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In Greek wikinews
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@Ikan Kekek: If you are in freenode's IRC, then we can talk. What issue are you having? Can you point me to some posts that are getting through and they have not been deleted? Specific pages? Specific namespaces? Or is this fellow just doing shotgun tactics? — billinghurstsDrewth07:42, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
@Ikan Kekek: I have refactored to make additions easier and manipulable if you want to flick them b/w ns. It picked up for earlier edits, though I don't know what I am looking, or variations they make, eg. case change, spaces,
Here's an example of a post that got through. This fellow has some predictable patterns but also will just attack most anyplace without any particular reason. I haven't been on IRC. We can discuss specifics more in the response thread for the filter. Thanks very much for your help! Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:24, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
@Ikan Kekek: Yes, I saw that, please go to voy:enSpecial:AbuseFilter/examine/5226614 import filter 22 and test on the IP address as editor, and you will see success. I also had success on three other IP edits on that same filter. With these sorts of vandals, at enWS, and here at meta, we got the ability to block an account introduced, and I have craft filters to put a two hour block on the vandals, which has been really useful. One does need to drive out the false positives first prior to introducing that strategy. — billinghurstsDrewth11:31, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Let's keep in touch. One of my fellow en.voy admins who's more technically knowledgeable than I is concerned about the possibility of false positives. Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:43, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
One should always be concerned about false positives. That said, I have been doing this for some years now, and I try to keep it simple. There are numbers of other measures though without seeing the extent of the vandalism, one cannot tell. — billinghurstsDrewth12:44, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #449
Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video
Tool of the week
QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)
The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.
Research notes:
As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
We have preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[1]
The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[2] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
A large A/B test will start soon.[3] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. You can still turn it on or off for your own account in Special:Preferences.
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at notifications-talk.
Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention
Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)
Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
Wikibase Release Strategy
Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)
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if you are continuously blocking then who will create a page for my software? magic? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Satheeshsoft (talk)
@Satheeshsoft: Probably no one until it is notable, per the requirements for the encyclopaedias. Please read the information about what is pertinent for the sites prior to you spamming them. The more important question for you will be who will blacklist your domain if you keep spamming. 🙋 — billinghurstsDrewth05:24, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #454
Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube
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.
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)
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Hi. Your GIE got expired on 5 February 2021, but no one noticed it, so you still have the rights. Please request renew if you want to keep them. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 01:57, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
about edits on my user page
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Shegowandering (talk) 16:44, 11 February 2021 (UTC) I'm not sure if I'm inserting this message well. I have been allowed to link in my own blog to the user page (on wikipedia and wikivoyage). Because of that, when I decided to get active on other Wiki pages, I added the link to the user page. It wasn't for advertising, just because that's what I was previously allowed to do. @Shegowandering
Wikidata weekly summary #455
Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube
Tool of the week
UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)
Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
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)
Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[6]
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.
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
User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
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)
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.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[7]
Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
"Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
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
Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.
Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)
March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021(Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[8]
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.
Work on the first version of the Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (phab:T165061)
Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (phab:T275611)
Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (phab:T263730)
Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches
@KuboF Hromoslav: You raised the issue to get the attention of WMF and they have responded, that is the only realistic resolution that can take place in that forum in any means. What else can take place in the discussion forum Wikimedia Forum? If you have any issues for Metawiki, then please take them through the processes in place at metawiki, these exist and you can be guided through those by that community. — billinghurstsDrewth01:36, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, billinghurst! While I came in order for a specific action to be performed (not to express my frustration) and that action wasn't performed, your arguments make sense. Thank you! --KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 16:27, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #461
Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Closed request for adminship: Minorax, welcome onboard!
The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.
April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
April 8: Documentation Q&A
April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[9]
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.
We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)
Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hello Billinghurst, thanks for deleting the garbage and protecting the talk page! Much appreciated. Best regards, Bédévore (talk) 00:08, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.
Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)
Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).
Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.
Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements
Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube
Tool of the week
User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.
