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Wikidata weekly summary #608

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

• Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:

1. Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
2. Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
  • Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
    • Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
    • Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
    • No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
    • Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
  • Notebooks
    • Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
    • Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
    • The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
    • Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
    • State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
    • An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

• Tool of the week
  • Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
  • Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff =
  • Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID, ‎Black Games Archive ID, ‎Citra compatibility database ID, ‎DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, ‎IGN wiki article ID, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, ‎RPGFan game ID, ‎Arcade Hub ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
      • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
    • External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
    • Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
  • Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
  • Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #609

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.

• Events
  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
  • Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

• Tool of the week
  • WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, ‎HistoriaGames series ID, ‎Schnittberichte.com title ID, ‎Kemono Games game ID, ‎Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, ‎GamesMeter game ID, ‎GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, ‎Indie DB company ID, ‎NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ‎ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, ‎Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, ‎AFJV directory ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
      • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
      • creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
      • television judge ()
    • External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
    • Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
    • Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
  • Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
  • Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
  • Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

• Development
  • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Wikidata weekly summary #610

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
  • Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
• Papers
  • Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
  • Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
  • LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
  • Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
• Videos
  • Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
  • This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
• Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
  • (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
  • ‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, ‎MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
  • Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
  • Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
  • Map of running/out of service railway stations in France
  • Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
  • Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
• Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
• Newest database report: children of unborn parents
• Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
• Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

Development

• IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
• Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
  • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Wikidata weekly summary #612

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

Discussions

• New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

• Past
  • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
  • PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
  • Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) -MediaWiki message delivery (Yɛltɔɣa) 17:13, 15 Silimin gɔli January 2024 (GMT)

Question from PaulBKilmer on User:Qwerfjkl (17:24, 17 February 2024)

Hello. I’m trying to add a name (Nicholas Di Virgilio, internationally acclaimed opera singer) to the “notable people” paragraph of the Wikipedia article on North Tonawanda, NY. It won’t publish because I can’t figure out how to provide sources. Two such sources are contained in other Wikipedia articles on the Benjamin Britten “War Requiem” and the “Mozart Requiem” performance at the memorial service for President John F. Kennedy with the Boston Symphony, Eric Leinsdorf conducting. How do I cite such sources when confronted with with the filter rejection of my addition? Thank you! Paul Kilmer --PaulBKilmer (talk) 17:24, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

PaulBKilmer, I can see you were hit by Special:AbuseLog/37029463. I'm not quite sure how that filter works, but you can file a false positive report at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:58, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!! PaulBKilmer (talk) 21:26, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

I got it to work. Thank you!! PaulBKilmer (talk) 21:36, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Talk page layout questions

Hi there! Could you please review how your bot reorganized the templates in this edit and this edit? It seems that the bot's edits did not conform with WP:TPL. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:29, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

GoingBatty, I'm using Category:Talk message boxes per User talk:Kanashimi/Archive 1#Talk page layout. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your reply. The discussion you mentioned shows that Kanashimi has changed their bot when I've pointed out issues. GoingBatty (talk) 15:13, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

GoingBatty, we were talking about talk order and you suggested Category:Talk message boxes should be used. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:26, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: No, I said:

I've added {{Old peer review}} to WP:TPL, as you requested. However, there are 800+ talk message boxes (plus their redirects) that aren't listed there. The use of "such as" and "e.g." on WP:TPL indicate to me that there is not consensus to have that page be a comprehensive list of every template.

Could you please change your bot so that WikiProjects are not moved below {{User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn}} and {{Annual readership}}? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:36, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

GoingBatty, looks like I misinterpreted that. Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:49, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Avpreddy (04:09, 18 February 2024)

What is your name bro --Avpreddy (talk) 04:09, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:20, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Changes to font design

Thank you for the reply, could you help direct me to where you said I could change to font design to what it was pre Thursday on my mobile phone for Wiki on the topic page please. VileName8089289 (talk) 21:33, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

SqWiki bot adoption

Hello! I finally managed to finish all the error messages your bot can give. I currently have imported the User:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/top-middle-bottom pages. I removed the last part from the bottom one not being sure if that would be really needed at our community or not. Can you take a look at those pages and let me know if they seem good and what would be the next step to make your bot work for us? Thank you in advance! - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:41, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, great, I'll start testing the code to make sure everything works as it should. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:40, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, can you intentionally trigger an error on sqwiki? I'd like to test if the code actually works. (It won't notify you, but it will log it.) — Qwerfjkltalk 19:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Uhm, how? - Klein Muçi (talk) 20:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, just make any change that would cause an error, like removing the title from a template. (Sorry for the late response, there were some other bugs in the code I had to fix first.) — Qwerfjkltalk 18:44, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Nevermind. See this as an example of what the bot currently outputs. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:59, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

