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.
Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.
Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25. Aug. 2014 (UTC)
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Bien chér Robby, merci pour l'aide en cette page. Je te demante un autre service, ou bien, si tu pouverà m'aider en traduire une prochaine page que je creerà Ç serà pas des grand choses...
Merci beaucoup pour ta disponibilitè! Je suis disponible creer des petites pages en IT ou en PT.
Rei Momo (Diskussioun) 17:47, 28. Aug. 2014 (UTC)
- Salut bien chér Robby, j'ai crée la nouvelle page Maurizio Malvestiti et je te demande la gentilesse d'une petite traductione des 2-3 lignes que j'avait ajouttées en Français. Merci beaucoup pour ton aide et bon fin de semaine! Rei Momo (Diskussioun) 16:57, 29. Aug. 2014 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup, est-ce que t'a besoin de quelque petite traduction en Italien ou bien Portuguais? Bon dimanche! Rei Momo (Diskussioun) 20:45, 30. Aug. 2014 (UTC)
Eidel Plaz virum Komma änneren
Salut Robby, ech hunn dem Roboter gesot e soll iwwerall déi eidel Plaze virum Komma ewechhuelen. An e puer Deeg wann e sech epuermol derduerch geschafft huet missten déi all ewech sinn. Schued datt ech net éischter doru geduecht hat. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 20:58, 16. Nov. 2014 (UTC)
Invitation änneren
Hello, Robby,
The Editing team is asking very experienced editors like you for your help with VisualEditor. The team has a list of top-priority problems, but they also want to hear about small problems. These problems may make editing less fun, take too much of your time, or be as annoying as a paper cut. The Editing team wants to hear about and try to fix these small things, too.
You can share your thoughts by clicking this link. You may respond to this quick, simple, anonymous survey in your own language. If you take the survey, then you agree your responses may be used in accordance with these terms. This survey is powered by Qualtrics and their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy.
More information (including a translateable list of the questions) is posted on wiki at mw:VisualEditor/Survey 2015. If you have questions, or prefer to respond on-wiki, then please leave a message on the survey's talk page.
Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:31, 16. Mäe. 2015 (UTC)
NGC änneren
Salut Robby, Du hues mer bestëmmt wollten hëllefen bei den NGCen mat der Kategorie wéini d'Objete entdeckt goufen. W.e.g. maach et net méi, well ech hunn duebel Aarbecht domadden, nähmlech maachen ech de Spaweck frésch an un der Kategorie ass och nach eng Ännerung ze maachen. Du hues vläicht gesinn, ech hu schonn iwwer 100 NGCen geännert a wëll déi aner och nach op de selwechte Level bréngen. Wanns Du e Feeler iergendwou fënns, an e verbesserst, dann ass dat ok, mä looss mer w.e.g. Spaweck a Kategorie mat Rou, soss fannen ech mech bei deenen dausenden NGCen net méi erëm, an dofir huelen ech mer een no deem aneren erun. MERCI SITCK (Diskussioun) 14:33, 5. Abr. 2015 (UTC)
Koordinaten änneren
Salut Robby,
Kanns de mol op dës Säit kucke goen, Lëscht vun den nationale Monumenter an der Gemeng Hesper. Do gëtt et e Problem mat de Koordinaten. Merci am Viraus. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 14:18, 19. Abr. 2015 (UTC)
- Gouf gefléckt. --Robby (Diskussioun) 21:35, 20. Abr. 2015 (UTC)
2015 TB 145 änneren
Salut Robby, wéisou hues Du den Artikel geläscht? Deen Artikel ass wichteg a ganz aktuell, an ech wär frou , wann's Du et méiglech géifs maachen, en erëm dohin ze stellen. merci SITCK (Diskussioun) 21:13, 23. Okt. 2015 (UTC)
- Salut SITCK,
- Den Artikel gouf just geréckelt op 2015 TB145 esou wéi en och op deenen anere Wikien heescht.Robby (Diskussioun) 10:25, 24. Okt. 2015 (UTC)
10-jähriges Wiki-Jubiläum änneren
Hallo Robby,
heute vor zehn Jahren hast Du Deinen ersten Edit in der luxemburgischen Wikipedia gemacht. Zu diesem Jubiläum bekommst Du von mir die Krëschtblumm vum Mount.
Viele Grüße, --Holder (Diskussioun) 07:45, 10. Dez. 2015 (UTC)
Hyacinthe Schaack (redirect) änneren
Moie Robby, kanns du w.e.g. de redirect https://lb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hyazinthe_Schaack&action=history änneren: Hyazinth Schaack aplaz Hyazinthe Schaack. Merci. --Jamcelsus (Diskussioun) 08:31, 27. Dez. 2015 (UTC)
- ass gemaach.--Robby (Diskussioun) 09:04, 27. Dez. 2015 (UTC)
Interview Kontakt änneren
Moien Robby,
Mir géifen nawell gären de Bürokrat vum Lëtzebuerger Wikipedia am Kader vum 15. Anniversaire vu Wikipedia interviewen. Wéi komme mir iwwer Telefon un hien?
Merci,
Claude Karger Lëtzebuerger Journal 493033835
Paris School of Business (Simple English Wikipedia) änneren
I reverted your good faith edit to the article. You gave as a reason "deéleted as there is no such category on commons". That was not a category link and you're right there is no such category. The link simply stated there was media at commons, which there is. I just wanted to explain why the change back. Thanks Rus793 (Diskussioun) 15:42, 23. Jan. 2016 (UTC)
U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital No.13 änneren
Salut Robby,
Kuck mol Commons:Category:U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital No.13 (Walferdange, Luxembourg), fir mech ass dat 1. Weltkrich - sou wéi se gekleet sinn an och d'Qualitéit vun de Biller. --Jwh (Diskussioun) 18:06, 20. Mäe. 2016 (UTC)
D'Originaler si leider net datéiert, déi zu Hollerech awer.--Jwh (Diskussioun) 18:08, 20. Mäe. 2016 (UTC)
- DAt gesinn ech (elo) och esou. Ech hunn den Artikel iwwer d'Walfer Schlass nees redresséiert. --Robby (Diskussioun) 18:16, 20. Mäe. 2016 (UTC)
- Friddlech Hënt! --Jwh (Diskussioun) 22:04, 20. Mäe. 2016 (UTC)
Komesch Kategorie änneren
Salut Robby
D'Säit MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js/local defaults generéiert en komesch Kategorie. --81.242.143.163 11:19, 13. Abr. 2016 (UTC)
- ??? Robby (Diskussioun) 20:59, 13. Abr. 2016 (UTC)
- Ech hu fonnt u wat et louch an hunn dat geännert --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 07:18, 14. Abr. 2016 (UTC)
- ??? Robby (Diskussioun) 20:59, 13. Abr. 2016 (UTC)
WikiCon 2016 änneren
Hallo Robby. Du hattest dir doch überlegt, vielleicht bei der nächsten WikiCon einen Vortrag zu halten. Falls Du es noch nicht gesehen hast: Die WikiCon 2016 findet vom 16. bis 18. September in Kornwestheim bei Stuttgart statt. Auf dieser Seite werden Programmvorschläge gesammelt. Viele Grüße, --Holder (Diskussioun) 03:29, 14. Abr. 2016 (UTC)
Participate in the Ibero-American Culture Challenge! änneren
Hi!
Iberocoop has launched a translating contest to improve the content in other Wikipedia related to Ibero-American Culture.
We would love to have you on board:)
Please find the contest here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translating_Ibero_-_America/Participants_2016
Hugs!--Anna Torres (WMAR) (Diskussioun) 14:13, 10. Mee 2016 (UTC)
Wiki-Iessen am Juegdschlass, den 21. Mee, mëttes änneren
Moien,
Wéi déi meescht Anerer has Du uginn, datt dir de Samschden, 21. Mee, géif goe fir eist Wiki-Mëttegiessen am Café-Restaurant Juegdschlass (vun 12 Auer u fir den Apero, Iesse géint Halwer eng/eng Auer). Den MMFE këmmert sech deemno ëm d'Reservatioun. Bis dann!
Bescht Gréiss, --Zinneke (Diskussioun) 19:42, 12. Mee 2016 (UTC)
Request änneren
Greetings.
Could you create the article en:Azerbaijan at the Olympics in Luxembourgian?
Thank you.
Hallo Robby,
Auf der Wikicon hast du mich gefragt, welche Wikidata-Items am sinnvollsten zum Übersetzen wären. Meine erste Idee wäre es, das Topviews-Werkzeug zu nutzen und Wikidata als Seite einzugtragen. --Jan Dittrich (WMDE) (Diskussioun) 14:59, 17. Sep. 2016 (UTC)
Pierre May änneren
Salut Robby,
Ech hunn de Pierre May mol bei den däitschen Noperen an d'Lëscht vun de Gerechten derbäigesat.
--Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 20:56, 10. Nov. 2016 (UTC)
- Moien, déi hunn e schonn hei dran. De "Problem" läit bei Yad Vashem. --Jwh (Diskussioun) 21:29, 10. Nov. 2016 (UTC)
Merci Robby fir de Message. --Otets♣ 15:19, 16. Feb. 2017 (UTC)
So-called candidates for the National Team änneren
I meant those who mentioned at en:Luxembourg national football team#Recent call-ups. --Wolverène (Diskussioun) 20:25, 6. Jun. 2017 (UTC)
- In Luxembourg no one would call them 'Kandidat' they are designed as 'Member vum Kader', moreoever I wpuld really like to emphasis to have an 'expressis-verbis source' for such statments. --Robby (Diskussioun) 20:31, 6. Jun. 2017 (UTC)
Handballspiller änneren
Hello. Thanks again that you support my work on national team handball players, I still keep on doing. :-) There's a little problem I've just run into.
While using the list of players ever been in the team, I found some people who probably bear non-masculine names. Exactly - Stèr Gatti, Béle Fappani, Flore Dondelinger ([8]). As far as I know Flore and Stèr are never masculine names.
So a couple of questions. Was there definitely no Luxembourg female handball team ever existed, or it existed in 40-50's? And is it worth to create pages about these people? It might be a mistake of creator of the list, or even (Heaven forbid) a hoax, but in other hand I don't exclude the possibility that names like Stèr (a.k.a. Eshter) once were "unisexual", I just have no information.
I think you may know it better because you live in Luxembourg and more globally in the francophone space. Thanks in advance and sorry for disturbing. --Wolverène (Diskussioun) 21:49, 9. Feb. 2018 (UTC)
- Hello Wolverène, this seems quite tricky to me. Indeed according to my knowledge there was never a female handball national team. concerning the firstnames as all the quoted first names have exactly 4 characters these could as well be abreviations as especially in newspapers the firsnames were not always put completely but often just 1, 3 oder 5 characters.
- an interesting website to make research on Luxembourg newspaper before 1951 is eluxemburgensia where you find the scanned versions of all newspapers from Luxembourg till 1950 included.
- I suggest to create the articles and if we find more information on these people to update accordingly. Robby (Diskussioun) 08:26, 10. Feb. 2018 (UTC)
- Ster Gatti was a well known player, (Ster is an italian and romanian male name). In Differdange is played the Ster Gatti Memorial in remembrance of him. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 09:05, 10. Feb. 2018 (UTC)
Well -- Flore Dondelinger, Béle Fappani, Ster Gatti. --Wolverène (Diskussioun) 21:43, 12. Feb. 2018 (UTC)
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
- TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [9][10][11]
- Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.
Changes later this week
- You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [12]
- The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like
{{reflist}}
, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [13] - The abuse filter extension has a new feature
contains_all
that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [14] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [15]
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21:59, 12. Feb. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [16][17]
- You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [18]
Problems
- Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [19]
- Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like
{{sfn}}
are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [20][21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [22]
- Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.
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22:54, 19. Feb. 2018 (UTC)
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
- Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [23]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [24][25]
- Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [26]
- Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [27][28][29]
Changes later this week
- Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [30]
- The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [31][32]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:52, 26. Feb. 2018 (UTC)
Editing News #1—2018 änneren
An enger anerer Sprooch liesen • Verdeelerlëscht vun dëser méisproocheger Newsletter
Zanter der leschter Newsletter huet d'Equipe vun den Ännerungen déi meescht Zäit dofir benotzt fir de Wikitext Editeur Modus 2017 z'ënnerstëtzen. Deen ass am Visual Editeur als Beta-Funktioun disponibel a verbessert de visual diff tool. Hiren Aarbechtsplang ass am Phabricator disponibel. Dir fannt d'Linke vun der Aarbecht déi ofgeschloss ass all Woch bei mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Hir aktuell Prioritéite sinn d'Flécke vu Feeler, de Wikitext Editeur 2017 ënnerstëtzen an d'Verbessere vum visual diff tool.
Rezent Ännerungen änneren
- De Wikitext Editeur 2017 ass als Beta-Funktioun disponibel op Desktop-Apparaten. En huet déi selwecht Toolbar wéi de visual editor a kann den citoid-Service benotzen, genee esou wéi aner modernt Geschir. D'Equipe huet d'Performance vun de verschiddenen Ännerungssystemer verglach. Si hu gekuckt wéi laang et dauert fir d'Säit opzemaachen an unzefänke mat Tippen. Dofir goufen d'Date vu méi wéi enger Millioun Ännerungen aus dem Dezember a Januar benotzt. Verschidden Ännerunge goufe gemaach fir d'Vitesse vum Wikitext Editor 2107 a vum visuellen Editor ze verbesseren. Rezent war de Wikitext Editor 2017 beim Opmaache méi séier fir déi meescht Ännerungen an den WikiEditor 2010 war fir verschidden Ännerungen am séiersten. Méi Informatioune ginn am mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance gewisen.
- De visual diff tool gouf fir de Visuellen Editeur entwéckelt. En ass elo fir all Benotzer vum visuellen Editeur a vum Wikitext Editeur 2017 disponibel. Wann Dir Är Ännerunge nokuckt da kënnt Dir tëscht Wikitext a visuellen Ënnerscheeder ëmschalten. Dir kënnt och déi nei Beta-Funktioun aschalte fir "Visual diffs". D'Beta-Funktioun léisst Iech de visual diff tool benotze fir d'Ännerunge vun anere Leit tëscht de verschiddene Versiounen an an de Special:RecentChanges ze gesinn. [33]
- D'Wikitext Syntax Ervirhiewen ass als Beta-Funktioun esouwuel fir de Wikitext Editeur 2017 séi fir de Wikitext Editeur 2010 disponibel. [34]
- Den citoid Service iwwersetzt automatesch URL, DOI, iSBN a PubMed Identifikatiounsnummeren a wikitext Zitatiouns-Schablounen. Et ass ganz beléift bei Auteuren och wann et et bësse komplizéiert ka si fir et anzestellen. Är Wiki kann dëse Service kréien. Liest w.e.g. d'Instruktiounen. Dir kënnt d'Equipe froe fir citoid op Ärer Wiki z'installéieren
Kommt mir schaffen zesummen änneren
- D'Equipe wäert op engem nächste 'Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities' Treffen iwwer d'Geschir fir z'änneren diskutéieren.
- Wikibooks, Wikiversity an aner Communautéite kënnen de visual Editor als Standard fir Auteuren agestallt kréien. Wann Är Communautéit dat wëllt, da kontaktéiert w.e.g. den Dan Garry.
- De Block
<references />
kann op breeden Ecranen automatesch laang Lëschte vu Referenzen a Kolonne weisen. Dat mécht Foussnoute méi einfach ze liesen. Dir kënnt multi-Kolonnen Ënnerstëtzung ufroe fir Är Wiki. [35] - Wann Dir dëst net an Ärer Sprooch liese kënnt, dann hëlleft eis beim Iwwersetzen! Schreift Iech an op d'Mailinglëscht vun den Iwwersetzer oder kontaktéiert eis direkt. Mir kontaktéieren Iech da wann déi nächst Newsletter fäerdeg ass fir z'iwwersetzen. Merci!
20:54, 2. Mäe. 2018 (UTC)
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
- Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
- Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
- The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
- The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
- It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" Beta feature). [36][37][38][39]
Problems
- The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [40][41]
- On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed. [42]
- Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed. [43]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of
Jo
orNeen
it saysMerci soen
andZréck
. It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public. [44] - A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts. [45]
Problems
- Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [46]
- Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed. [47]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message. [48]
- It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed. [49]
Problems
- On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.
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11:29, 5. Mäe. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now make longer edit summaries. [50]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [51]
- On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [52][53]
- Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [54]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
- You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.
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17:12, 5. Mäe. 2018 (UTC)
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
- 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [55]
- Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [56]
- Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [57]
- Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [58]
Problems
- The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [59]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [60]
- It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [61][62]
- A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [63][64][65]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:43, 12. Mäe. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [66]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 Mäerz. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 Mäerz. It will be on all wikis from 22 Mäerz (calendar).
Meetings
- There is no Editing team meeting this week.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 Mäerz at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [67][68]
- In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.
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15:03, 19. Mäe. 2018 (UTC)
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.
Map improvements 2018 [More information]
- Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey. [69]
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
- Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [70]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented. [71]
- Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed. [72]
Future changes
- An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team. [73]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions. [74]
Problems
- It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [75]
Future changes
- The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [76]
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12:24, 26. Mäe. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [77] [78]
- The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [79]
- TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [80]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [81]
- Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.
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20:04, 26. Mäe. 2018 (UTC)
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
- Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
- The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.
Problems
- MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [82][83][84]
- The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [85]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
- User subpages ending in
.json
will now be protected from other people editing them, like.js
and.css
pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage likeUser:Example/mygadget.json
to do this without concerns. [86] - Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [87][88][89]
- AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [90] [91]
- In Special:Preferences, the preference "D'Iwwerwaachungslëscht nei lueden esoubal wéi e Filter geännert ass (JavaScript gëtt gebraucht)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [92]
- You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [93]
- You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [94]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
- On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [95][96]
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19:29, 2. Abr. 2018 (UTC)
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
- Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [97]
- You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [98]
- The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [99]
- Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [100]
Problems
- The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [101]
- For a week in March rollbacks got both the
rollback
and theundo
tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [102]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
- Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [103]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.
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18:08, 9. Abr. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [104]
- Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (
===
and!==
) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [105][106] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [107]
- Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [108]
- Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.
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15:20, 16. Abr. 2018 (UTC)
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
- All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
- The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
- The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [109]
- The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press
Publish
. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressingPublish
is not the last step. [110]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [111]
- The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).
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18:16, 23. Abr. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #310 änneren
- Events
- Past:
- Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
- WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects
- Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
- DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
- Daten in Wikidata einbringen (Bringing data into Wikidata) - Hands-on tutorial within the DINI KIM Workshop 2018
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata workshop in Köln, Germany, on May 5th and 6th
- Wikidata workshop in Vienna, Austria, on May 5th
- Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on May 5th
- Past:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New badge available for sitelinks: good list
- Sitelinks for the new Ingush Wikipedia (inhwiki) can be added
- Support for the second new Gorontalo Wikipedia (gorwiki) is here
- Articles of the third new Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia (lfnwiki) may be connected
- A Wikidata Telegram group has been created by volunteers
- Constraint Summary script is showing the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
- Contexto is a Wordpress plugin displaying Wikidata info in a hovercard. See demo, you can also let feedback to the developer
- Sixth months before Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: fault, member of the crew of, nature of statement
- External identifiers: Logainm ID, IAFD film ID, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, Réunion des musées nationaux ID, Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID, FIS speed skier ID, New Zealand Gazetteer place ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: crop, date of first attestation, place of first attestation, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, Wikidata property example for senses, false-friend, demonym (Lexeme), Allaboutjazz musician ID, homonym, paronym, streetViewUrl, constraint, WikiCFP eventID, WikiCFP conference series ID, Mascot of, program committee member, applies to name, values for this type, items for this type, Maintained by Wikiproject, Amateur Radio Callsign
- External identifiers: Ontario public library ID, Italian School ID, TFRRS athlete ID, Linux Game Database properties, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID, OnsOranje player ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, OnsOranje match ID
- Infrequently used properties created >3 months:
- Historic Place Names of Wales ID (P4697), American Art Collaborative object ID (P4692), Arquivo Arq ID (P4694), Argentine deputy ID (P4693), HATVP person ID (P4703), Ent'revues ID (P4706), VOGRIPA ID (P4708), Rugby Canada ID (P4707), title page number (P4714), Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID (P4698)
- Query examples:
- Timeline of Wikibase instances and WikidataCon events (federated query)
- User-friendly list of news articles by Kim Wall, as linked from the German and English Wikipedia (based on work of fnielsen)
- Places of birth of the European Parliament members (source)
- Obelisks in Rome (source)
- Artists from Cameroon and their places of birth (source)
- Place of birth of people with an ORCID ID (source)
- History of Milano metro stations on a map (source)
- Number of versions, editions and translations by language of work (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on the internal API for Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T190906)
- Fix some errors happening when editing Lexemes (phab:T192766, phab:T192264)
- Use language code validation for forms representations (phab:T193010, phab:T193011)
- Add badge for good lists to Wikidata (phab:T190976)
- Fix bugs regarding the thumbnails on media statements (phab:T192910, phab:T192601, phab:T192869)
- Investigate on dispatch lag problems (phab:T193349)
- Fix a bug on the watchlist on Wikipedia (phab:T192673)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [112]
Problems
- We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [113]
Changes later this week
- You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [114]
- When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [115]
- You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Änneren section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [116]
- There is a new abuse filter function called
equals_to_any
. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===
) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
- All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [117][118][119]
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16:18, 30. Abr. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #311 änneren
- Discussions
- Events
- Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
- Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
- Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
- Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
- External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
- External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators
- Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
- Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
- Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (phab:T193688)
- Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (phab:T190513)
- Add monolingual language code shy (phab:T184783)
- More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (phab:T193606, phab:T192079, phab:T192365)
- Expand references with constraint violations (phab:T177970)
- Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (phab:T193011)
- Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (phab:T192264)
- Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (phab:T191981)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [120]
Problems
- The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [121]
Changes later this week
- The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [122]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [123][124]
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16:27, 7. Mee 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #312 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Adminor
- Events
- Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
- slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
- A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
- Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
- Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
- New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
- You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme
- New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
- External identifiers: none
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
- External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID
- Underused properties created >3 months:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (phab:T192673)
- Clarify error message for the merge API (phab:T180296)
- Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (phab:T164744)
- Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (phab:T183092)
- Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (phab:T190492)
- Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (phab:T193880, phab:T192667, phab:T193499)
- Continue looking into dispatch issues (phab:T194602)
- Working on adding an integer constraint (phab:T167989)
- Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (phab:T168260)
- Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (phab:T192264)
- Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (phab:T191504)
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!