Take a list of cities in your country, add {{Item documentation}} in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
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Hello. Why were my edits reverted on the article "sockpuppetry" I won't take it as "disruptive editing" — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Number1victoryroyale (talk)
@Number1victoryroyale: Because they are inaccurate examples and definitely not universally accepted, as I said in my edit summary. Reverting an admin and just adding them back again was plain silly behaviour. Please use the talk page for discussion when you are reverted. — billinghurstsDrewth00:57, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
@Billinghurst. I understand now. Sorry for my disruptive editing. I left a message on the sockpuppetry talk page. I also really won't consider my edits on the article being "silly" They were disruptive as I now know. I must have been confused with something else
Wikidata weekly summary #466
Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021
Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021
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He is circumnavigating global lock. He is the owner of accounts, Tarik289 and Tarik298 which were blocked. Here is the proof.[8] He also copied his older user page in Turkish Wikipedia. You wrote this to your complain. I didn't copy anything but my old account. I am on the white list in Turkish Wikipedia like 5 months and i didn't do anything wrong and i got permission from admins at Tr Wiki. I never changed anything in Eng Wiki but i got banned again and again, why you do that while i did nothing wrong at Turkish Wikipedia. Pls ban me from eng wikipedia but do global unblock. Its my permission for not doing sock puppetry but (...) user called visnelma complain me for 4 time without saying that. 78.190.1.13214:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
I pasted something that was caught in the filters, without judgement on the post. If you have issues with a lock, talk to the stewards who locked you. stewardswikimediaorg — billinghurstsDrewth15:02, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)
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I daresay you might have thought of this already, but nonetheless it may be well to ask. Wouldn't it make sense to just delete that user talk page as blatant trolling by an LTA? I think it is not Willy as he's long gone, and that the account may have been hacked, but you can decide this better. Thanks, JavaHurricane11:49, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Who knows. They could just as easily edited somewhere else. There is little value in deleting, and on its own it is of little value. — billinghurstsDrewth11:52, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Lint issue
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Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to infoberd-bw.de
Upcoming
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
May 21-22, 2021 [10] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)
#1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
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) I just received your message, and I’d love to take you up on that offer. Can’t wait to see what you come up with. If it helps, I did create a list of all known t***** sockpuppets, so we can those in the filter. Not sure how to copy and paste my Pages document into a user talk page, so I just put the list on a website: https://writeanonymously.com/ Scroll down the posts until you see the one with the rainbow dots. That’s my list. Thanks, HelenDegenerate (talk) 14:56, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
@HelenDegenerate:w:special:abusefilter/1152. Tracking. There is nothing private about the filter or logs, well not at this stage, as it is just doing things very quietly with a gentle footprint. That may change, as any admin may add to it, or may change it. So I wouldn't paste information about it, where it is going to get high eyeballs, especially by LTAs. The thing about LTAs is to not be seen to be shocked or concerned, that is what they feed upon. They want to shock you, irritate you, have you react to them, aka feed the trolls for an emotional hit. So best to not give it to them. Noting that this user talk page is also watched and attacked by LTAs, and they are as boring, and repetitive as batshit, but some people have problems on celebrating normal successes. <shrug> — billinghurstsDrewth23:38, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Billinghurst,
In the "Notes" part of Special:AbuseFilter/72, the URL of the regex101 doesn't work because of the "/test" at its end, which should be removed. Can you do it please? Thanks!
Sure Jules* though we have refactored the regexes to make them somewhat humanly readable rather than that tangled ball of wool that you will see at the url. That newform doesn't migrate. — billinghurstsDrewth14:47, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Ok, thanks billinghurst. We found on fr-wp several false-positive because of the word "divorce"; it has been added in March 2021. Is that OK to remove it? — Jules*Talk18:15, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [11], June 1st.
Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)
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Greetings,
I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 26 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up under the appropriate section.
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Hello Billinghurst, I noticed you declined the addition of supertennisracquet.com to the spam blacklist. Could I ask you to elaborate more on the decline reason - you declined it so that the SPI could proceed, but it was closed by a CU with a suggestion to add it to the global blacklist to stop the spam. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 08:52, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
I also said that I added the domain to the revertlist for enWP and it is set to monitor for all wikis, so if it continues to be problematic we will know. I was presuming that enWP was managing the sockpuppetry and using the domain as an indicator. — billinghurstsDrewth09:28, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Question
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Replying from IRC..."core_stable" is updated whenever a new release is made, usually Xqt does that these days. If the patch is important/fixes something crucial a stable release could probably be made sooner rather than later. Or you could just copy the version of imagecopy.py from the "core" folder and run it directly until the stable one is updated. Legoktm (talk) 18:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
imagecopy.py was archived with 6.0 and is not actively maintained currently. There is no difference between stable and master branch. Should imagecopy.py restored? Or was imagetransfer.py meant? @xqt05:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
There was an improvement made for imagetransfer.py recently which also needs specialbots._upload to be updated (see phab:T267535). I intended to publish the next stable release at the end of this month. Or do you need it earlier? @xqt09:38, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
@Xqt: I stumbled on another work that needed to be moved from Commons to English Wikisource, so was looking to use the script that Inductiveload updated. It can wait, or it can be done by the alternate means I have been using. It was more working out which way I would go. Thanks. — billinghurstsDrewth12:15, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #471
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...
