User talk:Mike Peel/Archive 52

Wikidata weekly summary #403

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

• Discussions
  • Versionize property definitions ?
  • Closed request for comments: Non-free content

• Events
  • Past: Warsaw, 13-14 February: Workshop to develop the data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
  • Upcoming: March 12, Amsterdam: Datasprint Amsterdam Time Machine/Golden Agents with the ECARTICO and ONSTAGE datasets, involving Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: FindingGLAMs Wikidata editing challenge, improve data about cultural heritage institutions, from February 17th to 23rd

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata is just a matter of facts", blog post on the Workshop to develop a data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
  • Vandalism Detection in Crowdsourced Knowledge Bases by Stefan Heindorf

• Tool of the week
  • Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
  • Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
  • Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: gained territory from, gave up territory to
    • External identifiers: MOCAGH ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, AnimalBase ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, Canmore object-type ID, Clavis Clavium ID, CYRI ID, DANFS ship ID, Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, Gamekult game ID, Gamekult platform ID, GBAtemp game ID, Mendeley publication ID, Museums in Austria Code, Médias 19 ID, SerialStation game ID, TheTVDB person ID, TrueAchievements series ID, Canmore monument-type ID, Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Jurisdiction List number, Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: energy consumption per transaction, yearly energy consumption, church patron saint, national identification number, Democracy Index, business model, intended subject, examination jury, depicted format, DoME artist ID, historic county, код персоны на elibrary.ru, applies if regular expression matches
    • External identifiers: Patamu Certificate ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Annuaire des Maîtres d'art, Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ID, GameReactor game ID, Fandango performer ID, Cell Ontology ID, ColecoVision.dk ID, BioLexSOE ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Colecovision Zone ID, Catalogue of Life ID, GreatSchools ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Mirabile author ID, Mirabile saint ID, Kanopy ID, Czech War Graves Register
  • Query examples:
    • Place names of Bergamo: map with pronunciation audio files (source)
    • Number words whose number of letters equals their value: with Lexemes (source), with labels (source)
    • Graph of the extended Kardashian clan (source)
    • Scottish monuments with a commons sitelink, but no image (source)
    • Number of films with LGBT representation per country (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
  • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
  • Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
  • Style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
  • Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
  • Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (phab:T244722)
  • Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
  • Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #404

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• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
  • Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)

• Events
  • Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
  • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
  • When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
  • Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
  • “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
  • Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
  • soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
  • Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
    • External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
    • External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID
  • Query examples:
    • Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
    • SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
    • countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
    • places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
    • Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)

• Development
  • Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397)
  • Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
  • making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
  • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
  • showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433)
  • More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
  • Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
  • Fixing various issues causing errors in production
  • Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (phab:T196165)
  • Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (phab:T242769)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

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The Signpost: 1 March 2020

• From the editor: The ball is in your court

• News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide

• Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews

• In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation

• Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?

• Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed

• By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?

• Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman

• In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019

• Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone

• From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?

• Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark

• Gallery: Feel the love

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator

• Opinion: Wikipedia is another country

• Humour: The Wilhelm scream

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
• A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

• Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Wikidata weekly summary #405

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Kostas20142

• Events
  • March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
  • July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
  • Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
  • Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
  • About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
    • Explainer video with a beginner-level introduction about Structured Data on Commons
    • Connecting the work of three generations of decorative artists, with structured data, by Sandra Fauconnier
    • Structured Data on Commons and GLAM: open questions and fresh challenges, by Sandra Fauconnier
  • OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
    • External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
    • External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID
  • Query examples:
    • Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
    • British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
    • Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
    • People with profiles on the Washington Post website

• Development
  • Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
  • Bridge: more style adjustments
  • Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
  • Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:28, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #406

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
  • New request for comments: Restrictions on making items

• Events
  • WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
    • Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
  • The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson

• Tool of the week
  • wikibase-cli (Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a batch mode, and EditGroups support (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for feedback!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
  • EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at
    • External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subjects and panelists of the BBC radio programme In Our Time (source)
    • People affected by COVID-19
    • Map of hillforts in the UK (source)
    • Images for language items (source)

