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Wikidata weekly summary #465

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

• Discussions
  • Other: Scientific papers' labels in other languages than English
• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
  • Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
  • Upcoming: OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
  • COSCUP 2021 CFP is now open
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 1
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #60, May 2

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • User:Lucas Werkmeister/P642 considered harmful
  • New extension: Wikibase EDTF by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
  • Videos
    • OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Meetup #27 - Wikidata Lexeme Teaching - LBRY, Odysee
    • (Workshop) Introduction to Wikidata by Lucie Aimée Kaffee
    • Graphic Possibilities Comics Wikidata Tutorial
    • SPARQL tutorial (in Portuguese)
    • An Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam)
    • Wikidata tutorials in Albanian (1, 2, 3, 4)
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French)
    • (Workshop) #1Lib1Ref​ on Wikidata
    • Adding an article to Wikidata by DOI (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook
    • 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.
    • Item Quality Evaluator
    • Constraint Violation Checker
  • 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.
  • SPARQL-Blockly is a tool to visualise and construct SPARQL queries as visual blocks (Wikidata example)
  • Wikibase/FAQ is a living document of a list of frequently asked questions about Wikibase. Community members are welcome to contribute to it.
  • RIP Liz Marley
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
    • External identifiers: ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID, Bioguiden movie theater ID, MovieMeter person ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú ID, SonyLIV show ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, IAU member ID, LIMA media artist ID, Singers.com ID, HistoryLink essay number, inventory number of a work of art in the Art for the City database, Cimiterium ID, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, Malaysian school code, Trap Danmark ID, Finna ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Mitte ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, CofE archives ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: accessibility statement URL, symbol represents, main upper course, Political Graveyard geography ID, diel cycle, Taxon holotype location, Smithsonian trinomial prefix, Digital Atlas of Idaho taxon ID, hardware threading standard
    • External identifiers: music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Digital DISCI ID, The Draft Review ID 2, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, IUCN Green List ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation ID, UNITER Award person ID, ID právnické osoby vedené Ministerstvem kultury ČR, CEV Team-ID, Anime Filler List show id, CEV Coach-ID, memento.wien person ID, MyBIS ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, am.hayazg.info ID, The Criterion Collection film ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, Gopo Award ID, Director Identification Number, TheTVDB character ID, JECFA number, Norges Fotballforbund klubb ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Parliament of Romania person ID, Apple TV movie ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of road vehicles crashing into Montague Street Bridge, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • Coal-fired power plants in Germany (Source)
    • Average lifespan by profession (Select the desired columns and get labels) (Source)
    • The number of natural disasters in various countries since 1970 (Source)
    • Heads of states/governments whose cause of death was a military casualty (Source)
    • List of French stations sorted by number of tracks (Source)
    • Relationship of the different Corona viruses (Source)
    • Map of about one third of the ancient trees in Bulgaria (Source)
    • Lexemes without statements or senses by language
  • Newest database reports: Doctor Who companions

• Development
  • 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.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • 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!
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:46, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17

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

Recent changes

• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [1][2][3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

May 2021 at Women in Red

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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

• The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
• Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
• Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
• Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
• Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
• Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:28, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2021)

Watches are one type of fashion accessory. Hello, StudiesWorld. The article for improvement of the week is: Fashion accessory Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Huizhou • Do-rag Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 May 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-18

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

Recent changes

• Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

• The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [4]
• Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [5]

Changes later this week

• Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [6][7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [8]

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #466

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
  • Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
  • Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
  • Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
  • Videos
    • Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
    • Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

• Tool of the 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.
  • Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: field of usage, artist files at, accessibility statement URL, degrees day, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID
    • External identifiers: J! Archive player ID, CofE archives name ID, HERO ID, GLEI RAL, Archdiocese of Liverpool parish ID, Yukon Archives authority record ID, CofE archives place ID, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID, Digital DISCI ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Clubhouse account, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, hat Gedenkort, Secondary Archive artist ID, date of probate
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, DC Books store book ID, ctext data entity ID, SAIA authority ID, AdServio school ID, Apple Music label ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, DHLE, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, Scholarpedia article ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, Universal equine life number, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, Sigla ID, Bing Entity ID, light characteristic, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Identificativo Polo bibliografico della Ricerca, LTit person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List number of albums (Q482994) by language (P407) in descending order (Source)
    • Map of Scottish council areas (Source)
    • Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known by Wikidata (Source)
    • List of actors and actresses who died during 2020 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: new screenwriters

• Development
  • 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
  • Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
  • 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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:45, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #466