It looks like there are a few more messages that need translation: the edit summary, the section header, and the "A (foo) error" message. These are all embedded in the code.
The relevant parts of the code are:

• f"A \"[[:{cause(category)}]]\" error"
• f'Notification of CS1 error(s) on [[{title}]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 17|Task 17]])'
• f"== CS1 error on [[{title}]] =="

Can you also translate these? Leave the code parts (i.e. the bits in curly brackets) as is. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:05, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

• For the first part leave just the error category itself without the "a" or " error" part;
• f'Njoftim për gabim(e) me referimet te [[{title}]]... Task 17 → Puna 17
• Gabime me referimet te [[{title}]]

Are they understandable for you or should I rewrite them to strictly follow the format? - Klein Muçi (talk) 20:24, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, that's great. I'll modify the code to use these. I suppose the edit summary should be changed, as enwiki bot approvals aren't relevant on sqwiki? — Qwerfjkltalk 20:56, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes but I'm also not sure if the numbered task structure is relevant to sqwiki either. How are you planning to organize it in general? — Klein Muçi (talk) 21:32, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

What we usuallly do in SqWiki is to ask for a bot operator to do 30-50 edits with its bot and if it gets approved/flagged, the bot operator is free to use it as it sees fit for as long as it doesn't bring any harm, without further requests for individual tasks. — Klein Muçi (talk) 21:42, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

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Klein Muçi, I think I'll just remove the ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 17|Task 17]]) bit from the edit summary. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:48, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes. I agree. Want me to show you the page for the bot approval request? It's on the sidebar, should read something related to bots in English. If you can't find it or if you find the process confusing, I can link and explain more thoroughly. — Klein Muçi (talk) 12:32, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, I can see w:sq:Wikipedia:Robotët and a button to create a new task. I can fill out the preload in English. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:00, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes. Also transclude the request subpage in the mainpage in the end. Thank you! — Klein Muçi (talk) 16:08, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, okay, will do. Currently the message look like this, is that alright? — Qwerfjkltalk 18:56, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Also, it says "Please make 30 edits to show how the robot works." I assume I do that before submitting the bot task? — Qwerfjkltalk 19:00, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes. But the reports need a little tweaking:
The "Kategoria... :Mirembajtje/Gabime part should be removed, leaving only the parts after the colon. Secondly, some of them do include the help instruction part and some don't. Normally they all should, what is the difference between those cases? — Klein Muçi (talk) 19:37, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Also the title should be changed to include one more word (faqja/artikulli) and the title should be italicized:
Gabime me referimet te {[Title]} → Gabime me referimet te faqja {[Title]}
The word should be "faqja" if the bot checks for ref-errors in all namespaces (for example, template documentations) and "artikulli" if it checks for ref-errors only on the main namespace. — Klein Muçi (talk) 19:40, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

The same word should be added before the title in the summary as well. Either "faqja" or "artikulli" depending on the fact if the bot works in all namespaces or only on the main one. — Klein Muçi (talk) 19:42, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, okay, I think I've updated all of the translations. The issue with the category bit showing was I forgot to link the category, now fixed. The help instruction part is probably from earlier tests. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:48, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Uhm... I'm not sure I follow. I'm talking about this string: Për ta zgjidhur këtë problem...
Normally that should be present in every error, helping people understand how to fix the said error. In some cases that's true, in some it is missing. — Klein Muçi (talk) 20:08, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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Klein Muçi, that's handled by w:sq:Përdoruesi:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/middle, where it seems to be missing from some. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Is it? When I Ctrl+F Për ta zgjidhur këtë in that page, every string seems to have it with different words following it, beside 1–2 in the end (which shouldn't). :/ — Klein Muçi (talk) 21:44, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