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
- Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
- The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [125]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
- The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [126]
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22:22, 14. Mee 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.
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17:33, 21. Mee 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #313 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Addshore, Pintoch
- New request for comments: How to manage software versions, Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
- Closed request for comments: Privacy and Living People
- Events
- Past: Europeana Tech Conference (including a lot of Wikidata workshops and discussions)
- Past:Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, 18-20 May in Barcelona
- Check the hashtag #wmhack on Twitter to see what has been worked on regarding Wikidata
- List of the projects that have been demoed during the showcase
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Press, articles, blog posts
- A look back at the first Federated-Wikibase-Workshop
- Martin Poulter gave a TEDxBathUniversity talk about Wikidata
- The Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) has been launched; Wikidata is represented by the Wikimedia Foundation
- "Translating a blog post into structured data" Martin Poulter, the Bodleian Digital Library blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A bunch of new constraint types were recently added
- A Request for comments on improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
- We have deprecated units used for this property (P2237). Please update any tool which uses this property to use the new API before it gets deleted.
- EditGroups is a new tool that lets you review, discuss and revert entire edit groups made by various tools.
- PictureThis! Is a new tool integrated to WikiShootMe! that allows you to choose an item and upload a picture of it
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: IGAC rating, KAVI rating, established from medical condition, vehicles per capita (1000), applies to name, Wikipedia glossary entry
- External identifiers: Chinese Political Elites Database ID, amateur radio callsign, Bugs! album ID, Bugs! artist ID, Cinema Project (Israel) ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators ID, e-MEC entry, Ester ID, Israel Film Fund ID, KKBOX album ID, KKBOX artist ID, Norwegian war sailor register ship-ID, OnsOranje match ID, OnsOranje player ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials ID, Trustpilot company ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Flanders Arts Institute organisation ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Norwegian historical lexicon ID, Norwegian fjord catalog ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia area ID, Rockipedia label ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Victorian Heritage Register ID, FloraCatalana ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: animal water well, World Rugby Ranking, Schulsprengel, dedicated object, conjugation class, word stem, visible by means of, Production website, software version of, Japanese pitch accent, reading pattern of kanji, has conjugation class, stroke count, radical, grade of kanji, Party coalition, Naturdenkmal ID, ISO 3950 code, software version, software developer
- External identifiers: Eurohockey.com club ID, Namuwiki, Daum Encyclopedia, Melon song ID, Sistema de Información Cultural, African Studies Thesaurus ID, nwhl.zone player ID, YouPorn ID, Pornhub ID, NWSL player ID, eBird hotspot ID, British Library system number, Flickr tag, Sveriges Dödbok, BAG Openbare ruimte ID, BAG Pand ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Cinema ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, Spyur ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, GONIAT author ID, GONIAT taxon ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID
- Dormant properties created >3 months:
- USA Rugby player ID (P4778), MYmovies name ID (P4785), CiNii author ID (articles) (P4787), Who's Who UK ID (P4789), uses data storage type (P4788), Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID (P4796), Basketball-Reference.com referee ID (P4795), PARES ID (P4813), BWSA ID (P4811), LoC and MARC vocabularies ID (P4801)
- Query examples:
- Most populous first-level country subdivisions without legislatures (source)
- Prisoners of Conscience by place of birth (source)
- Photos of railway stations from Latvia and Estonia (source)
- Map of items near me that have a label in Catalan but not in French (source)
- Places of residence of accused Scottish witches (source)
- Poets whose fathers were lawyers (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Sustainable Development, Wikipedia Sources
- Newest database reports: list of English Wikipedia outline articles, US states
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Hackathon!
- Work on adding “integer” constraint (phab:T167989)
- Fix a bug expanding the references with a constraint violation (phab:T193669)
- Add a "mis" code language to enable uncoded languages in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T194754)
- Improve the different language fields in the interface of editing a Lexeme (phab:T191504)
- Finish work to edit Forms via the web API (phab:T190906)
- Include special Lexeme IDs (phab:T187060)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [127][128]
- It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [129]
- Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
- There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [130]
- Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [131]
- There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [132]
Problems
- Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [133]
Changes later this week
- There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [134]
- A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [135]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
- Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [136]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [137]
- A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [138]
- Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [139][140]
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12:40, 29. Mee 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #314 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Pintoch, Addshore (both successful)
- New request for comments: Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?
- Events
- IRC office hour, on May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. Special topic: Lexemes on Wikidata
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Paper on Cellosaurus, with mappings to Wikidata, by Amos Bairoch
- Blog post from Galder Gonzalez announcing the Lexemes (in Basque)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ongoing: On 24 May, there was a significant outage affecting Wikidata and sister projects that use Wikidata. As a result, some features of are temporarily disabled: Wikidata's property suggester, Lua modules and parser functions calling by label instead of ID, search for the ArticlePlaceholder. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're working to get them back as soon as possible. For technical details, see: phab:T195520 & Incident documentation/20180524-wikidata.
- As announced last week, the “integer” constraint type and the “separators” parameter for the “single value” and “single best value” constraint types are now supported in WikibaseQualityConstraints.
- Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata! Check the announcement for more details. Feel free to try adding words and give feedback
- Structured Data on Commons has designs for displaying and using multilingual captions on the file page. Feedback is welcome on the talk page.
- You can try the new Drag&Drop gadget developed by Yarl and give feedback
- The European Commission announces a review of the Database Directive.
- OpenRefine 3.0 beta was released. You can get an overview of the new Wikidata-related features with tutorials and videos.
- TextRazor is a web service which analyses text and identifies the entities and concepts discussed, giving the corresponding Wikidata QIDs.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: grammatical gender, conjugation class, word stem, Sandbox-Lexeme, Sandbox-Form, synonym, derived from, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, officialized by, Wikidata dataset import page, output method, IMDA rating, adapted by, topographic map, date of commercialization, stroke count, has conjugation class
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Vocalized form, display technology, compound of, Chromosome number, Vietnamese character reading pattern, fanqie, evokes, homograph lexeme, homograph form, prime factor, classifier, Accomplice, Slavic Alphabet, signum
- External identifiers: BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Baidu Baike ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany database ID, Filmow ID, Cité de la musique ID, Giant Bomb ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats ID, Songfacts ID, ARWU ID
- Properties not really used, created >3 months:
- Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number (P4814), Amtrak station code (P4803), make-up artist (P4805), sets environment variable (P4809), Technical Element Score (P4815), Rugby Australia ID (P4799), TORA ID (P4820), Panoptikum identifier (P4818), Cour des comptes magistrate ID (P4821), La Poste personality ID (P4822)
- Query examples:
- Development
- Deployed and activate WikibaseLexeme on wikidata.org so you can now store the first lexicographical data on Wikidata (phab:T191457)
- Fixing the encoding issues on labels of items linked on Lexemes (phab:T195470, phab:T195359)
- Fixed an issue that was preventing adding Forms and Lexemes in statements (phab:T195402)
- Suppressed the browser's autocomplete that covers WikibaseLexeme's suggestion on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195383, phab:T191526)
- Worked on a bug about representation overwriting other representation with the same language code (phab:T193636)
- Changed title of the field of a lemma language to make it less likely for people to add a translation as a second Lemma (phab:T193603)
- Working on the RDF mapping of WikibaseLexeme (phab:T160260)
- Working on implementing fulltext search for Lexemes (phab:T189739)
- Working on showing Lemmas for linked Lexemes instead of just their ID on special pages like Special:AllPages (phab:T195382)
- Fixing issues that happened after dropping an index from the wb_terms table (phab:T194270, phab:T195642, phab:T195611)
- Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (phab:T194247)
- Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (phab:T99899)
- Added Docker image to Wikibase website (phab:T189936)
- Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (phab:T192080)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #315 änneren
- Events
- Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, May 29th
- Past: slides of "Wikidata in GLAM, how and why" by Jason Evans during EuropeanaTech conference
- Figsharefest: "(Personal) use-cases for Figshare in a Wikidata narrative", June 4th, Brussels (slides)
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Using the Hive Mind: WikiData Integration and Artist Pages on the blog of the National Galleries of Scotland
- Tools for Wikipedians: Keeping track of what’s going on on Wikidata from Wikipedia by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)
- Wikidata and Scholia as a hub linking chemical knowledge poster presented at 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures (PDF)
- A complete video walkthrough to learn how to use OpenRefine: how to match, clean up and import data into Wikidata
- Lexicographical data: number of existing lemmas per language
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now search for values of a statement in Special:Search (P31, external-ids and strings)
- You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki.
- Country geoshape data have been added to Commons and linked to the corresponding Wikidata items. These geoshapes can be used to visualise query results e.g. World map showing population of each country.
- Concordances: mappings between Wikidata and other knowledge organization systems
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: chromosome count, prime factor, pronunciation variety, compound of
- External identifiers: ISO 3950 code, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, GONIAT author ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID, GONIAT taxon ID, Spyur ID, Armenian Cinema ID, BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, NWSL player ID, Information Center for Israeli Art artwork ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Chromosome numbers of the Flora of Germany database ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Filmow ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris work ID, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats artist ID, Songfacts song ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: grammatical category, IAB code, title number, chữ Nôm, noun, gender inflection, winter view, of, alternative form, lexical category, spelling variant, hyphenation
- External identifiers: myschool ID, IPTC subject code, Canal-U person ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, FilmTv.it person ID, Corago ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, NDOP taxon ID, BirdLife International ID, Relationship Science person ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, OED Online ID, Dordrechts Museum, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, SJP Online ID, Contemporary Music Portal ID, Web umenia work ID, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Work ID, Cdmc ID, Monarch Disease Ontology ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ID, Saint Louis Art Museum ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, StadiumDB identifier, Songfacts artist ID, World Stadium Database identifier, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer
- Properties waiting to be used, created >3 months:
- Program Component Score (P4826), deductions (in figure skating) (P4825), Swimrankings meet ID (P4827), Sailboatdata ID (P4833), World Sailing regatta ID (P4832), Landslagsdatabasen ID (P4830), Irish Rugby Football Union women's player ID (P4836), Wolfram Language entity code (P4839), Directory of Czech publishers ID (P4840), development of anatomical structure (P4843)
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Eurovision
- Newest database reports: verb categories
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The API respond for maxlag will in the future also include the dispach lag (phab:T194950)
- Add Elastic and CirrusSearch in the Wikibase Docker image (phab:T192813)
- Add OAuth extension to wikibase bundle container (phab:TT192364)
- Work on showing constraints in the QueryService (phab:T194762)
- Make the PropertySuggester use CirrusSearch (phab:T195490)
- Add integer constraint in the constraint checks (phab:T167989)
- Add “citation needed” constraint type (phab:T195052)
- Make Special:EntityData should handle form IDs (phab:T192149)
- Fix encoding problems for labels displayed in Lexemes (phab:T195359)
- Improve the text in the grammatical feature field (phab:T193604)
- Work on showing Lemma on Special:AllPages and other pages (phab:T195382)
- Work on better handling use of statements linking to Lexemes on client (phab:T195615)
- Fix a bug that breaks Lexeme when language or lexical category items don't have a label (phab:)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [141]
- Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [142][143]
- Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [144]
Problems
- You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
- MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [145]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [146][147]
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21:54, 4. Jun. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #316 änneren
- Events
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, June 15
- Wikidata Datathon on June 16 in Zurich
- Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata, presented at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics by Lucie Kaffee and Hady Elsahar (see the poster and the paper)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A proposal for using Wikidata for PeerTube.
- New constraint type: citation needed constraint
- Sitelinks can be:
- A template listing the new Lexicographical properties is available
- Draft of consultation about creating separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JavaScript
- Wikidata now appears in the LOD cloud and you can help improving it
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: reading pattern of Han character, medical evacuation to, sports competition competed at, winter view, Slavic Alphabet, grade of kanji, gender inflection of surname, hyphenation, radical, residual stroke count, ground level 360 degree view, Portable Game Notation
- External identifiers: ARWU university ID, Canal-U person ID, myschool ID, Pornhub ID, Giant Bomb ID, IAB code, Corago opera ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it person ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, BirdLife International ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, Czech NDOP taxon ID, Relationship Science person ID, Dordrechts Museum artwork ID, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, YouPorn performer ID, MNAV work ID, Web umenia work ID, MonDO ID, Saint Louis Art Museum person ID, CDMC musician ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art person ID, SJP Online ID, OED Online ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer, Songfacts artist ID, StadiumDB identifier, World Stadium Database identifier
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: permanent resident of, type locality, SPARQL endpoint, property scope, Romanization of Belarusian, factorizsation, Jones polynomial, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, number of videos, Han character in this lexeme, número de etapas, Angular size, Red List status of species, United Kingdom railway station category, reference has role, mathematical concept defining formula, mathematical concept definition, subject facet
- External identifiers: Redump.org, Church of Norway building ID, Taratata ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, NRJ ID, Akout ID, Lafonoteca ID, Swedish Academy member, Party Number (Taiwan), DLCM ID, AntWeb, Webb-site person ID, Webb-site organization ID, Companies House officer ID, France Culture ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, LONSEA people ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Drouot ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Swedish Signaturer.se, BioStor work ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, National Archive of Sweden, Libris-URI, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work id
- Properties awaiting widespread use, created >3 months:
- Deleted properties: Property:P2439 ("language"), Property:P2237 ("units used for this property"), Property:P883 ("FIPS 5-2 (code for US states)"), Property:P5190 ("synonym")
- Query examples:
- Timeline of discoveries in the Solar System (source)
- Map of Suffragettes around the world (source)
- Female ministers in African countries (source)
- References with only a quote but no other properties (source)
- Islands in capital cities (source)
- Map of titles in the Welsh Journals & Welsh Newspapers (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject BHL (books etc from the Biodiversity Heritage Library)
- Newest gadgets: derivedstatements.js adds at the end of all item pages a new button to load inverse statements
- Newest database reports: list of films (चलचित्र) from Nepal
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Developing a prototype for usability testing for how the term box (labels, descriptions, aliases) could work on mobile
- Investigating how we can do the display of items (their label and sometimes description when linked to in a statement or in listings like Recent Changes) in a way that is less of an issue for the database
- Working on including the dispatch lag in the maxlag API to make it easier for bots to see when they should stop editing because of performance reasons (phabricator:T194950)
- Working on adding a Lua function to check if an item is a subclass/instance of another one (phabricator:T179155)
- Created an API that returns constraint violations for an item in TTL format in preparation for making constraint violations queryable in the query service (phabricator:T194762)
- Started planning for support for Senses
- Added more helpful text on Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand what information is required (phabricator:T193602)
- Working on pre-filling the spelling variant for a new Form's representation (phabricator:T195708)
- Worked on showing the Lemma of a Lexeme instead of just its ID in Special:AllPages, Recent Changes and diffs (phabricator:T191600, phabricator:T195382, phabricator:T195511)
- Made the representation of a Form in a diff link to the Form (phabricator:T195512)
- Fixed an issue on the Wikipedias and co when a statement in an item that was used there linked to a Form or Lexeme (phabricator:T195615)
- Made the "publish" button stay disabled for a Lexeme's header when there is nothing to save (phabricator:T196342)
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!
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
- In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [148]
- There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [149]
Problems
- The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [150]
Changes later this week
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [151][152]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.
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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
- Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [153]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [154][155]
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [156][157]
- All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [158]
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21:47, 18. Jun. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #317 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators
- Events
- Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin
- Past: Wikidata Lab VIII in São Paulo
- Press, articles, blog posts
- WDAqua: Question Answering over Wikidata, by Dennis Diefenbach
- CyTargetLinker app update: A flexible solution for network extension in Cytoscape, showing citation data in Cytoscape, by Martina Summer-Kutmon et al.
- Harnessing the power of structured data: a Wikidata workshop, report of the Wikidata workshop day and Wikidata presence at EuropeanaTech 2018 last May in Rotterdam, Europeana Blog.
- The new This Month in GLAM newsletter has, as always, a lot of Wikidata-related news!
- Making Wikidata fit as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems. Lightning talk at ELAG 2018 in Prague by Jneubert
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The program of Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town is out, and here's a summary of all the Wikidata-related sessions
- If you're building a tool using wb_terms database table, please give us input about it
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: type locality (biology), SPARQL endpoint, display technology, property scope, jockey, attested in, publication in which this taxon name was established, revival or touring version of, United Kingdom railway station category
- External identifiers: Redump.org ID, Taratata artist ID, NRJ artist ID, Akout ID, Church of Norway building ID, Lafonoteca artist ID, Party Number (Taiwan), Companies House officer ID, Webb-site person ID, AntWeb ID, Webb-site organization ID, France Culture person ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, DLCM ID, LONSEA people ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, Drouot artist ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, BioStor work ID, Swedish Signaturer.se ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, Swedish National Archive ID, Swedish Academy member ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work ID, OpenDOAR ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: runner-up, laps completed, load limit, abgeordnetenwatch.de ID for German politicians, API endpoint, type of water, ranking order, JMA Seismic Intensity Scale
- External identifiers: Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Bérose ID, AFI person ID, Google News ID, Legaseriea.it ID, Silentera.com movie ID, PC Engine Software Bible identifier, CAGE code, Printemps des poètes ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org ID, Playmates ID, SGJP Online ID, Laut.de ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, BNB person ID, MobyGames group ID, Operone composer ID, Operone opera ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, GAMECIP platform ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Operissimo artist ID, British Council writer ID, IBDOF ID, Entomologists of the World ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l’art ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer ID, Artcyclopedia ID, École normale alumnus ID, BIU Santé ID, Étonnants voyageurs ID, hoopla, Medicina ID, Akadem person ID, IGN video game ID, National Academy of Sciences ID, EGROKN ID
- Low use properties, created >3 months ago:
- FAPESP institution ID (P4597), title page number (P4714), symbolizes (P4878), World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID (P4879), FFR Sevens player ID (P4880), AFL Tables coach ID (P4885), AFL Tables umpire ID (P4888), ACE work ID (P4894), Patrons de France ID (P4891), segmental innervation (P4882)
- Query examples:
- Artworks and rooms of The Louvre museum shown in the latest Beyoncé video (source)
- Goalscorers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup (source)
- Female dancers and choregraphs having a picture and a Wikipedia article in English but not in French (source)
- Nudes with cats (source)
- Museums in Italy colored by number of Wikipedia articles (source)
- Countries and their official languages, ISO codes and Wikimedia language codes (source)
- Newest database reports: number of sitelinks to new WMF projects
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Prototype for mobile termbox
- Moving away from wb_terms table
- Continued work on making WikibaseLexeme compatible with Wikibase clients (T195615)
- Error handling and usability for entering lemmas was improved (T196342, T197453)
- Lexemes no longer randomly pop up in rdf dumps (T194627)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #318 änneren
- Events
- Wikidata LGBT group at the Pride march in Paris, June 30th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Archives and Wikidata (in French) by Baptiste de Coulon
- Share cultural data in Wikidata (in French) video workshop by La cinématèque québécoise
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Try the new prototype of the termbox on mobile and give feedback
- There will be an IRC Office Hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 26 June from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information, including time and date conversion, is available on Meta. There is no set topic, you are welcome to bring any discussion that you would like to the office hour.
- Edit #700,000,000 happened on June 21th
- Magnus Manske released a new interface for QuickStatements V2. Among other changes, it now include links to EditGroups, a tool that allows people to discuss about or revert batch edits
- WikiCite 2018 will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area on November 27-29
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: angular diameter, laps completed, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, Jones polynomial, school district
- External identifiers: Bérose ID, Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Or Movement regional council ID, Google News ID, SilentEra.com film ID, Lega Serie A soccer player ID, AFI person ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org poet ID, Printemps des poètes poet ID, PC Engine Software Bible ID, Playmates Playmate ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, abgeordnetenwatch.de politician ID, Laut.de artist ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, Operone opera ID, Operone composer ID, MobyGames group ID, BNB person ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, British Council writer ID, Internet Book Database of Fiction writer ID, Operissimo artist ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, Entomologists of the World ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l'art ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: auxiliary verb, Number of works accessible online, model year, CETAF specimen ID, floor number, has pattern
- External identifiers: MobyGames game group ID, Amazon.com ID, Behind the voice Actors tv show ID, Behind the voice Actors movie ID, Behind the voice Actors franchise ID, Radio Courtoisie host ID, archINFORM project ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales ID, cipM ID, Poets & Writers ID, Poetry Archive ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, VIN, GeoNLP ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, The Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, TDKIV term ID, Gfycat tag, Gfycat user ID, RYM ID, Identifient pour artistes du Centre national des arts plastiques, Whonamedit? ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Research projects
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Include Wikibase dispatch lag in API "maxlag" enforcing (phab:T194950)
- Run full constraint check when saving a statement (phab:T194760)
- Show map on items to preview coordinates (phab:T184933)
- Implement property scope constraint to say if a property should be used on main snak qualifiers or references (phab:T197473)
- Investigate on replacements for some parts of wb_terms table (phab:T197161)
- Fix a UI glitch on Lexeme editing interface (phab:T195298)
- Add names and descriptions for Lexeme, Form and Sense datatypes on Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T189935)
- Display a warning message and prevent entering of lemmas with the same spelling variant (phab:T195372)
- Work on showing description in Item selector in Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)
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!