About pages in ja.wikipedia which you've marked with Template:delete
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I'm not sure if those are copy-pasted page from another wikipedia page. For example, about w:ja:Template:クライド・ジェロニミ, I thought it's a copy of page on Bambfan Wikipedia. But, it doesn't exist. So, I'd like to ask; where are the originals? Semi-Brace (talk) 22:12, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
@Semi-Brace: it is one of our rampant copy-pasters of English-language WP articles and templates, whether the article is wanted or needed at that space, they just copy and paste the article or the template. It can be deleted, and they will IP hop, and do it again. Do what you need to do with it. I am simply indicating that there is a xwikis issue with the editor's contributions. — billinghurstsDrewth23:58, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. I’m going to ask speedy-deletion as they contain only red-link, thus will not be used, and also copy-pasted (I’ve confirmed that). —Semi-Brace (talk) 01:21, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
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I have been seeing your abuse filter. This troll used the most Time IP 62.11.3.128 and Range 5.77.64.0/19. See [12]
However, there were always individual IPs that come from other ranges (which are not captured by my filter). All IPs come from Italy.
He creates redirects or spams with mini articles that partially contain English words.--𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫👤💬17:35, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
@WikiBayer:I am happy for you to merge that into your filter, I see no need for separate filters for the same target. Can I recommend that you have names or embed keywords within comments so that searches identify the purpose of the filter. I didn't find anything by searches. — billinghurstsDrewth22:48, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
@WikiBayer: With regard to filters like these, are we structuring per abuse(r) or are we structuring whether there are issues with ranges, so broad but shallow view? There are other ranges outside of this problem that need review, and I can think of another specifically, so your opinion is of value. — billinghurstsDrewth03:47, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the filter; I've been looking at this LTA for some time as well. I added an additional regex; as it is currently logging-only and there should not be too many false positives anyway. ~~~~ User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)18:33, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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Because if I remember correctly, you said something against Requests for new languages/Wikisource Literary Chinese, but if one day this RFC is passed, then I'm afraid we, include you, have to withdraw oppose comments like "hey it's an extinct (or an ancient/a historical) language so it shouldn't have Wikimedia wikis", because we have to judge language requests on, and only on, the activities, and nothing regarding languages themselves. Sorry if I'm canvassing you. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 00:54, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Mine was a logistical comment, neither a qualitative or quantitative argument. I talked about the size of communities and sustainable independent wikis. I made no comment about the validity of the language and its contributions. I am pretty certain that if the contributions do not fit into the current zhWS, then they should be at mulWS, and I would recommend that you work it out with those two communities which is the best place and better suited to host the works. I don't see the need for yet another wikis when we see so many wikis closed due to inactivity. A wiki is more than the infrastructure, it is community and sustainability. I have nothing further to add to an RFC as it is not about the language per se. Plus this is a languages committee issue per language proposal policy and any RFC is moot. — billinghurstsDrewth01:15, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Infostrada on it.wiki
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Hello, I noticed your removal of part of the above article as "supposed spam". This note just to inform you that the part of information removed was not spam but just reporting a commercial rebranding due to the fact that "Infostrada" is full part of Wind-3 telecom group and starting from a precise date, the name "Infostrada" simply disappear. Removing that information (that is the plain reporting of a key episode in the company's/brand's life) would result in a kind of misleading information, inducing the reader to think that that name and logo are still alive (they aren't anymore since several years now). I understand that you could have considered it as "spam" due to the sourcing editor, but this was one of the (rare) case where it was not. --L736El'adminalcolico 16:31, 31 mar 2021 (CEST)
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).
Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (phab:T284854)
Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219)
Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820)
Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
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Hi @Billinghurst: why you not gave patrol rights. This is a user right not a respect or Award that can be earned easiley.user right only gave by admin or Bureaucreate. MXX8 (talk) 14:34, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
If rights were earned here, then no member would have to request rights.I am the manager and bureaucrat of a wiki other than Wikipedia. If you feel that this right is earned, then you will given this right to me at the right time. Best Regards MXX8 (talk) 14:06, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Your account is 44 days old, and you have 24 edits here, and effectively only edited here for a day or two. There is zero chance that I am going to agree to you having a rollback right at this point of time, zero. I am not even prepared to grant you autpatrol rights. What do you even know about the function and culture of this wiki? I see no relevance that you manage a wiki or a bureaucrat elsewhere. I believe that your edits at SRG and SRGP are out of order, your account demonstrates no ability to make the assessments that you voice; and no evidence of any expertise at all. So where are we at now? — billinghurstsDrewth14:36, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #474
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [13], June 29th.
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!
Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
"en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)
User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
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Sorry, If you took it otherwise in my last comment but I was not intended to offend you. I was just trying to put my plan forward. Thankyou for your explanation. Iflaq (talk) 05:01, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I wasn't offended, and no requirement for an apology. I was attempting to get your focus, as if there was the observed requirement for sophisticated configurations of wikis, that would be the default. Another couple of competent and attentive administrators will do the wiki well. — billinghurstsDrewth07:32, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [14], July 13th.
A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube
Tool of the week
Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)
OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
@游魂: It is not ready, you need to put {{TNT}} and <tvar> in place so that the templates translate. Also to note that if a page is being prepared in a language other than English, that via the "Page information" link the underlying language of the page needs to be changed, otherwise that version would be taken as the English language version. I made that change. If you need further help, usually the best space for help or making requests like this is Meta:RfH. — billinghurstsDrewth00:11, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
Xabier Lezama
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Hi. I saw before you told about the situation on different wikis. Just want to inform you the IP 85.84.0.104 (Yep the main involved) has been deleting them on several. (Y tried to recover for it getting it deleted again. --Lost in subtitles (talk) 21:12, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
It uses its privileges in a "personal" campaign against the author, the publisher knowing that this article is referenced by reliable sources and verified worldwide under the control of the Wikidata authorities. Don't use your privileges at Wikipedia's expense for your specific wars. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk)
Rubbish. Let us talk about personal campaigns … I am addressing your conflict of interest editing. See w:WP:Autobiography for why this is a bad idea. See w:WP:Conflict of interest for why it is a bad idea. It is not only the articles that you create on yourself, it is that you insert your works into articles. You do not have an account in which you edit. You do not have a user page where a conflict of interest is expressed so that people can assess your edits against that criteria. What do we have instead? IP hopping. The issue was brought to metawiki following your evasive measures, your initial sockpuppetry, and your recreation of deleted articles. Where the biographies have been put before the communities for discussion as I see it the articles have been deleted by consensus of the communities. Now tell me that is a personal campaign. Lift your game, edit by the standards and the express policies that are in place to manage our articles. — billinghurstsDrewth14:59, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
The articles have not been eliminated by consensus of the communities, they have been eliminated without consensus just to see their label. The user Vexation informed you of a cosswiki of a radio station in more than 200 languages and you told him that it was a lot of work. His measuring stick is conspicuous by its absence, so it is a personal campaign. You know very well what spam is and you know perfectly well that it is not spam. Your problem is misinterpreting the rules and using them for your personal gain. A user account for what? If the first thing you do is block the user, and when you want to defend yourself and make another account, they accuse you of being a puppet. Never Mind The Bollocks, You are a well-organized mob, like your colleague Lost in subtitles who incessantly deletes and deletes articles without giving any explanation to the editors, or even sees the articles. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 17:09, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Rubbish. Let us talk about personal campaigns... An administrator tells another administrator to delete an article and then uses the argument that it has been deleted to remove it from other wikis. Improve your game. I don't create articles about me, that's a lie, see here:[[15]] I edit according to the standards and express policies that exist for managing our articles. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 23:25, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Re self-promotion and conflict of interest
Creating and solely adding information about yourself is an archetypal case of self-promotion
Doing the above noted editing at dozens of wikis without clearly contributing to the general wikis
Adding information about yourself without clearly identifying that it is you is clearly a conflict of interest to how the wikipedias have explained it
Repeatedly removing tags added by others requesting a deletion is clear conflict of interest
Not tagging articles where you have a conflict of interest to the notice of the community of the autobiographical and conflict of interest that you bring
Removing notes added by others alerting the community to situations that are within the process allowed by the community
You have created this situation for yourself
re-created articles without following the processes
undertaken sockpuppetry to get around the processes of the wikis without resolving the existing issues
not followed community expressed guidance on sockpuppetry, autobiography and conflict of interest
edited solely for your own promotion, not the general improvement of knowledge of the language encyclopaedias
Do not blame others for the situation you face, your ego and your approach is the issue. This is of your own doing.
