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Tech News: 2023-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [1]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [2]

Future changes

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #590

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)
  • Tool of the week
    • Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (phab:T341969)
    • Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
    • Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (phab:T338330, phab:T340832)

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.


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Tech News: 2023-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

September 2023 at Women In Red

Women in Red September 2023, Vol 9, Iss 9, Nos 251, 252, 281, 282, 283


Online events:

Tip of the month:

  • The books she wrote might be notable, too; learn 5 quick tips about about book articles.

Other ways to participate:

Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Question from Kdee-east (06:01, 23 August 2023)

Hello,how do I upload a song --Kdee-east (talk) 06:01, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi Kdee-east, you can't upload most songs to Wikipedia. If you have completely composed and recorded a song by yourself, you can use Wikimedia Commons for your songs, similar to:
You can't upload MP3 files due to a history of abuse by people who don't understand copyright. If you upload someone else's song, your account may be blocked. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:50, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
thank u for the notice I have one last question,so it possible for a musician to be marketed through Wikipedia? Kdee-east (talk) 15:40, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
Not really. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, so it is unlikely that we’d market musicians. However, you can get paid to edit (I’d guess to promote something if I’m right), which could be similar to marketing. Brachy08 (Talk) 03:08, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Kdee-east and Brachy0008:, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and NOT a platform for marketing or promotion and editors are volunteers who do NOT get paid by Wikipedia. Cassiopeia talk 03:31, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
I meant the payers aren’t Wikipedia. Brachy08 (Talk) 04:09, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
@Kdee-east and Brachy0008:, Pls note all paid editors by others /companies NEED to disclose that they are paid editor in their user page (see WP:PAID, and follow all rules and guidelines of Wikipedia such as info added/changed including page creation needs to adhere to WP:IS, WP:RS, WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:COPYVIO, WP:PROMO, WP:N just to name some (pls click on the highlighted texts to read the guidelines). Any violations of such might result of being banned from Wikipedia. Cassiopeia talk 08:01, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35

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

  • As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [13]
  • All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [14]
  • Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [15]
  • Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [16][17]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
  • New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
  • All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [18]

Future changes

  • The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
  • A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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Wikidata weekly summary #591

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)
  • Events
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
    • Videos
      • Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
      • How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube
      • The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
      • How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube
      • Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube
      • WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikitrivia is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.
  • Development
    • We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
    • We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (phab:T328281)
    • We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
    • We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (phab:T325822)
    • We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (phab:T344417)
    • We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (phab:T338798)

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.

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

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Jamahal Hill

I know he relinquished his belt, but UFC still have him listed as their champion. How are we treating that on his page/rankings? Nswix (talk) 01:25, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Nswix, Good day and thank you for the question. Hills relinquished his belt which means he is no longer the UFC LHW champion. UFC website in term the fightcards and rankings are always not updated and many times wrong (especially in rankings page - even thought is a little better in the past - for I check the rankings in UFC sites every week since I have been the main editor who updated the UFC rankings in Wikipedia - I need to cross checked with TSN and other sites to make sure the accuracy of the UFC page). How often we have seen the fighters were forced to removed from the events, but they are still in the fight cards for many weeks? Too many to count. Since Hill already reliqueished the belt and it is reported by many independent, reliable source (note UFC is not a reliable (in all Wikipedia articles) or independent (for UFC related pages in Wikipedia), we would treat it that Hill is no longer the UFC LHW champion. A citation can be added for the verification next to the "vacant" text of UFC LHW field/text. By the way, let me take this opportunity to thank you for your contribution especially in MMA related pages in Wikipedia. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:35, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Ryan Garcia

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  • A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 01:08, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Question from Gjonas2 (17:50, 31 August 2023)

I have been given some suggested edits for my draft. How do I get to the draft to begin editing? --Gjonas2 (talk) 17:50, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Gjonas2, Good day. I dont understand your question but I believe it is about your draft article Draft:Susanne Kord. (Note: I would be easy for editor to answer and help you next time if you can provide the link of the said issue and in details of the info). The reviewer indicated you have a coflict of interest with the subject (Susanne Kord). May I know what is the relation between you and Kord?.
have taken a look at the draft briefly, and the draft article is not notable to be published on the draft space. For a subject to be notable, the subject needs to have significant coverage by independent, reliable source where by the sources talk about the subject in depth and in length and not merely mention for verificant. Independent, reliable sources such as from the major newspapers, books and sources can be any languages. Sources that is related to the subject (such as the University, Fellowship, family, students and her website and etc ) are considered not independent and the sources can NOT be contribute to the notability requirements by Wikipedia. Pls click on the highlighted texts (links) above for further reading to understand the details info required. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:10, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Question from LadyRedtopp (10:58, 1 September 2023)

Hi I’m a artist how do I add me to this site --LadyRedtopp (talk) 10:58, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

LadyRedtopp Good day. First of all Wikipedia is not a promotion sites but an encyclopedia. Article of a subject would only be published in Wikiepdia if the subject is notable which means if the subject has significant coverage by independent, reliable source (such as major newspapers and books) where by the subject is talked about in length and in dept. Any social media, homepage, marketing/press release, listing, sources that related, affiliated, connected to the subject can NOT be used to contribute to the notability of the subject.
Secondly, since you are the subject, that means you have a confilict of interest. Wikipedia strongly discourage the editor with conflict of interest to write about themselves even if the subject is notable. Cassiopeia talk 13:39, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

About NPPSCHOOL

Hey Cassiopeia, I've been interested in taking your course to become a new pages patroller for some time, and was wondering if you'd like to take another student? —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 19:24, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Cassiopeia? —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 18:47, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
TechnoSquirrel69 Good day. Thank you for interested in NPPS. Understand that you are working on the CVUA program at the moment and I would like to inform you that NPPS is a lot more complicated and require a lot of your time on working on the assignment and reading the material. The usual time frame for the past NPPS students to complete the program is about 3 months but that is no time frame to complete the program as student works on the assignment at their own time and pace. Let me if you are still interested after receiving the info above so I could set up the program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 03:34, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
I understand completely that NPP is a significantly more involved process than counter-vandalism, and I was prepared for a relatively long-term learning curve from the outset. I have been accruing some experience reviewing at AfC, and would love to continue to expand that skillset here. Let me know what you think! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:47, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
TechnoSquirrel69 Good day. I have set up the assignment for you. Pls read the "communication section" at the bottom of the assignment first prior starting working on the assignment. Ping me on the communication section if you have any question or you have finished the assignment and would like me to review it. Welcome to NPPS. Stay safe. Cassiopeia talk 04:10, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, Cassiopeia, I'm looking forward to working with you! I've gone through the first couple sections and should be able to get started answering the questions tomorrow. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 04:24, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #592

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
    • New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797)
    • We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
    • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238)

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 · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 13:52, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-36

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

Problems

  • The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [23]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [24][25]

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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive

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Wikidata weekly summary #593

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information
  • Development
    • Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
    • Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231)
    • We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979)
    • Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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) 14:23, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-37

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

  • ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [26]
  • When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [27]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
  • The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
  • As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [28]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [29]
  • The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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