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
- PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.
Problems
- When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [159][160]
Changes later this week
- Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [161]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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23:10, 25. Jun. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #319 änneren
- Events
- Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to Wikimedia projects and minority languages, July 5-6, in Aberystwyth (Wales). A lot of Wikidata workshops will take place during this event.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- 4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, blog post at the National Library of Wales by Jason Evans, National Wikimedian of Wales
- LIPID MAPS identifiers and endocannabinoids on Wikidata, blog post by Egon Willighagen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Change for maxlag impacts bots and semi-automated tools
- The five-thousandth lexeme, about a interjection "jau" in Nynorsk language, has been created
- The Commons template Wikidata infobox has now passed 1.3 million uses on Commons categories, with plenty more still to come. A new help page gives advice on how to add, extend or improve uses of it, and how to fix data problems.
- You can discuss the right properties to describe files on Commons, to help moving on with Structured data on Commons
- Help improving the fight against vandalism with ORES
- Sixth birthday of Wikidata: it's time to think about what you'd like to organize in your area! There will be a phone call for organizers, and the deadline to request swag is September 7th.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: JMA Seismic Intensity Scale, permanent resident of, auxiliary verb, homograph lexeme
- External identifiers: École normale alumnus ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer member ID, BIU Santé person ID, Medicina author ID, Étonnants voyageurs participant ID, Akadem person ID, GAMECIP platform ID, National Academy of Sciences member ID, EGROKN ID, Behind The Voice Actors franchise ID, archINFORM project ID, Behind The Voice Actors film ID, IGN video game ID, Behind The Voice Actors tv show ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales author ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, Poetry Archive poet ID, cipM poet ID, Poets & Writers author ID, Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, TDKIV term ID, GeoNLP ID, CNAP artist ID, RYM artist ID, Rendez-vous de l'histoire ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: JMA Magnitude, Coached by, Harmonized System Code, reverse lemma, reference properties, LilyPond notation, valency, section number, propdef, antonym, Central Index Key (CIK), note
- External identifiers: Flanders Music Centre ID, Île en île ID, Fantastic Fiction ID, mhk object ID, CeBeDem ID, Ricochet ID, Common procurement vocabulary, pixiv ID, NYRB ID, The Paris Review ID, GS1 GPC brick code, Pasteur Institute ID, The Trading Card Database person ID, Legaseriea.it team ID, Deutsche Biographie person ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Poetry International Web ID, EuroVoc ID, Språkrådets termwiki ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Reseñas Biográficas (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile), abuse filter ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Collège de France professor ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Patents
- Newest user-scripts: d:User:Husky/ifff-viewer-link.js (shows selected parts of images, according to P2677 qualifiers - for example d:Q17335769#P180.)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on prefilling spelling variant of new form representation (phab:T195708)
- Start breaking down stories in order to implement Senses
- Finding a better solution for dewiki's Modul:Wikidata isParent (phab:T179155)
- Adding support for linking to a particular statement (phab:T169224)
- Implement property scope constraint (phab:T197473)
- Track maxlag for wikidata on grafana dashboard (phab:T196868)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [162]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [163]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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00:46, 3. Jul. 2018 (UTC)
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
- WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [164]
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [165]
- All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [166]
Problems
- When you rolled back an edit it could get both the
Rollback
andUndo
tags. This has been fixed. [167] - Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [168]
Changes later this week
- When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [169][170]
- On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [171]
- When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [172]
- Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [173]
- When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [174]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [175]
- Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [176]
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23:10, 9. Jul. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #320 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Help:Modelling
- Events
- Past: Celtic Knot Conference, including a Wikidata track, 5-6 July, Aberystwyth (Wales)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: Structured narratives in Wikipedia, São Paulo, August 9th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Ewan McAndrew publishes case study for teaching data science with Wikidata: see the case study on Commons
- "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: a round-up" by Martin Poulter
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: There is a workshop on Commons to identify properties that files will need for statements. You are invited to participate.
- Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, a new video tutorial by Asaf Bartov
- Items now contain an average of 10 statements.
- For the first time Wikidata has less than 2 million empty items.
- Input for m:Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS is being sought.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Romanization of Belarusian (2007 system), has decorative pattern, floor number, Han character in this lexeme, Japanese pitch accent type, position of accent nucleus, position of devoiced vowel, number of viewers/listeners, signum, research measurement, model year, reference value, lower limit, upper limit
- External identifiers: mhk object ID, Fantastic Fiction author ID, Île en île author ID, Flanders Music Centre person ID, CeBeDem composer ID, Ricochet author ID, The Paris Review interviewee ID, Whonamedit? doctor ID, Common procurement vocabulary, Pasteur Institute person ID, NYRB contributor ID, GS1 Global Product Classification brick code, The Trading Card Database person ID, Lega Serie A team ID, IPTC Newscode, Poetry International Web poet ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Gfycat user ID, pixiv ID, EuroVoc ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Biographical Articles of the Library of Congress of Chile, Collège de France professor ID, Language Council of Norways termwiki ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: confers, Narrative role, CJKV variant character, synonym, derived from form, station category, Number of twitter follower, mentioned in work, model year code, peninsula of location, position of nasal sonant, number of people depicted, artist-info artist ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info location ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database, The Reptile Database
- External identifiers: Logicielsmoto identifier, House of Representatives Morocco ID, BIA PSY ID, My Heritage Surname ID, identifiant Inventaire des sanctuaires français, USNPL ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, Historia de la Medicina ID, TasteAtlas ID, GlyphWiki ID, AE member ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, French Academy in Rome ID, RHE doctor ID, Scottish Poetry Library ID, RHE professor ID, SBN books ID, Australian Poetry Library ID, A Church Near You church ID
- Deleted properties: GHS hazard statement (P728) + GHS precautionary statements (P940), spectral line (P2224)
- Query examples:
- Map of places in the UK starting with "Llan" (source)
- Number and percentage of articles about female scientists for all Wikipedias (compared to all articles about scientists) (source)
- Statements disputed by their subject (source)
- Emulators and what they emulate (source)
- Map of items near me that have a label in English but not in Welsh (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Categories
- Newest tools: TopicMatcher, by MagnusManske, looks for items related to topics
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Making progress towards being able to query for constraint violations in the query service
- Included the dispatch lag in the maxlag parameter to give better feedback to tools and bots if they can edit at the moment (phab:T194950)
- Added support for linking to a particular statement (not just a statement group) (phab:T169224)
- Set up L as an alias for the Lexeme namespace (phab:T195493)
- Worked on making lexical category, language and grammatical feature show up on WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
- Worked on Persistent IDs for Senses (phab:T198033)
- Improve placeholder text for Lexeme language and lexical category field on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195439)
- Show description on the item selector on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)
- Add "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194771)
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!
Request about article 'UNO Resolution 68/262' änneren
Hello dear Robby, saw your wonderful/powerful contribution in Luxembourgish Wikipedia. I would like to ask you translate/help to translate the small article into Luxembourgish, and add it to the Wikipedia. Thank you in advance for your support/contribution and best wishes!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [177]
- You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [178]
- You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [179]
Changes later this week
- Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [180]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
- You can use
<inputbox>
to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead ofprefix:Page name
you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.
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16:01, 16. Jul. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #321 änneren
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events
- Press, articles, blog posts
- The EU NanoSafety Cluster as Linked Data visualized with Scholia in the EU NanoSafety Cluster Newsletter
- Converting any SPARQL endpoint to an OpenAPI, blog post about using grlc to convert the WDQS to an OpenAPI service
- Wikidata on Azure, blog post series about hosting Wikidata data in Azure cloud
- Wikibase workshop in Berlin
- Research showcase about the ArticlePlaceholder
- Keine Schwalben: Schauspielernde Fussballspieler in Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: Wikidata Cradle, by Magnus Manske, to create new items by filling a form. You can build your own forms.
- Ordia (the tool to search for Lexemes and Forms) now displays a graph of grammatical features
- The Wikidata Lexeme form tool got support for more languages and expanded support for the existing ones.
- Global preferences are now available on all Wikimedia wikis
- item Q 55 555 555 was created
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: grants academic degree, model year code
- External identifiers: Inventory of French sanctuaries ID, BIA PSY person ID, House of Representatives of Morocco ID, My Heritage Surname ID, Logicielsmoto identifier, USNPL ID, SGJP Online ID, TasteAtlas ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, RHE doctor ID, RHE professor ID, AE member ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: horizontal depth, correct form, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works, Young's modulus, Billed height, Billed weight, Billed from, IPHAN ID, Ultimate tensile strength, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, derived from language(s), description of glyph, Unicode block, mode of derivation, word with diacritical signs, rhyme, artist-info exhibition ID, invasive to, number of platform faces, state of conservation, Yield strengh, Hardness
- External identifiers: OSM node ID, NATO Stock Number, EDIT16 IDs, GameSpot ID, SMS Power identifier, RPO ID, Split the Rock ID, Base de datos de premiados ID, legabasket.it player ID, Les voix de la poésie ID, Poetry in Voice ID, BD Gest' ID, Médicos históricos ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Boijmans work ID, RISM ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry Society of America ID, LRB ID, WikiArt ID, MAPS ID, archINFORM ID (Personen und Körperschaften), DEFA-Filmdatenbank-ID, Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Worked on persistent storage for Senses on Lexemes - started by giving them a stable ID (phabricator:T198033)
- Adding "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phabricator:T194771)
- Made the Items used for Language, Lexical Category and Grammatical Feature show up on Special:WhatLinksHere (phabricator:T195302)
- When adding a new Form the spelling variant is now filled out automatically based on the Lemma's (phabricator:195708)
- 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!
Skype-Gesprächsrunde zur Wikimania 2018 änneren
Hallo Robby, hast Du Zeit und Lust zu einer Skype-Gesprächsrunde, die per de:WP:WikiStammtisch veröffentlicht wird? Das habe ich im Vorjahr bereits in zwei Episoden gemacht: und --Sebastian Wallroth (Diskussioun) 08:05, 24. Jul. 2018 (UTC)
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
- When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [181]
- Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [182]
- Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [183]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 Juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 Juli. It will be on all wikis from 26 Juli (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 Juli at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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09:44, 24. Jul. 2018 (UTC)
Schabloun:Internetquell änneren
Salut Robby, wann ech mer déi Schabloun sou ukucken, da kënnt et mer zwar vir, wéi wann do e ganze Koup net sou ok ass. Wat soll déi Schabloun bezwecken. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 20:19, 24. Jul. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #322 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events
- Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America
- Past: Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events. The slides are usually listed from the talk's page on Wikimania wiki.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
- HarvestTemplates is now compatible with EditGroups: you can easily revert any run that goes wrong (even if it is not your own).
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Harmonized System Code, section number, CJKV variant character, ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, position of nasal sonant, LilyPond notation, hardness, accreditation
- External identifiers: A Church Near You church ID, Australian Poetry Library poet ID, French Academy in Rome resident ID, GlyphWiki ID, Historia de la Medicina person ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID, Scottish Poetry Library poet ID, The Reptile Database ID, Legabasket.it player ID, Les Voix de la poésie poet ID, RPO poet ID, SBN books ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info artist ID, artist-info location ID, BD Gest' author ID, EDIT16 catalogue author ID, EDIT16 catalogue printer ID, GameSpot ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID, Médicos históricos doctor ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Base de datos de premiados person ID, Boijmans work ID, IPHAN ID, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, LRB contributor ID, Poetry Society of America poet ID, RISM work ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry In Voice poet ID, artist-info exhibition ID, archINFORM person or group ID, MAPS poet ID, DEFA film database ID, identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català, Znicenekostely ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Moisture absorption, date of release, Ideographic description sequences, Cangjie input, four-corner method, Hangul, Eumhun, Jyutping, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Bàng-uâ-cê, Kienning Colloquial Romanized, Guangdong Hakka Romanization, Sichuanese Pinyin, Peng'im, Unusually granulated item, Wine color, IANA service name, Toughness, upregulated by, Elongation at break, relative date properties, Prison History ID, CONDEPHAAT ID, copyright status, city that hosted Wikimania, Vietnamese pronunciation, Work hardening strain, Heat treating, EDb company ID, Water absorption, Schematic, passive voice, Normalized Unicode character, Enciclovida ID, Relative humidity, Poisson's ratio, Microstructure, key strength, Weakness
- External identifiers: identifiant de l'Inventaire de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 東京文化財研究所物故者識別拡張子, IDs from alternativa teatral, Virtual Laboratory ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Swedish Parish place names register, oric.org identifier, Kopaliński Online ID, Altmetric ID, Open Media Database person ID, Python Package Index project, CPAN project, RubyGems gem, CRAN project, L'île ID, National Road DataBase ID, Literature Ireland ID, Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, RedTube ID, CICLIC ID, Interbibly ID, Le Monde ID, Courrier international ID, Courrier international source ID, Tebeosfera ID, Baidu ScholarID, College de France professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1809-1909), Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1909-1939), KLEKs building ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database ID
- Query examples:
- Fictional characters married to their siblings (source)
- Translations of disease names in South-African languages (source)
- All Wikidata properties (which are not identifiers) without a label in Afrikaans (source)
- List of people born or dead in Canton de Vaud (Switzerland), with archives where their documents are stored (source)
- Timeline of serial killers (source)
- Map of disasters, color-coded by disaster type (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on showing Lexemes and Forms in Special:WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
- Fix wrong translations of Form related strings (phab:T191614)
- Fix error message for non empty item (phab:T194371)
- More work on storing Senses (phab:T198032)
- More work on easy Wikibase Docker instance config generation (phab:T198841)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [184]
Problems
- Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [185][186]
- Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [187][188]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 Juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 Juli at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.
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14:05, 30. Jul. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #323 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Help:Modelling
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris (fr): a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
- populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
- user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
- Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: four-corner method, Cangjie input, toughness, Unicode block, fanqie, horizontal depth, valency, yield strength, Hangul of a Chinese character
- External identifiers: Virtual Laboratory person ID, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier, CONDEPHAAT ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, Altmetric ID, Central Index Key, L'île author ID, Kopaliński Online ID, Open Media Database person ID, Prison History ID, Swedish place name register SOFI
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: toponym, Bpk-Identifikator, number of arrests, Multi-channel network, Coefficient of friction, expiration date, number of persons depicted, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, surface roughness, environment, force, atomic mass, fatigue limit, Pitting resistance equivalent number, casting director, touringclub.it destinazione, organizational unit id
- External identifiers: INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, IDIH ID, CNRS ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, Tebeosfera character ID, QS World University URL, MUSE journal ID, Times Higher Education World University ID, iNaturalist observation ID, Indian census area code (2011), archINFORM ID (Orte), code Transport Canada, Lyrically artist ID, Flight Report Airline ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, PRELIB ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: iNaturalist
- Newest database reports: list of lexemes, number of lexemes by languages and lexical categories
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Corrected several translation errors on Lexeme page (confusing Form word) (phabricator:T191614)
- Working on merging of Lexemes (phabricator:T198105)
- Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (phabricator:T195386)
- Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (phabricator:T198032, phabricator:T198199)
- Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
- Fixed validation of input length on Special:NewItem (phabricator:T145932)
- Fixed issue with embedded view of query results (phabricator:T200409)
- Fixed change dispatching issues (phabricator:T200420)
- Investigated issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be (phabricator:T199983)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #324 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Bovlb
- Closed request for comments: Association Football Matches
- Events
- Past: State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
- Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Harvard University, MA, USA, on August 8th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases - harvesting tuples from news and scholarly corpora and releasing them as open data
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase quality constraints are now loaded into the Query Service and can be queried. Queries on property talk pages have been adapted.
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.9 has been released
- A list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework has been started at d:Wikidata:Wikidata curricula/Activities
- We know have more than 10,000 Lexemes in Wikidata
- A challenge about months of the year is running, you can create Lexemes with the ones in your language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: derived from form, schematic, passive voice, registration district, expressed in, coefficient of friction, number of arrests, invasive to, microstructure, normalized Unicode character, number of works accessible online, Poisson's ratio, moisture absorption, number of platform faces, relative humidity
- External identifiers: Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, RedTube ID, Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Literature Ireland ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1809-1908), College de France professor ID (1909-1939), CICLIC author ID, INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, Courrier international topic ID, CNRS ID, IDIH ID, Courrier international source ID, KLEKs ID, Interbibly author ID, Le Monde ID, MUSE journal ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, Tebeosfera ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, CRAN project, RubyGems gem, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties dead artist ID, Python Package Index project, Tebeosfera character ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, archINFORM ID (locations), CAGE code, EDb company ID, Indian census area code (2011), flight-report.com Airline identifier, Norwegian National Road DataBase ID, NATO Stock Number, QS World University ID, SMS Power identifier, Times Higher Education World University ID, Libris-URI, oric.org identifier, Artcyclopedia artist ID, Places of Worship Inventory ID, P5599
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: value is inherited from, Guss, Countries with high prevalence, chieseitaliane ID, legal status, Match Score, topic's subcategory, Covered by, Alexander–Briggs notation
- External identifiers: U-Multirank University ID, Trove newspaper ID, Belvedere object ID, Aosdána ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Evene ID, OpenMath ID, GLAMOS ID, Swimsuit ID, archINFORM ID (Schlagwörter), CMI ID, Featured Biographies ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, DOLF ID, Marvel character ID, FFF character ID, FFF author ID, National Cartoonists Society ID, Number World ID, legabasket.it coach ID, Black Ferns ID, WSO Online ID, IEEE standard, ITU-T Recommendation, ITU-R Recommendation, LOA ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, iTunes music video ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Allow to show incoming links on the graph explorer dialog on WDQS (phab:T197778)
- Fulltext search for Lexemes and Forms (only in Lexeme namespace) has been merged (phab:T196188)
- We are now collecting click data when completion search on Wikidata is used (phab:T196186) which would serve us to improve search relevancy
- Fix a lot of issues with our test system (phab:T200693)
- Disallow merging of items that link to each other in references and qualifiers (phab:T119614)
- More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T200884)
- Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
- Improve the validation and error message when a label, description or alias is too long (phab:T145932, phab:T200780)
- Expose constraint violations to WDQS (phab:T192567)
- Add the possibility to download result of a query from the embed mode (phab:T176797)
- Get persistent editing of Senses done (phab:T196270) (you can try it now on the beta system)
- Work on edit summary of Senses (phab:T196290)
- Work on diffs of Senses (phab:T196289)
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!
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
- Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [189]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [190][191]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:39, 6. Aug. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #325 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Bencemac
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias, by Delphine Dallison
- The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on the OCLC Research blog
- A global collection of astrolabes in linked open data, by Martin Poulter, University of Oxford. With the Museum of the History of Science which is part of the university, Martin is exploring a possible "Sum of all Astrolabes" project. This post is to promote the idea to researchers and GLAM staff.
- Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, by Nikolai Janakiev
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- list of badged items without claims has a new format
- Sitelinks for the new Santali Wikipedia (satwiki) can be added. Links to the new Chinese Wikiversity (zhwikiversity) can be made
- The logs of (anonymized) SPARQL queries are now available
- wikidata-edit now supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
- thus, wikidata-cli now also supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
- During Wikimania 2018, 25 people attended to a workshop about Lexicographical data. The results of this experience and the related tickets are summarized here.
- New admin: Bovlb. Welcome on board!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: station category, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, fatigue limit, type of water supply, pitting resistance equivalent number, Vietnamese reading
- External identifiers: U-Multirank university ID, TCI destination ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Trove newspaper ID, archINFORM keyword ID, DOLF ID, Split This Rock poet ID, OpenMath ID, chieseitaliane ID, legabasket.it ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Aosdána ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, Evene ID, LOA ID, FFF author ID, FFF character ID, Marvel character ID, National Cartoonists Society author ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, WSO Online ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Prisoner count, relative to, Railway traffic side, code DGAC, Membro della squadra nazionale, linear thermal expansion coefficient, glass transition temperature, heat deflection temperature, compressive strength, bulk modulus, flexural modulus, flexural strength, shear modulus, shear strength, tear resistance, abrasion resistance, Vicat softening point, thermal diffusivity, chemical resistance, permeation, electrical resistivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, dissipation factor, magnetic ordering, noun for other gender, combines lexemes, form is subject of, Airline Accounting Code, dummy value, identifier
- External identifiers: iTunes music video ID, New Zealand Business Number, Brasseur ID, football.it female player ID, Gynopedia place ID, MuIS collection ID, CNL ID, RSL ID, LARB ID, Canal Académie ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, New Zealand Book Council ID, ANZL ID, Carthalia ID, TRBC, Theatrum ID, VGMdb product ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, National Humanities Medal ID, Expedia hotel ID, anime AniDB ID, creator AniDB ID, character AniDB ID, SR Nummer, identifiant Inventaire et Documentation du Patrimoine Culturel du Maroc, Exoplanet Data Explorer ID, Morse code, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive ID, France Musique ID, Académie française ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, MusicBrainz release ID, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID, Cartooning for Peace ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Quais du polar ID
- Deleted properties: USGS-ANSS event page (P5089), Projeto Excelências ID (P2731)
- Query examples:
- Topics for which the English Wikipedia wikilinks to the University of Virginia but the corresponding Wikidata entry does not
- Map of institutions where Canadian citizens got their PhD
- Space probes that have their own Twitter accounts (source)
- Newspapers in Wikidata with a recorded place of publication (source)
- Countries whose capital city can be spelled out only using letters from the country's name (source)
- Amara taxons and their Wikispecies link (source)
- Things related to open access to research in Japan (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Humanitarian Wikidata
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198105)
- Possibility to add statements to just created Forms (phab:T201389)
- Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
- Remove a Sense (phab:T196283)
- View a referenced Sense (phab:T196264)
- Edit summaries for Senses (phab:T196290)
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!