It is not my job to educate you. It is not my job to critique each wikis processes. Nor my job to review the general situation that you place yourself at all these wikis. It is my job to put before the community the situation that exists. I do this under the criteria for the role that I hold and was raised at SRM to a situation that you created and exacerbated. — billinghurstsDrewth 23:45, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
In the wiki lb: luxebumburgues, the global administrator removed your tag, accepting the article ... and what do you do? you write "personally" to convince him to remove the article. Thus, it is verified that SI is a personal matter of revenge and systematic hatred. You skip the 3 rollback rule continuously, you skip the rule of NOT intervening in deletion discussions when you are the one requesting it. -It is confirmed that YES, it is personal. You have global administrator privileges that allow you to do almost everything and yet you continually skip those rules so you can be GOD on wikipedia and get away with doing whatever you want. That is the big problem with wikipedia, users with privileges who do not use them for the good of wikis, use them for the bad, delete articles, make indiscriminate blocks and get away with all the discussions for satisfaction, ego and pride. Will you be happy bleeding unnecessarily deleted articles? Against, another editor tired of arguments, vanities, war and conflict of editions, who leaves the wiki, observing what its founder said: "The vandals have taken jail and now they are the ones who rule like a street mafia." — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 06:59, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
Do not try to put the blame on me for your problematic editing and the communities' responses. By the way, you can stop the personal attacks and the name-calling, see Meta:Civility. Deal with your issues and present the facts, it is all that I have been doing in addressing your issues at any of the dozens of wikis where you have created your autobiographies. — billinghurstsDrewth07:39, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
Here you admit that you are a liar and apologize for the willful deception. See here: [[16]]. Here they blocked you for vandal. See here: [[17]]. Don't try to blame me for your troublesome editing, manipulation, and deception in community responses.--85.84.0.10409:11, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
It is my job to put the situation that exists before the community and I am sorry to tell you that your work is obsolete on Wikipedia and no longer makes sense billinghurst. After ten years of life and before the decline of its editors, The founder Jimmy Wales, launched "Abstract Wikipedia". Founder Jimmy Wales publicly acknowledged a few weeks ago that the millions of volunteers who write the various articles are dwindling and it is difficult to find new editors and those who were present are leaving, because of the incessant publishing wars. For example, with Wikidata, a brief description of each topic is now allowed in any language and wiki, with the only requirement that an article be in a single language. [[18]]. This will allow a 100 percent increase in wikipedia. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 07:57, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
By the way, you can stop the personal attacks and the name-calling, see Meta:Civility. If you want to block me, use another argument. You were the one who used the word "Garbage" and that of: "People who I would say are trolls took over. Prisoners started running the asylum" says Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. See here:
[[19]]. As you can check EVERYTHING I write, I do it with references.
I deal with your problems and present the facts without deception. By the way that is NOT what you have been doing to address the problems in any of the dozens of wikis. What you have been doing is influencing, misinterpreting the rules with deliberate deception and skipping the rules of not intervening by requesting removal and continually skipping the rules of the 3 reversals, among many others.
[[20]] — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 09:54, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
What tripe, misrepresentation and exaggeration, but you go at it fella. Let us make it all about me, for alerting the communities. You never want it to be about your self-promotion and your conflict of interest editing, nor the following of the WP processes, oh no, that is inconvenient. If you truly think that Wikipedia is dead, then why are you adding your autobiographical articles. Nope, we will make all the focus about all the evils here and me. Dear oh dear. — billinghurstsDrewth11:04, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
I do not find any inconvenience in the follow-up of the processes, but without any misrepresentation and manipulation. Fonts are provided that cannot be called 'self-promotion'. No conflict of interest. You accuse, judge and condemn me of self-promotion, conflict of interest, of not having an account in which to edit and of not having a user page. Any more "unfounded" accusations?
