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Wikidata weekly summary #299

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Courses Modules are being deprecated

Hello,

Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 18#NOTICE: EducationProgram extension is being deprecated.

Thank you! Sent by: xaosflux 20:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Event coordinator granted

After reviewing your request for the "eventcoordinator" permission, I have enabled the flag on your account. Keep in mind these things:

  • The event coordinator right removes the limit on the maximum number of new accounts that can be created in a 24-hour period.
  • The event coordinator right allows you to temporarily add the "confirmed" permission to newly created accounts. You should not grant this for more than 10 days.
  • The event coordinator right is not a status symbol. If it remains unused, it is likely to be removed. Abuse of the event coordinator right will result in its removal by an administrator.
  • Please note, if you were previously a member of the "account creator" group, your flag may have been converted to this new group.

If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the event coordinator right. Happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 19:13, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Bristol meetup

You have previously attended or expressed an interest in attending a meetup in Bristol. I am organising one for this summer - provisionally Saturday 1 September 2018. For details see m:Meetup/Bristol/3 to join the discussion, including expressing preferences about dates and venues, see the talk page at m:Talk:Meetup/Bristol/3. Thryduulf (talk) 18:32, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #326

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-20.

  • Development
    • Show Senses in WhatLinksHere (phab:T200980)
    • Build ability to remove Senses (phab:T196283)
    • Reference a Sense in a statement (phab:T196263)
    • Improve the language code check for Lexemes (phab:T198202)
    • Prepare item/property link formatter that uses cache instead of wb_terms DB table (phab:T201831)
    • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198104)
    • Showing the Lemma or Representation when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
    • Add new monolingual language codes: uga (Ugaritic), rar (Rarotongan), gmy (Mycenean Greek), mnw (Mon), mid (Modern Mandaic), haz (Hazaragi)
    • Fix a bug on the Query Service interface (phab:T201951)
    • Add number of results in embed map view of the Query Service (phab:T201908)

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.


Precious anniversary

Precious
Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:42, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2018

Wikipedia Education globe
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This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 10 | October 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!


In This Issue
From the Community

A new academic course featuring Wikidata at Tel Aviv University

How we included Wikipedia edition into a whole University department curriculum

Meet the first board of the UG Wikipedia & Education

The education program has kicked off as the new academic year starts

The education program has kicked off as the new academic year starts in Albania

The first Wikimedia+Education conference will happen on April 5-7 at Donostia-Saint Sebastian

Using ORES to assign articles in Basque education program

What to write for Wikipedia about? Monuments!

Wikifridays: editing Wikipedia in the university

Writing articles on Wikipedia is our way of leaving legacy to the next generations

File:Harts Hymns frontispiece.jpg

Bibliographic query, Do you know if the publication dates for individual editions would be recorded somewhere ( Stationers Hall maybe?), I've put in an approximate date based on rough information at archive.org, but it would be nice to have some indciation of when the first edition appeard vs this one which is later edition. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:40, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: The English Short Title Catalogue gives the year of the seventh edition as "1770?". The first edition of the book is dated 1759. Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 16:34, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:40, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Woulod it be worth creating a link template for the English Short Title Catalouge, I feel it might be useful in the longer term? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:36, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

  1. Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
  2. Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
  3. Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

AllowEdit

Hi,

Please add the wikicode {{AllowEdit}} on this subpage for allow the bot to update data from Wikidata. (My homepage is on frwiki) --Manu1400 (talk) 10:15, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Manu1400: done. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:33, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Martin,

Thank you for accepting my article :) Jontel (talk) 18:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Scientology Membership, Requested Help to Edit

Dear MartinPoulter,

I am registered with Wikipedia but am not qualified to edit the semi-protected page at http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Scientology#Membership_statistics. I have made only one Wikipedia post, to add a citation, a couple weeks ago.

Would you be willing and able to edit this page, if you find the information below accurate and appropriate? Thank you very much for your consideration. If any questions, please feel free to contact me at cdpalmer88008@gmail.com.

My suggested edits are based on the article “Census and Other Controversies in Counting Scientologists” by Massimo Introvigne, delivered at the European Association for the Study of Religions, Tartu, Estonia, 27 June 2019, and published by the Center for Studies on New Religions. CESNUR is based in Turin, Italy and was established in 1988 by a group of religious scholars from universities in Europe and the Americas working in the field of new religious movements. The published article can be found at Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).https://www.cesnur.org/testi/se_scientology.htm

There are Wikipedia articles on Mr. Introvigne and CESNUR for more information if useful.