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
- CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [192]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [193]
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17:53, 13. Aug. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #326 änneren
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-20.
- Events
- Past: Wikimedia and IIIF, IIIF Community Call, August 15th. Including current use of Property:P2677 (relative position within image) and plans for Commons structured data.
- Incoming: Wikidata Lab X in São Paulo, Brazil, September 17th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Google Summer of Code:
- GSoC ‘18: In 60 seconds: Prssanna Desai has been helping improve the Query Service
- JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
- Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration - a paper discussing "fundamental design challenges that impact the development of a multilingual state-of-the-art named entity transliteration system", with reference to Wikidata
- Quicksilver: Training an #ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously, slides by John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka
- Google Summer of Code:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- http://sciencestories.io/ - Using Wikidata to explore the scientific research of women - e.g. http://sciencestories.io/Q6376201
- New version of JsonDumpReader, a tool for using JSON dumps from Wikidata or other Wikibase instances
- WikiCite/Roadmap: a summary of the meetup at Wikimania 2018 and presentation of four possible ways forward for Wikicite
- Wikidata Extractor: A tool to extract Wikidata IDs from OpenStreetMap, given an Overpass Turbo query
- d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list/Main subject needed, ListeriaBot-generated workflow for main subject (P921)
- New administrator: Bencemac. Welcome on board!
- Wikidata Shape Expressions Inference tool announced
- Gender gap in Wikidata: the tool Denelezh will be closed on October 31st
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: prisoner count, risk factor, railway traffic side, bulk modulus, compressive strength, glass transition temperature, linear thermal expansion coefficient, shear modulus, thermal diffusivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, flexural strength, dissipation factor, electrical resistivity, flexural modulus, heat deflection temperature, tear resistance
- External identifiers: football.it female player ID, Brasseur ID, Canal Académie ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Theatrum ID, ANZL writer ID, Black Ferns ID, CNL author ID, IEEE standard, LARB contributor ID, New Zealand Book Council writer ID, PRELIB person ID, RSL author ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, Académie française prize winner ID, AniDB anime ID, Baidu ScholarID, AniDB character ID, AniDB creator ID, Exoplanet Data Explorer exoplanet ID, Expedia hotel ID, Carthalia ID, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia exoplanet ID, France Musique person ID, iTunes music video ID, MuIS collection ID, National Humanities Medal winner ID, VGMdb product ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Cartooning for Peace cartoonist ID, Quais du polar writer ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive exoplanet ID, Hoopla ID, iNaturalist observation ID, ITU-R Recommendation, New Zealand Business Number, ITU-T Recommendation, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: BND ID, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, set score, historical region, modified version, sample, end point, coordinate location GCJ02, bgm.tv identifier, bilibili ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Academia URL, requires grammatical feature, Seed, peak Billboard chart position, number of weeks on the Billboard chart
- External identifiers: Bibliopoche ID, La Lorraine des écrivains ID, Fandango movie id, So Foot ID, Indian Railways station code, Norwegian war refugees register ID, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, Basisklassifikation, LARB author ID, TPA ID, Revues littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Recours au poème ID, National Medal of Arts ID, PAM ID, Tor.com author, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Boobpedia article
- Deleted properties: NARA person ID (P1222), print run (P4877)
- Query examples:
- Federated query with Nobel.org: Places on Moon or Mars named after Nobel prize winners (source)
- Texts ranked by the number of languages in which they are available through Wikisource (adapted from source)
- Map of places co-occurring with species or higher-order taxa as main subjects of publications (source)
- Software titles and what they were inspired by (source)
- Occupations of the accused witches in the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (source)
- Gallery of Nobel prizes winners (federated query) (source)
- Showcase items: Crawford
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Show Senses in WhatLinksHere (phab:T200980)
- Build ability to remove Senses (phab:T196283)
- Reference a Sense in a statement (phab:T196263)
- Improve the language code check for Lexemes (phab:T198202)
- Prepare item/property link formatter that uses cache instead of wb_terms DB table (phab:T201831)
- More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198104)
- Showing the Lemma or Representation when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
- Add new monolingual language codes: uga (Ugaritic), rar (Rarotongan), gmy (Mycenean Greek), mnw (Mon), mid (Modern Mandaic), haz (Hazaragi)
- Fix a bug on the Query Service interface (phab:T201951)
- Add number of results in embed map view of the Query Service (phab:T201908)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
- Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [194]
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16:46, 20. Aug. 2018 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #327 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Abián
- New request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies
- Events
- September 8, Zurich: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata.
- Wikidata IRC office hour: September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the channel #wikimedia-office
- October 23, Berlin: Workshop on how to use Wikidata in research contexts
- October 26/27, The Hague: Wiki Techstorm
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Underwater Basket Weaving: Russian Writers and Their Professions According to Wikidata, by Galina Ryazanskaya, Alena Shchevyeva and Maria Suvorova
- Strategic inclusion of library data from Sweden into Wikidata (in Swedish), by Axel Pettersson
- Old but gold, three articles by Denny about design decisions that were made for Wikidata: Restricting the world, On truth and lies, A categorical imperative?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts statements on Commons is up for community feedback.
- It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
- More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
- The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
- These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
- Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year).
- Lexicographical data: you can now try Senses on beta
- 25% of the labeling campaign to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata has been done. Please help by reviewing a few edits!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: dummy value, airline accounting code, shear strength, sample, force, abrasion resistance, requires grammatical feature, Academia.edu profile URL
- External identifiers: BND ID, Fandango movie ID, IDPCM ID, Bibliopoche author ID, Indian Railways station code, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, Transport Canada LID, La Lorraine des écrivains writer ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, LARB author ID, Recours au poème ID, Revues Littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Tor.com author ID, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, TPA person ID, PAM ID, National Medal of Arts winner ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ISO 15919 transliteration, U.P.C. Company Prefix, value is more specific than, peak position on chart, number of weeks on chart, Pietre della Memoria ID, editor-in-chief, image of interior, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, periphrasis, OSI Model layer
- External identifiers: Cineuropa movie id, Partis d'Arcadie ID, WSJP ID, Voetbalstats ID, Angelicum ID, PUSC ID, BasketballBundesliga ID, GreekBasketLeague ID, BSL ID, BSN ID, PLK ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Morse code, MPC body ID, Open Exoplanet Catalogue ID, KERIS School info, FBref ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Syndikat ID, CWA ID, NDB identifier, Petit Futé ID, DAV ID, ÖAV ID, SAC ID, PZS ID, ABMC ID, The Park Database ID, IMA ID, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, Pakistan Railways station code, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID, Animator.ru person ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Academia topic ID
- Deleted properties: Heritage Building in Finland ID (P4237), patron (P1962)
- Query examples:
- Map of libraries in Austria (source)
- Countries ranked by number of Wikidata-known people born there whose English version of the given name starts with Q or X (source)
- List of Windows games released this year (source)
- Countries with most citizens on Wikidata whose given name starts with X or Q (source)
- People entered in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography by gender and birth location (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Invasive Species
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on merging Lexemes
- More work on data types and edit summary for Senses
- Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
- Improve constraint property item suggestions for property constraint values (phab:T199672)
- Remove ratelimit from Wikidata for some groups again (phab:T198396)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [195]
- Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [196]
Problems
- Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [197]
Changes later this week
- The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [198]
- AWB will stop adding
using AWB
in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that saysAWB
. [199] - Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says
Deprecated. Use ... instead
. An example isarticle_text
which is nowpage_title
. [200] - Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is
page_age
. [201] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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16:16, 27. Aug. 2018 (UTC)
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
- There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [202][203]
- There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [204][205]
- You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [206]
wp10
in ORES is now calledarticlequality
. [207]- When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [208]
Problems
- UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [209]
- You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [210]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
- The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
- Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [211]
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16:48, 3. Sep. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #328 änneren
- Events
- 3-5 September, Bologna: Workshop on Open Citations, with several WikiCite-related talks and an associated hackathon
- 8 September, Zurich, Switzerland: Wikidata Hackathon
- September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
- 23 October 2018, Berlin: Workshop How can I use Wikidata for my research?
- Applications are invited for WikiCite 2018 (27-29 November in Berkeley)
- Registration is now open for PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland on 23-24 January.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New admin: Abián. Welcome onboard!
- Better suggestions for constraint values on properties
- Wikidata now has 100 million qualifiers on statements
- A proposal comes forth to use Wikidata Qs as permanent IDs for OpenStreetMap. See the discussion.
- A Stanford University announces a Wikimedian in Residence position focused on Library metadata and Wikidata: see the announcement on Wikidata-l
- SourceMD and ORCIDator have been merged and can now be run in batch mode (announcement by Magnus Manske)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ideographic description sequences, editor-in-chief, image of interior
- External identifiers: WSJP ID, Turkish Basketball Super League ID, Greek Basket League ID, Polish Basketball League ID, Basketball Bundesliga ID, Baloncesto Superior Nacional ID, Pietre della Memoria ID, Partis d'Arcadie ID, Angelicum author ID, bgm.tv subject identifier, bilibili ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Minor Planet Center body ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Open Exoplanet Catalogue exoplanet ID, PUSC author ID, So Foot ID, Voetbalstats player ID, SR Number, KERIS school ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (Mexico) code, CWA writer ID, Basisklassifikation, ASIN, FBref player ID, Syndikat writer ID, EU RCN, ABMC person ID, DAV hut ID, PZS hut ID, ÖAV hut ID, Petit Futé site ID, SAC ID, NDB identifier for airport beacons, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, IMA museum ID, The Park Database ID, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, Animator.ru person ID, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cryptocurrency Symbol, Cooperative Patent Classification, usage example, described in Wikimedia article, beer color, beer bitterness
- External identifiers: DBUnico ID, EU participant ID, WorldofVolley ID, Skijumping.pl ID, Arnet Miner author ID, Cranach Digital Archive Kunstwerk ID, DSV ID, The Gymternet ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, cpcrulez, e621, AustLII ID, NooSFere series ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Dobry słownik ID, Twitch channel ID, OlympicChannel athlete ID, Académie de Marseille member ID, Film Indonesia ID, BGCI Garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: people by Erdős number and number of works in Wikidata
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Final polishing on first version of Senses support for Lexemes. (phabricator:T201000, phabricator:T202729, phabricator:T198036, phabricator:T203334)
- Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (phabricator:T189129)
- Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (phabricator:T195367)
- Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (phabricator:T196228)
- Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (phabricator:T195315)
- Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (phabricator:T202712)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #329 änneren
- Events
- Wikidata-related presentations at Workshop on Open Citations, 3-5 September, Bologna: Remixing the graph/ Scholia as of September 2018/ A guided tour through citation networks around public health emergencies
- The Wikidata Birthday will take place in more than 20 places around the world. What about yours?
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation, Wikimedia Blog
- Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis (Part 1, Part 2)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: There is now a page with a collection of Wikidata properties that may be needed for Wikimedia Commons. Please improve this page and provide feedback!
- Structured Data on Commons: Take a look at the new mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages, and leave your comments.
- Manuscript explorer powered by Wikidata
- Wikimedia Sverige receives funding for Finding GLAMs and Libraries Data project
- Wikimedia Deutschland has several open positions around the Wikidata development team including a program manager position
- Stanford has a job opening for a Wikidata-focused Wikimedian in Residence
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Cooperative Patent Classification code, Thomson Reuters Business Classification, narrative role, stage crew member, has program committee member, OSI Model layer location, cryptocurrency, elongation at break
- External identifiers: Arnet Miner author ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, CPAN project, cpcrulez ID, DBUnico MIBACT ID, Cranach Digital Archive artwork ID, DSV person ID, EU Research Participant ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, The Gymternet gymnast ID, WorldofVolley player ID, Skijumping.pl jumper ID, Cineuropa film ID, NooSFere series ID, Dobry słownik ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Twitch channel ID, AustLII ID, Academia.edu topic ID, VOR/DME identifier for airport beacons, SNOMED CT identifier, Alternativa Teatral person ID, Alternativa Teatral work ID, Alternativa Teatral place ID, MusicBrainz release ID, IANA service name, OlympicChannel athlete ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: title in TeX, Admission rate, is retracted by, intelligence quotient, subject stated as, predicate stated as, Vocabolario Treccani ID, Bank properties, forms, has contraction, Study fees
- External identifiers: GameID, ww2.org ID, Country or city ID on Hilton, ArhivX LOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, LHW ID, Relais et Châteaux ID, World Travel Awards ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, Preferred Hotels and Resorts ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick manga ID, AnimeClick novel ID, Code aéroport interne de l'espace russophone, iTunes podcast ID, AnimeClick person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Retractions
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
- Merge Lexemes via the API (phab:T198104)
- Show lemmas and representations in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
- Make Form ID link targets less redundant (phab:)
- Polishing html for Lexemes (phab:T196226, phab:T199081)
- Merging Senses (phab:T201605)
- Checking glosses (phab:T202427, phab:T198203)
- Accepting lowercase Sense IDs as values in statements (phab:T203334)
- Use hyphenation for long sense gloss (phab:T203241)
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!
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
- When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [212]
Problems
- Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [213]
- Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [214]
<maplink>
did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [215]{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [216]- When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [217]
Changes later this week
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
- Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.
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22:36, 10. Sep. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #330 änneren
- Events
- Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
- New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing
- Press, articles, blog posts
- An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
- Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
- A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
- A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
- More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
- And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
- Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet
- An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
- Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
- The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
- Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
- External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
- External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
- Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
- Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
- Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [218]
- MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [219]
Problems
- You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [220]
Changes later this week
- Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [221]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.
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21:58, 17. Sep. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [222]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:23, 24. Sep. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #331 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ayack
- New request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
- Closed request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies
- Events
- Past: 19-21 September 2018, New York City: Wikibase workshop at Rhizome
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, on Tuesday September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel wikimedia-office
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Supporting Community Events: spotlight on ‘Social Media Exchange’ (SMEX) in Lebanon, by MySociety
- Using OpenStack to run a custom Wikibase, by Andra Waagmeester
- Creating linked open data for Victorian shipping registers on the National Library of Wales blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The OpenStreetMap wiki enabled Wikibase, to describe OSM tags and keys. Here's what an entry for moveable bridge looks like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
- TABernacle, a tool to edit Wikidata on a table view, was rewritten by Magnus Manske
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Index Herbariorum code, model item, perfume note, place of devotion, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, video designer, projection designer, mode of derivation, work hardening strain, tuition fee, foreign transaction fee, trading fee, account charge / subscription fee, borrowing rate, interest rate, JMA Magnitude, official number of town quarter
- External identifiers: Adelphi author ID, AnimeClick drama ID, Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, CharacTour character ID, Enciclovida ID, IGN film ID, LakeNet ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, MobyGames platform ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, Norwegian war refugees register ID, re3data repository ID, ResearchGate publication ID, SJPXVII ID, SPXVI ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Muziekweb Performer ID, Tourisme & Handicap ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, Microsoft Store app ID, Arkivportalen agent ID, Archiveportal archive ID, Preferred Hotels & Resorts hotel ID, Bpk-ID, UOL Eleições ID, Uralonet ID, Álgu ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Spotify show ID, derived from sense, creates, Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) ID, acquisition date, Løøv classification, Non-free artwork image URL, Kompositionsfuge, abbrév., subject lexeme
- External identifiers: HKCAN ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff-Nummer, Wikibase Registry ID, GTB database IDs, Depósito Legal ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2008, IGN series ID, old-computers.com ID, Kunstenpunt productions, tweet ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, SUCA code, VicFlora ID
- Query examples:
- New bot requests: Import and maintain nominal GDP for countries from the World Bank Data API, Create indiscriminately new items, Missing P31, Importing lexemes from en.Wiktionary in specific languages
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
- Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
- Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
- Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
- Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
- Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #332 änneren
- Discussions
- Events
- Past: IRC office hour, September 25th
- Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference, September 28th
- Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop (30 September) and session about data modeling (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete
- There were three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
- Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Property Path use in Wikidata Queries, by Gregory Todd Williams
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The templates Reasonator and Scholia are available, for linking from en.Wikisource pages to representations of Wikidata items.
- Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons, see also thread.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ENI number, inflection class, has inflection class, root, creates lexeme type
- External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID, Comic Vine ID, DxOMark ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, HKCAN ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, Shazam track ID, Spotify show ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff Number, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, ANZSRC FoR ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to citizens of, Plot continued in, monument in the near, Sail emblem, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, reference template for this work, Wikipedia suggested article name, Personal title, stated in reference as, reference vocabulary, OSM zoom level
- External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien, ComiXology Creators, War Memorials Online ID, NT Flora ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Sekolah Kita ID, Museu Nacional ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID
- Query examples:
- People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347)
- Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481)
- Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828)
- More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732)
- More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints (phab:T202712)
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!
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
- Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using
?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [223][224]
Problems
- New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [225][226]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.
Future changes
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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17:35, 1. Okt. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [227]
Problems
- There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add
href
where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [228]
Changes later this week
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
- Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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23:38, 8. Okt. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #333 änneren
- Events
- 5-7 October, St.Gallen (Switzerland): WikiCon 2018 of the German-speaking Wikimedia community, with keynote Wikidata as a Semantic Web game changer
- 5-7 October, Grenoble (France): WikiConvention francophone 2018, with keynote:
- 16 October, online: Using Wikibase as a platform for library linked data management and discovery
- 29 October, São Paulo: Wikidata Lab XI: Structuring wikiprojects
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: «Das spannendste Projekt, das ich je gesehen habe» (German) in the Swiss newspaper Tagblatt
- SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (slides, speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
- Wikidata Map October 2018 by Addshore
- Our man in Havana (or, Q56761118) by Andrew Gray
Other Noteworthy Stuff änneren
- wikidata-cli new features:
- wd data --format ttl: dump entities in rdf/ttl
- wd convert: convert batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa
- Structured Data on Commons: a search prototype is available for testing. There is a page on Commons with information about testing and leaving feedback.
- Profiling Wikidata — a Class-Facet-Attribute Completeness Profiling System for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: limiting oxygen index, plot continued in, Vicat softening point, Unicode range
- External identifiers: Lyrically artist ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, Ġabra lexeme ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, IGN series ID, tweet ID, Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), Flanders Arts Institute production ID, old-computers.com ID, Oudnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek GTB ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Protected objects Ostbelgien ID, North America PlayStation Store ID, VicFlora ID, SUCA code, CMI person ID, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, ComiXology creator ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID, NT Flora ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: animacy, distributary, human position in artwork, does not have quality, (de)evolution method, happened to, depicted part, adjective, hyponym, nation-state tradition, requires form, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, location of sense usage, Medierådet rating, broad synonym, measured to, Type properties, shrinkage, Public presentation, carbon footprint
- External identifiers: Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, MIAR ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Women's Japan Basketball League, SAGE journal ID, Elsevier journal ID, N° CPPAP, Deezer show ID, LUBW Schutzgebiets-Nr, Disney A to Z ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Armiarma ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix bugs on editing statements on new Forms using the API (phab:T194732)
- Check constraint violations on statements on Forms and Senses when saving a statement (phab:T195829)
- Fix an issue with Wikibase and deployments (phab:T206161)
- Improve the gloss language error message (phab:T205528)
- Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
- Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
- Work on making Sense statement group Ids unique (phab:T204936)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #334 änneren
- Events
- 8-12 October, Monterey: International Semantic Web Conference 2018, with lots of praise for Wikidata
- 11-12 October, Montreal: FORCE 2018 Conference, with sessions on Wikidata and Wikibase and Wikidata and WikiCite
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Ontological Modelling in Wikidata, talk and slides by Markus Krötzsch
- Wikidata x ConedaKOR: A use case for digital art history (in German), on integrating Wikidata with an art history database
- From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements, by Charles Matthews on WMUK's blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
- A new OpenRefine tutorial was published, showing how to use third-party reconciliable data sources to import data in Wikidata.
- A prototype for Mix'n'Match Version 2 is available for testing; it uses Wikibase.
- We have a new admin onboard, welcome Fuzheado!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: depicted part, sail emblem, reference vocabulary
- External identifiers: Museu Nacional ID, Sekolah Kita ID, War Memorials Online ID, ID of Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, Women's Japan Basketball League ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Elsevier journal ID, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, LUBW Protected Area No, SAGE journal ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: tribus, embodied energy, water footprint, storage capacity (ROM), Pixel resolution, Category for films in this language, annual number of weddings, biobased content weight percentage, topic's main Wikimedia WikiProject, recycled content weight percentage, taxa found, recycling code, attenuation coefficient, Kit manifacturer
- External identifiers: Getty Iconography Authority ID, Springer journal ID, Espace prépas author ID, Australian Plant name Index identifier, Indiancine.ma film ID, Indiancine.ma person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Help fixing the issues after data center switch (phab:T206743)
- Look at a regression in Lexeme code (not passing lemma language via URL) (phab:T205864)
- Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
- Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [229]
- Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [230]
Changes later this week
- When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [231]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).