1. I do not believe and I only add information about the author.
2. I make edits to dozens of wikis, clearly contributing to the general wikis.
3. I do not add information about myself, but about the author, clearly it is not a conflict of interest.
4. Repeated removal of "just for you" tags is not a clear conflict of interest. It is a clear example of an edition war caused by a vindictive user.
5. I cannot tag articles in which I have a conflict of interest so that the community can notify the autobiographical conflict of interest that it presents, because there is no conflict of interest.
6. If you had an account to edit and a user page. See here: [[21]]
With her I made my contributions to all wikis. As you can see multiple very diverse articles. This account was blocked as you can see, since then I edit without an account. There are hundreds of articles of the most varied in all wikis without a user account, with IP and that is not illegal on wikipedia. You continually insist on self-promotion and conflict of interest when it is not, this can be seen in the previous reference where you can see my user account with articles of many kinds and not only from this author. So I do NOT have any conflict of interest. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 12:24, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
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The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [22], July 27th.
COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
Still mapping!"Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org
Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [23], Aug 10th.
LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources fromZotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)
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Hello. If I want to make some changes to the interface of a small project such Persian Wikibooks which does not have any interface administrators, how should I do that? Should I ask a global interface admin such as you? Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 04:17, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
@4nn1l2: Hi. Firstly consider whether consensus of the community should be gained, even if it is along the lines of "I propose that we do ...." and leave it in a prominent place on the wiki for a week. For anything non-minor we would like to see a community consulted. You can ask a global sysop, or drop a note on Steward requests/Miscellaneous to get it done. If it is at all controversial then SRM is a better place so we can demonstrate that nothing is being hidden. — billinghurstsDrewth08:27, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps
Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [24], Sep 7th.
LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.
Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
Without looking, if there is no local block then I will obliterate the use of the template as it is an inappropriate use of the template, so not a case of granted or declined. I care not that it looks messy, I directly address their needs. — billinghurstsDrewth11:18, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
Request for IP block exemption
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Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
Ongoing:
Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome
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Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)
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Good morning, Billinghurst. I don’t know if it is the usual practice on meta-wiki but would you full-protect the user page of deceased user User:Jhsteel please? She died in November 2017. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:58, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
@Malcolmxl5: All user pages are restricted at metawiki—due to their being global pages—to autopatrolled users and above, and that right is less handed out than other wikis, partly due to this fact. It shouldn't be necessary to further protect it. — billinghurstsDrewth08:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [25], Sep 21st.
Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.
Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Well, the parts of the regexp you had added just couldn't have any match whatsoever, so this "shuffle" will cause some new hits that you might want to monitor. ~~~~ User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)09:12, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
Need your help de-escalating an edit-war happening:
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Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (phab:T291377)
Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (phab:T289473)
Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
Videos
Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (phab:T289473)
Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (phab:T285758)
Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (phab:T292203)
Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (phab:T289417)
Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh). [26], Oct 19th.
Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.
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(post composed for Enwiki Village Pump, but decided to post here first, in case you might know anything)
A clever way to spam Wikipedia and SEO: make a list of all domains in use on Wiki and determine which are no longer registered. Register them and redirect to your spam site. You now have a mass number of spam links and SEO without having to edit wiki. It appears this is being done.
Kudos to User:Lyndaship for detecting this through an unusual loophole that exposed one mass usurper (or possibly an agent who sold/leased the domains to a buyer).
Any suggestions how to detect them? Domains go unregistered all the time exposing Wikipedia to industrial-scale usurpation.
COIBot has some capacity to detect redirects, so if they go to active additions then there will be some catching. However if they are old static links, then they are what they are, I am unaware of any means. Cannot image how many domains are linked from the WPs, I know that COIBot already runs into some capacity limits at WMCLOUD for its large subset. We can retroactively run reports though that is probably less likely to capture redirects. If there is commonality in them, like using a common IP address then we can grab them, however there is no tool to capture a range of IPs backlinks. @Beetstra: as he runs COIBot.
Have you looked at some of the IPsummary reports on meta? They haven't been modernised for a while, so we could look at some of the external linking places if we can find something useful out there. — billinghurstsDrewth22:36, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
I would suggest as actions: blacklist the domain(s), use an archive of the links (if it exists) for all links added before the registrar change, remove the original links (at best these are now content farms or advertising, at worst you have phishing or similar - imagine that the old site has a login ...), and whitelist all archive links. (blacklisting can be done last if there is no active addition is going on, COIBot will tell a bit there). If the links are used on multiple wikis that would need to be done everywhere, and blacklisting may need to be global.
