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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2024)

Visualization of one newton of force Hello, HeartGlow30797. The article for improvement of the week is: Newton (unit) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Shovel • Antacid Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 January 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #612

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

Discussions

• New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

• Past
  • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
  • PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
  • Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
  • The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
  • Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
• Videos
  • "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
  • Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
    • AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
    • Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

• Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
  • simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, ‎Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • If non-metric ()
  • civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London (source)
  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
  • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
• Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
• Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

Development

• IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
  • We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
  • We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
• mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Cinematography
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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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Tech News: 2024-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [2][3]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 60

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023

• Three new partners
• Google Scholar integration
• How to track partner suggestions

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TheWikiWizard - February 2024

Humour

• Does editing Wikipedia burn calories? If it does, does it count as exercise? ;)
• TWW is back from being long dormant. It was a nice "Hibernation" lol.

Wiki(P/M)edia news

• Voting regarding the Universal Code of Conduct is taking place on Meta Wiki. More information can be found via the link
• EN Wikipedia has a few new Administrators following their successful RFA!
• Information on the upcoming Steward Election on Meta can be found here
• A new feature called Reference Previews has been created. More information: here

Editor's Notes

• I apologise for the delay, I was not able to edit until recently.
• I hope to have TWW published more frequently from this issue onwards. Ideally at least every 2 months. Since its near the end of the month, I decided to name this issue February.
• We are always looking for help! If you would like to help out, please let us know!

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2024)

Mahatma Gandhi with a young Indira Ghandi, during his fast in 1924 Hello, HeartGlow30797. The article for improvement of the week is: Hunger strike Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Newton (unit) • Shovel Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 January 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #613

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
• New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Books: Banned books, Wikipedia and Wikidata - Volume 54, Number 2, 2023 of the focus on International Library and Information Work. Professor Núria Ferran of Women and Wikipedia.
• Papers
  • Assisted Knowledge Graph Authoring: Human-Supervised Knowledge Graph Construction from Natural Language - a Web app allowing domain experts to create natural language Wikidata-based knowledge graphs. By Gohsen & Stein (2024).
  • Large Language Models are Superpositions of All Characters: Attaining Arbitrary Role-play via Self-Alignment - Lu, K., Yu, B., Zhou, C. & Zhou, J., (2024),. This paper explores using Knowledge Graph data silos to enrich interactions and dialogues with AI NPC's in roleplay videogames.
  • Narrowing the Knowledge Evaluation Gap: Open-Domain Question Answering with Multi-Granularity Answers - evaluating predicted answers against a set of multi-granularity answers based on Wikidata. By Yona et al, (2024).
• Videos
  • Introduction to Wikidata Query Tool - Learn A Wiki Skill (LAWS). If you are a Wikidata beginner, enjoy this video provided by Open Foundation West Africa.
  • Wikibase Cloud For Cultural Heritage Data Online and the SNARC Hub for Name Authority Records relating to Wales and the Welsh Language, with Jason J. Evans.
  • How to use Wikidata in research: good practices for using and sharing open data (Portugese). A training session by Rute Correia of Wikimedia Portugal.
• WikidataCon 2023 - (English Audio)
  • Wikifunctions: fulfilling one of Wikidata's missing promises? - with Denny Vrandečić
  • Structured data and collaborative curation: WikiProjects and Wikidata - with Daniel Mietchen.
  • Spreading our Data further with Wikibase REST API by L. Pintscher.
• Presentations:
  • Wikibase for a Research Project - A slidedeck provided by Ruth v.d. Bussche presented at Provenance Loves Wiki '24
  • Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 slides on Linking Boetticher and 19th Century Paintings through Wikidata and Wikisource
• Notebooks: GLAM2: Geolocated and Labeled Articles Map - much like the previously shared GLAM1 visually representing distribution of Good & Featured Articles but in a different visualisation.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata's insights for featured and good Wikipedia articles, a new Observable's notebook which helps exploring good articles or featured articles in any Wikipedia using Wikidata properties such as P31, P21, P106, P17, P27, etc.
• SpeedPatrolling - This tool helps Wikidata editors to patrol recent changes.
• metaphacts and Ontotext launch a new end-user interface on top of the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: try it here!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
• The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure(s) (mathematical structure(s) obtained by deleting some data of the subject)
  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
  • simulates (item simulated, imitated, or made to appear real by this item)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
  • combines media (media files that composes this media file)
  • clerked for (this person has held a clerkship with the judge)
• Newest External identifiers: RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju word ID, Stage username, Qué series ver series ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, ‎Playstation Store concept ID, Pallaalcentro player ID, Rowing Canada ID, Rugby Database ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, Nebula channel ID, fiba.basketball player ID, Académie de Stanislas member ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Bandcamp track ID, NientePopCorn movie ID, NientePopCorn series ID, NientePopCorn person ID, Bavarian school ID, BookBrainz edition ID, British Pathé asset ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID, Merkur author page, ‎Globoplay ID, BindingDB ID, FFTT player ID, Czech geological location ID, etymologiebank.nl ID, Bluesky handle, ‎Parliament of Victoria ID, ArchDaily architecture office ID, HistoryMakers Maker Directory ID, OKRB 011-2022 code, Plant Illustrations taxon ID, Plant Illustrations species ID, Bantumen Powerlist 100, International Hockey Federation competition ID, IndExs Exsiccata editor ID, COSL profile ID, ‎The Models Resource entity ID, HbVar ID, TracesOfWar award ID, Latindex 2022 ID, Flashback lexicon ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Number of delegates ()
  • afd-verbot.de person id ()
  • date of application (date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier)
  • authorized image (Proposing to distinguish images with reliable source from GLAM partners or cultural institutions)
  • Dejure.org-Schlagwort (de) (searchword in Dejure.org)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: VD 17 ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, MobiTUKI English-Swahili Dictionary entry, Singerman Identifier, X place ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, The StoryGraph Author ID, EDIT16 title & place IDs, Myths on Maps Identifier, Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, Archives départementales du Vaucluse Fonds ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, Sundance Institute Archive ID, Mindat taxon ID, notify.moe ID, nimi.li id, Nintendo eShop (UK) ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • The 100 smallest mountains in France (source)
  • French Prime ministers ordered by age when they start in office (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 - The International Botanical Congress (IBC) takes place once every six years. The organisers of this WikiProject see this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata and to train them in its use. We will also use this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany.
  • WikiProject Health Data Space - This project is about organising data related to health data spaces, in particular the efforts to create a European Health Data Space. Initially it will focus on Sweden.
• Newest database reports: Differences in birth and death dates - This is list of reports when birth date or death date in Wikidata differs from other sources:
• Showcase Items: Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513) - NASA and ESA space telescope (launched 1990)
• Showcase Lexemes: šťastný (L204262) (Czech) - having luck, fortune, happy. This is our first Czech showcase lexeme and it just so happens to be the largest Lexeme on Wikidata!

Development

• [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
• Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
• mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
• IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
  • We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (phab:T355293)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Diplomacy
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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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Tech News: 2024-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [4]
• There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [5][6]
• On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrKodu page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [7]
• Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [8]

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024

• News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail

• Opinion: Until it happens to you

• Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry

• In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

• Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

• Comix: We've all got to start somewhere

• Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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