The new upcoming messages seem correct though. Maybe it was the whitespace thing issue you mentioned in the beginning and now it is fixed. I'll do some minor changes to the overall message to make it seem more natural in Albanian and our wiki we can procced with the request. — Klein Muçi (talk) 14:05, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Changed them.
Can you also change the title format from
Gabime me referimet te artikulli [Title]
to
Probleme me referimet te artikulli [Title]
And the summary from
Njoftim për gabim(e) me referimet te artikulli [Title]
to
Probleme me referimet te artikulli [Title]?
Title and summary should be the same basically. Also if you could make them customizable on-wiki like you've done with the other parts maybe that could be beneficial in the long run if there are other attempts in globalizing the bot but I do understand how pywikibot parameters work and keeping them like they are its not bad either. — Klein Muçi (talk) 14:26, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Also, shouldn't the other comments in ~/middle be included in the void template too? — Klein Muçi (talk) 14:29, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, okay, I've updated the translations. I'll move it onwiki tomorrow, but for security it would need to be interface-protected.
The other comments don't need to be voided, it was just because the matching string was in the first line, so the switch was matching the category and the comment, when the comment needs to be ignored. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:48, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I'm planning to protect any page related to the bot after we get it to work normally so no problem on that. (Or at least semi-protect them.) Speaking of that, is there any other page that needs to be imported/created for it? Maybe its user page if nothing else?
Meanwhile I keep doing micro-edits on its messages to make them appear more natural in Albanian. I have two requests for you:

• Currently the errors themselves (which are category links) have a full stop/period in the end. Can you remove that please so it can be better integrated with the adjacent explanation coming after the hyphen?
• There are cases where the same error is done multiple times in the same edit which make for a rather strange message. For an example of this, check the notification about Neptune in your sandbox, currently the last notification. I believe only one notification should be sent per type of error. A better overall handling of this could be to actually link and highlight each problematic citation individually on the actual state of the article (and maybe ditch the edit history link) but maybe that's out of reach for the moment since you haven't implemented that functionality anywhere yet.

— Klein Muçi (talk) 01:21, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, okay. I've made a configuration page at User:Qwerfjkl (bot)/CategoryMonitorConfig.json. I removed the full stop from w:sq:Përdoruesi:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/middle.
I actually have no idea how the duplicate reference thing happened. I have code that filters out duplicates already, and I can't understand why it didn't work in this case.
It would require me to essentially rewrite the whole code if I wanted to look at each problematic citation - I do it via categories because it's much easier. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:58, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Oh, I thought it would be per local wiki but this works too I guess. Thank you! I actually wanted to ask about that part. Where, if anywhere, is the {{{causes|Problem me referimet}}} part used?
And yes, I understand that it is a completely different logic so no worries. Maybe it serves as an idea for a future project.
There is a small problem: This section includes a cut category name because you've accidently cut two-part category names when you removed the "category:" part. I'm guessing it has to do with the colon regex.
Ultimately, the edits are currently coming from your account. I'm guessing that will change when the bot gets flagged? — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:33, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, the causes part is passed into w:sq:Përdoruesi:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/middle.
Yes, I do indeed use something similar to colon regex (I don't actually use regex, just string manipulation). It takes the name of the error as whatever is after the last colon. I suppose instead using everything after the second colon would work?
I'm running it on my account just for testing purposes. If I change the code to actually add the notifications to talk pages, I'll use my bot account. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:59, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

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Oops, just looked at my code and found I don't filter out duplicate categories. Should now be fixed. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:54, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that logic would work I think.
Okay, thank you for the fix! So I suppose no need to import any other page for your bot other that what we currently have. Do we create a user page for it? A small presentation for its purpose and its operator? Do you have a kind of information page already available for the task which I can base the description on? I'm guessing after we're done with that, you can create the request for the flag and put the sandbox page as a link for the 30 edits. — Klein Muçi (talk) 20:56, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, yes, a user page for the bot would be good. The closest thing to an information page about it is probably Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 17. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:18, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thank you! I will create that and hopefully create a preset way to report problems to my page as well and then I'll protect all pages and I'm guessing we're done. — Klein Muçi (talk) 22:10, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I created a user page for it. Is your bot a Pywikibot? Asking just because I've put the Pywikibot notice on it so I remove it if not.
The text on it reads:
Hello!
I'm a bot controlled by user Qwerfjkl, and I automatically notify users when I find that their edits cause problems with references.
If I make a mistake, please leave a message to user Klein Muçi indicating the article in which the mistake occurred.
I intend to create a preset for such messages tomorrow and we're done. — Klein Muçi (talk) 17:53, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Can you change the diff link in the top part of the message to include the two "before-after" panels diff-view instead of opening the said diff? It's easier for new users to see and understand what they've actually done like that and they don't risk starting to edit old/past versions instead of the current ones. — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:01, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, my bot does run on pywikibot.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by changing the diff link. If it's something that needs to be changed in the template, it's in /top. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thank you!
Sorry, let me try and be a bit more clear:
Your bot currently links like this: User talk:Qwerfjkl (revision 1210452742)
I wanted it to link like this: User talk:Qwerfjkl (Diff ~1210452742)
The diff instead of the old version. Is it any clearer now? — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:35, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, it does link to the diff (example). It won't in cases like this where the page is created in the edit. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:22, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Ah! I was thinking that but it was happening too often and... Okay then, thank you!