Meetings
- There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [232]
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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22:41, 15. Okt. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #335 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Adopt a username policy
- Events
- A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
- An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
- Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of Winterthur's sister city Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
- Semantische Suchabfragen mit der Linked Open Data Cloud generieren (German), on SocietyByte
- La documentation d’expositions sur Wikidata (French) by Shonagon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A program to train new Wikidata trainers (in German) will be run in November 2018 in Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Registration is open until October 28th.
- A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein.
- Lexicographical data can now be queried with the Query Service
- Lexicographical Data now includes Senses
- A beta feature for entity suggestions based on constraints
- Planned RDF ontology prefix change for RDF exports and dumps
- You can still help ORES to be smarter in detecting vandalism. Take a few minutes to check some edits
- Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to Lucas)
- Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (example, documentation)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Medierådet rating, translation, synonym, antonym, troponym of, false friend, Wikidata property example for senses, classifier, Sandbox-Sense, derived from sense, annual number of weddings
- External identifiers: CPPAP ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Springer journal ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: compressive modulus of elasticity, Best result in tournament, satisfaction rate, league system, ratified by, place of disappearance, exact synonym, measured to, measured from, measured include, measured exclude, measured at, usage example, Coordinates in WKT, flexural strain at break
- External identifiers: Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, North America Microsoft Store ID, Facebook post ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File identification number, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- JSON-LD is now on beta
- Work on a issue impacting edit tags for admins (phab:T207313)
- Turn on Senses for Lexicographical 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
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
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23:12, 22. Okt. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
- The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [233]
Problems
- Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [234]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [235][236]
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:09, 29. Okt. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #336 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667
- Closed request for comments: Close-out of statements formerly using P794
- Events
- Plenty of Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
- Past: Wikimedia Technical Conference, October 22-25
- Press, articles, blog posts
- WikibaseNYC conference explores the frontier of linked open data infrastructure &report on the Wikibase workshop that took place on September 19-21 in New Yor City
- Now Wikidata is 6, by Charles Matthews
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Proposal on on how to answer newcomers on help pages. Feel free to give feedback on the talk page.
- Fork-Awesome now ships with a Wikidata icon
- Presents from the community for the Wikidata 6th birthday:
- Banner for Wikidata birthday events by KannanVM
- Profiling Wikidata (announcement, documentation)
- Birthday User Template for userpage
- List of Wikidata & GLAM usecases, by Beat Eastermann
- QuickStatements v2 now supports lexicographical data
- DerDieDas, a game to practice German articles based on lexicographical data, by Auregann
- CSV to QuickStatements now fully compatible with QuickStatements v2
- Possibility to query Lexemes in the Query Service
- Senses for lexicographical data
- Beta feature: suggestions based on constraints
- Dedicated Dashboard, another tool to improve the data quality in Wikidata, by Envlh
- cookiecutter-toolforge, a template to easily create tools, by Lucas Werkmeister
- WDFS: Mount Wikidata as a filesystem, by MichaelSchoenitzer
- Wikidata Comparison Tool
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: carbon footprint, attenuation coefficient, compressive modulus of elasticity, recycling code, kit supplier, category for films in this language, stated in reference as, distributary, water footprint, applies to people, flexural strain at break, body pose or movement
- External identifiers: APNI ID, Literaturaren Zubitegia ID, Getty Iconography Authority ID, Indiancine.ma film ID, Deezer show ID, Indiancine.ma person ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, WikiArt ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File ID, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, California Office of Historic Preservation ID, Encyclopedia of Appalachia ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Tennessee Encyclopedia ID, CanalPlan AC place ID, SeaLifeBase ID, Species at Risk public registry ID, d'Art d'Art ! ID, Hymenoptera Online taxon ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ENADE IGC continuous, INEP IGC discrete, Digital representation of, Container title, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, date of opening, uses capitalization for, phase, Trainer von Sportmannschaft, research site
- External identifiers: New York Times short URL, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, Clé des langues ID, CMS ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ResearchGate author ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Missouri Botanical Garden ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, OSF Online ID, MNHN ID, Neotropical Birds ID, GRIN ID, Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, AFD ID, FEIS ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, BirdLife Australia ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, AFAS author ID, Prosopomaths ID, ARD Mediathek ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, Larousse ID, MoEML ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Polish Olympic Committee, GameFAQs platform ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, British Museum bioID, Discogs composition ID, Discogs track ID, NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, RIA Novosti reference, The Guardian article ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Africa, Wikidata:WikiProject Open Government Data
- Newest database reports: indirect translation of lexemes
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
- Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
- Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
- Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
- Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)
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!
Editing News #2—2018 änneren
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Did you know?
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes änneren
- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [237]
Let's work together änneren
- The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Merci!
14:15, 2. Nov. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [238]
Changes later this week
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
- When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [239]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17:29, 5. Nov. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #337 änneren
- Events
- Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
- GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
- The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
- New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
- CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
- External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
- External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
- Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
- Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
- Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
- Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #338 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata
- Events
- Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
- Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
- WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
- A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
- A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
- Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
- Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
- Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
- Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)
- Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
- How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
- OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
- There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
- External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
- External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
- Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
- Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
- Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
- Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
- Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
- Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
- Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
- Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)
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!
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
- Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [240]
Problems
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [241][242][243]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [244]
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19:22, 12. Nov. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
- There is an A/B test for
sameAs
data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [245]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [246]
- The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [247]
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23:29, 19. Nov. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #339 änneren
- Events
- Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - November 7, 2018. Sandra F. gave a keynote on GLAM-Wiki projects, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
- Museum Computer Network conference in Denver, Colorado - November 14, 2018. - Andrew Lih gave a presentation, A First Date with Wikidata
- Wikicite on 27-29 November 2018: the program is published
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
- The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Winterthur Glossar URL, IIIF manifest, category for members of a team, chord progression, season ends, number of volunteers
- External identifiers: DBU playerprofile, AllMusic release ID, MusicNotes product ID, Playbill venue ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, Letterboxd actor ID, Argentinean NCAA Airport code, MusicNotes song ID, B3Kat dataset ID, Sotheby's person ID, Santiebeati ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, Littera ID, Soccerway team ID, Playbill person ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, VD 18 ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, APA ID, SWH Release ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, DanNet 2.2 word ID, À nos grands hommes ID, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID, BioOne journal ID, ortsnamen.ch ID, Academy Awards Database film ID, The Hendon Mob ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: work quoted textually, verbally or lyrically, work whose melody is quoted, excerpt, exonym, Danmarks Statistiks filmkode, text features, mission statement, number of lines, number of stations, funding scheme, noun class, eponymous category, taxa protected, river bank, tautomer of, Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, proper name of astronomical object, research site
- External identifiers: Corpus typographique français ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, World Poker Tour ID, ANICA ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, Académie d'Arles member ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA ID, Luding editor ID, BoardGeekGame editor ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, British Executions ID, System16 identifier, BLR ID, LEGO set ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, NAS ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, Sega Saturn game ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga author ID, Bitraga work ID, EUNIS ID, Cal-IPC ID, eFloraSA id, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Dimensions Author ID, Microsoft Academic Work ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, Microsoft Academic Author ID, Microsoft Academic Institution ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Vasily
- Showcase items: Fugger
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
- Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
- Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
- Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
- Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
- Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
- Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
- Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
- Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
- Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
- Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use
/
to create a new page:/wiki/Page/Subpage
. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [248]
Changes later this week
- The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [249]
- Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__
. [250] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The
mw.util.jsMessage()
function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warningUse of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated
in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code containsmw.util.jsMessage
. There is a migration guide. It explains how to usemw.notify
instead. [251]
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22:22, 26. Nov. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #340 änneren
- Discussions
- Events
- Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
- Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
- Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
- Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
- Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
- A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
- SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
- Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
- Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
- Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
- Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
- Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
- Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
- Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
- Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata
- Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
- The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
- Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
- Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
- Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
- Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
- External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
- External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID
- Query examples:
- Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
- Location of city halls in Spain (source)
- Timeline of famous pirates (source)
- Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
- Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
- The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kākāpō, WikiProject Scholia
- Newest database reports: Fugger
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
- Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
- Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
- Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
- Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
- Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
- Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
- Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
- Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
- More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile
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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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
- Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [252]
- Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [253]
- You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [254]
- When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [255][256]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:13, 3. Dez. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #341 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
- New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata
- Events
- Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
- Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
- Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
- Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by d:User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
- OpenRefine 3.1 was released
- New API module to format multiple entity IDs
- You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
- External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
- External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts
- Query examples:
- Timeline of early Western movies (source)
- Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
- Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
- List of UK embassies (source)
- Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
- Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
- Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
- More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version 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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #342 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Scholarly articles that are book reviews
- Events
- Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
- Wikibase tutorial
- "Wikidata as an intuitive resource towards semantic data modeling in data FAIRification" short paper
- "WikiCite, Wikidata, and Scholia: Linking Publications to Topics" (demo /food/ aspect)
- Past: Workshop "Wikidata - what is that and why it's relevant in the field of geospatial information technologies?"? at Latvia's Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) conference (slides)
- Past: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Stokholm, Sweden, December 4th
- Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Göteborg, Sweden, December 10th
- Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
- Press, articles, blog posts
- "Detailed depictions with IIIF, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons" by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
- Report of the GNDCon in the Kurier (in German)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- iD, the default OSM editor at openstreetmap.org has recently had an update which pulls data from Wikidata.
- WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts, will take place on 25-26 October 2019 in Berlin
- Miniature map will be displayed for coordinate properties
- New passwords requirements will apply on all wikis to new accounts and privileged accounts starting on December 13th
- New grant request by MySociety: Wikidata post-election updating toolkit
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: award rationale, heat treating, copyright status, level of description
- External identifiers: SEINet ID, LIGA profile, BIBSYS work ID, UK Parliament identifier, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, OpenTrials ID, NooSFere story ID, DIR3 ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, TrENSmissions person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: creator, WordLift ID, Specific age inside fictional universe, type of rear suspensions, type of front suspensions, ride height, approach angle, departure angle, Drag coefficient, related category, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Nombre annuel de passagers
- External identifiers: BDEL ID, ZVR, NARA record group number, MMLO, IEC database ID commemorative monument of Catalonia, Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID, PomBase systematic ID, Volksbund ID, iTunes music movie ID, Paris Musées ID, Beachsoccer.ru player ID, BSRussia player ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
- We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
- The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
- We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
- We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
- We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [257][258]
- When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [259]
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17:34, 10. Dez. 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.
Recent changes
- Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [260][261]
- Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [262]
- The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.
Problems
<ref>
tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example<ref name="adams" group="books">
. If a<ref>
tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [263]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
-
tiles.wmflabs.org
andwma.wmflabs.org
will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [264]
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20:35, 17. Dez. 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #343 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Split identifier into KEGG Drug Identifier, KEGG Compound Identifier, etc?
- Closed request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators
- Events
- Past: 26 November 2018: Adding your own stuff to Wikidata. Workshop at SWIB18, Bonn, Germany
- Past: 04 December 2018: Chancen und Risiken einer komplementären Nutzung von GND und Wikidata. Präsentation auf der GNDCon in Frankfurt Main, Germany
- Past: 11–12 December 2018 in Namburu, India: Wiki Advanced Training 2018 (with special focus on Wikidata) by Asaf Bartov
- Upcoming: 35th Chaos Communication Congress, December 27-30, Leipzig. There will be Wikidata staff and volunteers and Wikidata-related sessions
- Press, articles, blog posts
- 6 "inside-out" activities librarians are doing — numbers 4 and 5 involve Wikidata
- From the "Annalen der Pharmacie" to the "European Journal of Organic Chemistry" about using Wikidata for capturing (some of) the history of chemistry
- Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, by Sandra Fauconnier, in EuropeanaTech 10 Insight Issue 10: Innovation Agenda
- Many faces of Wikibase: Lingua Libre makes languages audible, by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for contribution for the WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
- Research questionnaire about Wikidata as a learning platform by Shani Evenstein as part of her PhD research.
- Interactive map of the Sibthorp & Bauer Expedition, produced by the Bodleian Libraries, powered by Wikidata
- Scholia's "missing" pages (example) now link to the new Author Disambiguator tool, and a Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
- Draft of behavior norms policy, feel free to leave comments
- Wikimedia hackathon in Prague: apply for a scholarship until January 4th
- Discuss if you can edit your own item, and vote here on the proposed policy.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: real estate developer, collection creator, digital representation of, specific age inside fictional universe, catchphrase, subject lexeme, right ascension, declination, epoch, galactic longitude, galactic latitude
- External identifiers: ARLLFB member ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, RegiowikiAT identifier, Discord Store game SKU, Bavarian protected area ID, BDEL ID, Danske Taler speaker ID, Place Names Register ID (Estonia), Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, ARB person ID, Monument aux morts ID, IEC commemorative monument of Catalonia ID, MMLO, Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID, Volksbund ID, PomBase systematic ID, Paris Musées work ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, iTunes music movie ID, BSRussia player ID, Beachsoccer.ru person ID, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Wikia article ID, MinDat mineral ID, Harvard Index of Botanists ID, MinDat Locality ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Garzanti Linguistica, Buried in this place, specific rotation, Data interval, Minimum wage, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, friend of, copyright representative, rights statement, co-director, Berliner Schutzgebiets-ID, preparation instructions
- External identifiers: SVT Open archive, Hymnary.org page, Anbytarforum, Multiplayer ID, Amazon Music artist ID, Parliament of South Africa ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, Hymnary author ID, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, OTRS ticket number 2, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, ICCD IDs, Weeds in Ontario ID, AllMusic performance ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID
- Query examples:
- (UK) Ambassador by country list - Listeria report which writes 240 by-country reports on UK Ambassadors - h/t NavinoEvans for the approach
- Presidents of the United States ranked by the number of species named after them (source)
- Communes of France whose name starts with "Saint" (source)
- Italian toponyms with suffixes of Celtic origin (-ago, -ate, -asco) (source)
- List of ABBA songs in A major (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Policies
- Newest database reports: Nicolas Cage filmography
- expanded list of Christmas films
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (phab:T211120)
- Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (phab:T209931)
- Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (phab:T209957)
- Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (phab:T191416)
- Some more work on string length limits (phab:T154660)
- Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (phab:T209399)
- Fix some errors happening in production (phab:T208924)
- More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #344 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667, How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
- Events
- Current: Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) where several Wikidata people are present and related sessions happening
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour: January 8th, 18:00 (UTC+1) on the channel wikimedia-office
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata architecture overview by Addshore
- Créer une carte avec Wikidata, OpenRefine et uMap (in French) by Jean-Baptiste Pressac
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: API endpoint, demonym of, specific rotation, concentration, copyright representative, Berlin protected area ID, advertises
- External identifiers: Garzanti Linguistica ID, Multiplayer ID, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, Boobpedia article, Amazon Music artist ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, ZVR-Number, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, Weeds in Ontario ID, ICCD ID - S form, ICCD ID - CF form, ICCD ID - CG form, ODNR Division of Wildlife ID, Penthouse ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID, ARTIC exhibition ID, ARTIC artist ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: maintenance method, second family name in Scandinavian names, organizational unit, story by, Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats, century fl., adjective of, holonym 2, meronym 2, has contraction 2, yield, colorist, distinguishing property, Wikispecies template for this work, affiliation string
- External identifiers: bgm.tv person identifier, bgm.tv character identifier, PC-9801DB ID, ACB.com coach ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile URL, Scoresway tennis person ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Muséosphère ID, Historical RNA ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, teams.by player ID, pressball.by player ID, AMFR player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, RusTeam player ID, Critique d'art ID, Centre Pompidou ID, Agence photo RMN ID, INE ID (Portugal), Agence photo RMN package ID, Wikiapiary entry, England Football Online player profile, England Football Online manager profile, DVR Number, Politika topic, Goodreads character ID
- Deleted properties: P4570 (Wikidata project)
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
- Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
- Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
- Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
- Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #345 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?
- Press/Blogs
- Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
- Europeana Innovation Agenda
- The Hand-editor’s Tale
- mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
- Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
- The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (phab:T112577, phab:T170432)
- A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
- There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
- Happy New Year! (L40653)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
- External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
- Query examples:
- Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
- Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
- Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
- Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
- Catchphrases (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #346 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?
- Events
- Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
- Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
- AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
- How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
- Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
- Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
- Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
- Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
- Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
- Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
- Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
- External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
- External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name
- Query examples:
- Articles about obituaries (source)
- Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
- French settlements with more than one word in the name (source)
- People after which a state is named (source)
- "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
- Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
- Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
- Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
- Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
- Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.
Recent changes
- RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [265]
- MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [266]
- codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [267]
- On several wikis, an account named "Mëssbrauchsfilter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.
Problems
- In AbuseFilter, the "Lues maachen" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [268]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).
Meetings
- Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.
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Wikidata weekly summary #347 änneren
- Events
- Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
- Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
- Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
- VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
- Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
- The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
- New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
- Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
- External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
- External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number
- Query examples:
- Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
- Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
- Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
- Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
- Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
- Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
- Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
- Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
- Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
- Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
- Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
- More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [269][270]
- You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
- Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [271][272]
- Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new
wrapper
parameter now. You can use it for selectors like.mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>
. [273]
Problems
- When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [274]
Changes later this week
- You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
- Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [275]
- The AbuseFilter variable
minor_edit
has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 17:55, 14. Jan. 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #348 änneren
- Events
- Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
- Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
- Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
- External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
- External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
- Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
- Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
- Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
- Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
- Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
- Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
- Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
- Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
- Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
- Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [276]
Recent changes
- The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category
Säite mat net nogekuckten Iwwersetzungen
to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category inSpecial:TrackingCategories
on Wikipedias. - https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.
Problems
- When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [277]
- MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [278][279]
- Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [280]
Changes later this week
- You will be able to use template styles in the
Module
namespace. [281] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #349 änneren
- Discussions
- Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy
- Events
- February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
- Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
- How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
- Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
- Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
- Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
- City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
- External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started development on Shape Expressions
- Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
- Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
- Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
- Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.
Problems
- When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [282]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [283]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #350 änneren
- Press, articles, blog posts
- „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
- Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
- Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
- Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
- Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
- Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
- External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
- External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
- Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
- Query examples:
- Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
- World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
- timeline of writing systems (source)
- family tree of Donald Duck (source)
- Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
- schools of magic by number of students (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
- Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
- Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
- Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
- Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919)
- Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
- Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975)
- Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400)
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can use the
ambox
CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you useambox
there are classes you can use.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #351 änneren
- Events
- Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
- External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
- External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
- Query examples:
- Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
- Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
- Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
- Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
- Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
- Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction (source)
- Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
- Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
- Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
- Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
- Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
- Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
- Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
- Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
- Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
- Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
- Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #352 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: NewDataB
- New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)
- Events
- February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
- February 21st to 24th: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
- February 23rd: editathon about Parliament of Ghana in Accra - Registration
- March 28th: GLAM & Wikidata day in Switzerland (registration running until March 18th)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Got some time? Add QIDs to the tools on Edit items, Query data, Enhance user interface, Visualize data, Lexicographical data, For programmers and List of properties. If some tools don't have their own Items, feel free to create them.
- Hardware issues at Toolforge and CloudVPS affect lots of tools and coincide with changes in the statement stats dynamics
- WikibaseCirrusSearch will become a Mediawiki extension
- You can still help Shani Evenstein with her research: Wikidata as a Learning Platform
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
- External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ScaleNet ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Identifiant itch.io, approach angle, departure angle, ride height, type of front suspensions, type of rear suspensions, Football Money League rank, is model of, constraint clarification, has phenotype, observed in, replacement property, evidenční číslo domu, Stack Exchange site
- External identifiers: WhoSampled artist, äriregister, ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Queerly Represent Me identifier, V.League player ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Google Play Movies & TV id, Fondation Maeght ID, identifiant d'un jeu de données sur data.gouv.fr, BHL part ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Yandex.Music genre ID
- Query examples:
- Bubble chart of Indian universities with the most people ever employed by them (source)
- Graph of shared borders between certain West Bengal community development blocks (source)
- Tree map of ambassadors to India (source)
- Fictional swords (source)
- Taxa named after women scientists (source)
- Timeline of red pandas (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Improve the tools dropdown on query.wikidata.org, which now links Tools categories and the Toolforge (phabricator:T214577)
- Implement the diff view for Schemas (phabricator:T214396, phabricator:T215514)
- Implement undo for Schemas (phabricator:T214914)
- Prevent redirecting an entity to itself (phabricator:T214775)
- Make pressing enter when editing a lemma save the lemma (phabricator:T206140)
- Strip whitespace around sense glosses (phabricator:T212019)
- Create LilyPond datatype (phabricator:T215284)
- More work to get the new version of the termbox readable on mobile
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!
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
- When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [284]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [285]
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Talk to us about talking änneren
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
- First, sign up your group here.
- Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
- Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
- When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
- What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
- What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
- What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
- What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
- Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.
You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.
Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.
You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.
Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.
