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Wikidata weekly summary #652

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #651

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Andrebot 2 - Task(s): Will check Romanian local election information on MongoDB against current relevant Items, where differences occur, will create new Items, link them and update associated information.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot - Withdrawn by proposer.
• New request for comments:
  • Use of (P2389) as a qualifier - Should organization directed by the office or position (P2389) be allowed as a qualifier?
  • Rename Peakfinder ID (P3770) - The Peakfinder website content moved to cdnrockiesdatabases.ca, the associated Property (P3770) has been relabeled to crdb peak ID.
  • Importing WP & WMC categories into Wikidata - Project chat discussion on importing Wikipedia Category information to Wikidata items.

Events

• Wikidata 12th Birthday happened. Special thanks to all the community members who prepared a present for Wikidata's birthday. New tools, updates, games, sparkly animations and of course plenty of maps! Here's the list of presents, with all the links to try them. You can also watch the demo of all the birthday presents in video.
• Ongoing: The Africa Wiki Women-Wikidata Birthday Contest ends tomorrow, 05.11.2024. If you're participating, now's your last chance to earn some points by adding P106 to items on African women.
• Upcoming
  • A Scholia hackathon will take place on Nov 15-16 online — see Its documentation page for details.
  • Mois de l'histoire LGBTQ+ (LGBTQ+ History month): A month-long edit-a-thon from November 1 to 30 for documenting, improving and translating articles on LGBTQ+ topics on Wikidata and French Wikimedia projects.
  • Check out the call for papers for the "Wikidata and Research" Conference! It will be held at the University of Florence in Italy on June 5-6, 2025. You can submit your papers by December 9, 2024: Wikidata and research/Call

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Is Wikibase Right for Your Project?
  • DHwiki:a new DARIAH EU-working group focusing on building bridges between different sectors - this working group acts as a bridge between GLAM institutions, DH researchers and Wikimedians.
  • Using AI to add to Wikidata - Magnus Manske discusses the challenge of integrating Wikimedia Commons artworks into Wikidata.
• Papers
  • Disjointness Violations in Wikidata Finds 51 pairs of classes on Wikidata that should be disjoint (e.g. "natural object" vs. "artificial object") but aren't, with over 10 million violations, caused by a small number of "culprits" (source)
  • Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models (source)
• Videos
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #116 at the 12th #WikidataBirthday - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 do some live editing (in english) on items related to Wikidata and the sister projects in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday.
  • Women Do News at Wikidata Day - This lightning talk from journalist Molly Stark Dean introduces the Women Do News project to increase visibility of women journalists and expand and enrich Wikipedia articles about them. The project could greatly benefit from Wikidata items being created and/or expanded.
  • Knowledge Graphs Pt.2 - Enhancing Knowledge Graphs with LLM Keywords - Valentin Buchner and Hans Mehlin describe their collaborative project between Nobel Prize Outreach (NPO) and EQT Motherbrain utilising Nobel Prize laureate’s biographies and Nobel Prize lectures.
  • (en) Introduction to Wikidata|Dagbani WM UG - User:Dnshitobu presents an introductory course to Wikidata, with many Ghanaian examples.
  • (cz) Wikidata in practice: document and library record structure and examples of data searches using WDQS - Morning lecture organised by the National Library of the Czech Republic, Wikimedia CR and the Prague organization SKIP.
  • Introduction to Wikidata and linking it to OSM - This short introduction is presented by User:Ranjithsiji on the benefits to OpenStreetMap when connecting it to Wikidata.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata One Click Info is a multilingual extension that enables you to search for any item or word that you come across while reading or browsing online. It's an extension that makes Wikidata's data easy to retrieve and access. Install on Chrome browser or Firefox browser. A short video about the usage of the extension.
• CAT🐈: most frequent properties a simple Observable tool which shows the most frequent properties for a set of Items.
• Are you able to learn languages with Wikidata content? In Ordia there is the "Guess Image from Pronunciation" game you can use to learn a few words from various languages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A small project on benchmarking query engine performance on useful Wikidata queries is asking for queries from the Wikidata user community to potentially be part of the benchmark. If you are a user of any Wikidata SPARQL service please send queries that you find useful to Peter F. Patel-Schneider. Say what you used the query for and whether you would like to be noted as the source of the query. Queries that take considerable time or time out are especially welcome, particularly if the query caused you to switch from the official Wikidata Query Service to some other service. More information about the project is available in Wikidata:Scaling_Wikidata/Benchmarking.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: DDB person (GND) ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID, BAHRA ID, ‎AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID, FightTime fighters ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, L'Équipe basketball player ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Journalistikon.de ID, graphclasses.org ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID, PublicationsList author ID, Monument Counter ID, Spirit of Metal album ID, Spirit of Metal style ID, Spirit of Metal artist ID, Spirit of Metal label ID, Spirit of Metal place ID, Libération topic ID, Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID, Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID, VK Music track ID, Taiwan Railways (TR) station number, GamersGlobal genre, Archivportal NRW ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
    • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of a website's BEACON file)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, dtf.ru person ID, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Health Facility Registry ID, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Archivportal-D-ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, FID performing arts agent GND ID, Бессмертный полк ID, ITV News topic ID, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID, Resistance in Belgium ID, Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID, SNCF station trigram, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, DBIS ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Game Jolt username, ANID Researcher Portal ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur, WikiBaseball ID, Kultboy editor ID, TMDB network ID, identifiant Centre d'études Picasso, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, SGES monument ID, Ranker ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Usito, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID, FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Individual animals counted per species, list of these individual animals
  • Chronology of deaths of mathematicians, with their theorems (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: AveburyPapers - The Avebury Papers is a collaborative UKRI-funded research project between University of York; University of Bristol; the National Trust; English Heritage; and Historic England. As part of this project, the team are doing several tasks which are generating data, some of which will be shared via Wikidata, in an effort to link parts of the Avebury collection with other collections.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • India/Schools - focused on school in India
  • 2025 video games - dedicated to the world of video games in 2025
• Newest database reports: Count of lexemes without senses
• Showcase Items: 2024 United States presidential election (Q101110072) - 60th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
• Showcase Lexemes: Katze (L352) - "domesticated feline animal" in German