I was trying to modify the bottom part now like I said so that when my talk page link is clicked a preset title is added. Something like "Qwerfjkl bot - Question [Date]". Is there a way to do that without using inputbox? I can achieve it with that but it would require me to use some CSS to remove the button appearance and I don't want to go that way.

Also, as you'll see in your sandbox, the bot now adds the name of the person it's talking to in the initial greeting (through a magic word - is it the correct magic word for this case?). Do you think the said magic word should be substituted or do you think it's good like it currently is? What is the usual practice in EnWiki in regard to this, if you happen to know? - Klein Muçi (talk) 01:45, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

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Klein Muçi, I would suggest substituting everything, because messages typically shouldn't change after they're initially posted.
For the date, you can probably use {{#time}}. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:18, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay then. I will do so. But how can I make it preload a templated title? So I can easily distinguish messages that are related to the bot? - Klein Muçi (talk) 14:03, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, look at User:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/bottom which contains

[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:Qwerfjkl/Botpreload&editintro=User:Qwerfjkl/boteditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:Qwerfjkl&preloadtitle=Qwerfjkl%20(bot)%20–%20{{subst:<noinclude />urlencode:{{subst:<noinclude />PAGENAME}}|wiki}}&section=new&preloadparams%5b%5d={{FULLPAGENAMEE:{{{page|}}}}}&preloadparams%5b%5d={{{diff|}}} report it to my operator]

report it to my operator
You can change preloadtitle to whatever suits you.
{{Request edit button}} uses {{<noinclude></noinclude>subst:#time:j F Y}} to produce a timestamp. (Obviously you'd need to URI encode it.) — Qwerfjkltalk 16:16, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

I've never used the URL method for preloading elements before. Can you please produce the link for me? :/ [Qwerfjkl (bot) - Problem me referimet ({{subst:#time:j F Y, H:i}})] — Klein Muçi (talk) 17:44, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

That's the title.
Also, have I done the subst process correctly here: w:sq:Përdoruesi:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/top ? — Klein Muçi (talk) 17:46, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, something like:

[{{fullurl:User talk:Klein Muçi|action=edit&preload=PRELOADPAGE&preloadtitle={{safesubst:<noinclude />Replace|{{safesubst:<noinclude />urlencode:Qwerfjkl (bot) - Problem me referimet ({{safesubst:<noinclude>#time:j F Y, H:i}})|wiki}}|_|%20}}&section=new}} foo]

(not sure if you have the equivalent of {{Replace}} on sqwiki). Replace PRELOADPAGE with a page containg the preloaded text. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

We do. What if I don't have a preloaded text beside the title? Just remove that part I suppose, no? — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:16, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, yes (example). — Qwerfjkltalk 18:20, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

w:sq:Përdoruesi:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/bottom
Tried it but it doesn't work for some reason. :/ — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:29, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, I've fixed it. You missed out an &. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:33, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks a lot! Well, I'm guessing everything is done now. I semi-protected all pages. Can you do the formal request? I'll see to accept it in 1-2 days. — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:39, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, okay, I've done so. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:52, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! If there aren't any unexpected issues, I'll accept it in two days. — Klein Muçi (talk) 19:11, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Just letting you know that the bot is still not active, albeit approved. No need to hurry or anything, just telling if maybe you've forgotten. — Klein Muçi (talk) 11:28, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, I started running it yesterday. It should be working. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:17, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Its contributions page appears empty to me while at the same time you keep putting notices in your sandbox from PAWS. - Klein Muçi (talk) 12:31, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, strange. I'll look into it. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:32, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