The current text on the page is: A 2001 survey estimated that 55,000 people in the United States claimed to be Scientologists. Worldwide estimates of Scientology's core practicing membership ranges between 100,000 and 200,000, mostly in the U.S., Europe, South Africa and Australia.[127] The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey found that the number of American Scientologists had dropped to 25,000.[180][181][182][183] A 2008 Trinity College survey concluded there were only 25,000 American Scientologists.[184] Scientology is also declining in the United Kingdom.[185][181] In 2011, high-level defector Jeff Hawkins estimated there were 40,000 Scientologists worldwide.[181] Although the Church of Scientology claims to be the fastest growing religious movement on Earth, the church's estimates of its membership numbers are reportedly significantly exaggerated.[186][187][188]

Suggested revised text is: A 2001 survey estimated that 55,000 people in the United States claimed to be Scientologists. Worldwide estimates of Scientology's core practicing membership ranges between 100,000 and 200,000, mostly in the U.S., Europe, South Africa and Australia.[127] The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey did not report adherent figures for small religious groups because of their unreliability. Several scholars and media outlets approached ARIS on membership numbers for Scientology. Their informal response was that their data suggested 25,000 +/- 300,000. [cite note number] A 2008 survey by Trinity College estimated there are about 25,000 committed Scientologists in the United States. As the study’s authors admit, their estimate could be off target. [184] [These last two sentences are a direct quote from the cited reference.]

Suggest deleting “Scientology is reportedly declining in the United Kingdom.”[185][181] as neither citation 181 nor 185 includes comparative numbers of Scientology members in the United Kingdom showing a decline.

In 2011, high-level defector Jeff Hawkins estimated there were 40,000 Scientologists worldwide.[181]


Thank you for all your help to Wikipedia and Wikipedians!

Christopher Palmer cdpalmer88008@gmail.com 30 June 2019 Cdpalmer88008 (talk) 20:22, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:34, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Khalili Collections

Hello! Your submission of Khalili Collections at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 19:21, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Khalili Collections

On 26 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Khalili Collections, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Khalili Collections (manuscript folio shown) comprise some 35,000 works of art assembled by Nasser D. Khalili over five decades? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Khalili Collections. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Khalili Collections), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:01, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
    • Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
    • Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
    • Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
    • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
    • More work on tainted references

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 Summary #395

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.
  • Development
    • Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
    • Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
    • Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (phab:T240329)
    • More work on the new term store
    • Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (phab:T235745)
    • New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
    • Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (phab:T240316)
    • Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (phab:T227083)

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.

L. Ron Hubbard

Hi, I have listed this article at Featured article review because I think it no longer satisfies the FA criteria. Graham Beards (talk) 00:46, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #398

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.
  • Development
    • More work on finishing the migration of wb_terms table
    • Don’t check constraints on “Wikidata property example for media” statements (phab:T227865)
    • Warn users that they're not nogged-in before performing restore or undo (phab:T234430, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
    • Remove edit link from Special:NewPages if page is not directly editable (phab:T240561, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
    • Introduce MwEraParser and improve i18n of dates BCE (phab:T140541, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
    • Bridge: show error dialog if the user isn't allowed to edit Wikidata (phab:T235154)
    • Bridge: ask the user if the change is a fix or an update (phab:T237333)
    • Enabled tainted references on test.wikidata.org

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #399

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
    • Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [1]
    • The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!
  • Development
    • More work on wb_terms table migration: information about property terms is no longer updated and removed from wb_terms table.
    • Add "wikibase-statementsection-identifiers i18n message key to Wikibase (phab:T240356)
    • Stop using $wgUser in Wikibase (phab:T241947)
    • Document possible configuration options for Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client installations (phab:T165973)
    • Document Wikibase Usage Aspects (phab:T236772)
    • Document Wikibase tables (phab:T124603)
    • Wikidata Bridge: add the RadioButton to the component library (phab:T239799)
    • Showing error dialogs if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
    • Tainted references: work on keeping the warning visible when users cancel an edit

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.

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