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Wikidata weekly summary #347

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
    • The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
    • New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
    • Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata
  • Development
    • Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
    • Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
    • Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
    • Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
    • Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
    • Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
    • More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

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.


Link page from wikimedia.Commons with page exisiting on en.wikiipedia with no existing item on wikidata fails

Hello Mike,

I just created a new task on phabricator Link page from wikimedia.Commons with page exisiting on en.wikiipedia with no existing item on wikidata fails which might interest you. Feel free to contribute there.

Thanks --Robby (talk) 22:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #348

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
    • Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
    • Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
    • Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
    • Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
    • Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
    • Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
    • Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
    • Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
    • Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
    • Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)

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.


Template:Commons category

Articles like Belvoir station no longer display the correct link. Can you find a way to fix this or revert your most recent edit to the template? Cards84664 (talk) 00:38, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

It looks like @Ferret: fixed it with this revert, and has protected that template to stop it from happening again. I'm running through Category:Pages with script errors with null edits to clean up the caching errors from this. @RexxS: I guess that edit completely broke WikidataIB for a change in the date module to have affected the commons link? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 00:55, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Can someone arrange for a scan of unprotected high risk modules? This previously happened with Module:I18n/complex date as well, back in November. That case was unintentional and meant well, but this one was deliberate vandalism (User is blocked now, see their other contribs). -- ferret (talk) 00:57, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
That's not something I know how to do beyond checking the dependencies of Module:WikidataIB, sorry. Mike Peel (talk) 00:58, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
I left a quick section at WP:AN#Scan/check for unprotected high risk modules?, maybe someone there will recall who worked on it last. -- ferret (talk) 01:07, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
@Ferret: Thanks. Your estimate of the number of transclusions is a bit off, BTW - it's actually 787,500 (as {{Commons category}} uses it now). In reality, around 3,000 articles were actually affected, though, due to caching. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 01:12, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Yeah I was just looking at that myself and boggling at the number. 22K I think was just for IBVG. Tweaked AN post to match. -- ferret (talk) 01:17, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
I've template-editor-protected Module:ISOdate, which has the same transclusion count (as it's transcluded the same way). Maybe @Trappist the monk and MusikAnimal: know how to find any others (since they protected the other modules I just checked)? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 01:43, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module:DateI18n&action=history - needs protection and range block --RexxS (talk) 03:17, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
@RexxS: protected -- ferret (talk) 03:20, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Probably best to move this to the AN thread. Johnuniq found another one too. -- ferret (talk) 03:26, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Ferret. I had to create that module as we already had a Module:Date which is different from the Module:Date expected by the original Module:Complex date. I really need to spend some time integrating as much code as I can into WikidataIB to improve its portability. --RexxS (talk) 03:33, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #349

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Started development on Shape Expressions
    • Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
    • Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
    • Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
    • Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

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 Education: January 2019

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Pi Bot malfunction

Pi Bot removed a useful link to commons:Category:Minkowski diagrams at Minkowski space. JRSpriggs (talk) 01:47, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

@JRSpriggs: Thanks for letting me know. The 'bullet' parameter doesn't actually exist in the template, so pi bot wasn't looking for it. I've tweaked the code to fix that. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:36, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

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Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

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Template:Planet listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Planet. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Planet redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Gonnym (talk) 12:12, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

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Wikidata weekly summary #350

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

Manchester meetup 36 - 9 June 2019

As you attended one of the previous two Manchester meetups and/or expressed an interest in being notified about future ones, this is a heads-up that I have started organising a meetup in Manchester on 9 June 2019 - details are at m:Meetup/Manchester/36. Please feel free to invite others with an interest in Wikimedia/Wikipedia to join us. Thryduulf (talk) 23:07, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

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Rigel

Hi Mike, running into a few differences of opinion at Rigel (thought, bugger it, if Betelgeuse is FA then why not Rigel) - questions about GAIA, visual magnitude etc. See talk page for discussion. All input appreciated. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:06, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

WBKE/WTCS Cats

Yeah, but the bot is moving the cat to one that is incorrect. The callsign is WBKE, not WTCS. That should be clear from the rest of the article. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:27 on February 10, 2019 (UTC)

@Neutralhomer: But it used to be WTCS? There's not much point changing the commons category link to the new callsign without actually moving the commons category to c:Category:WBKE. I've now done that for you. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:39, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, I appreciate that. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:50 on February 10, 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #351

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
    • Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
    • Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
    • Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
    • Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
    • Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
    • Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
    • Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
    • Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
    • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
    • Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)
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