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Wikidata weekly summary #342

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
    • We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
    • The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
    • We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
    • We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
    • We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

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.


This Month in GLAM: November 2018



Headlines
  • Albania report: Wiki Photo Walk Albania 2018; Wiki Loves Monuments Albania
  • Armenia report: Singing Wikipedia; Photographs by Vahan Kochar
  • Brazil report: Diverse milestones for the Brazilian community
  • Denmark report: Intercontinental digitisation efforts
  • Estonia report: Making contacts both internationally and in Estonia
  • Finland report: Art and edit-a-thons
  • France report: Bibliothèque publique d’information; 3D museum collections on Wikimedia Commons
  • Indonesia report: Conserving and digitizing texts in West Sumatra
  • Macedonia report: Wiki Training at National and University Library "St. Clement of Ohrid"
  • New Zealand report: Equity, Wikidata, and the New York Times
  • Norway report: Collaboration with The National Archives of Norway
  • Philippines report: Wiki Loves Art
  • Poland report: Archival image uploads, student collaborations and international projects
  • Serbia report: Photo finish of the WIR's
  • Sweden report: The Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Library data starts to take shape; Learning Wikipedia at the Archives; Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping
  • UK report: Sum of All Astrolabes
  • USA report: Wikidata Workshop at Pratt School of Information; Wikidata Presentation for the New York Technical Services Librarians; Wikipedia Asian Month; Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Historic Ivy Hill Cemetery Workshop
  • Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 31, October–November 2018
  • WMF GLAM report: Welcoming Satdeep Gill; Structured Data on Commons; WikiCite
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Infobox observatory

Hi there. I saw that you altered this template back in August per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169935, only to have it reverted two hours later. Should the phabricator ticket be reopened, or is there a better place to discuss this? Or has this already been discussed somewhere and dismissed as unfixable?

At the time of writing, all articles using infobox observatory are again omitting coordinates in response to a simplest-possible API query. (I suspect the same must be happening for infobox bridge, but I can't find any bridge articles that don't also specify coordinates in the article itself.) --Lord Belbury (talk) 10:56, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Lord Belbury, It's because coordinates don't have to be in the infobox. Some articles have coordinates defined outside of the infobox and the infobox cannot know about this. It will thus fallback to wikidata coordinates and potentially add two sets of coordinates. The 'nosave' hides this clash in coordinates from the error detection (as it hides it from the api). So the problem exists in both versions, it's just in one version it fills an error category and this seems to piss off certain editors and in the other the same editors remain blissfully unaware of the problem. A way around this is to move any {{coord}} that are currently outside an infobox into the coordinates param of the infobox. Alternatively, you can remove the 'title' display setting by default for Wikidata included coordinates and make that something that has to be explicitly defined. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:30, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
TheDJ: Thanks for the explanation, but I'm still struggling to understand what's happening here. Is there some nuance in how Wikidata-coordinate infoboxes are rendering "title" coordinates, compared to how {{coord|display=title}} would? Documentation at Template:Coord#Caveats implies that if a coordinate is shown in the title, the API can also see it - but the coordinates put there by Wikidata infoboxes aren't (with nosave=1) visible to the API. Is that all "nosave" is doing? (I can't see that it's documented in the {{coord}} template.) --Lord Belbury (talk) 14:52, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Lord Belbury, so by default the Module:Coordinates which backs the en.wp implementation of coordinates, executes the #coordinates parser function. This parser function is responsible for adding coordinates to the database and linking them to that page. It does that for ALL coordinates, title or inline. However display=title coordinates are marked as 'primary' and thus indicating that the coordinates belong to the primary topic of that page. Inline coordinates are only added as 'secondary' coordinates, requiring a different api query to retrieve them. nosave omits running the #coordinates function and as a side effect thus not only avoids coordinates from showing up as primary coordinates, they don't even show up as secondary coordinates either. It also disables the error check this parser function normally runs (multiple primary markers is an error situation), which fills Category:Pages_with_malformed_coordinate_tags, which the reverter apparently keeps a close eye on. It however doesn't prevent these pages from having two overlapping sets of title coordinates shown at the top right (which is handled by Module:Coordinates and not the parser function), which... these 900 or so pages that the reverter complained about probably still have, which is the other side effect of having two display=title coordinates on a single page. But what you choose to ignore doesn't exist.... let's all just complain about wikidata.. sigh. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:18, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
I have some half-written bot code to move coordinates from the article text into the appropriate infobox parameter, but it still needs work (and then bot approval). Hopefully that would then mean that the alteration to the template can be restored without causing a conflict. I moved onto other things, though, I'll see if I can go back to this. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:33, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, that sounds like a good path forwards. Good luck with it. --Lord Belbury (talk) 10:07, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #343

