User talk:Masssly/Archive/December 2020
WikiProject India Newsletter #6[edit]
Hi Masssly/Archive,
Happy New Year 2021!
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Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup![edit]
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2021)[edit]
 Cooked pork chops
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Fishing industry • Edible Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 January 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2020[edit]
The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 12, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2020
Previous issue | Index | Next issue 
Project At a Glance
As of Q4 2020, the project has:
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Wikidata weekly summary #449[edit]
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – January 2021[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Technical news
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)
. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason). - Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
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Membership renewal of Wiki Project Med Foundation[edit]
Membership renewal[edit]
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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2021)[edit]
Hello, Masssly. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pork chop • Fishing industry Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 January 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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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
- 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. [1]
- 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. [2]
- 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. [3]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
- 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. [5]- Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the
watchlisttowatchwill still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6] - Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [7]
- CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [8]
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[edit]
- 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!
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This Month in GLAM: December 2020[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, January 2021[edit]
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2021)[edit]
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Lumbersexual • Pork chop Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 January 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #451[edit]
- 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 Greek War of Independence (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). [9]
- 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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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
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Editing news 2021 #1[edit]
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Reply tool[edit]
The Reply tool is available at most other 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.
- There is 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 that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[10]
- 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.[11] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
A large A/B test will start soon.[12] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.
New discussion tool[edit]
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.[13] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.
Next: Notifications[edit]
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 mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
This Month in Education: January 2021[edit]
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This Month in Education: January 2021[edit]
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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2021)[edit]
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Books & Bytes - Issue 42[edit]
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020
- New EBSCO collections now available
- 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
- Library Card input requested
- Libraries love Wikimedia, too!
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Wikidata weekly summary #452[edit]
- 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). [14][15]
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. [16]
- 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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