I'll let you know that your bot made one single edit before stopping while you continue to do edits from your personal account in your sandbox page. If you don't already know that. — Klein Muçi (talk) 01:17, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, I know, it's running fine on PAWS but not on Toolforge. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:10, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Weird... I've never had cases when scripts behaved differently on PAWS vs Toolforge. But I've also only used PAWS once so... If your bot already runs fine on Toolforge for EnWiki, maybe the problem is in regard to setting the local project for the script? Specifying "sqwiki" in it? I'm assuming you've already dealt with Kubernetes migration. — Klein Muçi (talk) 10:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-08

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

• If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [1]
• There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
• Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
• The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [2]

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). [3][4]

• Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
• The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [5]

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Wikidata weekly summary #617

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

<translate> Discussions

• Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
• Other: Project chat: PI Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!

</translate> <translate> Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
• Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
• Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions. Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

</translate> <translate> Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • 2023 Year Review by ADDSHORE, a prominent contributor and community member for WBStack and Wikibase.Cloud.
  • Wikidata Literary Influencers by Paul Matthews shows step-by-step how to get to an interactive network visualization based on Wikidata data
• Papers: Language models for extracting Wikidata statements and generating Wikipedia content - is a Wikimedia Research proposal to improve Wikidata and English Wikipedia content using machine-learning power of AI and LL Models; by Thang, T.
• Videos
  • Kairntech Demo Entity Extraction using Wikidata - is an example of how Wikidata is being used as a knowledge base to populate AI companions and LLM's with relevant content for profit.
  • Dancing Digital Project with Rebecca Salzer is a Wikibase instance sharing LOD between itself, video archives and Commons.
  • WikiPod AI - try listening to last week's Status Updates with AI-generated speaking, an experiment by Tiago Lubiana.
• Notebooks: TTTTRPG - Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games queried using SPARQL from Wikidata.

</translate> <translate> Tool of the week

• User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options.
• Wikidata Topic Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property.
• Author Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').

</translate> <translate> Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • has cabinet (value is the advisory committee to the item's head of state)
  • ISCED field (mapping of a particular course or curriculum to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED))
  • ‎appeals to (court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions)
  • ‎location information URL (URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator)
  • phonographic copyright (person or organization that holds the phonographic copyright)
  • is invariant under (subject is unchanged by this process / function / group of transformation)
  • formatter URL for IIIF manifest (URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID)
  • PyPI trove classifier (standardized classification system for software, used and maintained by the Python Package Index)
  • graduation rate (proportion of students who graduate from the institution in the given timeframe)
  • normal graduation time (expected or typical duration of an educational program from matriculation to graduation)
  • multiplier of normal graduation time (how much longer than "normal" someone took to graduate; used as a qualifier for the "graduation rate (P12469)")
  • top scorer (best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition)
• Newest External identifiers: Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, TopKar ID, Mindat taxon ID, China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID, Dictionary of American Regional English ID, Dictionary of Old English ID, Encyclopedia Mythica ID, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID, FrameNet frame ID, Parsifal cluster ID, Archives départementales de Vaucluse fonds ID, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID, National Buildings Repository identifier, Location Memory building ID, JSTOR Global Plants type specimen ID, EDIT16 catalogue title ID, EDIT16 catalogue place ID, Trismegistos god ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, ‎Weird Gloop article ID, Kremlin.ru glossary ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Hindawi Foundation book ID (A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi Foundation]])
  • Castradenumber (number for a registred subject in a Castrade)
  • latest end date ((qualifier) latest date on which the statement could have ceased to be true (i.e., latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true))
  • anthesis start (time of the year when a plant normally starts flowering)
  • leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Oyez Project ID, GARAE, WhatPub pub ID, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID, UCA authority ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, European Union trade mark number, GCatholic Episcopal Conference ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID

</translate> <translate> You can comment on all open property proposals! </translate> <translate>