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
  • Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
  • Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
  • Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
  • Videos
    • Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
    • Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

• Tool of the 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.
  • Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: field of usage, artist files at, accessibility statement URL, degrees day, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID
    • External identifiers: J! Archive player ID, CofE archives name ID, HERO ID, GLEI RAL, Archdiocese of Liverpool parish ID, Yukon Archives authority record ID, CofE archives place ID, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID, Digital DISCI ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Clubhouse account, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, hat Gedenkort, Secondary Archive artist ID, date of probate
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, DC Books store book ID, ctext data entity ID, SAIA authority ID, AdServio school ID, Apple Music label ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, DHLE, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, Scholarpedia article ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, Universal equine life number, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, Sigla ID, Bing Entity ID, light characteristic, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Identificativo Polo bibliografico della Ricerca, LTit person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List number of albums (Q482994) by language (P407) in descending order (Source)
    • Map of Scottish council areas (Source)
    • Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known by Wikidata (Source)
    • List of actors and actresses who died during 2020 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: new screenwriters

• Development
  • 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
  • Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
  • 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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:58, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

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

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2021)

Tattooing among women of the Koita people of Papua New Guinea traditionally began at age five and was added to each year. The V-shaped marks on the chest, with certain others, indicate that the woman is marriageable. Photo taken in 1912. Hello, StudiesWorld. The article for improvement of the week is: Tattoo Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Fashion accessory • Huizhou Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 May 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Books & Bytes – Issue 43

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021

• New Library Card designs
• 1Lib1Ref May

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:12, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 43

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021

• New Library Card designs
• 1Lib1Ref May

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:12, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #467

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

• Events
  • Ongoing
    • Wikidata contest for International Museum from May 3-18 2021
  • Upcoming
    • OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
    • Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 11 at 18:00 CEST
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #62, May 16
    • Wikidata Bug triage hour about constraints, May 17
    • COSCUP 2021 Call For Papers now open
    • Wikimedia Taiwan x NCKUHis Digital humanities Wikidata Workshop National Cheng Kung University (Q706708), 2021-05-29 ~ 2021-05-31

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WBStack setting changes, Federated properties, Wikidata entity mapping & more (covering some of the recent UI and setting changes that happened on WBStack in the past months by Addshore
    • Academic ancestor graphs from Wikidata
  • Papers
    • Roderic D. M. Page, Wikidata and the Bibliography of Life, doi:10.1101/2021.05.04.442638
    • Friederike Ehrhart, et al. Aresource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes (Q106708178), doi:10.1038/S41597-021-00905-Y
  • Videos
    • SPARQL #Wikidata​ retour aux bases #3 - YouTube
    • Wikidata, Linked Data… all the data! Knowledge representation for everybody - YouTube
    • Wikidata Nigeria tutorials on YouTube - How to contribute to Wikidata, add statements for streets named after a person
    • SPARQL Wikidata tutorial (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • 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.
  • Template:Generic queries for filmmakers is a new wikidata template which defines generic SPARQL queries specific for filmmakers.
  • Template:Generic queries for occupations is a new wikidata template with generic queries for items of items such as occupations or professions
  • 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.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Digital Atlas of Idaho URL, identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription
    • External identifiers: MyBIS species ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, NBM authority ID, MileSplit ID, Mixcloud ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, am.hayazg.info ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, The Draft Review ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, IUCN Green List ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Senate of Romania person ID, Chamber of Deputies of Romania person ID, LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway Club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official podcast, Danish redlist ID, Velocity Relative to Earth, athletics program, North Carolina session law
    • External identifiers: vedidk ID, MyBIS protected area ID, COG ID, Badok ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity person ID, DTB-Gerätturner-ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, University of Washington Campus Map ID, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - diplomatic mission IDs, SOUNZ work ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, Repositório da Produção USP Person ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, SOSBrutalism ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, OSDN project, SOR bird ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number, ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of French firms without SIREN id (P1616) ordered by number of sitelinks with search links in annuaire-entreprises‧data‧gouv.fr : the query makes it easy to find the SIREN number (P1616) (source Property talk P1616)
    • Number of works per year by researchers supervised by Lars Kai Hansen (source)
    • Count of sitelinks of Nigerians on Wikidata (Source)
    • 30 largest cities with female mayor (Source)
    • Recent locations of boundary stones in Upper Lusatia (see pictures by clicking on the dots) (Source)
    • Types of items in Australia that don't have identifier properties (Source)

• Development
  • 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)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-19