Wikidata weekly summary #353 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019 (feel free to add more sub-sections)
- Events
- Past: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm with Open Knowledge Foundation. Video of the presentation of the projects (in German)
- Running until March 2nd: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
- Upcoming: Wikidata and the Diversity of Knowledge workshop in Graz, Austria, on March 3rd
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, March 12th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, March 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata, by Tom Simonite on Wired
- Align BNF's video games and Wikidata with Dataiku DSS (in French) by Envel Le Hir
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you're using Wikidata's data dumps, you may want to give feedback on a potential change about when those dumps are generated (ticket)
- Some games and tools developed during the Wikidata hackathon in Ulm:
- Card game generator
- Multiplayer game Guess the (German) Politician
- Telegram bot @WikidataMisfitBot, sending pictures with one wrong label
- WikiProjekt offeneregister.de
- If you're developing new tools or hear about new tools, please add them to Wikidata:Tools so other people can find them :)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: expression of, provisional house number in the Czech Republic, has role in modeling, observed in, has phenotype, type of front suspension, type of rear suspension
- External identifiers: AICTE Permanent ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number, ScaleNet ID, WhoSampled artist ID, Business Registry code (Estonia), ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Crew united person ID, Fondation Maeght artist ID, data.gouv.fr dataset ID, V.League men's player ID, V.League women's player ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Total assists in career, Total points in career, Career plus-minus rating, Penalty minutes in career, Total power play goals in career, Total power play assists in career, Total shots in career, MeSH Descriptor, Former street name
- External identifiers: NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, PCAD firm ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, SICRIS researcher ID, Physics History Network ID, Sachsen-Anhalt Schutzgebiete-ID, Amis du Louvre ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'un lutteur, Brillant Wiki ID, Official Charts artist ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'une équipe universitaire, Dimensions.guide ID, SensaCine movie ID, SensaCine series ID, Bilibili channel ID
- Query examples:
- Women having a good or featured article on Russian Wikipedia but no article on French Wikipedia (source)
- Timeline of Renaissance humanists (source)
- Map of cities from the Hanseatic League (source)
- Image gallery of musicians who have a software title named after them (source)
- Frequency of first letter in Breton words in Wikidata (source)
- Items about buildings with coordinates and at least one sitelink, but no image (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
- Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
- Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
- Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
- Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
- Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
- Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
- Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
- Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)
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!
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
- There is a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [286]
Changes later this week
- When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [287]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.
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Wikidata weekly summary #354 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Esteban16
- Closed request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
- Events
- Upcoming: WikiConNL in Utrecht (Netherlands), on March 8-9th (in Dutch and English)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Matching BnF and Wikidata video games using Dataiku DSS (in English) by Envel Le Hir
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata: [288].
- You can now try Shape Expressions on a test system
- Creative Commons has a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
- Tpt's Wikidata history query service stores and allows querying metadata about Wikidata's edit history
- A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released, check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project over here.
- Scholarship application phase for Wikimania 2019 is now open until March 15th. The call for track leaders is also open.
- OpenRefine 3.2 beta was released, with a collection of new features and bug fixes, many of which improve the Wikidata integration.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: multi-channel network, Stack Exchange site, total shots in career, total points in career, total assists in career, penalty minutes in career, career plus-minus rating, preferred pronoun
- External identifiers: BHL part ID, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music genre ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID, Physics History Network ID, Twitter user ID, identifier of games on Queerly Represent Me, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, SICRIS researcher ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Location specifics, Mountain chain, temperature record, stroke order, Höchstes Break, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Endowment, Guggenheim fellows ID, Downloads page, is a synonym of taxon name
- External identifiers: Académie de Rouen member ID, Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya ID, Musenor ID, ProQuest document ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, identifikátor v Adresáři knihoven a informačních institucí v ČR, Cour des comptes report ID, Directorio Legislativo ID, Deportation Database transport-ID, Art Fund ID, Scripts.com script, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, DFD-ID, Mutual Art artist ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Project Drawdown solution ID, Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor record label ID, ACA ID
- Query examples:
- Average distance between a French museum and its hosted artists' place of birth (source)
- Persons with a surname that matches the past participle form of a Danish verb (source)
- Town halls of communes bordering Paris (source)
- Literary awards with 0–2 recipients (source)
- Female Howard medical grads before 1900 (source)
- items including the property "preferred pronoun" (source)
- Map of tram service in Ulm (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added monolingual language code
tlb
(Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week) - Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
- Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
- Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
- Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
- Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
- Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
- Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
- Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
- Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
- Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
- Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
- Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
- Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
- Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
- Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
- Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)
- Added monolingual language code
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
- The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [289][290]
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Wikidata weekly summary #355 änneren
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki (Invasive plants) April 16th, Meise, Belgium
- Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? Biodivesity Next (Leiden, the Netherlands), October 19th-25th 2019
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale by Andrew Lih
- Data Quality Management in Wikidata – Workshop write-up, by Cristina Sarasua, Claudia Müller-Birn, and Mariam Farda-Sarbas
- Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives by Elena Villaespesa and Trilce Navarrete
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using
mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements
or the#statements
parser function will now have it displayed using a Kartographer<maplink>
if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change! - A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy project seeks to add structure to the Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
- Suggestions based on constraints can be enabled for all users
- Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: key performance indicator, inscription mentions, taxa especially protected in area, number of words, collective noun for animals, Cook Partisan Voting Index, league system, endowment, highest break, maximum temperature record, OSM zoom level, hyperonym
- External identifiers: Dimensions.guide ID, National Wrestling Hall of Fame University Team ID, Official Charts artist ID, Saxony-Anhalt protected area ID, AiF dossier ID, Google Play Movies & TV id, Brilliant Wiki ID, Musenor artwork ID, Indonesian Cultural Heritage Registration System ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, ProQuest document ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Libraries & Information Centers in the Czech Republic ID, Académie de Rouen member ID, Art Fund artwork ID, Cour des comptes report ID, MutualArt artist ID, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, Deportation Database transport ID, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Scripts.com script, Directorio Legislativo ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: located in the constituency, feed-in tariff, General Material Designation, CDEC ID, Family progenitor, solar irradiance
- External identifiers: film-documentaire.fr author ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, SNISB ID, Rheinland-Pfalz Schutzgebiete-ID, Zagat, Zomato, Libreflix ID, JMdictDB ID, Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands ID, EmacsWiki ID, FFS athlete ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Plant Illustrations artist ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, FaroeSoccer player ID
- Deleted properties:
- Query examples:
- Calendar of Saints' feast days and other calendar queries
- A bunch of new GLAM-related queries including image gallery of the most notable libraries and map of museums colour-coded by type.
- the number of songs in Wikidata named after days of the week by day
- Map of preserved Concorde aircrafts
- Timeline of video games having at least 42 Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
- Timeline of Microscopists (source)
- Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata (source)
- People with songs named after them (source)
- Animals most frequently depicted in artworks (source)
- Field of work of the Austrian scientists with an Orcid ID (source)
- Women from Africa sorted by number of sitelinks (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work page to get the Schema Text by subpage syntax (phab:T214383)
- Set up a page to set label, description and aliases for Schema (phab:T215392, phab:T217313)
- Remove edit tab from Schema pages (phab:T215394)
- Disable possibility to enter duplicate aliases for the same Schema (phab:T217634, phab:T217749)
- Add ULS, Babel and CLDR support on wikidata-shex.wmflabs.org (phab:T216146)
- Add the option to restore Schemas! (phab:T214915)
- Undo edit on Schemas through API (phab:T217250)
- Multilingual support on Special:NewSchema (phab:T216154)
- Work on Termbox SSR integration (phab:T214679)
- Provide meta tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
- Make Quickstatements work out of the box in wikibase docker image (phab:T205606)
- Disabling RDF for Media Info (phab:T213483)
- Add tooltips for statements linking to a lexeme form (phab:T205279)
- Allowing multiple wikibase DBs access (phab:T214557)
- Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API (phab:T217243)
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!
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
- Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the
mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements
Lua function or the#statements
parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer<maplink>
if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator. - There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.
Problems
- Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
- Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [291]
- Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [292][293]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #356 änneren
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new data type is available : musical notation
- A research report is now available for the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping. The research investigates which (updated) metadata cultural institutions would like to retrieve back from (Structured) Wikimedia Commons, and what the main barriers are. Research summary / presentation slides / full report
- If you're using Wikidata dumps, please note that the update schedule may change from fixed weekday to fixed day of the month. More info in this ticket
- Slides of the Wikidata presentation during UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week by Shani Evenstein now available on Commons.
- A project to link branded businesses in Open Street Maps to Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Guggenheim fellows ID, Sandbox-Musical Notation
- External identifiers: Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor label ID, Rhineland-Palatinate protected area ID, film-documentaire.fr author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: average speed, Digital Author Identifier, date of the latest value change, chữ Nôm, capacity factor, study or design for, motif (music), chess position
- External identifiers: Salvador Dali Museum ID, Tainacan MHN ID, AWARE ID, Cini Foundation ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, Artcurial ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, Periscope pscp.tv, LinkedIn personal profile ID, Library of Parliament Person ID, Gamepedia Article ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, JRC Names id, Fandango theater ID, Epitafier.se
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Prepare new constraint icons (phab:T191322)
- View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (phab:T210615)
- Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (phab:T214679)
- Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (phab:T217244)
- Work on multilingual support for schemas (phab:T215387)
- Implement a length limit for the schema text (phab:T216148)
- Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (phab:T215759)
- Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (phab:T217333)
- Deploy the score data type to production
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [294][295]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [296]
- Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.
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Wikidata weekly summary #357 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
- An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in
- Events
- Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
- Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)
- Press, articles, blog posts
- SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
- "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
- A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poukter, Wikimedia UK blog
- On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
- The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
- Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on Schabloun:P.
- Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
- New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
- Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
- External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
- External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Update property suggester data (phab:T216270)
- Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (phab:T217331)
- Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (phab:T215386)
- Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (phab:T217338, phab:T218300)
- Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (phab:T218459, phab:T218769)
- Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (phab:T218889)
- Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (phab:T214679)
- Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (phab:T217244)
- Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (phab:T210615)
- Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (phab:T218111)
- Fix an issue for score extension (phab:T218535)
- Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (phab:T213483)
- Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (phab:T175230)
- Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [297]
Problems
- There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [298]
- The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [299]
- Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [300]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #358 änneren
- Events
- Past: Wikidata meetup during the Wikimedia Summit, March 29th in Berlin (collaborative notes)
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for archives in Saint-Etienne, France, on April 3rd and 5th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin in Wikibär on April 14th
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WikidataCon 2019 application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open until April 29th
- Structured Data on Commons: You can now test creating depicts statements
- While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor, it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
- OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
- Discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about the improvements in SPARQL language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: capacity factor, position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
- External identifiers: Libreflix ID, Kicker.de player ID, Library of Parliament of Canada person ID, RoMEO publisher ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, XING company ID, L'Express person ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, Gamepedia article ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Salvador Dali Museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, FaroeSoccer player ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, Artcurial lot ID, SNISB ID, Tainacan MHN ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, Cini Foundation ID, LinkedIn personal profile ID, ACA author ID, CDEC ID, AWARE ID, JRC Names id, Zomato ID, TV Spielfilm series ID, Fandango theater ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, JMdictDB ID, Zagat ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: First attestation, match interval, réédité par, calligrapher, Ordained by, code produit, Wikidata property example for media
- External identifiers: Baden-Württemberg Schutzgebiete-ID, K10plus editions, Utpictura18 ID, Le Vif tag ID, Common Sense Media review ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, Democracy Club Election ID, MARGS ID, Kobo author ID, WoRMS source ID, Kobo narrator ID, NGMDb Prod ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, AntWiki, MESH Concept ID, MESH Term ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID
- Query examples:
- Siblings who have won the Israel Prize (source)
- British female engineers, 1919-2019 (source)
- Female scientific illustrators (source)
- French archivists with a picture (source)
- Archive institutions in Switzerland and how much they hold (source)
- Graph of open source research software by field (source)
- Groups of characters in the Marvel universe (source)
- In what type of places are ancient Greek potteries stored? (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on a dashboard for external identifiers (phab:T204440)
- Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API modules (phab:T217243)
- Add tests for embed.html (phab:T212649)
- Improve features for wikibase vandalism detection model (phab:T194737)
- Improve Property Info cache performance (phab:T218115, phab:T218197)
- Adding nofollow to external identifiers links (phab:T175230)
- Hide query helper by default in Query Service (phab:T217886)
- More work on wb_terms normalization (Phab board)
- Enable trimming whitespace around Label/Description/Aliases and Schema text (phab:T215761)
- Prevent moving Schemas between namespaces (and generally) (phab:T219313)
- Limit the length of Schema labels, descriptions, aliases, and schema text in the frontend (phab:T218867)
- Add tracking for clicks on the “check entities against this Schema” link (phab:T218899)
- Disallow importing of Schemas from another wiki or XML files to avoid ID conflicts (phab:T218181)
- Make sure RTL text is being handled correctly in the Schema labels, descriptions and aliases table (phab:T219136)
- Add a publish button on mobile termbox: (phab:T218573)
- Building the wbeditentity request to be fired on save request: (phab:T218577)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [301]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #359 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Stanglavine (welcome onboard!)
- New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories
- Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 14th in Wikibär
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
- Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July 4-5. Call for submissions is now open
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention content receives, by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
- [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled, causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API
- The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
- The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
- The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
- New tool: Related Properties, exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog post by Envlh)
- Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings, video games
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: stroke order, CHVRS Classification, Classification RCQ, musical quotation or excerpt
- External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Sumo Reference ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Periscope pscp.tv, BHCL ID, Baden-Württemberg protected area ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Springboks Rugby Player ID, Utpictura18 artwork ID, Le Vif tag ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, MARGS ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, FIS telemark skier ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Arcade system, Audio system, IANA time zone identifier, has sequenced genome, WMF short URL, translated to (language translation)
- External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID, OpenEdition ID, MassBank Accession ID, identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl, identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu, CIN ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, DCMI metadata term, CroRec ID, Radio Courtoisie program ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, LNB Coach id, Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID, Trainline ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: first names of Italians
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440)
- Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844)
- Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (phab:T218893)
- Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298)
- Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181) and page moves (phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980)
- Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300, phab:T219173)
- Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (phab:T219979)
- Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (phab:T219318)
- Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
- Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (phab:T204439)
- More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (phab:T216987)
- Let term value fields grow with their content (phab:T220185)
- More work on migrating away from wb_terms
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!
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
- More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
- Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [302][303]
Problems
- You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [304]
- A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [305]
- Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [306]
Changes later this week
- When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [307]
- The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [308]
- The
{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return""
(empty string). When you read a page it will return"-"
(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [309] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [310][311]
- The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.
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Wikidata weekly summary #360 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Non-free content
- Events
- Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
- New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
- Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
- The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
- Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
- External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
- External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID
- Query examples:
- Gender balance of art prizes and Gender balance of literary awards (source)
- Images used on more than one item about a person (source)
- Map of public libraries in Wales coloured by county (source)
- Artworks by street artist Invader in Versailles (source)
- American Sign Language signs for the letters of the English alphabet
- French Sign Language signs for the letters of the French alphabet
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added Sámi monolingual language codes
sia
(Akkala),sjk
(Kemi) andsjt
(Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (phab:T217521) - Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (phab:T220609)
- Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (phab:T220122)
- Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (phab:T212869)
- Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (phab:T217741)
- Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (phab:T220587)
- Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (phab:T207363)
- Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
- More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (phab:T216987)
- More work on migrating away from wb_terms
- Added Sámi monolingual language codes
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!
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
- All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikidata will get a new constraint status called
suggestion
. This will change how theWikibaseQualityConstraints
constraint checking API works. [312][313] - You can test the
depicts
property for structured data on Commons.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [314][315][316]
- The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [317]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikipedia articles will have the
sameAs
meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [318][319]
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Wikidata weekly summary #361 änneren
- Events
- Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
- Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
- Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
- OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
- Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
- Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
- The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
- Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
- Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
- You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
- External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
- External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID
- Query examples:
- All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
- Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
- Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
- Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
- Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
- Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
- Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
- Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
- Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
- Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
- Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #362 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: BRPever
- Events
- Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
- Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
- Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
- Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019
- Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
- The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
- Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
- New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
- External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
- External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID
- Query examples:
- A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network
- Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
- Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
- Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
- Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
- Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
- Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
- Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
- Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
- Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo) (phab:)
- Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
- Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
- More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [320][321]
Problems
- Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [322]
Changes later this week
- You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [323]
- When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in
local storage
instead ofsession storage
. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [324] - You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [325]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikidata
wb_terms
table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it. - Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [326]
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Wikidata weekly summary #363 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!
- Events
- Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
- Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
- Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
- Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
- Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
- An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
- New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
- External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
- External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater
- Query examples:
- Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
- Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc. (source)
- Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
- Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
- Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182, phab:T222133, phab:T222129)
- Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
- Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
- Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
- Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
- Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
- Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [327]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #364 änneren
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
- Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
- Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
- Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October
- Press, articles, blog posts
- How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
- New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
- External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
- External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID
- Query examples:
- Street signs in Rennes (source)
- Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
- Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
- Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
- Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
- Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
- Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
- Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
- More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on phab:T221764)
- More work on mobile termbox
- Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
- Getting ready for 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.
Problems
- File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [328][329]
- Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [330][331]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 Mee. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 Mee. It will be on all wikis from 23 Mee (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 Mee at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [332]
- The Wikidata
wbeditentity
API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [333]
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Wikidata weekly summary #365 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2
- Events
- Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
- Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
- Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう!, 25 May 2019@Tokyo
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
- Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
- Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
- Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
- Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
- QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
- Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
- Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
- BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
- Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
- Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
- Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
- GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
- Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
- Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
- Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
- Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
- Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
- AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
- ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
- Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
- All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
- Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
- External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
- External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added
lastrevid
of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch! - Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
- Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
- More work on mobile termbox
- Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)
- Added
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #366 änneren
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
- Published in WWW 2019
- Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
- QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
- Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
- Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
- Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
- Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
- External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
- Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
- Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
- Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
- More work to get termbox ready for deployment
- Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [334][335]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #367 änneren
- Events
- Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
- Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
- Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
- Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada
- Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
- Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
- At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
- Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
- Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
- External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
- External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID
- Query examples:
- Gay parades in Italy in 2019
- Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
- Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
- Dunes in Wikidata (source)
- Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
- Map of archives in the world (source)
- Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
- Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
- Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
- More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
- Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
- Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
- WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
- Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
- More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
- Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
- Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [336]
- There is now a field called
depicts
on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [337] - Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [338][339]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [340]
Changes later this week
- Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [341]
- 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).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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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
- When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [342][343]
- The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [344]
- Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [345]
Problems
- Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [346]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #368 änneren
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
- Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
- Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
- External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
- External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID
- Query examples:
- Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search) (source)
- Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
- Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
- More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
- Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
- Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221831)
- Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221833)
- Add EntitySchema in the license footer (phab:T224536)
- Several improvements to shex simple tools (phab:T221604, phab:T221606)
- Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (phab:T223372)
- Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (phab:T224593)
- Improved tests and fixed failing tests
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #369 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles
- Events
- Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd
- Press, articles, blog posts
- EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
- Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
- Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
- Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
- On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
- New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
- External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
- External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID
- Query examples:
- Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
- Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
- Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
- Péniches in Lyon
- Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
- Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
- Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
- Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (phab:T216835)
- Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (phab:T224545)
- Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621)
- Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235)
- Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
- More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997)
- Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [347]
Changes later this week
- MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with
[[File:Filename.midi]]
. Lateroverride_midi
andoverride_audio
will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [348] - A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [349]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old
wgEnableAPI
andwgEnableWriteAPI
values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [350]
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Wikidata weekly summary #370 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items
- Events
- Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
- Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
- Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
- Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
- WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
- Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
- Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
- Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
- Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
- Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
- Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
- Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
- From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
- Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
- Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
- Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
- The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
- CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
- External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
- External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID
- Query examples:
- Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on (source)
- Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
- Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
- French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
- Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
- Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
- Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
- Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
- Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
- Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
- Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
- Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
- Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [351]
- Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [352]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #371 änneren
- Events
- Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
- Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
- State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
- Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
- Published in ArXiv:
- DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
- ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
- Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
- External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
- External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID
- Query examples:
- Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
- Newest database reports: education by country
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
- Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (phab:T225935)
- Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (phab:T224832)
- Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (phab:T218282)
- Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (phab:T225603) according to the migration plan (phab:T221765)
- Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (phab:T205045)
- Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223305)
- Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (phab:T225500)
- Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (phab:T222193)
- Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (phab:T226672)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [353]
Problems
- Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [354]
- Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [355]
Changes later this week
- You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [356]
- There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #372 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ZI Jony
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
- Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category
- Press, articles, blog posts
- A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
- The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
- Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
- Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
- You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
- Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
- Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
- New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
- External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
- External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage
- Query examples:
- 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
- Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales (source)
- Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
- Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
- World map of sign languages by country (source)
- Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
- Map of World Heritage places in Europe (source)
- Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
- Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
- Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
- Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
- Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
- Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
- Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
- Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
- Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)
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!