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Graph of ancient philosophers master/student relationships
  • Properties for UK lakes (contains a report-within-a-report allowing to look at Items having the Property) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Looted heritage - aims to use Wikidata to document looted cultural heritage. Its primary focus is on the colonial era, but it also encompasses other relevant historical periods. It's scope includes artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
• WikiProject Highlights: Staedel Museum Wikidata Clean-up The Staedul Museum comprises 24,000+ works of art spanning more than 700 years. They have generously opened up digital surrogates of their collection to the Wikimedia community. This project improves the metadata quality and create Wikidata items for works of art.
• Newest database reports: Genderless people with Facebook ID
• Showcase Items: Varanus komodoensis (Q4504) - species of reptile
• Showcase Lexemes: scala (L683571) - "stairs" in Italian

</translate> <translate> Development

• IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API modules (phab:T357024; an announcement is in the works)
• We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (phab:T355685)
• We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for anonymous visitors and temporary users (phab:T351976)
• We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release branches (phab:T345064, phab:T356764)

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: #128 Languages
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help 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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Question from Moteitbe333 (16:41, 20 February 2024)

Hello. How do I create a wiki page on a local artist? --Moteitbe333 (talk) 16:41, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Moteitbe333, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 16:46, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Praise Joseph on Rebag (10:31, 21 February 2024)

Hello can you help me edited an article --Praise Joseph (talk) 10:31, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Praise Joseph, what exactly do you need help with? — Qwerfjkltalk 19:23, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 12#Category:Cultural infrastructure by year of completion

Hello, Qwerfjkl,

I hope you are well. I came across some of the categories mentioned in this nomination on an Empty Category list and I'm hoping you can adjust your CFD closure here. Could you please state what categories these nominated categories are supposed to be MERGED to? It's not clear to me. There are dozens of categories listed and I'm not proposing you go through each one on that long list and state what the merge target article is, but could you just include a statement in the closure stating what category tree they are being merged to? I'd appreciate it and I think if future editors want to know what happened to these cultural infrastructure categories, it's better to note this in the closure statement than try other ways to track down that answer should someone try to recreate these categories. Many thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:23, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Liz, I thought it was straightforward because it's mentioned directly below the nominator's statement, Merge all to the buildings and structures category of the same year. I can modify the list of categories to add the merge targets if that'd help (it's a simple regex pattern), or I could just add "to buildings and structures tree" to the closing statement? — Qwerfjkltalk 21:28, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Joy

Page: Sofronije_Podgoričanin

Diff: Special:Diff/1210202786

Comment/question: The bot is notifying me about a syntax issue, but the real issue is semantic: the previous content was formatted with nominally working syntax but was useless from the point of view of verifiability. I added some more cleanup tags in subsequent edits, please advise on ways to stop the bot from telling me water is wet in the future. TIA.

Joy (talk) 14:31, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Joy, well, you can stop the bot notifying you about reference errors. Not much more that can be done. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl could we make it not trigger if we add {{title missing}} or {{author missing}} in the same commit or something? --Joy (talk) 18:56, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Joy, I'm not sure how easy that would be to do (I'd have check both versions of the wikitext for the templates and all of their redirects). I could do it, but it seems like an edge case that's not worth it. You can always just ignore the notifications. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Samvitgaragetools (16:54, 26 February 2024)

Why is wheel alignment essential for maintaining optimal performance and safety in our four-wheeler vehicles? --Samvitgaragetools (talk) 16:54, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Samvitgaragetools, is this question related to Wikipedia? If not, try WP:Reference desk. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:55, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from TSECorporation (18:39, 26 February 2024)

How do I create a Wikipedia business page for the company I work for with a focus on SEO best practices?

Business Name: Triple Shift Entertainment --TSECorporation (talk) 18:39, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

TSECorporation, first of all, you need to review Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and disclose your conflict of interest (COI). You should also make sure that the company meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies, and you should note that you don't own Wikipedia pages - it can contain negative portrayals of the company.
You may also wish to review WP:SEO. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

TSECorporation, there's one very important thing I forgot to mention in my earlier comment: you are not allowed to have the username you currently have (per WP:CORPNAME). The easiest way to do this is simply to create a new account (making sure that the name is in line with the policy I linked above, WP:CORPNAME). — Qwerfjkltalk 20:31, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-09

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 visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [6]
• The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [7]

Changes later this week

• 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 29 February (calendar). [8][9]

Future changes

• The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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Qwerfjkl (bot) – Truthanado

Page: Culver_Field

Diff: Special:Diff/1209637785

My edits were just to change the way info was referenced to be consistent with Wikipedia guidelines. so that the reference shows up in the References section of the article. The info in the article did not contain a title, and I was unable to determine the title, though the source and date were available.