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are making progress on the technical investigation for how to make it easier to edit statements on mobile. A lot more work to be done after that though.
• We fixed the sidebar link to the main page in many languages (phab:T184386)
• Codex: We are continuing with the migration of the Query Builder to Codex, the new design system. The migration of Special:NewLexeme is almost finished.
• Query Service: We have updated the list of languages for the language selector in the UI (phab:T358572)
• Vector 2022: We are continuing to adress issues of the Item UI in dark mode (phab:T369385)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We are moving from v0 to v1.
  • We have finished the work on the new endpoint for creating Properties.
• Action API: We’re improving the way the wbformatvalue API handles invalid options (phab:T323778)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2024-45

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

Updates for editors

• Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [1]
• Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
• The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [2]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

• XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [3]

In depth

• Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

• From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation shares ANI lawsuit updates; first admin elections appoint eleven sysops; first admin recalls opened; temporary accounts coming soon?

• In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel

• Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship

• Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them

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• Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong

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Having a question about a photo in white stork

Hi, I'm a editor from zh wiki. Recently I'm trying to expend white stork on zh wiki, and checking FAs for re-writing idea, but I found that you have add a 1884 photo and cite a book as reference. But I couldn't find the book, neither any related explanations on the Internet or in other related books, so can I ask for this book's ISBN and the page number? Thanks for helping. WiTo7946 (talk) 04:02, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

ISBN 9780565093426, page 13. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:21, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2024

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Wikidata weekly summary #653

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #652

Events

• Upcoming
  • Scholia Hackathon on November 15-16 (online)
  • Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Edit-a-thon - 19 November 2024, 9am - 12pm, Address: Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Improve information about individual educators and their relationships with Colored Teachers Associations, HBCUs, the Divine Nine, religious institutions, and political organizations like the NAACP and Urban League.
  • (German)Seminar: Using wikibase as an integration platform for morphosyntactic and semantic annotations of Akkadian texts - 19.11.2024, 16:00 - 18:00 CET (UTC+1), held at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin)
  • Wikidata in dance workshop - 3 December 2024, 1pm EST (UTC+5). A step-by-step workshop for members of the Canadian Dance Assembly. A free, expert-led series on how open data can benefit dance companies and artists.
  • Save the date: Wikimedia Hackathon to be held in Istanbul, Turkey on May 2 - 4, 2025
  • Apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2025 Scholarships open: 7th November-8th December 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Bridging language gaps: How Wikidata promotes languages on the Internet (in German) about the Software Collaboration Project for Wikidata
  • Swiss server helps optimise Wikidata in the field of medicine - Wikimedia CH supporting Houcemeddine Turki in leveraging AI to transform Wikidata into a comprehensive, reliable biomedical resource, to bridge healthcare information gaps, especially in the Global South.
  • The story of African award winning scientists using Wikifunctions
• Videos
  • Wikidata's 12th birthday presents demos
  • (es) Open data for journalistic investigation: The cases of Wikidata and Poderopedia - This session held by Monica Ventura and Carla Toro discusses how open-data allow transparent analysis and evidence-based storytelling, enabling journalists to explore and verify complex information connections.
  • (it) AuthorityBox & Alphabetica - The use of Wikidata's data in the Alphabetica portal and in the SBN AuthorityBox gadget that can be activated via Code Injector in the SBN OPAC.
  • Semantic Wikibase - Kolja Bailly presents this session during the MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference Fall 2024 (Day 3).
  • (zh-TW) Wikidata lexeme editing demonstration - Wikidata Taiwan provide a demonstration to lexeme editing.
  • (es) OpenRefine - Wikidata Days 2024 - Conducted by Omar Vega from Wikimedia Peru, learn how to create a project with a list, clean and collate data, create a Wikidata schema and upload using QuickStatements.
  • (es) Merging duplicate Items in Wikidata
  • Introduction to Wikidata for Beginners in the Mabia communities

