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This Month in GLAM: March 2020



Headlines
  • Australia report: Know My Name; Public libraries of Queensland join Wikidata
  • Colombia report: Gender gap, Wikipedia and Libraries from the GLAM team
  • France report: WikiGoths; WikiTopia Archives
  • Indonesia report: Volunteers' meet-up; Wiki Cinta Budaya 2020 structured data edit-a-thon
  • Ireland report: Video tutorials; Celtic Knot Conference 2020
  • Kosovo report: WoALUG and NGO Germin call Albanian Diaspora to contribute to Wikipedia
  • Netherlands report: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen contributes to Wikimedia Commons again; Student research on GLAM-Wiki at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Serbia report: March Highlights - Everything is postponed
  • Sweden report: FindingGLAMs; Wikipedia in libraries; Art from the Thiel Gallery Collections; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete
  • UK report: Colourful Kimonos from Khalili
  • USA report: Women & Editing in the time of virus
  • Special story: COVID-19
  • Wikidata report: Lockdown Levellings
  • WMF GLAM report: Mapping GLAM-Wiki collaborations
  • Calendar: April's GLAM events
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Block

FYI, I went ahead and restored the bot's block because I felt that was where consensus was, and with the multiple threads it made sense to do it now rather than have it keep editing against community consensus. I think this falls under an appropriate restoration of administrative actions under WP:WHEEL since it'd been discussed in multiple places and this appeared to be rough consensus in favour of the block. I also have a thread at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Status_of_bot in case I'm off my rocker and reading this wrong. I hope you have an excellent holiday weekend. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:21, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #411

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
  • Development
    • Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (phab:T248592)
    • Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596)
    • Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595)
    • More work on Automated finding references
    • More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
    • Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126) and on save (phab:T248087)

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:23, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Desktop improvements prototype

Hello, Mike Peel!

Thanks for taking the time to participate in the user feedback round for our desktop improvements prototype. This feedback is super valuable to us and is currently being used to determine our next steps. We have published a report gathering the main takeaways from the feedback and highlighting the changes we’ll make based on this feedback. Please take a look and give us your thoughts on the talk page of the report. To learn more about the project overall and the other features we’re planning on building in the future, check out the main project page.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 12:50, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Base citation template for WD stuff?

I have been completing data for citations for works at enWS with {{cite TIWW}} where I have the data in WD as I do the transclusions. Do we have a base WD-focused template so I can just move to complete laziness, so if I construct the cite templates properly and then just enter these templates without parameters? ultimate infobox-style for citations! [Noting that things like {{cite Australasia}} and {{cite IrishBio}} would also migrate, though would need data audited prior.]

The triangle of s:Thom's Irish Who's Who/Hamilton, Rt. Hon. Lord George Francis <-> Hamilton, Rt. Hon. Lord George Francis (Q90141697) <-> Lord George Hamilton should be made as easy as possible. And then eventually move to a report where WD knows that it is loaded with WS data, it can return a query to show articles where the citation template needs to be added. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:32, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: The closest I can think of is {{Cite Q}}. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:33, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks.

I have come to the conclusion, that I just totally suck with anything about calling WD data. There is some inner thinking that I just don't get. I will just do it the long way, my skills, that they are, lie in other areas. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:58, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: @RexxS: is very good at this, and is a good person to ask for help. Enwp's negative attitude to Wikidata integration has depressed me about it right now, so I'm not doing so much development work. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:26, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Yep, I have bothered them at enWS, and not wanting to overdo my welcome, would prefer the help at enWS. I thought that there may just have been something already. I know I suitably uglified {{wikisource author}} myself, but the threading the needle of references <bleh!>. It isn't that important, the additional data fields aren't burdensome, I was just futureproofing, and maybe concepting. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:32, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #412

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.
  • Development
    • Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
      • try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
      • allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
      • investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
      • com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
      • identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
      • create design system components to continue improving consistency

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:14, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2020

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Wikidata weekly summary #413

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.
  • Development
    • More work on error screens for the Bridge
    • Use updated data for the Bridge (phab:T240223)
    • Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (phab:T246606)
    • Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (phab:T249004)
    • Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (phab:T248997)
    • Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (phab:T249613)
    • Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (phab:T241978)
    • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week

Hello there. This is an invitation to join the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week. £250 (c. $310) up for grabs in May, June and July with £20 worth of prizes to give away every week for most articles destubbed. Each week there is a different region of focus, though half the prize will still be rewarded for articles on any subject. Articles may be submitted for this as well as the regional Challenge you usually contribute to at the same time. Sign up if you want to contribute at least one of the weeks or support the idea! † Encyclopædius 19:27, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Please, the description!

