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Tech News: 2023-40
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
- There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [1]
Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like
wikitext
orcss
. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).
Future changes
The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [2]
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
- Featured content: By your logic,
- Poetry: "The Sight"
Tech News: 2023-41
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 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [4]
- At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [5]
In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID
#page-actions
will be replaced with#p-views
. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.
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MediaWiki message delivery 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #597
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- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Saroj! (see the closed request)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Tildebot (Task: Upload about 16,000 AARoads Wiki article ID statements based on reconciliation in OpenRefine)
- GamerProfilesBot (Task: Regularly update existing video games with the GamerProfiles game ID sourced from GamerProfiles.com)
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 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.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 13, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
- Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
- New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here.
- Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata by Chris Hanretty
- Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate by Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds
- These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT, by Hannah Murdock
- COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022 < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore
- Papers
- Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard
- Press
- Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.")
- Videos
- Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham
- Linking cultural heritage data in practice < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata.
- Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University
- Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond.
- Proposal and creation of properties (in French) by VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata.
- Wikidata: first pragmatic approach - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: BAN ID, Metacritic game ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Gematsu game ID, Encyclociné ID, DBIL ID, Pinakes country ID, Pinakes city ID, Pinakes institution ID, Pinakes fonds ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux object ID, Aparat channel ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- self-identified name (the name by which a group of humans refers to itself)
- non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
- fonds ()
- External identifiers: WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID, SBL player ID, identificador Qué series ver, Steam Workshop file ID, Find my School ID, Fichier des ecclésiastiques ID, Walmart product ID, Open Library publisher ID, kihondōshi handbook ID, OzBargain tag, OzBargain brand, ELSST Thesaurus ID, Gematsu company ID, Valve Developer Community article ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, Illinois State Parks ID, Flixy.dk emne ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting(source)
- Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow (source)
- List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list (source)
- Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases (source: @espejolento)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions (phab:T342982, phab:T337371, phab:T337371, phab:T348150)
- We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
- We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (phab:343998, phab:T343999)
- Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (phab:T313467)
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!
This Month in Education: September 2023
This Month in Education
Volume 12 • Issue 7 • September 2023
- Inauguration of the Kent Wiki Club at the Wikimania 2023 Conference
- Letter Magic: Supercharging Your WikiEducation Programs
- Réseau @pprendre (Learning Network) : The Initiative for Educational Change in Francophone West Africa
- WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique closes its 5th edition with 13 winning schools
- WikiConecta: connecting Brazilian university professors and Wikimedia
- Wikimedia Germany launches interactive event series Open Source AI in Education
This Month in GLAM: September 2023
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-42
The winner this Translation of the week is
Please be bold and help translate this article! ![]() Athyma nefte, the colour sergeant, is a species of brush-footed butterfly found in tropical South and Southeast Asia. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikidata weekly summary #598
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- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 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.
- WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the online or the onsite event! You can also check the program, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
- Wikidata Day NYC '23 Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
- State of the Map EU 2023 has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
- Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
- Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October.
- Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image". October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
- Past Week:
- Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs has ended. Did you contribute?
- Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata by Vogel & Binnig.
- Press: Indexing news with AI via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
- Videos
- Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
- Drag'n'Drop Gadget <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö.
- Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
- Introduction & Overview of Wikidata (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it.
- Notebooks
- Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results (in French)
- What's nearby, Wikidata? will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location.
- Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) by Ambrosia10
- Tool of the week
- Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code, LSG code, SEC code).
- User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- WHO Aware Classification (antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization)
- self-identified name (name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym))
- non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination)
- External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID, MUSE book ID, Game Jolt ID, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID, ProductReview ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, SlackBuilds package, Metacritic numeric game ID, Metacritic publication ID, Metacritic company ID, StopGame series ID, Steam Workshop mod ID, California State Park ID, Find my School ID, WikiKids ID, SBL player ID, Open Library publisher ID, DBpia article ID, Gematsu company ID, Valve Developer Community article ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance in the form of a salt)
- FAO WIEWS Institution ID ()
- External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT, Rahlfs Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Kinobox ID, GNU Savannah project, Indie DB company ID, Mod DB company ID, Catenae Catalogue, GameBrew ID, JLPGA player ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
- WikiProject BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
- WikiProject Manuscripts
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (phab:T342982, phab:T337371)
- Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (phab:T342979)
- Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (phab:T348150)
- Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
- Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- 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!
Growth team newsletter #28
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Welcome to the twenty-eighth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
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Community configuration 2.0
- Community Configuration 2.0 is a feature that will enable Wikimedia communities to easily customize and configure features to meet their unique needs. This approach provides non-technical moderators with more independence and control over enabling/disabling and customizing features for their communities.
- Technical approach and associated tasks are detailed in this Epic task on Phabricator.
- Initial designs are drafted for two different approaches (see images). We will soon demo interactive prototypes to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (T346109). Please let us know if you have feedback on the design approach, or want to participate in prototype testing.
IP Masking
- The Growth team has been working on several updates to ensure Growth maintained features will be compatible with future IP Masking changes. This work has included code changes to: Recent Changes (T343322), Echo notifications (T333531), the Thanks extension (T345679) and Mentorship (T341390).
- Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with IP Masking. (T346108)
Mentorship
- We assembled some resources for mentors at Mediawiki wiki. This resource page is translatable and will be linked from the mentor dashboard.
- We are working to resolve a bug related to mentors properly returning after being marked as "Away". (T347024)
- Half of newcomers at English Wikipedia get a mentor assigned to them. To ensure every newcomer receives mentorship, we need additional volunteer mentors at English Wikipedia to achieve a 100% coverage rate. We also encourage experienced users from other wikis to help newcomers at their own community.
Scaling Growth features
- We continue the deployment of the structured task "add a link" to all Wikipedias. We plan to scale the task to all Wikipedias that have link suggestions available by the end of 2023.
- We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data. (T344428)
- At some wikis, newcomers have access to the "add an image" structured task. This task suggests images that may be relevant to add to unillustrated articles. Newcomers at these wikis can now add images to unillustrated articles sections. (T345940) The wikis that have this task are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table.
Other news
- We disabled the “add an image” task temporarily (T345188) because there was a failure in the image suggestions pipeline (T345141). This is now fixed.
- You can read a report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikimania in Singapore here. Growth team members presented two sessions at Wikimania Singapore.
- After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Wikipedia, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Wikipedia is now a pilot wiki for Growth experiments.
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Tech News: 2023-42
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 Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [6]
- Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).
Future changes
- In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to
addPortletLink
and#p-namespaces
that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.
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