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
  • Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (phab:T211120)
  • Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (phab:T209931)
  • Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (phab:T209957)
  • Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (phab:T191416)
  • Some more work on string length limits (phab:T154660)
  • Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (phab:T209399)
  • Fix some errors happening in production (phab:T208924)
  • More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

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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JarrahTree 07:04, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Replied. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:27, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for speedy response - have a very good christmas and new year ! JarrahTree 07:44, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #344

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
    • Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
    • Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
    • Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
    • Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)

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.


Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Guideline and policy news

  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
  2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

Technical news

  • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
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  • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
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Wikidata weekly summary #345

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.

Location map issue

Hello Mike. Can I ask for your help with regards to this issue, please? It seems like the cause is {{Infobox power station}}'s location map not using the local data when provided, but I cant seem to figure out that part of the code unfortunately. Happy New Year! Rehman 08:12, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Rehman! Mike, it looks like Jonesey95 has fixed the problem. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 16:24, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Happy New Year, RexxS! :-) Thank you Jonesey95! Best wishes, Rehman 03:13, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

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Hello MIke,

I noticed for Category:1966_in_the_United_States_by_state that the link on the side menu 'Wikimedia Commons' links to Commons:Category:1966 in the United States while the wikidata item corresponding to Category:1966 in the United States by state wikidata:Q8154351 has no prpoerty P373 and the link to Other sites indicates commons:Category:1966 in the United States by state.

Id onot understand this behaviour normally I would expect to see the link to 'Wikimedia Commons' in the Side menu to either point to the link to the Commons link indicated in wikidata or to the category indicated as P373 property on Wikidata.

Is there something I do not catch. thanks for your Feedback --Robby (talk) 22:48, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

@Robby: It's just a caching error, as I recently fixed that sitelink, see the page history and Category:1966 in the United States by state or territory (Q8154351). Adding "?action=purge" to the end of the enwp URL seems to have cleared it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:30, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. Is there any place to get more information on how long it can take for the cached information to be updated. I did till now never find this information and many times solved it with making a blind edit (in order to get maintenance categories up to date as some times even after days the corresponding maintenance category was no t yet updated). Thanks Robby (talk) 14:53, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
@Robby: My best estimate is around two weeks or a month here, but it depends on how well trafficked / edited the page or category is. Enwp seems to have much longer caching than Commons does. Null edits seem to be the way to go if needed, and I can do those by bot if needed, but that will increase the server loads so I try to do that as little as I can. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:56, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Possibly related bugs: T132467 and T157670. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:16, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #346

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
    • Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
    • Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
    • Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

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.


This Month in GLAM: December 2018



Headlines
  • Armenia report: Cooperation with Yerevan Drama Theatre Named After Hrachia Ghaplanian; Singing Wikipedia (continuation); Photographs by Vahan Kochar (continuation)
  • Australia report: 2019 Australia's Year of the Public Domain
  • Belgium report: Writing weeks German-speaking Community; End of year drink; Wiki Loves Heritage photo contest
  • Brazil report: Google Art and GLAM initiatives in Brazil
  • India report: Collaboration with RJVD Municipal Public Library
  • Italy report: Challenges and alliances with libraries, WLM and more
  • Macedonia report: Exhibition:"Poland through photographs" & Wikipedia lectures with children in social risk
  • Malaysia report: Technology Talk and Update on Wikipedia @ National Library of Malaysia
  • Portugal report: Glam Days '18 at the National Library of Portugal
  • Sweden report: Hats 🎩🧢👒🎓
  • UK report: Oxford
  • USA report: Holiday gatherings and visit to Internet Archive
  • Wikidata report: Wikidata reports
  • WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: pilot projects and multilingual captions
  • Calendar: January's GLAM events
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