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Tech News: 2023-28

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

• The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
• Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [1]
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [2]
• The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
• The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [3]
• Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [4]

Future changes

• There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [5]
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:54, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #584

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
    • MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)

• Events
  • Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?
    • Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
    • The humble guide to building an asset library
  • Papers
    • OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
    • "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
    • A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • Videos
    • Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube
    • Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • LD4 conference (YouTube)
      • Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
      • Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
      • Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
      • WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
      • Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
      • How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • autosuggest value (qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject)
    • External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
      • Founder of ()
      • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
      • timetable ()
      • Canadian Archival Information Network authority record ()
    • External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword
  • Query examples:
    • List of data journals at Wikidata (source)
    • Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
    • WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)

• Development
  • Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510)
  • EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
  • mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832)

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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:54, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-29

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

• We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
• MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [6]
• The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [7]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #585

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
    • Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
  • Ongoing
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation
    • Wikibase and reconciliation, by Adshore
    • Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology
  • Papers
    • Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - YouTube
    • WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - YouTube
    • WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - YouTube
  • Dataviz
    • Wikicommunes (See also the thread on Mastodon)

• Tool of the week
  • Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
      • login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
      • registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
    • External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Threads username, Dutch word ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
    • External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs, IbsenStage ID, TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme (source)
    • Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs (source)
    • People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Henrik Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661).
    • WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library at the Getty Research Institute (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
  • mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149)
  • Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
    • Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
    • Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
    • You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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 · Mohammed Sadat(WMDE) 15:41, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-30

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

• On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:20, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #587

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

• Discussions
  • Welcome to our new admin Yahya! (see the closed request)

• Events
  • The deadline for submitting your proposals for WikidataCon 2023 is July 31st (23:59) anywhere in the world. Submit your proposals at https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata, Elisavet Koutsiana et. al.

• Tool of the week
  • osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
      • login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
      • registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
      • shortcode (string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:))
      • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
    • External identifiers: Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, Spotlight PIN ID, myjewishitaly.it ID, Minerba One Data Indonesia ID, Wikibase World ID, Open Yearbook org id, ProQuest publication ID, Friedländer ID, FIGC player ID, hitparade.ch song ID, Theapolis theatre ID, IbsenStage ID, IMDb keyword
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
      • Project partner (property to list the partners of a project or an event, when different from the organizing body.)
    • External identifiers: TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID, BHL item ID, GamerProfiles Game ID, identifiant Pouët d'un groupe de démo, identifiant Pouët d'une démo, identifiant Pouët d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Kastelenlexicon ID, SEVIS school ID, Xiaohongshu User ID, Musée d'Arts de Nantes ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of people in the NZThesisProject with no assigned gender (source)
    • Cultural institutions having a Mastodon handle (source)
    • Maps of places in Rennes with an article on French Wikipedia, color-coded by number of pages on the Wikimedia Projects (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (phab:T339356) (new route)
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab:T338383) (new route)
      • GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
    • We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
    • We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
  • mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab:T338330)

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) 14:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-31

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

• The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [8][9]
• The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [10]

Problems

• It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
• Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [12]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:54, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #588

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Submit your proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023. Deadline has been extended to August 20, 23:59 anywhere in the world.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: Creating Interactive Map Visualizations of Settlements with Wikidata and Python
  • Videos: Wiki Workshop 2023 recording YouTube playlist

• Tool of the week
  • WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
  • Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
  • The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in phab:T343419.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National Union of Composers of Ukraine person ID, Encyclopaedia Islamica ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Virksomme ord ID, ‎Swetrails route ID, European Bridge League ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, IMVDb artist numeric ID, Team France athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • disinherited (someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of [[Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary]])
      • conference schedule (Conference schedule in Pentabarf XML format)
      • state of transmission
    • External identifiers: Works Diamond Catalogue ID, Editions Diamond Catalogue ID, NFSA ID, Identifiant Médiathèque Numérique CVS, DCB Number, wadoku id, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Mémoire déposé sur DUMAS, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, BG EGN, Google Scholar Organization ID, fiba.basketball player ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We continued the work on giving them the same termbox as Items and Properties (phab:T324235)
    • We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (phab:T339924, phab:T339921, phab:T339925, phab:T343231)
    • We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)

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) 13:05, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-32

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

• Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [13]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VII, July 2023 Headlines Albania report: Wiki Photowalk Albania and Kosovo, 2023 Argentina report: First batch of a big upload Australia report: Where's The Source? Adding Citations to Wikipedia Brazil report: Two new GLAM-wiki partnerships and Three large uploads France report: New milestone reached: already 500 portraits of geographers uploaded on Commons India report: Open Knowledge Fellowship by Heritage Lab and Wikibase set foot in India Netherlands report: Videos and filmmakers of Africa, Open Churches Photochallenge and Wiki goes Caribbean meet-up in Dutch National Archive Poland report: EU GLAM Coordinators; WikiMatejko; Polona; internship program Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence raises the standards UK report: Roads, Kingdoms and Assassins USA report: WikiWednesday Salon; New York Botanical Garden; Meetup San Diego Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Join Wiki Loves Living Heritage at Wikimania! WMF GLAM report: WiLMa updates Calendar: August'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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Wikidata weekly summary #589

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
    • WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
  • New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
  • Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
    • Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux
    • The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project
    • Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more
  • Papers
    • Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph
    • The World Literature Knowledge Graph
    • Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap
    • Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata
    • FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts
    • SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON
    • Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2
    • Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)
    • KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach
  • Notebooks
    • SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity (paper)
    • Movie settings and population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
    • Wikidata study day
    • SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup
  • Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia, Egon Willighagen et al.

• Tool of the week
  • Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
  • WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Steam Deck compatibility rating (official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not)
      • name version for other gender (use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes)
      • Curator of (has curated a collection or (art) exhibition)
      • Philippine middle name ()
    • External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors (source)
    • Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release (source)
    • Objects in Dresden with significant event (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
    • WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363, phab:T340006)
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
    • We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
  • IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454)

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!

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This Month in Education: July 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 7 • July 2023

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In This Issue

• Wikimedia Kaduna Connect Campaign
• Wikimedia Serbia published a paper Promoting Equity in Access to Open Knowledge: An Example of the Wikipedia Educational Program
• Wikimedia and Education Kailali Multiple campus
• WikiCamp in Istog, Kosovo: Promoting Knowledge and Nature Appreciation
• Wiki at the Brazilian National History Symposium
• US & Canada program reaches 100M words added
• Renewed Community Wikiconference brought together experienced Wikipedians and newcomers
• Kusaal Wikipedia Workshop at Ajumako Campus, University of Education, Winneba
• Join us to celebrate the Kiwix4Schools Africa Mentorship Program Graduation Ceremony
• Activities that took place during the presentation of the WikiEducation book. Educational practices and experiences in Mexico with Wikipedia and other open resources in Xalala, Veracruz from the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
• 62+ Participants Graduates from the Kiwix4Schools Africa Mentorship Program
• “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” course launched in Ukraine
• OFWA and Goethe Institute Host Wiki Skills For Librarians Workshop-Ghana

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