Truthanado (talk) 14:02, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Truthanado, that's fine, if you can't find the title, you can leave it without one. (Though you do seem to have put the newspaper as part of author.) — Qwerfjkltalk 16:10, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Justforfun483 (18:27, 28 February 2024)

how to become a contributor --Justforfun483 (talk) 18:28, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Justforfun483, see Wikipedia:Task centre. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

Newly maintained scripts

After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...

• Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; his fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
• Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
• AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
• Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.

Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.

With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.

Improve a script

Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!

• Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
• To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
• We want...

• ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
• ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
• ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

Requested scripts

• A simple script to second or archive proposed deletions
• A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like this demo
• A WP:3O response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard
• A byte filter to be split from Nux/LongTableFilters
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

New scripts

• DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filters.
• Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use m:Web2Cit (which WP:ProveIt also uses) instead of mw:Citoid to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
• Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!

• 

  Doǵu/Adiutor (pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.

• 

  Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
  • /afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
  • /ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
  • /redirect-helper (pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
  • /rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.

• 

  Guycn2/UserInfoPopup (pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
• Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
• Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
• Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.

• 

  NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest (pictured) generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.
• PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
• Qwerfjkl/massCFD creates mass WP:CfD nominations.
• Rublov/refspace highlights footnote spacing errors in red.
• Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.

Edit-listings

• Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
• Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
• Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.
  • Nardog/ExamineMore makes it so the paging at Special:AbuseFilter/examine actually works, pending a fix to T292764.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.

Appearance-ricing

• Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
• Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
• GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ reply ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?

• 

  Jonesey/common (pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
  • Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
• Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
• Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
• For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
• Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
• Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab ↹ toggle the visibility of the tiny [ edit ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
• The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

Permissions required!

• Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.

• 

  Dragoniez
  • /AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
  • /Selective Rollback (pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
• Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

QOL shortcuts

• BrandonXLF/SVGEditor lets you edit any file that is an SVG, straight from the file page.
• DanCherek/UAABotRemover adds a portlet link to enable a removal shortcut of faulty reports from Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention.
• DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.
• ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with Convenient Discussions.
• Isaacl/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard does exactly what you'd think it does, but in Wikitext.
• FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus adds a shortcut at the top to edit your /Status subpage while providing a pre-made template.
• Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole: What a mouthful! Yet all it does (no offense) is add another Clear button on top of the Lua module debug console.
• Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink adds a link to metawiki:Special:GlobalWatchlist next to the normal watchlist.
• Nardog
  • PasteToCommons adds a paste handler to upload the pasted image to Wikimedia Commons.
  • Unpipe tries to detect violations of WP:NOPIPE and fix them as much as possible.
• Ohconfucius/tometricunits automatically adds unit conversions of imperial units in brackets after their uses per MOS:UNITS.
• Suntooooth
  • /flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
  • /randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
• Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.

Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!

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Question from Exotic1861 (10:15, 1 March 2024)

Hello, I already have 16 edits and 5 days of editing, is there a reason that I have not been autoconfirmed yet? Thank you Exotic --Exotic1861 (talk) 10:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Exotic1861, you will be autoconfirmed in around 2 hours. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Exotic1861 (talk) 20:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024: We are back!

Please help translate to other languages.

Hello, dear Wikipedians!

Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.

We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge! ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes

• Sdkb
• The Night Watch

• East718
• Isabelle Belato
• Mzajac
• Staecker
• Stan Shebs
• Sugarfish
• Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"

• Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"

• In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record

• Obituary: Vami_IV

• Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday

• WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close

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Question from Sonwuchuks (11:01, 3 March 2024)

Hello sir/ma. Do I get paid for editing Wikipedia? Thanks. --Sonwuchuks (talk) 11:01, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Sonwuchuks, no. We are all volunteers here. If you are being paid for editing, you must disclose it. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:04, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

ok thanks. Sonwuchuks (talk) 11:11, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Dr Hasan Murad School of Management (09:21, 4 March 2024)

I want to create a wikipedia page for a business school so that the details of the school are shown on google search, please help. --Dr Hasan Murad School of Management (talk) 09:21, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #618

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
  • Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
    • BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
    • LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.