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Edits Heatmap: Real-time map that visualizes recent changes in Wikidata with geospatial markers showing the location of updated Items.
• Western world versus the rest of the world: a tool computing the distribution of mentioned entities in Wikipedia articles between Western world and the rest of the world.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Starting ca. today (11 November 2024), tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected.
• Job vacancy Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikibase Suite allows institutions to create and host their own linked knowledge base with maximum customizability, this role will be responsible for the vision and strategy of this exciting product!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: BAHRA ID, ‎AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID, FightTime fighters ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, L'Équipe basketball player ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Journalistikon.de ID, graphclasses.org ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID, PublicationsList author ID, Monument Counter ID, Spirit of Metal album ID, Spirit of Metal style ID, Spirit of Metal artist ID, Spirit of Metal label ID, Spirit of Metal place ID, Libération topic ID, Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID, Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID, VK Music track ID, Taiwan Railways (TR) station number, GamersGlobal genre, Archivportal NRW ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, Health Facility Registry ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Immortal Regiment ID, dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID, Eurotopics ID, TMDB network ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file)
  • Railway station linear reference (line & milestone) (Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure. A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.)
  • Data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • Use data collection instrument (Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data)
  • Data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
  • World Snooker Tour tournament ID (Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, dtf.ru person ID, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, ITV News topic ID, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Resistance in Belgium ID, Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID, SNCF station trigram, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, DBIS ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Game Jolt username, ANID Researcher Portal ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur, WikiBaseball ID, Kultboy editor ID, identifiant Centre d'études Picasso, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, SGES monument ID, Ranker ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Usito, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID, FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID, FNAC author ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID 2, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, Everand author ID, Phish.net Venue ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, bruker-ID i Store norske leksikon, teams.by national team ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Measuring points uuid, DEX '09 entry ID, Marktstammdatenregisternummer (Einheit), Paramount+ video ID, Gerbang Kata ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, NBA G League player ID, Basketballnavi.DB player ID, Football Kit Archive ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Recently edited lexemes since 'DATE' (in this case Danish since 01.11.2024)
  • List films shot by filming location - try changing the wd: Wikidata item to another country, city, or even a building or natural location.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Suriname Public Art - public artworks and memorials in Suriname
  • HDF - A WikiProject for work underway at the The HDF Group (Q106509427) to connect HDF data with Wikidata.
  • French Literary Prizes - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (prize list, jury members, list of winners). In 2008, Bertrand Labes listed more than 1,500 French-speaking literary prizes. To date, Wikidata has 709, including 24 including the list of winners and awarded works.
• Newest database reports: Languages with the most lexemes without senses (using Toolforge tool 'Orthohin')
• Showcase Items: Rembrandt (Q5598) - Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
• Showcase Lexemes: ਜੀਵਣ/جِیوَݨ (L740318) - 'life' in Punjabi

Development

• Lua: We changed the Wikibase function getAllStatements logic to behave as getBestStatements. When invoked, it was returning mutable direct-values, now it will return a copy of those values (which are immutable). (phab:T270851)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • Wikibase REST API is now on version 1!
  • We've finished the work on the create Property endpoint so it is now possible to create Properties via the REST API.
• Configuration: We removed 'mainpage' from $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for Wikidata as requested so translations of the main page are available (phab:T184386)
• mul language code: We moved it to the top of the termbox so labels and aliases in mul are visible first (phab:T371802)
• Revision table size: We are investigating the current state of the revision table of Wikidata's database and what the next steps should be to address its issues.

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Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2024-46

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

Updates for editors

• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [4]
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [5]

Updates for technical contributors

• In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [6]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

• Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [7]

Meetings and events

• 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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Your recent thanks.

Hey Andy, can I bother you to ask the details surrounding you thanking me today for protecting Red link example 10 years ago? I've been getting a lot of thanks for that particular action by many editors over the years, most from editors who haven't even made any other edits. When I've asked these zero-edit editors why, they never reply. So I kind of gave up ever figuring it out, until I just got yours. Now perhaps I can finally know; I'm kind of excited to find out. I pray it isn't a boring "I just noticed it today, and it was useful, so I wanted to thank you"! Floquenbeam (talk) 23:04, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Floq, my guess is it's linked from one of the tutorials or similar as an example of a red link, and what people see when they click it is your name in the log and a thank button! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

It was done in error; I intended to thank the person who had just protected User:Red link example, and clicked the wrong link, in a comment in which they were adjacent. Apologies for the inconvenience. I can't speak for other editors. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:19, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

LOL, "done in error" wasn't the answer I was expecting! No inconvenience at all. Floquenbeam (talk) 22:53, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Seeking opinions: protection of the help desk and teahouse. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:43, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-47

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

Updates for editors

• Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [8]
• View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [9]

Updates for technical contributors

• On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [10][11]

In depth

• There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

Meetings and events

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
• Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
• A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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