There is a bot (on en.wikipedia at least) that tags 404s .. but obviously these are not 404s, I don't think we have a bot for this. My solution for detection would be a bot that scans through ALL domains on Wikipedia on a regular basis, asks for the header information (which is something LiWa3 also does, but it does it for redirect detection and getting '404'-like data) and registers some key data like registration date and registrar (dump it in MySQL or something). Say you do that on the first of January, then again on the first of February. If the registration data is different you make a new record, if the registration data is the same you update the 'probe date' of the January record to February. First of March you do it again. Then you can do a rather simple SQL dump of all domains that have more than one record. You can whitelist CNN, BBC, Youtube, facebook and similar to speed up your bot. I expect that that list needs human evaluation, but if these records are good enough you could do on-wiki tagging by bot for all links on that domain added before the registrar change. --Dirk BeetstraTC (en: U, T) 05:40, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
One would think that enWP could be a universal flagship and sole check place, and just let that data flow. @Beetstra, would there be value in crosschecks with some of the data in COIBot, say for checking cleared domains, at least as a greylist/2nd layer of better quality domains? — billinghurstsDrewth06:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Flagship I don't know. There are likely domains on other wikis that are rather specific there and are hardly used on other wikis (e.g. some domain with material in Russian will maybe not or hardly be used on en.wikipedia, but the possibility is still there that some Russian company is usurping the domains and cause the same damage). En.wikipedia is certainly the biggest fish and you would take out most, including many domains that are used elsewhere. COIBot could certainly track future additions (though I still insist that blacklisting is something that we should seriously consider, so there will not be new additions - consider that a webpage with member login moves to a new domain, the old domain is usurped and the new owner puts up a similar looking page with a member login so they can collect member passwords ...), and the reports can help in seeing if all uses are cleared (depending on number of additions that are there, it does it only for smaller numbers). -- Dirk BeetstraTC (en: U, T) 07:46, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
I was unclear my apologies. I was not commenting about blacklisting, which should indeed continue. I was meaning a robust exclude list based on those that COIBot has already cleared. My reasoning is that these big and clear domains will be evident pretty quickly if they go offtrack, we don't really need to track them and check them monthly. — billinghurstsDrewth09:30, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
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Hey mate, you reverted an edit on es-wiki.[1] The same IP edited the university article on it-wiki and another IP added the website shortly thereafter.[2] The website first popped up in a discussion on the Simone Biles en-wiki talk page[3]. The domain had been registered just a day before it was posted.
The evidence ties the site and IP's behavior back to an editor who has been abusing Wikipedia for almost a decade to promote himself and his projects. He has been blocked numerous times with different accounts on en-wiki, it-wiki, simple-wiki, and ja-wiki. That's what I've managed to find so far. The more I dig the crazier the story gets. SimoneBilesStan (talk) 05:05, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
@Billinghurst: Oh, very excellent! I was not familiar with this tool. Uopeople.review's predecessors were presto.news (gs) and evidence-based.review (gs). They both now redirect to uopeople.review. Evidence-based.review is still a source on several articles.
Massive thanks for your help! The COIBot reports and Global Search are huge! This editor is all over the place with socks known and unknown. I've discovered hundreds of previously unknown IP edits spanning 10+ years that can be tied back to him. It's time to start cleaning up some of his mess. SimoneBilesStan (talk) 00:10, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.
Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.
Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)
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I appreciate the ping, but this isn't the best way to notify the stewards that GIPBE may be required for an affected user. My availability has been slim to none this week and their request shouldn't rely on one steward's availability in a team of 36. Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:37, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi Jon. I guided them to the relevant help page and the request page in direct response component after I granted them local IPBE so they could make that a request. If you read it, then you would have seen that your component was FYI. The ping was courtesy as you blocked it and so you could be aware of the consequence of that action. I don't believe that if you are blocking ranges with active users that you get to set and forget. — billinghurstsDrewth22:12, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #495
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)
Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)
"Knowledge Based Multilingual Language Model" Using the Wikidata to build the language models that not only memorize the factual knowledge but also learn useful logical patterns. (Liu et al, 2021)
Videos
Summary of Transbordados, the pre-WikidataCon conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese)
Tool of the week
Weaviate big graph (source) is a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.
Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
"ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool
embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.
If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251.
Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links