• Events
  • Wiki-in-action: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at the Stars (Italian) - WM Italy, AIB Lombardia & GWMAB host a practical workshop on Wikidata Thursday, March 21, 16 - 18:00 CET in the Valvassori Peroni Library, Milan. Further details on the Wiki Event page: GWMAB/Stelline/2024
  • Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5).
  • Wikidata, Open Education Resources and Curriculum alignment discussion - hosted by Creative Commons during the OEWeek event. Takes place 5th March 15:00 CET, register in the link!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing.
    • Observable tutorial for Wikidata users (French) published in the last issue of RAW in Wikipedia in French
  • Papers: LLMs Can Better Understand Knowledge Graphs Than We Thought - This paper employs CQA, complex question answering, to assess LLMs ability to comprehend knowledge graphs. Xinbang, D. et al.
  • Videos
    • OpenRefine - extract tables from Wikipedia for Wikidata (French) - Part 6 of the Wiki Wake Up Afrique, this shot tutorial will show a simple and advanced method of converting tabulated data to enrich Wikidata.
    • Breathing life into the women's archive through Wikidata - speaker Brodie Hoare advocates for adding data and information about women from historical archives to Wikidata at the National Digital Forum '23.
    • Application development using open knowledge graph, Wikidata (Japanese) speaker Koji Furusaki hosts an open data study session and showcases examples of app development using Wikidata.

• Tool of the week
  • WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Claim Analysis Toolkit, collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims

• Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • top scorer (best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition)
    • filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
    • television judge (person who participates in a television show as a competition judge or mentor)
    • Papers with Code URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system)
    • ‎SMIRKS (line notation that represents generic chemical reactions)
    • thesaurus's main topic (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
    • thesaurus combines topics (this theasurus combines (intersects) these two or more topics)
    • topic's main thesaurus (main Wikimedia theasurus)
    • ‎latest end date (latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true)
    • rug style (classification of an individual textile floor covering based on geographic or cultural origin, structure, or pattern)
    • performing organization (organization that received funding to create this entity)
  • External identifiers: AniSearch anime ID, Brazzers ID, Tekściory artist ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, PlaymakerStats.com sports executive ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, British Listed Buildings ID, ‎GNM ID, 2GIS place-ID, 2GIS route-ID, livechart.me anime ID, Trakt.tv film ID, ‎NACSIS-CAT library ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, ‎WhatPub pub ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, literatura.kg person ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, UCA authority ID, ‎European Union trademark number, ONIX codelist ID, GCatholic episcopal conference ID, ‎Oxford English Dictionary object ID, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID, ‎Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID, ‎nimi.li ID, ‎Nye ord i dansk ID, ‎OHDSI ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID, Encyclopedia Astronautica ID, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID, Italian Senate (1848-1943) ID, ICANNWiki page ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID, FSA Food Hygiene Rating System ID, Finnish Service Catalogue organization ID, Köztérkép creator ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
    • Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
    • Hindawi Foundation book ID (A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi Foundation]])
    • A New Nation Votes ID (ID of a person in A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825)
    • form decomposition (form decomposition)
    • Ludzie Nauki ID (identifier in the Ludzie Nauki, the new official database of Polish scientists)
    • Nanopublication identifier (Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history.)
  • External identifiers: TNHR&CE Temple ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Saudipedia ID, DLE entry ID, Singapore Infopedia ID (new scheme), COBISS ID, DWDS sense ID, museum-digital tag ID, Gematsu event ID, RERO+ ID, Premier League player ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, 11v11 player ID, OSL ID, EJ Atlas ID, Statbunker player ID, BFO class ID, Combine OverWiki ID, Autores Galegos na BUSC
• Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

• Did you know?
  • Query examples:
    • 28 Female Biographies that exist in 50 Wikipedias, but not Catalan - a good example for finding knowledge gaps.
    • Explore data about Wikimedia Residencies - see start and end dates, organisation employer, average duration and associated project.
  • Newest WikiProjects: Te Papa Research Expeditions - create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums.
  • Newest database reports: Unauthorized Bots (active in last 30 days without Bot flag)
  • Showcase Items: Zootopia - the 2016 animated Disney film about anthropomorphic Police officers.
  • Showcase Lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) (Polish) To be shameless, uncaring of others, arrogant, over-confident.

• Development
  • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users.
  • Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink.
  • Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.

You can see 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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