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Wikidata weekly summary #391

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
    • The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.
  • Development
    • Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
    • Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
    • Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
    • Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
    • Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
    • Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #392

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
    • Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
    • Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
    • New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data
  • Development
    • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
    • More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
    • Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
    • More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
    • Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
    • Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
    • Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
    • Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)

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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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

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Wikidata weekly summary #393

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
    • Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.
  • Development
    • Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
    • Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
    • Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
    • Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
    • Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
    • Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
    • Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)

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) 16:27, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata - Aaargh

Mike, I created a category on commons for wheelchair basketball player Annabelle Lindsay (you would call her Q42665770) (c:Category:Annabelle Lindsay) and tried to add a {{Wikidata Infobox}} template to the page. It doesn't work; it says Wikidata ID not found. A search on Wikidata does find it, so I don't know what is wrong. Wikidata doesn't provide a mechanism for linking pages on Commons. Your assistance would be appreciated. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:54, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: You needed to add the sitelink to commons under 'other sites' like this - the infobox now works. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:28, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for that! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:36, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Commons Category:Gor_novels

Why did you create a new category when that means that the existing category (Category:John_Norman) contains no images now and won't in the foreseeable future -- only the new category as its sole subcategory?? It may satisfy some abstract sense of symmetry on your part, but it means that your addition has not provided any usefulness in categorizing images, which is actually the purpose of categories on Commons... AnonMoos (talk) 04:20, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

I've replied at commons:User_talk:Mike Peel. Thanks. 11:14, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #394

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
    • Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (phab:T239411)
    • DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (phab:T222497)
    • Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
    • Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)

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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This Month in GLAM: November 2019



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Weekly Summary #395

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.
  • Development
    • Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
    • Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
    • Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (phab:T240329)
    • More work on the new term store
    • Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (phab:T235745)
    • New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
    • Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (phab:T240316)
    • Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (phab:T227083)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:24, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata Observatory Code

Hi Mike. Do you have any idea why the infobox in article TRAPPIST displays [List of observatory codes#I40 I40] rather than I40? I can't spot the problem. The corresponding Wikidata page seems fine. Rfassbind – talk 04:33, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Liverpool Telescope is doing the same thing. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:41, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) I believe that I have fixed this problem by copying the working linking code from {{Infobox observatory}} to {{Infobox telescope}}. Affected pages may need a null edit. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:54, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
@Jonesey95 and Rfassbind: Thanks for fixing this before I even saw the issue. :-) Looks good to me now, sorry for forgetting that this bit of code was in the telescope infobox as well as the observatory one. (and hi from #954!) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Could you clarify

this edit

Commons:Category:Testudines seems perfectly sensible. Perhaps I am missing something? Sun Creator(talk) 20:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

@Sun Creator: Hmm, I think you're right, sorry. It had the same commons category as Category:Turtles - but that one needed changing to commons:Category:Turtles rather than removing the one in Category:Testudines, I think. How does that look now? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:30, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Fine with me. I imagine the issue stems from an almost ambiguous overlap of Commons:Category:Testudines and Commons:Category:Turtles to the point that you can't tell which category an item might be sorted. I've thought that a redirect from common name to nomenclature name as is done with Commons:Category:Human to Commons:Category:Homo sapiens might be in order, however I'm not confident enough about commons to know if that is appropriate way to go. Sun Creator(talk) 22:09, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Perhaps - but if there is a difference between the Category:Testudines and Category:Turtles categories here, that probably means that a distinction also needs to be made on Commons? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:11, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your work

I've noticed connecting my new aricles on minerals with Wikidata. Thank you for your work. I am very glad to see a good work here, which is somewhat different to what I saw (a misunderstanding, in general) when I first edited/added mineralogy-related papers at least 1 year ago. Cheers! Eudialytos (talk) 13:13, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

@Eudialytos: Thanks for writing the articles! I'm using the {{Commonscat}} template to find matching Commons categories/Wikidata entries, so if you can keep adding that to your articles then I'll continue matching them in the future. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:10, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Hello Mike Peel: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, DBigXrayᗙ Happy Holidays! 18:29, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

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"AAP disambiguation" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect AAP disambiguation. Since you had some involvement with the AAP disambiguation redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. DannyS712 (talk) 01:03, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Wash houses

hello Mike

I wish to question to your change of Lavoir from category from "Category:Wash houses in France by department" to "Category:Wash houses" Perhaps you should have added "Category:Wash houses" instead of changing ...

Why ? cf. "Category:Laundry places" which includes a similar "Baths and wash houses in Britain" and let's not forget that since the word lavoir originates in French, readers may also come here specifically to find out about French lavoirs

Can we please take this discussion offline by message exchange ? Otherwise I shall feel like undo is the solution (which is of course an equally questionable action) :)

Thank you jw (talk) 20:31, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

@Jwikip: "in France by Department" seems to me to be a bit random - it's better to point people to the main category and let them find what they want within its subcategories. It's also better to have one commons link rather than two. In this particular example I'd look at fr:Lavoir (bassin public) - which only points to "Category:Wash houses". Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:35, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Astronomy Edit-a-thon

Hi, with the IAU's newly founded Office of Astronomy for Education, we're thinking about having an Astronomy Edit-a-thon at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg, hopefully with a mix of astronomers, astronomy educators and astronomy-experienced Wikipedia editors. (We have a budget to bring a mix of interested people to Haus der Astronomy for a week, for instance.) Target of the Edit-a-thon would be to bring up to date, and improve at least to good article level, a set of basic lemmas related to astronomy, based on the Big Ideas in Astronomy collection of astronomy literacy. I noticed your name when I browsed WP pages, trying to get an idea of who was active in astronomy, and who was active in organising Edit-a-thons, and your name popped up in both – I also seem to remember that we interacted when I was bringing general relativity. Is this international astronomy edit-a-thon something you might want to become involved in? We're in the early planning phase, and having someone with your experience on board would be a great advantage. Markus Pössel (talk) 22:06, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

@Markus Pössel: Hi Markus, that sounds like a great idea! I'd be happy to help in any way I can, whether that's remote, in-person, and/or involved in the organisation of it, whatever is helpful. Let me know if you want to email/Skype about it and I'll send you a message off-wiki. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:23, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
@Mike Peel: Hi Mike, let's take this to e-mail then - you can find an e-mail that reaches me on the OAE page I linked above, and since IAC doesn't list your direct e-mail, yes, please send me a message off-wiki, and we can talk further! Markus Pössel (talk) 11:33, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
@Markus Pössel: Email sent. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:57, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #396

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last 2 weeks.
  • Tool of the week
    • The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties
  • Development
    • Worked on better error dialogues for the Wikidata Bridge
    • Investigated and fixed labels for some Properties not being shown (phabricator:T237984)
    • Continued working on the new database tables that replace wb_terms
    • Expanded documentation for 3rd party Wikibase installs
    • Continued working on making sure components in different areas of Wikibase can easily be shared to make development easier (phabricator:T240329)
    • Enjoying the holidays. Hope so are you :)
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