• Development
  • Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
  • Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
  • Fixing various production errors
  • Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
  • Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (phab:T196165)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

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This Month in GLAM: February 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue II, February 2020 Headlines Armenia report: Wiki project on Museums with My Armenia Brazil report: Moreira Salles Institute GLAM initiative in Brazil Finland report: The Helsinki then and now exhibition France report: GLAM related blogposts Indonesia report: Proposing collaboration with museums in Bali; First Wikisource training in the region Netherlands report: Students write articles about Media artists, Public Domain Day 2020, Wiki Goes Caribbean, WikiFridays at Ihlia - Wikimedia Nederland in January & February 2020 Norway report: Wikipedia editing workshop with the Norwegian Network for Museums Serbia report: Great dedication of librarians Sweden report: Historic photos; Support for international Wikimedia community; Library training tour; Many GLAMs improved on Wikidata UK report: Kimonos and Khalili Ukraine report: Winning photos Wiki Loves Monuments shown in different cities; Libraries Lead an All-Ukrainian Challenge USA report: Black History Month and Open Access Anniversaries Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Summary of pilot projects, and what's next Wikidata report: Leap into Wikidata! WMF GLAM report: New Team Leadership, GLAM-Focused Grants Review, OpenGLAM Declaration Research Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Too many images

Gooday Mike. As you are admin on en and Commons could you please take a look at Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society?

I have Ronhjones' TP on my Watchlist, and started to basically respond at User talk:Ronhjones#Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Wikipedia Photos Copyright as a courtesy acknowledgement due to Ron's absence since Apr 2019. Then I found the article is swamped with 30+ images, mostly contrived photo-calls of visiting dignitaries. Whereas this may be acceptable for hosting at Commons, I didn't know how to proceed with deleting from the article as unencyclopedic and of little value to the reader, or how to convey this adequately to the enquirer. It's been top-templated and I didn't just want to add, ferinstance, {{too many photos}}. Thx.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 15:20, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

@Rocknrollmancer: Wow, that is a lot of images, particularly at the bottom of the page. I think they're all in scope for Commons, though, and copyright seems to be OK - but would be better with OTRS or at least the name of the photographer(s) for credit. I'll quickly go through them to add them to the correct commons category, but I think someone (you?) needs to go through the article and remove at least half of the less notable ones... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:26, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

The photos are all now in commons:Category:Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:37, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

OK, thanks, appreciate that.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 23:04, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Many of the images could be cropped down a bunch, which would help as well. - NiD.29 (talk) 23:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

@Rocknrollmancer and NiD.29: Let me know when I can help further. If you crop the images, it would probably be best if you kept the originals and had the cropped versions at different filenames, of course. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:52, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm just making a start on the deadlinks x5 (see what the bot finds). This all seems entirely promotional, written by involved individuals - I haven't even scanned the history as I would normally, or the view stats. In the draft I scrubbed, I mentioned that the images would be better at a social media portal rather than an encyclopedia. Cheers.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:09, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #407

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject

• Events
• Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
  • Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
  • Postponed:
    • Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
    • WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
  • Cancelled:
    • Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
  • Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
  • Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
  • Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
  • Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts

• Tool of the week
  • TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New help page: Suggesters and selectors
  • All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
  • Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
  • QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
  • News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
    • External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
    • External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of films about pandemics
    • World map of hospitals (source)
    • English and Scottish health trusts & boards (source)
    • Videogames nominated at the Pégases award (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
  • Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths

• Development
  • Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (phab:T165648)
  • Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (phab:T247478)
  • Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (phab:T245865)
  • Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (phab:T243779)
  • Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (phab:T246873)
  • Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (phab:T246349)
  • showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (phab:T235208)
  • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

15 years on Wikipedia!

