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Wikidata weekly summary #454

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
    • Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
  • Development
    • Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
    • Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
    • Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
    • Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
    • Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
    • Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
    • Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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) 18:44, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2021



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Large Wikidata Query query

I'm trying to do several large WD queries to obtain a list of all en.wiki articles with a certain property, like this, but I always reach the timeout limit. VIAF ID (P214) is the largest query (~730k), but I need 5 others as well which also time-out (P7859, P244, P213, P227, P268). Do you know if/how I can get these lists?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:25, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: Try breaking up the query into parts - use something like 'LIMIT 100 OFFSET 100' at the end, then step the offset until you've retrieved all the values. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:32, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #455

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
    • Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
    • Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
    • Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
    • Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
    • Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
    • Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
    • Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
    • Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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) 17:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Tic on KELT-10 & XO-6

Hi Mike, Do you know what Tic should be disambiguated to on KELT-10 & XO-6?— Rod talk 10:21, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

@Rodw: I think it's the Tess Input Catalogue. I don't think we have an article for it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:54, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks - redlink added. Could you take a look at the "other designations" in the infobox of HD 77887. I've managed to work out some of the abbreviations but others escape me.— Rod talk 09:05, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
@Rodw: If you go to Simbad, under 'Identifiers', each of the identifier codes has a hyperlink to a definition. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks - that has helped fix all but CPD & bookmarked for future use.— Rod talk 09:24, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Instead of destroying my work, you could do something constructive, don't you think?

Stop pushing your autist problems on me or my work. The links are added for a reason; usefulness. Your destructive behavior is not. Stop it and spend your time on something constructive. Thanks. Tisquesusa (talk) 20:37, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

@Tisquesusa: Yes, I just saw your reverts. I was getting a sense of deja vu, and then I checked the category history. Your edit summary at [2] was particularly insightful (<redacted>). Why are you adding these links? They don't seem to match the rather specific topics you are creating categories for. Perhaps you could expand the category tree on Commons? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:43, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Escalated to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents after seeing your other edit summaries. Mike Peel (talk) 21:01, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Minor League Baseball categories with links to different ones on Commons

Just wanted to explain that the reason for several Minor League Baseball (MiLB) categories having links to Commons ones with different names is due to the recent MiLB league realignment. Each affected league with a category on Commons was replaced by a league with the corresponding category on the English Wikipedia. For example, the Texas League was replaced by Double-A Central, so Commons category Texas League appeared in English Wikipedia category Double-A Central. Even doing a search for a new league on the official MiLB web site merely shows the new league's name at the top of the replaced league's page. Thus, the teams and ballparks in the affected categories are applicable to the new leagues, but their corresponding Commons categories have not yet been created, or possibly will just be moved from the those of the old leagues. So, I temporarily linked to the existing Commons categories. Waz8:T-C-E 01:43, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

@Waz8: Ah, I see, thanks for the explanation. I think it's better to create the Commons categories first, or at least add some context on Commons, otherwise the links are rather confusing. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:57, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
OK, I will add a comment to each affected Commons category explaining the relationship before I add the Commonscat template back to the corresponding English Wikipedia category. If the changes were not so extensive due to subcategories, I would create/move the new leagues' categories myself (although that may eventually be the case). However, I am in the midst of helping to update the affected articles, templates, and categories here. Thanks! Waz8:T-C-E 17:17, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #456

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fixed wrongly encoded HTML in some messages in the Wikidata Bridge (phab:T272350)
    • Working on showing all languages in the language suggester for monolingual text Properties (phab:T124758)
    • Fixed an issue with spaces in external identifier URLs being replaced by "+" (phab:T271126)
    • Added a rate limit for creating Item IDs, which should help with decreasing the number of skipped Q-IDs (phab:T272032)
    • Fixed an issue where whitespace was stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
    • Fixing the case where you cannot easily edit negative quantities after saving (phab:T274129)
    • Working on making it possible to query for quantity values in the Query Builder (phab:T268942)

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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Nomination of Mandla Maseko for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mandla Maseko is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandla Maseko until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Hariboneagle927 (talk) 15:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2021

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Wikidata weekly summary #457

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Blogpost: Wikidata and Correspondence Archives (Enriching basic metadata with a knowledge graph)
    • Blogpost: The promise of Wikidata - How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source (at DataJournalism.com)
    • Video: Accra Archive Wikidata and Wikipedia Workshop (GLAMS Campaign Ghana) - YouTube
    • Video: COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Video: Identify and describe items of bibliographic interest (articles, monographs, authors) on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Video: Visualizing the global research ecosystem via Wikidata and Scholia - YouTube
    • Video: Demo: How to upload new bibliography and create dashboards on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Video: Reconciliation Open Refine Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
    • Video: Reconciling researchers to Wikidata via Google Sheets - YouTube
    • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
    • Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube
  • Tool of the week
    • EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
    • Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
    • Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
    • Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
    • Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
    • Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758)
    • Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (phab:T271126)
    • Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
    • Continuing to build out the Query Builder and focusing on input for quantity and date queries (phab:T268942 and phab:T272697)
    • Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.

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 – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

added TJMSmith
removed Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

added AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
  • A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
  • A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
  • There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

  • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
  • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Thank you!

Thank you for connecting the three awards pages for the Yorkton Film Festival to Wikidata. :-) LorriBrown (talk)

Structured data across Wikimedia is starting!

Hi Mike! I hope you're fine. :) I sent you an email some days ago about Structured Data Across Wikimedia (SDAW), the new WMF project that is about to start, and I wanted to be sure you received it.

Please do not feel pressured by this message! I'm just curious if you can (or want) to drop a line in the talk page, or if you know other user(s) that can be interested in the topic.

Hope to hear from you soon! --Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:14, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #458

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
    • Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
    • Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
    • Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items


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) 17:01, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2021



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Something's not quite right

Hi, Mike - please see this edit which I reverted, and then look at the user's TP. I'm wondering if maybe it has been hijacked? Atsme 💬 📧 21:10, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

@Atsme: Sorry, I'm mostly on a wikibreak at the moment, if you think the account's hijacked then you might want to post at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:55, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Something is quite right

... your evidence for RexxS. Just too late. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:50, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks. I hope it's not too late, but I know the odds are against it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:54, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
In my evidence, I posted one diff, of RexxS speaking of his/our passion for the project. I'm afraid his passion is gone, no matter how the outcome of the case. He wouldn't be the first, and that's what makes me sad. Anyway, we who are stubborn enough to stay will have MUCH MORE work, without him doing it. Guess what, at church today, they sang my song of defiance ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
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