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Wikidata weekly summary #417

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-05-25.

  • Tool of the week
    • If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.
  • Development
    • Federated properties: Linking to the source wiki immediately after saving a statement (phab:T251776)
    • Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
    • Documentation for federated properties (phab:T252991, phab:T252861)
    • Last steps of getting the distributed game "Reference hunt" ready
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
    • Track errors people encounter when using the Bridge (phab:T252683)

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.

May

May · Mary · Monteverdi

Did you know that we run a list of people for whose life we are thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:08, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK ... that on Good Friday 2020, Benedikt Kristjánsson sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of Bach's St John Passion, broadcast live from the composer's burial place? - listen --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

today a composer pictured who wrote a triple concerto for violin, harp and double bass, in honour of the composer who died and my brother who plays double bass. - No problem with that person's infobox, - it depends on who writes an article, but never say "own" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:19, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Australian Wool Board. Wool as a major industry. Your quite incomprehensible behaviour

You can't see any pictures on Commons that relate to the board. The board existed to try to sell wool when synthetics began to take over. You seem to belong to a group of blind admins with an interest in categories. Marcocapelle finds it so impossible to comprehend what any of it is about. It needs to be up his nose or something! Until 50 or 60 years ago it involved one of the world's major industries, clothing people and keeping them warm. From the beginning of time. Today wool to your coterie is insignificant and unworthy of anything but a passing mention. Your statement indicates your extremely limited view of your world. Am I angry. YES ! Eddaido (talk) 09:13, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

@Eddaido: Please calm down. My interest here is in cleaning up the links between Wikipedia and Commons. I have nothing against the topic of this article: it just doesn't make sense to me for it to link to commons:Category:Wool but not to wool here. Looking around, I see British Wool Marketing Board links to it in the first sentence, perhaps that could be done here too? If there is any freely licensed media files about the Australian Wool Board, perhaps they could be uploaded to Commons and then we could have a Commons category for the board? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:27, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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

Administrator changes

added CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
removed Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

removed SQL

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.
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Wikidata weekly summary #418

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The former WikiProject iNaturalist was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist.
    • Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment
    • Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations!
    • As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
    • Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
    • New domain toolforge.org to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15.
    • Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
  • Development
    • More documentation for federated properties
    • Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
    • More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge
    • Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870)
    • Fix various bugs on Wikibase
    • Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690)
    • Create reports for the reference hunt game

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) 15:01, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

"Template:Infobox World Heritage Site/Wikidata" listed at Redirects for discussion

Information icon A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:Infobox World Heritage Site/Wikidata. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 7#Template:Infobox World Heritage Site/Wikidata until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:04, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #419

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
    • Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
    • Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
    • Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
    • Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211)
    • More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991) & preparing for the next steps
    • Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722)

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: May 2020



Headlines
  • Armenia report: Edit-a-thon dedicated to International Museum Day
  • Colombia report: A #1Lib1Ref to close the gender gap
  • Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref 2020 from 26 to 28 May in Côte d'Ivoire
  • France report: WikiArchives; IMD 2020: Cross-Chapter Collaboration
  • Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2020 recap; International Museum Day 2020
  • Italy report: New collaborations and contents!
  • Netherlands report: Analysis of Dutch GLAM-Wiki projects in relation to the Dutch Digital Heritage Reference Architecture, Content donation from Utrecht Archives, Detecting Wikipedia articles strongly based on single library collections and Collection highlights of the KB
  • Sweden report: Free music on Wikipedia; NHB webinars; Wikipedia in libraries – Projekt HBTQI
  • Switzerland report: International Museum Day 2020
  • UK report: Japanese art
  • USA report: Workshops & COVID-19 Symposium
  • Special story: Content partnership category - your help is needed
  • WMF GLAM report: GLAM metadata standards and Wikimedia projects
  • Calendar: June's GLAM events
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DYK for Galcerán Bridge

On 11 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Galcerán Bridge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the railings on Santa Cruz de Tenerife's Galcerán Bridge were replaced in 1954 to reduce the number of suicides? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Galcerán Bridge. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Galcerán Bridge), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #420

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.
  • Development
    • Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
    • Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
    • Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
    • Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
    • Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
    • More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
    • Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (phabricator:T252800)

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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:59, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #421

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • The currentDate gadget automatically adds the current date when using retrieved in a reference.
  • Development
    • Continue working on the infrastructure review, in order to address the most pressing infrastructure issues
    • Make the Wikibase.git code base PSR-4 compatible (phab:T172368)
    • Work on an overview of existing types of coupling in Wikibase between Repo and Client (phab:T254902)
    • More work on consistency of UX components
    • Handle failed requests to the federation source wiki when saving statements (phab:T254889)
    • Catch federated properties exceptions in getParserOutput and display error page (phab:T255010)
    • Improve the permissions for Blazegraph in wdqs docker image (phab:T237248)
    • Create entitySources config for WMF production wikis (phab:T254315)
    • Participate in fixing several incidents (phab:T255855, phab:T255410)

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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:55, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Commons category

Hi Mike, I would like to kindly suggest that you revert this change [1] It is not an improvement, because numerous writers of the Serbian litearture were not born in Serbia, such as Jovan Dučić, Aleksa Šantić, Svetozar Ćorović, Vladan Desnica, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Milan Milišić, Ivo Andrić etc. Therefore - the category is a bit misleading. ty -- Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 21:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

@Sadko: Done. I would suggest renaming the article to indicate that it is about the literature in the language rather than from the country. Does Category:Serbian literature also cover the literature in Serbian or is that about the country? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:37, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
The Wiki article is Serbian literature, as far as I can see, and the description is good. We also have Category:Literature of Serbia. Maybe it would be good to make "Literature of Serbia" a subcategory? Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 21:50, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Commons category link in Emilio Lopez Zamora dam

Hi Mike, thanks for improving my Emilio Lopez Zamora dam article. Just for my own knowledge, was the commons category link misplaced because it wasn't exactly about the article (link was about dams in Mexico)? Or was it literally in the wrong place in the article? Or maybe there was another reason. Your help is very much appreciated! Alan Islas (talk) 23:50, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

@Alan Islas: Because it wasn't about the article, the positioning was good. In this case it was actually straightforward to create a new category, so commons:Category:Emilio Lopez Zamora Dam now exists, and I've added back the commons category link to the article. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:05, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Oh ok, I tried to fit it into the closest existing category. Next time I will create the appropriate one. Thank you! --Alan Islas (talk) 14:08, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 June 2020

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Correction of a Link (lower case to upper case)

Hi there, Need some help. Can you help me to make "Mohamed_wisham" to "Mohamed_Wisham" in the url. (letter 'w' to be made "W")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_wisham

Thanks Existance 21:28, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:20, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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