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IV, April 2021 Headlines Albania report: WikiGap 2021; Workshop “When State Security was engaged in Science”; Women in STEM; International Roma Day Edit-a-thon Australia report: A Wealth of Wiki Women Belgium report: Projects by Wikimedia Belgium Brazil report: Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia celebrates Wikipedia 20 Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2021 report DRCongo report: WMDRC - UG report: Wikipedia in library Estonia report: Finding new ways of making art visible + 360° panoramas of Estonian museums Finland report: Saami place names France report: Journée Wikimédia Culture et numérique 2021; French open content report Germany report: Northern Exposure for cultural heritage data India report: Proofread competition on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with British Library Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2021; Museum Daerah Deli Serdang is now on Commons Italy report: A Wikipedian in residence at the Civic Museum of Modena: report Netherlands report: WikiVrijdagen with Atria and IHLIA, Wikimedians in Residence will increase the visibility of media art on Wikipedia, Wikimedia training: shared heritage, Papiamentu and Papiamento: Wikipedia is up and ready to go! New Zealand report: West Coast WikiCon and Performing Arts Aotearoa Serbia report: Great impact of cooperations Spain report: New partnerships Sweden report: More music; Enriching GLAM photos with SDC; Swedish GLAM survey Switzerland report: GLAMhack 2021 & more UK report: University of Edinburgh Library Wikimedia Community of Interest; Khalili Collections; British Library USA report: The Met, Smithsonian, and a busy Edit-a-thon season Wikipedia Library report: Fostering Connections: Wikimedia and Libraries Global Meetup Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Extended Date Time Format for Wikibase WMF GLAM report: Wikimedia Hackathon, Product Updates, and Office Hours Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2021-20

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

Recent changes

• There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [9] [10] [11]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [12][13]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [14]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [15]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #468

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata
    • IP Masking Engagement
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion). Outcome --> no change to WD:N
    • Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties. Outcome --> constraints were removed

• Events
  • Ongoing:
    • 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
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
    • May 21-22, 2021 [16] 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.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
    • OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Hiba Arnaout et al, Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata (full text link)
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #44 - YouTube
      • Link to all the Wikipedia Weekly Network/Live Wikidata Editing sessions by Ainali and Abbe98
    • Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons und Wikipedia bearbeiten 2021/001 (in German) - YouTube
    • SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #4 - YouTube
    • How to use Wikidata to list nearby tourist places on a web page (in French) - YouTube
    • How to add lexemes to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
    • How to edit library data in Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Editing the drawings in the Gambara Bovardi collection at the Levi Foundation in Venice on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js is a user script that replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT when editing hyphenation snaks.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 20k+ DOIs of Chinese language scientific journal articles have now been added to WD, thanks to scraping->validation->matching->quickstatements workflow built by Stevenliuyi (via a WikiCite eScholarship)
  • 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.
  • Template:Item documentation displays Template:Generic queries for occupations for items of class occupation (Q12737077) and Template:Generic queries for filmmakers for items with occupation (P106) filmmaker (Q2526255)
  • 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.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription, counterpart position, earned run average, official podcast, diel cycle, intended background color, scope note
    • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Memento Vienna person ID, universal equine life number, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Apple Music label ID (US version), bio.se movie theater ID, MyBIS protected area ID, Dialnet thesis ID, hPSCreg cell line ID, Michigan State University Library Comic Art Collection Record Number, LTit person ID, JECFA number, Badok ID, Sigla ID, DCinemaToday company ID, CEV coach ID, CEV team ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity ID, AdServio ID, PeakVisor peak ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Anime Filler List show ID, Anime Filler List episode slug, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Danish 2010 redlist identifier, synonymer.se ID, SOUNZ work ID, vedidk ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, UNITER Award person ID, sense on DHLE
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: infects, setlist, oral history at, DIVA author ID, DIVA record ID, type of lens
    • External identifiers: ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, CDep.Ro NGO ID, causesanti.va ID, Adevărul topic ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts ID, cIMeC.Ro Museum ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Styria Museum ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Archive Alsharekh person ID, Douban series ID, RomArchive IDs, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, Scholasticon person ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, WMF lang code
  • Deleted properties: iFixit repairability score (P7478)
  • Query examples:
    • Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (Source)
    • List of Wikimedia language codes (Source)
    • Plant genera that honor women (Source)
    • Poets whose fathers are lawyers (Source)
    • Phrase-book for types of food (mapping Catalan and English) (Source)

• Development
  • 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)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Near 6,100 items have the Template:Item documentation in their talk page. Help deploy this template.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:18, 17 May 2021 (UTC)