Hi Mike! Great pictures from the Natural History Museum in Stockholm here! But you forgot the most important thing: To describe WHAT it shows! Just a lot of stones without explanation doesn't say much. This is a mistake many people make when uploading pictures. Especially important when it comes to images that do not "speak for themselves" such as stones and minerals. Something you surely understand as an expert. Please fill in descriptions of the pictures when you have the time. / Best regards, Frankie Fouganthin/--LaFotisto (talk) 20:49, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

@LaFotisto: Sorry, I try to add context when I upload photos, but I don't always have the details (beyond 'this museum'), or the time (although I try to go back to older photos to add more info when I can, but other editors are often more knowledgeable than I am!). I've added a few more cateogries for context; for the stones I also uploaded wider angle photos including the display panels, I hope that helps. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:53, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
@Mike Peel: I understand. And thanks - the display panels helps a lot! The reason from the beginning was that I became interested in minerals and rocks and was looking for pictures in Commons. When I saw your pictures I was delighted because it was exactly the kind of clear differences in the different rocks I was looking for. But quickly I was disappointed because there was no information on each individual stone. But I can do enough now with the display panels. Have a nice day! /--LaFotisto (talk) 02:01, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

removed Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

readded Callanecc

Oversight changes

readded HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

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Wikidata weekly summary #414

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday May 5 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Tool of the week
    • ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
    • 33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
    • Outdated copy of wb_terms has been dropped on April 29th
  • Development
    • Add monolingual language codes rm-rumgr, rm-surmiran, rm-sursilv, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter (phab:T222426)
    • More work on the test system for federated properties
    • More work on displaying statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
    • Bridge: more work on generic error screens (phab:T241126)
    • Bridge: warn the user that they are about to edit anonymously (phab:T246676)
    • Work on a Wikidata distributed game for automated finding of references
    • Automated finding references: build a scraper, simple value matching, item analyzer
    • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
    • Add more properties to the PageImages list (phab:T249811)
    • Use strict types everywhere in Wikibase (phab:T251382)

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:33, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Kettleness

Hi, Mike Peel; thanks for connecting Kettleness to the Wikidata, there was some weird de-link situation going on with the article and the page on Wikicommons which I could not resolve, but you have by connecting it, so hurrah! Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 19:51, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #415

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding wikidata=* tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
    • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
      • Part 1 - Meet the Archive: YouTube
      • Part 2 - The IA & Wikimedia: YouTube
    • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Part 1 - Wikidata - current state: YouTube
      • Part 2 - Wikibase & Lexemes: YouTube
      • Part 3 - Shape Expressions & Schemas: YouTube
    • How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
    • Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
    • Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names
  • Tool of the week
    • WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities
  • Development
    • Display statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
    • Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (phab:T252024)
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
    • Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (phab:T249598)
    • Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (phab:T247459)
    • Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (phab:T247196)
    • More work on automated references

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2020



Headlines
  • Brazil report: GLAMce at Museu Paulista: making things machine-readable
  • Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2020 in Czech Republic; International event; support for Wikimedia community; edit-a-thon run with the US embassy and the Swedish Embassy
  • France report: Association des Archivistes Francais; Palladia, a museum collection portal based on Wikimedia resources
  • Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2020
  • Ireland report: Hunt Museum image donation; Livesteaming and video demonstrations
  • Italy report: Archivio Ricordi, webinars and videos
  • Kosovo report: One Village, One Article for each village in Albania and Kosovo
  • Netherlands report: Photo collections Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden; meetup and media donations for Wiki goes Caribbean; first online WikiFriday
  • Sweden report: Skrivstuga (edit-a-thon) online – Wikipedia in libraries
  • Switzerland report: More women on Wikipedia
  • UK report: Japanese silk and Spanish iron
  • USA report: Earth Day
  • Wikidata report: Seven Million People Can't Be Wrong
  • Calendar: May's GLAM events
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ASTER

Hi Mike, Seeing you in the WMUK chat reminded me that I wanted to ask for your help about ASTER as a way of measurng height of mountains etc - I am trying to disambiguate Aster & on the list is ASTER (spacecraft) but I'm not sure this is the right link to put in - an example is on Reclus (Andes Mountains). Any ideas?— Rod talk 17:23, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

@Rodw: Nice to see you at the chat! Sorry I had to leave. I think you're looking for Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, the Brazilian spacecraft hasn't been launched yet. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:26, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Great thanks. — Rod talk 17:29, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #416

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.
  • Development
    • In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g. ?fiancé, ?π) can now be used more easily. (T227952)
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (phab:T246676, phab:T247250, phab:T244361)
    • Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (phab:T250785)
    • More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (phab:T247690)
    • Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (phab:T198703)

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.


May 2020

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in discussions about infoboxes and to edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

- SchroCat (talk) 18:09, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Galcerán Bridge

Hello! Your submission of Galcerán Bridge at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 19:04, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020 - II

Do not ever, EVER remove a comment from someone else’s talk page (as you did here) just because you don’t like it. It’s doubly shocking you did so because you’re supposed to be an admin, and so your supposed to know the damned rules. I’m happy to drop you into ANI if you try that stunt again, but I do hope you don’t even think about it. SchroCat (talk) 20:55, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

I don't know what game you and Cassianto are playing, but please do not ping me just to insult and lie about me. Mike Peel (talk) 11:31, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
I am not playing any sort of game, I am responding to you deleting someone else’s comment on a third party’s talk page. I have also neither pinged you nor lied to you. Again I have to ask you to strike an untruthful comment you have made about me. - SchroCat (talk) 12:53, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
As you've been highly active in the hour since I informed you about your untruthful statement, and have yet to make suitable amends, I shall remove it for you. Please do not lie about me again. - SchroCat (talk) 14:07, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Very ironic. Perhaps you could do the same to the edit you were complaining about me removing? Mike Peel (talk) 14:20, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
There is nothing ironic: you have lied and not taken down the post when this was pointed out to you. I don’t care what you were deleting in the first place, or why, but the act of deleting it is plain wrong. If you object to it there are ways of dealing it and you need to do things properly, not act like a newbie who hasn’t got a clue about the rules. - SchroCat (talk) 14:29, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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