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
- For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [357]
- Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [358]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
- The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [359]
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [360]
- There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [361]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [362]
Changes later this week
- The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called
Mëssbrauchsfilter
and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [363]
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Wikidata weekly summary #373 änneren
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
- Upcoming: Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting on July 16th
- Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
- Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
- How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
- Videos of the presentations given during the Wikidata + OSM workshop in London
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
- Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
- Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: IMFDB work ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, National Transportation Safety Board report ID, Epitafier.se ID, magazine in BitArkivo.org, iTunes movie collection ID, Musisque Deoque author ID, DigitalNZ ID, PharmGKB ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Perseus ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, Typing discipline, video game mod, Arachne collection ID, NOTAM, begin and end of covered period ; covered period, periphrasis, Kerala state school code, The Latin Library author ID, type code, FEC campaign committee id, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, Ex æquo with, EU Publication office ID, Supreme Court docket number
- External identifiers: National Library of Luxembourg ID, Lebanese National Library ID, National Library of Morocco ID, National Library of Iceland ID, Syriaca person ID, Syriaca work ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Library of Chile ID, ACMI ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Hazardous Chemical Information System ID, ANZCTR ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, AICS Chemical ID, PBS Manufacturer ID, PBS Drug Code, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Arachne object ID, Gotlands museum, Indian Super League player ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Album of the Year artist ID, Album of the Year album ID, HOV-ID, Nosdéputés.fr identifiant, TikTok username, NosSénateurs.fr identifiant, eBay username, Jaxsta profile ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, Musixmatch writer ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (phab:T226939)
- Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (phab:T227207)
- Track number of links to schema pages (phab:T218903)
- Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (phab:T227201)
- Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (phab:T224594)
- Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (phab:T226152)
- Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (phab:T220696)
- Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (phab:T225073)
- Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
- Opening a modal with edit this link information (phab:T226996)
- Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
- Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (phab:T222886)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #374 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: 1997kB
- Events
- Past: IRC office hour, July 16th (log)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Tainan Meetup in Taiwan, July 31st (Facebook event)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
- You can nominate tools for the Coolest Tool Award until July 29th
- Wikimania's draft program has been published
- User:Bodhisattwa joined CIS-A2K as Wikidata Advisor
- wbEntity config value to be dropped on July 24th - if you use it, please consider replacing it
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Wolfram Language unit code, unabbreviated text, extracted from, imprimitur granted by, terms of service, surface gravity, lexeme, chassis, enemy of
- External identifiers: PharmGKB ID, Handball123 player ID, ACMI web ID, AtlasFor ID, Adventure Gamers ID, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Russian organisation number, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, Anime Characters Database character ID, Anime Characters Database anime ID, ANZCTR ID, Arachne collection ID, Arachne object ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Biyografya ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, HCIS ID, Lebanese National Library ID, MPG ID, National Library of Luxembourg ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, Penguin India author ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Australian Educational Vocabulary ID, Syriaca work ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, COURAGE ID, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, National Library of Iceland ID, NosDéputés.fr identifiant, Perseus author ID, The Latin Library author ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, HOV-ID, PBS Drug Code, AICS Chemical ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: image of bone or fossil record, (de)evolution method, WeChat Official Account, Dose, hat Mitglied, Variété de la forme, value group number, orientation, Digital audio workstation, title geographic ref, location of point of view
- External identifiers: misas.org Catholic church ID, identificador de arte público de Zaragoza, Taxonomicon ID, Wayback ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, AFCD PFKID, Plant Breeders Rights Database AID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV show ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, Bossu ID, Textile Connect publication ID
- Query examples:
- Number of living people who have walked on the Moon (source)
- Artworks depicting the Moon (source)
- People that have been on spaceflights operated by at least two different sovereign states, and their time in space (source)
- Temporal distribution of book editions in Swedish (source)
- How long after a UK general election that a political party has appointed a new leader, since 1945 (source)
- Newest database reports: family names in Ireland
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a bug that was preventing to add multiple glosses (phab:T228080)
- Show number of senses and forms on page information for WikibaseLexeme entities (phab:T224844)
- Show number of statements and external identifiers on page information for Wikibase entities (phab:T224842))
- Track number of external identifiers on Wikidata over time (phab:T224129)
- Fix a few queries on Grafana (phab:T227788)
- Update the query host for Grafana (phab:T218710)
- Add support for "MediaInfo" as value for "allowed entity types"-constraint (phab:T224362)
- Data bridge: open a modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
- Show the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
- Extract data bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
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!
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
- Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
- The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [364]
Problems
- The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [365]
Changes later this week
- Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [366]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [367][368]
- With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [369][370]
- Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
- The variable
user_wpzero
will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.
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Editing News #1—July 2019 änneren
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Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases änneren
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features
Wikidata weekly summary #446 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
- Past: m:WikiConference North America/2020
- Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
- Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
- Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
- Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
- Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
- Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
- Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube
- Tool of the week
datao.net
is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
- Complex constraint check for recency of value
- The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
- Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
- External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
- External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID
- Query examples:
- All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
- (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
- Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
- Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
- Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
- Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
- Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
- Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
- Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from 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!
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
- There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [371]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #447 änneren
- Events
- Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
- Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
- Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)
- Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
- Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
- External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
- External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID
- Deleted properties: street address (P969)
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
- Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
- Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (phab:T267023)
- Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (phab:T266638)
- Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (phab:T267502)
- Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (phab:T250550)
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
- Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
- 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
Recent changes
- The
{{citation needed}}
template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [372]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
- Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a
<langconvert>
tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [373] - Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [374]
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Wikidata weekly summary #448 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for CheckUser: 997kB
- There's a discussion about what the best label for required qualifier constraint happens to be.
- Events
- Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)
- Tool of the week
- Template:TP administrative area is a new template designed for all items which are instance of administrative territorial entity. It defines useful queries for those items. For example, {{QT|Q173695}} links to this page. Feedback and contributions are welcome.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: small logo or icon, lunar coordinates
- External identifiers: CINE21 person ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, Cinémathèque québécoise person ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, SAPA ID, Manus Online author ID, Lichess username, CITWF person ID, DBLP publication ID, DataTrek ID, KANTO ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: abstract, thesis committee chair, character type, Calificación de videojuegos, Regente, Nação (candomblé), Liderança, Bharati Braille, number of walks, number of hits, doubles hit, triples hit, Through point
- External identifiers: TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, World Rowing ID, MNBAQ ID, Libsyn show ID, PodBean show ID, BG School ID, JAD ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, BHCL UUID, Podtail show ID, Provenio UUID, AbandonSocios ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, International Encyclopedia of the First World War ID, SFLI ID, Game UI Database ID, DiVo person ID, e-GEDSH ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, Calaméo ID, Lumières Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey Player ID, IFF player ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, AV Production person ID, Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon ID, Studium Parisiense ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, A*dS Encyclopedia, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, The Podcast App show ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID, Play:Right video game ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, TheCocktailDB ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #449 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
- Should we rename place of burial (P119) to place of mortal remains?
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 5 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #26 - YouTube, Facebook, 9 January
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #44, January 10
- Past: Wikidata sessions at rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) (replay)
- Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: Applying linked data model for the Bogotá Digital Library (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Wikimedia Armenia - YouTube
- Video: How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero - YouTube
- Video: How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine - YouTube
- Video: How to import library materials to Wikidata using MarcEdit and OpenRefine - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: Linking a new Wikipedia article to a Wikidata item - YouTube
- Video: Schema and Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Using Twinkle on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata (in Urdu) - YouTube
- Blog post: 52 Wikidata weeks 2020
- Blog post: Scottish nautical wrecks in wikidata
- Tool of the week
- User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: graph girth, category for the view of the item, ALA-LC romanization, liturgical rank
- External identifiers: PIAC ID, CPV Supplementary, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, ISDS ID, Mapy.cz ID, World Rowing ID (UUID format), 1914-1918-Online ID, JAD ID, Game UI Database ID, Lumières.Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey player ID, IFF player ID, Magyar életrajzi lexikon ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, Literary Encyclopedia ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Stitcher show ID, Castbox show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, PodBean show ID, Podtail show ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, The Podcast App show ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries manuscript ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries work ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries person ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries place ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries organization ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: YouTube custom URL, Author last names, Author first names, Naval flag, supplements, closed WMF project sitelink, has part (string value), member, number of data sets
- External identifiers: IFPI Danmark work ID, National Museum in Warsaw ID, Olympedia Affiliations ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Erudit article ID, Olympedia Event ID, dati.beniculturali.it ID, Barnivore product ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, Port Letter, FFF player ID (new scheme), Hungarian Film Archive ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), EuroBabeIndex ID, MFAT person ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Alpine Linux package, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, NLS place type ID, BookDepository publisher ID, National Historic People id, NFL.com ID (new scheme)
- Query examples:
- Works identified (via dedicated property P3893) as entering the public domain on 1/1/2021, ordered by number of articles on Wikimedia sites (Source)
- Painters in the collections of Paris Musées which enter the public domain on January 1 (Source)
- Map of forts related to Dutch trading companies VOC and WIC found in the Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Source)
- Map of forts in the Cologne fortress ring (Source)
- First-level administrative divisions in Germany
- Population of cities in Germany corresponds to the total number of vaccinations in Germany (Source)
- Most popular theorems according to their number of articles on Wikipedia (Source)
- Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (Source)
- Deaths in 2020 - date of birth, date of death, cause of death and country of nationality (Source)
- Summary of a UK parliamentary career seat-party-start pairs(Source)
- Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight (Source)
- Indonesian legislation related to indigenous people (Source)
- Which artist could be "D.K. 1964"? (source)
- Line graph of colleges and universities in India by year of establishment (Source)
- Graph of Indian films that are remakes of other Indian films (Source)
- Graph of academic descendants of C. R. Rao and K. Ananda Rau (Source)
- Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (Source)
- Maps of different places in West Bengal according to suffix (Source)
- Tree map of Rabindranath's poems according to the month of writing (Source)
- Count of locations of exhibitions on Wikidata (Source)
- Wikidata lexeme forms by language (Source)
- Newest database reports: 2021, Greek given names
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, no deployment 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [375]
- You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [376]
- Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [377]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [378]
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
- There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [379]
- Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the
watchlist
towatch
will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [380] - Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [381]
- CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [382]
- There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #450 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful)
- New request for comments: How should we develop and deploy documentation for items?
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
- Past: SMWCon videos are published incl. quite a few Wikidata related ones
- Past: Wiki Workshop 2021 is accepting submissions. The deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1.
- Past: Czech editaton Výzva 63 000 (Q102733400) finished (30.11.2020-31.12.2020). Purpose was connect NKCR AUT ID (P691) to Wikidata by hand in Mix'n'Match (Q28054658). Detailed info.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogpost: The nobody who could overtake Wikipedia (in German)
- Blogpost: Documenting Software Applications on Wikidata, by John Samuel
- Article: Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership: The case of Belgian prime minsters in Wikipedia and Wikidata
- Paper: Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust - an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research making the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development.
- Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video
- Tool of the week
- QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
- You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
- Wikidata Walkabout browsing tool has had some important recent improvements in language support, interface, etc. See a list of all comedy films directed by a vegetarian (in Spanish)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Bharati Braille, Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica's video game rating, solution to, archaeological site of
- External identifiers: AV Production person ID, Mediafilm ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID, Libsyn show ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, SFLI ID, e-GEDSH ID, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Barnivore product ID, AVN movie ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, BG School ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, BHCL UUID, Calaméo ID, Studium Parisiense ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, DiVo person ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), Alpine Linux package, A*dS Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: minutes played, two-pointers made, two-pointers attempted, three-pointers attempted, three-pointers made, free throws made, free throws attempted, field goals made, personal fouls, Short DOI, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, number of vaccinations, category for software under a license, assessment outcome, quality for this class, Template combines topics, CCCM Museum (Macau Museum) object ID, CCCM Museum Object ID, Medium, FL number, Notable ascent
- External identifiers: CantoDict identifiers, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, POSIX locale identifier, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, BABEL author ID, Songlexikon ID, FANZA AV actress ID, VAi Building ID, Biographies.net person ID, Literature.com book ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, TikTok music ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Conservapedia Article, NZ Museums ID, Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, WreckSite ID
- Query examples:
- Mathematicians born in prime number years featuring Albert Einstein, Pierre de Fermat, Georg Ohm, Carl Gauss, Évariste Galois, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, James Maxwell et al.
- Timeline of coups d'état of the 21st century (including attempted ones) (Source)
- Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata (Source)
- Children of which were born with by a person, and their step child
- Map of the shortest railway path (in terms of number of stations) between Dibrugarh and the Scottish Highlands (Source)
- Map of place of birth of Olympique de Marseille football players (Source)
- Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (Source)
- Map of beaches in Mexico (Source)
- Graph of shared borders between Indian districts (Source)
- Descendants of Upendrakishore Roy (Source)
- Timeline of Indian High Commissioners to Britain (Source)
- A tree map of items for artworks depicting Mughal emperors (Source)
- Example of documented usage of different Bengali words (Source)
- 'Llan' place names in the UK (Source)
- Organizations with DZI donation seal approval according to donation amount (Source)
- Newest database reports: Russian given names
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
- Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
- Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
- Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #451 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Alphama (RfP scheduled to end after 24 January 2021 15:12 (UTC))
- Other: Wikidata will be one of the communities involved in the Phase 2 of the Universal Code of Conduct consultation. Have your say at the consultation talk page or get in contact with the UCoC facilitator, User:Sannita (WMF).
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook, 23 January
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #46, January 24
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogpost: Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q, by Mike Peel and Andy Mabbett.
- Video: Wikidata editing #27: #Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Dealing with more than one date value in Wikidata (using preferential rank) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Lagewi/navigation.js userscript enables adding links to list subclasses and instances to Wikidata items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New dashboard for lexicographical data statistics: Wikidata Datamodel Lexemes
- The Wikidata Analytics dashboards are now available at a new URL: https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/ (announcement)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: date canceled, subdivision of this unit
- External identifiers: dati.beniculturali.it agent ID, dati.beniculturali.it site ID, dati.beniculturali.it cultural heritage ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, National Historic People ID, Olympedia event ID, TheCocktailDB drink ID, TheCocktailDB ingredient ID, Fichier des personnes décédées ID, POSIX locale identifier, National Museum in Warsaw ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: shadows, Sacrament conferred by, logo image within scope, BAMID film rating, ABC News Topic, number of rooms to rent
- External identifiers: Portal da Literatura author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Parabola package, JAANUS ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, BiblioLMC ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, StrategyWiki page, Encyclopedia of Brno Object ID, Holocaust.cz ID, Australian Fungi ID, DeCS ID, Australian Lichen ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, The Language Council of Norway Term ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, SISSCO ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID
- Query examples:
- Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
- The people of the government of Bangladesh on 13 January 2005 (Source)
- Buildings in the Basque Country dedicated to San Roque (Source)
- List of words for "beard" in Eighth Schedule languages (Source)
- Map of train services starting at Howrah station (Source)
- Map of big sculptures of New Zealand (Source)
- Map of mosques in Bangladesh according to architectural style (Source)
- UK deaths per month since 2005 split by sex/gender (Source)
- Timeline of Indian cricket tours abroad (Source)
- Timeline of inception of Mexican universities (Source)
- Mangifera species and mango cultivars (Source)
- Locations where The Antartic Circumpolar Voyage expedition passed (Source)
- English Language forms missing an audio pronunciation -- you can contribute via LinguaLibre
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Greek War of Independence, development of content relative to the Griechische Revolution (Q182062) (this year is the 200th anniversary, from its beginning in 1821)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
- Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
- Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
- Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
- Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).
Future changes
- The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [383]
- MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.
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Editing news 2021 #1 änneren
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Reply tool änneren
The Reply tool is available at most Wikipedias.
- The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
- It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.
Research notes:
- As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
- We have preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[384]
- The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[385] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
- A large A/B test will start soon.[386] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. You can still turn it on or off for your own account in Special:Preferences.
New discussion tool änneren
The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[387] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.
Next: Notifications änneren
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at notifications-talk.
Wikidata weekly summary #452 änneren
- Events
- Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
- Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
- Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog: Adding New Literature Sources to the Wikidata Integrator, by Charles Tapley Hoyt
- Blog: Using Wikidata for teaching computer programming using real-world cases (in Basque)
- Bog: Wikidata: data for everyone (in Dutch)
- Methodology paper: A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses
- Video: Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Wikidata for research (webinar in French) - YouTube
- Video: Let's make sparks with SPARQL tools(in French), by Nicolas Vigneron -YouTube
- Video: Wrap up presentation of the SWAT4HCLS hackathon project
- Tool of the week
- TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis to go live on 2021-02-08. If you are a Cloud VPS user or Toolforge developer, check your tools after that date to make sure they are properly running.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: character type, derived from organism type, applicable “stated in” value, number of aid beneficiaries
- External identifiers: BABEL author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, Parabola package, FL number, Hungarian Film Archive ID, IFPI Danmark work ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, NZ Museums ID, StrategyWiki page, Australian Fungi ID, Discord invite ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, JAANUS ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: onscreen participant, catégorie d'établissement sanitaire et social, code Activité principale exercée, catégorie d'entreprise, Imagehash perceptual hash
- External identifiers: SISSCO ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID, Malpedia ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Sachsen-Anhalt, Swiss Games Showcase ID, Baudenkmal-ID Niedersachsen, PeriodO ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, Pantone color ID, Family Video Game Database ID, AAR ID, github topic, TeatralRo ID, Landshuth ID, Patrinum ID, ChemRxiv ID, TlF ID, PO ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, CinefanRo person ID, CinefanRo film ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer IDs, BookBub Author ID, HERIS-ID
- Query examples:
- Czech religious buildings used also as a fire station
- Common ingredients to prepare a sandwich (Source)
- Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)
- Mexican presidents who have an image of their signature on Wikidata (Source)
- Timeline of Mexican writers who were born between 1800 and 1900 (Source)
- TV-Series in Spain by Decade (Source)
- Diplomats who are also art collectors (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
- Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
- Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
- Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
- Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
- Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
- Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
- Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
- Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [388][389]
Changes later this week
- Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [390]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #453 änneren
- Events
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
- Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Set preferences and common.js (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
- Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
- A new tool, Ranker (documentation, announcement tweet and video), lets you edit the ranks of multiple statements at once.
- The SPARQL endpoint for linguaLibre is now available (Source)
- New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
- Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Query Service(WDQS) Data Analyst Consultant. Apply today!
- Clean-up tasks to experiment with bots or other tools
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: BAMID film rating
- External identifiers: Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, 45cat 7" release ID, ABC News topic ID, Aracne author ID, Econlib person ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Songlexikon ID, Swiss Games Showcase ID, MNBAQ ID, Art in the Christian Tradition ID, Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, AAR ID, BiblioLMC ID, Cultural heritage ID in Lower Saxony, GitHub topic, Discord username
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: represented in sport by, photographer of, reissue, master's thesis, service status information URL, unusualness, Debian Package Tracker ID, Seismic classification
- External identifiers: Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, EMS ID, FloGrappling ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Wolfram language WordData word ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, Finna ID, LexML ID, Swedish Literature Bank placeID, BVFE author ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources authority ID, playDB play ID, playDB artist ID, DicoPolHiS ID, Pandektis ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Baudenkmal), Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Bodendenkmal), Whiskybase distillery ID
- Query examples:
- Basque lexemes and their attestations in a 1745 Spanish-Basque dictionary, with links to dictionary entries in Wikisource
- Lexemes describing a color (Source)
- Danish-Hebrew Lexeme pairs (Source)
- Lexemes in Swedish with usage example that demonstrates both a form and a sense and a reference (Source)
- Episodes of the TV series "The Mentalist"
- Nationality of authors publishing papers relevant to the Australian fauna (Source)
- Number of musicians on Wikidata by country (Source)
- Map of ISO 3166-2 codes (Source)
- Map films that have been filmed in Mexico (Source)
- Map of Githubtopics on Wikidata (Source)
- Eye color distribution of the people on Wikidata (Source)
- Timeline with the start date of the Summer Olympics (Source)
- Newest database reports: Czech given names
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
- Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
- Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
- Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
- Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
- Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
- Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
- Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
- Wikibase Release Strategy
- Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
- Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [391]
Changes later this week
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [392]
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [393][394]
- Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like
1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55
as well as the1.2.3.4/27
syntax for IP ranges. [395] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Future changes
- Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [396][397]
- Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1
. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [398]
Changes later this week
- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [399]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Future changes
- When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [400][401]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [402]
- Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [403]
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Wikidata weekly summary #454 änneren
- Events
- Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay)
- Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Add to calendar). You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.[404]
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49, February 14
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook, February 14
- Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata
- Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group - (YouTube)
- Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
- Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January
- New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published. In addition, you will find here the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
- Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder, your feedback is welcome
- Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page.
- New updates to Mix'n'match:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of vaccinations, Commons media contributed by
- External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Erudit article ID, Holocaust.cz person ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, SISSCO ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Patrinum ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, BVFE author ID, Family Video Game Database ID, LexML Brazil ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Debian Package Tracker ID, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IPHAE ID, FLOSS policy URL, Digest, subsidy, fingerprint
- External identifiers: TlF Artist ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, GTDB taxon, Joods Monument ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID, AllMusic IDs, Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID, Astro Awani topic ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Can I use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
- Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
- Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
- Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
- Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
- Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
- Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #455 änneren
- Discussions
- Other: Tool ideas/ImproveWikidata
- Events
- Past: Linked Open Storytelling - Winter School 2021 - Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen (in German) (reply on YouTube)
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 16 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook, February 20
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #50, February 21
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog post: The promise of Wikidata: How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source, by Monika Sengul-Jones
- Blog post: Data donation to Wikidata, part 2: country/subject dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archives (by Joachim Neubert, ZBW Labs)
- Blog post: Bibliography and Citations of Hausa Folklore by Anasskoko
- Video: Querying Linked (Wiki)data with SPARQL ✨ (presentation by Lucas Werkmeister at rC3, 90 minutes)
- Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Abstract Wikipedia presents prototypes of two tools that could help people to visualize, exemplify, and better guide our understanding of the coverage of lexicographic data in Wikidata.
- Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
- Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
- Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
- Guidelines and compensation for UX research lead by Wikimedia Germany (announcement)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: service status information URL, first family name in Portuguese name, time played, coordinates of depicted place
- External identifiers: CompositionToday composers showcase ID, Royal Museums Greenwich artwork ID, Saint Louis Art Museum artwork ID, AZLyrics.com song ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, WreckSite ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Doktori.hu ID, Portal da Literatura ID, IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, letterer, set during recurring event, number of references, sensors, Applying institution
- External identifiers: Lexikon Literatur in Tirol, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, Baidu Baike ID (2), Kickstarter username, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, Curling.fi player ID, RILM ID, Swiss vote ID, svoyak.info player ID, Germanistenverzeichnis, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, CinemaRx title ID, Sinemalar title ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Armenian Book ID, identifiant inventaire Occitanie, AaRC title ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, BFS ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID
- Query examples:
- Spanish Wikipedia articles about women astronauts (Source)
- Websites related to works in the Women's & Gender History DH list (Source)
- List of states with more than one official language (Source)
- Location of the organizations in the Name Assigning Authority Number (NAAN) registry (Source)
- List of locations named after the planned language Esperanto or its founder, L. L. Zamenhof
- Use the MediaWiki API to get the content of a Wikipedia category into a query
- Number of scholarly articles sharing their datasets (Source)
- Most specific taxon that includes two given species (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
- Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
- Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
- Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
- Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
- Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
- Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
- Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
- Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [405][406]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [407]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #456 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber - RfP scheduled to end after 24 February 2021 14:19 (UTC)
- New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements
- Events
- Past: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes. Notes available here
- Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[408]
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #51, February 28
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogpost: Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2020 edition
- Video: Basic tutorial on how to annotate an article with Wikidata tags for the ANN project - YouTube
- Video: The Wikidata community: tools to communicate, ask for help, exchange ideas and opinions (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: REfB (Reference Bot): Adding new references to WikiData statements by Houcemeddine Turki - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Knowledge graphs lecture - RDF, Wikidata, SHACL, ShEx (in Russian) - YouTube
- Podcast: Adam Shorland talks about Wikidata and Wikibase on Between The Brackets Mediawiki podcast.
- Tool of the week
- LexemeForms-SearchPage adds links on the search results page for creating new lexemes using the Lexeme Forms tool based on the languages in your Babel box.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Vglist is a video game library tracking web app that is mostly based on Wikidata.
- WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats: Meetings with the Wikidata community on Feb 24 and Mar 3.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: coordinates of depicted place, thesis committee member, number of at bats
- External identifiers: IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, VAi building ID, Heritage Information System ID in the database of cultural heritage in Austria, Joods Monument ID, Lumni person ID, Open Tree of Life ID, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, People Australia ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands ID, EMS ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, Lexikon Literatur in Tirol ID, Curling.fi player ID, De Lakenhal artwork ID, Hauts-de-France Inventory identifier, Tree of Life contributor ID, Taiwan River Code, RILM ID, playDB artist ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, Centre-Val de Loire Inventory identifier, Occitanie Inventory identifier, playDB play ID, Biblioteca Franco Serantini ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: sensors, Applying institution, FAQ url, digital distribution platform, Bandcamp Tag, Anzahl der Staffeln, PDDikti ID, template applies category, workers represented by, alt text, demographics of topic
- External identifiers: AaRC title ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, TaDiRAH ID (2), Oklahoma's NRHP ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, Discogs genre ID, Sauvons nos tombes person ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, CPC-PR ID, Obituaries Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Women Australia ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmitalia film ID, Filmitalia person ID, Resident Advisor Venue ID, GB1900 ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, Mixcloud ID, Labour Australia ID, Mexicana Repositorio, Science Magazine author ID, Everipedia ID, ARAE ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID
- Query examples:
- List of vegan restaurants
- List of food that are iconic to particular countries (Source)
- Map of monuments in Lower Saxony, Germany (Source)
- Map of former plantations in Surinam (Source)
- Map of Wats in Thailand - (Source)
- Localities in Mexico and contain 𝐒𝐚n in their name (Source)
- Female mycologists born pre-1900, sorted by number of sitelinks (Source)
- Women scientists who were born between the year 1500 and 1900 (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed wrongly encoded HTML in some messages in the Wikidata Bridge (phab:T272350)
- Working on showing all languages in the language suggester for monolingual text Properties (phab:T124758)
- Fixed an issue with spaces in external identifier URLs being replaced by "+" (phab:T271126)
- Added a rate limit for creating Item IDs, which should help with decreasing the number of skipped Q-IDs (phab:T272032)
- Fixed an issue where whitespace was stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
- Fixing the case where you cannot easily edit negative quantities after saving (phab:T274129)
- Working on making it possible to query for quantity values in the Query Builder (phab:T268942)
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!
Nachfolgend die Tech News aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Community. Bitte gib diese technischen Änderungen an andere weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen dieser Nachricht.
Letzte Änderungen
- Der Visual Editor verwendet jetzt MediaSearch zur Bildersuche. Damit kann man Bilder auf Commons im Visual Editor suchen, wenn man nach Illustrationen sucht. Das soll es den Autoren leichter machen, bessere Bilder zu finden. [409]
- Der Syntax-Highlighter funktioniert jetzt für weitere Sprachen. Hinzugekommen sind Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [410]
Probleme
- Wenn man eine Timeline bearbeitet hat, kann es sein, dass dabei der gesamte Text verschwand. Das lag an einem Bug, der nun behoben wurde. Es kann sein, dass du die Timeline noch einmal bearbeiten musst, damit sie wieder richtig angezeigt wird. [411]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- 2021-02-24
Zukünftige Änderungen
- Es gibt eine User Group für Entwickler und für Benutzer, die an der Mitarbeit an Wikimedia-Wikis mit der Programmiersprache Rust interessiert sind. Du kannst dich ihr anschließen oder andere dorthin einladen, wenn du dein Wiki zukünftig verbessern willst.
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Wikidata weekly summary #457 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber (unsussesful)
- New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements
- Events
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 2 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook, March 6
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #52, March 7
- Upcoming: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes, March 22nd
- Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogpost: Wikidata and Correspondence Archives (Enriching basic metadata with a knowledge graph)
- Blogpost: The promise of Wikidata - How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source (at DataJournalism.com)
- Video: Accra Archive Wikidata and Wikipedia Workshop (GLAMS Campaign Ghana) - YouTube
- Video: COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Identify and describe items of bibliographic interest (articles, monographs, authors) on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: Visualizing the global research ecosystem via Wikidata and Scholia - YouTube
- Video: Demo: How to upload new bibliography and create dashboards on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Reconciliation Open Refine Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Video: Reconciling researchers to Wikidata via Google Sheets - YouTube
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
- Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
- User:Lucas Werkmeister/addStatementCountsToCategories.js, is a userscript that shows the number of statements of the linked item for all pages in a category.
- Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
- Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
- Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
- We found a way to improve the performance of scrolling on the Item page by changing how we move the Property labels as you scroll through the page. You should see the effect after the next deployment.
- BBC Things includes links to Wikidata to provide a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and their audiences.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of at bats, number of hits, bases on balls, runs batted in, letterer, sensors, FAQ URL, set during recurring event, stolen bases, doubles hit, triples hit
- External identifiers: Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID, AllMusic genre/style ID, DicoPolHiS ID, EuroBabeIndex.com ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer person ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer organization ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer family ID, BookBub author ID, TlF artist ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, teatral.ro play/theater ID, CineFAN.ro title ID, CinemaRX title ID, Sinemalar title ID, Swissvote ID, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté inventory identifier, Île-de-France inventory identifier, Normandie inventory identifier, Pays de la Loire inventory identifier, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, Swedish Literature Bank place ID, Opera Online conductor ID, Discogs genre ID, Discogs style ID, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, bashenc.online ID, Provenio UUID, JedeSchule.de ID, ARAE ID, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, DzygaMDB person ID, NLS place type ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: demographics of topic, strikeouts, district heating, number of signatories, opt-out, payer, secondary topic, grant number, Future Salaries ID, Index égalité professionnelle F/H, Commons incompatible image URL, verbal ability
- External identifiers: Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, ANPI person ID, ANPI person numeric ID, APS author ID, EEVA author ID, Archives West finding aid ID, BiographySampo person ID, Discord server numeric ID, Discord user numeric ID, CUT ID, Amathus ID, EUC ID, UPSA ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Dark Horse contributor ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Cyprus Library ID, MyMusic artist ID, LFCHistory.net player ID, MeSH qualifier ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Templates for templates in Wikidata
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
- Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
- Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
- Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
- Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
- Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758)
- Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (phab:T271126)
- Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
- Continuing to build out the Query Builder and focusing on input for quantity and date queries (phab:T268942 and phab:T272697)
- Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress 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!
Nachfolgend die Tech News aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Community. Bitte gib diese technischen Änderungen an andere weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen dieser Nachricht.
Letzte Änderungen
- In Wikis, in denen die Growth Team Tools verwendet werden, kann der Benutzername des Mentors eines neuen Autoren überall durch ein Magic Word angezeigt werden, zum Beispiel auch in Willkommensnachrichten und in Userboxen.
- Eine neue Version des VideoCutTool ist verfügbar. Damit kann man Bilder zuschneiden und drehen sowie den Ton abschalten. Das Tool wird im Rahmen des Developer-Outreach-Programms entwickelt.
Probleme
- Es gab ein Problem mit der Job Queue. Deshalb wurden einige Änderungen nicht gespeichert und es kam es zu Datenverlust. Außerdem wurden Massennachrichten verzögert. Wikitext-Bearbeitungen waren davon aber nicht betroffen. [412]
- Es könnte Probleme beim automatischen Login mit Firefox und Safari geben. [413]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 2 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 3 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 4 März (Kalender).
Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.
19:08, 1. Mäe. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #458 änneren
- Events
- Past: SORSE - Wikidata as a research tool for data modelling and integration in the humanities (replay on YouTube)
- Past: Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 2021-03-06 , Taipeh (Q1867), Taichung (Q245023), Tainan (Q140631) and online stream (FB and Youtube)
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipeh (Q1867) Meetup 2021-03-08 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[414]
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #53, March 14
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- "Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
- Working hour on items of bibliographic interest in Wikidata (in Italian) -YouTube
- Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 -Youtube Live
- LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Panoviewer.js inserts an iframe from the Panoviewer tool to photosphere image (P4640) statements.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata has now items about nine million people: 99,991,000,000 to do (project chat)
- A new browser for Wikidata is available: the SLING knowledge base browser by User:Mringgaard. It is lightning fast and entirely based on modern Web components.
- Help choose focus languages for improvements to the lexicographic extension of Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia. Nominations should be submitted by April 7, and the decision will be made by April 14 by the teams taking your comments into account.
- Help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting ends before Monday March 15th 23:59 UTC.
- PetScan can now generate KML map overlay data. E.g. University towns in Germany. (Map view)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: supplement to, seismic classification, reissue of, staking percentage, affiliated worker organisation, demographics of topic, assessment outcome, notation writer
- External identifiers: Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Obituaries Australia ID, XXXBios female performer ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, Whiskybase distillery ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, Women Australia ID, Labour Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Pontifical University of Salamanca ID, EEVA author ID, Nauvoo Community Project ID, Cyprus Library ID, Cyprus University of Technology ID, Amathus ID, European University Cyprus ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, Resident Advisor club ID, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, CPC-PR ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, 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
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: verbal ability, 易玩應用程序標識符, earned run average, named place on map, inhabitants of topic, consequence of text, writing style, applicant, co-applicant, Cantonese romanisation, repairability
- External identifiers: MeSH qualifier ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava person ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe, Museum of the jewish people ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona author ID, Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, PorcelanaBrasil ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, JaneladaHistoria ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, Inforegister ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, 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
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest database reports:
- Gadget usage statistics - Includes gadgets enabled in preferences or common.js
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
- Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
- Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
- Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items
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!
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
- Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
- Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [415]
- When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [416]
Problems
- Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [417]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
- The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [418]
Future changes
- There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
- Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [419][420]
- New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.
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Wikidata weekly summary #459 änneren
- 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
- Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, from March 15th to April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- 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
- Blogs
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [421]
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. [422][423]
- 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. [424]
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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
- 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 "Diskussiouns-Geschier" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 Mäerz 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.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
- Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [425]
Future changes
- 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. [426][427]
- Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from
wg*
tomw.config
.wg*
will soon no longer work. [428]
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Wikidata weekly summary #460 änneren
- 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.[429]
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #55, March 28
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- 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
- Papers
- 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
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #461 änneren
- 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
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- 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
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [430]
- 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. [431]
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. [432]
- 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. [433][434]
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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17:31, 29. Mäe. 2021 (UTC)
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. [435]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- The citoid API will use for example
2010-12-XX
instead of2010-12
for dates with a month but no days. This is because2010-12
could be confused with2010-2012
instead ofDecember 2010
. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [436] - 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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19:41, 5. Abr. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #462 änneren
- Events
- Past NIH Virtual Workshop on InChI (Q106114408): "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.[437]
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #57, April 11
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipeh (Q1867) Meetup 2021-04-12 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- 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
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #463 änneren
- 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
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #464 änneren
- 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
- 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:
- Newest WikiProjects: Cyprus
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [438][439]
- 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. [440][441][442]
- 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. [443] - 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 renamedsuppress
. 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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16:49, 19. Abr. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #465 änneren
- Discussions
- 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 Taipeh (Q1867) 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.
- 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
- Newest properties:
- 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 Schabloun:Template 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!
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. [444][445][446]
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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21:25, 26. Abr. 2021 (UTC)
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. [447]
- 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. [448]
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. [449][450]
- 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. [451]
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15:43, 3. Mee 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #466 änneren
- 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
- Blogs
- 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:
- Newest database reports: new screenwriters
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #466 änneren
- 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
- Blogs
- 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:
- Newest database reports: new screenwriters
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #467 änneren
- 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
- Ongoing
- 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
- Blogs
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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.
Tech-News, erstellt von Tech-News-Autoren und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Feedback geben • Abonnement verwalten.
15:10, 10. Mee 2021 (UTC)
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. [452] [453] [454]
- Die Wikimedia-Mailinglisten wurden auf die neuere Version Mailman 3 migriert. Damit die Zeichenkodierung funktioniert, wird sie von
UTF-8
aufutf8mb3
umgestellt. [455][456] - 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. [457]
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. [458] - 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).
Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.
13:50, 17. Mee 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #468 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments:
- 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 info berd-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 [459] 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).
- Ongoing:
- 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
- LIVE Wikidata editing #44 - YouTube
- Papers
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #469 änneren
- 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)
- #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
- 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!
- Past
- 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)
- Blogs
- 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: - 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
- The prefix
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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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17:08, 24. Mee 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #470 änneren
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments:
- Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous. Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated.
- Closed request for comments:
- Events
- Past
- Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings- May 2021
- How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021) - working hour (2)
- SPARQL #Wikidata divers
- 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.; [460], 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
- Past
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- 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
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [461]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
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17:06, 31. Mee 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #471 änneren
- 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"
- Past:
- 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
- Blogs
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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 now add a title to a query visualisation by adding
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!
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. [462][463][464]
- 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 findBędusz
on German Wikipedia. The characterę
isn't used in German so many would writee
instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [465] - 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. [466][467]
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20:03, 7. Jun. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #472 änneren
- Events
- Past
- 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
- 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
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [468]
- Sprachlinks auf Wikidata funktionieren jetzt auch für die mehrsprachige Wikisource. [469]
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. [470]
- 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. [471][472]
Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.
20:26, 14. Jun. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #473 änneren
- 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
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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:
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!
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 nunvrt-permissions
. Das kann Auswirkungen auf Missbrauchsfilter haben. [473]
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. [474]
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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15:50, 21. Jun. 2021 (UTC)
Editing news 2021 #2 änneren
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
- The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Diskussiouns-Geschier" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
Wikidata weekly summary #474 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)
- Events
- Past:
- 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.; [475], June 29th.
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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)
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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
. [476] - 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. [477]
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. [478][479]
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
andÜberschriften 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. [480][481]
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16:32, 28. Jun. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #475 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)
- Open request for adminship:
- 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)
- Past:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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 toWikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON
andWikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config
.Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version
has moved toWikipedia: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. [482]
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
toweb.archive.org
. [483]
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. [484][485]
- 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. [486]
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17:34, 5. Jul. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #476 änneren
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Closed request for adminship:
- Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)
- Events
- Past:
- 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”.; [487], 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
- A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), 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
- Blogs
- 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
- Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [488][489]
- 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. [490]
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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15:32, 19. Jul. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #478 änneren
- 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.
- Past:
- 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
- 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)
- Blogs
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #479 änneren
- 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; [491], 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
- Blogs
- 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:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added a
tags
parameter to thewbmergeitems
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
- Added a
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!
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 preferenceReaktive Modus aktivéieren
. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.
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21:11, 26. Jul. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #480 änneren
- 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
- Videos
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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 requireddir
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 asspan
orcode
. 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. [492][493]
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. [494]
- 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 Diskussiouns-Geschier 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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20:48, 2. Aug. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #477 änneren
- 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 [495], 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:
- Upcoming:
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [496]
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. [497]
- Vue.js wird in Zukunft das JavaScript-Framework für MediaWiki sein. [498]
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16:21, 9. Aug. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #481 änneren
- Events
- Ongoing:
- Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
- 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.
- Ongoing:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
- Videos
- Books
- Papers
- 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
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [499]
Probleme
- Es gab ein Problem mit der Erweiterung Translate. Übersetzungen wurden nicht aktualisiert oder mit englischem Text ersetzt. Der Bug ist behoben worden. [500][501][502]
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. [503]
- 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. [504]
- 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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19:28, 16. Aug. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #482 änneren
- 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.trekels plantentuinmeise.be
- Past:
- Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
- Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)
- Upcoming:
- 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
- Articles
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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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21:59, 23. Aug. 2021 (UTC)
Read-only reminder änneren
Am Mittwoch August 25 06:00 UTC wird es eine Unterbrechung der Verfügbarkeit zu Wartungszwecken geben. Sie sollte nur wenige Minuten dauern.
Außer diesem Wiki werden noch 11 weitere davon betroffen sein. Währenddessen werden keine Bearbeitungen gespeichert.
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.
Eine halbe Stunde vorher wird ein Banner geschaltet.
Bitte gib diese Nachricht über die Wartungsarbeiten an deine Community weiter. Merci!
20:35, 24. Aug. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #483 änneren
- 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)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- 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
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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:Seiten mit Fehlern beim Anzeigen von Partituren 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. [505]
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. [506]
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16:02, 30. Aug. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #484 änneren
- 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. [507], Sep 7th.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [508]
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. [509][510]
- 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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15:21, 6. Sep. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #485 änneren
- 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
- Upcoming:
- 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.
- Papers
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [511]
- 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. [512]
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. [513]
- 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. [514]
- 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 spezielleroutput
Modus wurde hinzugefügt, um die Ausgabe eines Programms anzuzeigen. [515][516]
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15:36, 13. Sep. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #486 änneren
- 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). [517], 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:
- Upcoming:
- 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
- Videos
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [518]
- 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. [519]
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 zuprpiprop
. API-Nutzer sollten ihren Code aktualisieren, um Warnungen zu unbekannten Parametern zu vermeiden. Pywikibot-Nutzer sollten auf 6.6.0 upgraden. [520]
Künftige Änderungen
- Das Reply-Werkzeug wird in den kommenden Wochen auf die verbleibenden Wikis angewendet. Es ist aktuell Teil von "Diskussiouns-Geschier" in den Beta-Features auf den meisten Wikis. Man wird sie in den Bearbeitungseinstellungen auch wieder deaktivieren können. [521]
- 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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18:33, 20. Sep. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #487 änneren
- 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
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides, source code, Short Video)
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [522]
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). [523]
- 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 "Diskussiouns-Geschier" in den Beta-Funktionen. Deaktivieren kann man es in Einstellungen-Bearbeiten. Hier eine Liste der Wikis. [524]
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22:24, 27. Sep. 2021 (UTC)
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 isimplicit
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 valuefalse
for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [525] - 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. [526]
- Die JavaScript-Variablen
wgExtraSignatureNamespaces
,wgLegalTitleChars
undwgIllegalFileChars
werden bald ausmw.config
entfernt werden. Sie gehören nicht zu den "stabilen" Variablen, die für die Verwendung in MediaWiki-JavaScript zur Verfügung stehen. [527] - Die JavaScript-Variablen
wgCookiePrefix
,wgCookieDomain
,wgCookiePath
undwgCookieExpiration
werden bald aus mw.config entfernt. Scripte sollen stattdessenmw.cookie
aus dem Modul "mediawiki.cookie" nutzen. [528]
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16:33, 4. Okt. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #488 änneren
- 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)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- 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:
- Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks: P22 (father) (works again)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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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15:31, 11. Okt. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #489 änneren
- 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
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #490 änneren
- Discussions
- New request for comments
- 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). [529], 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
- Upcoming:
- 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?
- Blogs
- 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 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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.
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20:54, 18. Okt. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #491 änneren
- 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
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [530]
- Die Version der Liberation-Schriftarten, die in SVG-Dateien benutzt wird, wird verbessert. Nur neue Bildvorschauen werden betroffen sein. Liberation Sans Narrow bleibt unverändert. [531]
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.
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20:08, 25. Okt. 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #492 änneren
- 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
- WikidataCon 2021 happened \o/
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog post
- Challenge A to Z 2021 (in French)
- Papers
- Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers about the Complex Portal (Q47196990) <> Wikidata connection
- (fr) Les libellés francophones genrés dans Wikidata (notebook Observablehq)
- Videos
- Research projects
- Blog post
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
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. [532]
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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20:28, 1. Nov. 2021 (UTC)
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. [533][534]
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. [535]
- 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 unregistrm:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation#IP Masking Implementation Approaches (FAQ)ierter 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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20:37, 8. Nov. 2021 (UTC)
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. [536]
- Letzte Woche gab es ein Problem mit der Suche. Zwei Stunden lang haben aufgrund eines Konfigurationsfehlers viele Suchanfragen nicht funktioniert. [537]
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).
Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.
22:07, 15. Nov. 2021 (UTC)
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.
Technische Nachrichten, erstellt von Autoren für die technischen Nachrichten und per globalen Nachrichtendienst verteilt • Mach' mit • Übersetzungen • Hilfe • Rückmeldung geben • Abonnement verwalten.
20:03, 22. Nov. 2021 (UTC)
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