Hey, Mike Peel. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 13:23, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Mike Peel/Archive 52,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 13:23, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: Thanks! Unfortunately, the society system doesn't seem to be compatible with having a single user page on meta, it might be better as a list rather than a category. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:17, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Basketball team articles

Hi @Mike Peel: I requested the move due to disambiguation caused under the name Croatia men's national basketball team, when posting the fixtures schedule for the national team. The name Croatia national basketball team being the original base name eliminates this issue of disambiguation, when completing this task. Similar pages like the Croatia national football team page doesn't cause this issue of disambiguation with the fixtures schedule, due to the page being under the original base name and not differing under another name like for example Croatia men's national football team. Hopefully this gives a bit more clarity on it. 12:02, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #408

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
  • Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
  • Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
  • Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
    • External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
    • External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent common ancestors of George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II
    • Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks
    • COVID-19 case statistics for India:
      • State-level map
      • State-level line graph
    • Lakes spanning at least 3 countries (source)
    • Michelin starred restaurants in Luxembourg (source)

• Development
  • Federated properties: set up a test system (phab:T247734)
  • ore work on search for remote properties (phab:T246349)
  • Bridge: more work on messages about the license (phab:T238728)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Commons and category now implementing your idea

I've updated {{Commons and category}} and {{Commons and category-inline}} to implement your idea of only showing one link if only one of the gallery and category is defined (either in the arguments or in wikidata). I think this will serve our readers with fewer links that lead to the Commons search engine, when there is a perfectly good link available. — hike395 (talk) 14:42, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

• From the editors: The bad and the good

• News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

• Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

• In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

• Discussion report: Rethinking draft space

• Arbitration report: Unfinished business

• In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

• Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19

• Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia

• From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

• Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world

• Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia

• News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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Wikidata weekly summary #409

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

• Events
  • Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
  • Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
  • Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
  • Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
  • Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
  • Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
  • Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
  • Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • About Wikidata dumps:
    • No second XML dump in March
    • RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
  • Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
  • Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
  • wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
    • External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
    • External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID
  • Query examples:
    • People born more than a year after one of their parents
    • UK MPs who were born after their father's death (source)
    • National flags representing mountains (source)
    • Map of Umgebindehäuser (Upper Lusatian houses) (source)
    • Map of megaliths in Morbihan (Bretagne) (source)

• Development
  • Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
  • Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
  • Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
  • Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
  • More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
  • Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
  • More research on suggesting references

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
  • Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes

Cabayi • Lee Vilenski

Boing! said Zebedee

Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT

Money emoji → Moneytrees

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes

NativeForeigner

Oversight changes

Someguy1221

Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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Wikidata weekly summary #410

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
  • Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
  • Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
  • Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
  • ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
  • SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
  • Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
  • Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron

• Tool of the week
  • Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
  • Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
  • New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
  • schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
  • Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
  • wb_terms table will be emptied today
  • Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
    • External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
    • External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • Country-level citation graph for #COVID19 (source)
    • Movies from artfilm.ch in free access (source)
    • Topic co-occurrence graph in the SARS-CoV-2 & #COVID19 literature (source)
    • Fibulas in Musée Saint-Raymond with date, material, location of discovery

• Development
  • Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
  • Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
  • Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
  • Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
  • Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:30, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Info boxes

Hi Mike,

We met briefly at the last WikidataCon in Berlin; I always wanted to contacted you on your presentation. You spoke about Info boxes and I realised it would not be that simple. I am organising a Wikibase outside Wikidata, the FactGrid, the product of a joint venture with Wikimedia Berlin. Info Boxes had been on the list for all our document pages. This is a typical document page: [D-Q6641. The titles are not very helpful; they are dsesignd to match the respective Q-number, in this case our Item:Q6641.

I wonder whether you could help us to build a single info box for such a page. It could be full width and it would give the basic information of the dataset.

I guess I would know all the rest if you managed to bring a single piece of information from the Item onto the document page, like the author or the title. If you feel tempted to try your luck I'd immediately give you an account to play with. --Olaf Simons (talk) 21:01, 6 April 2020 (UTC)