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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2022)

Hello, Jakesyl. The article for improvement of the week is: Joseph Lelyveld Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Social equality • Television ratings Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #506

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MystBot
  • Other: Discussion about replacing values with a new format or scheme for "SBN author ID" (P396), an identifier for National Library Service (SBN) of Italy

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
    • Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
    • Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, Computer
  • Past:
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube
    • Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government - Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine
    • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
    • Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data, by Envlh
    • Profiling a Wikibase item creation on test.wikidata.org by Addshore
    • Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase
  • Papers
    • XAlign: Cross-lingual Fact-to-Text Alignment and Generation for Low-Resource Languages
  • Videos
    • Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - YouTube
    • Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in Wikipedia) - YouTube
    • Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - 1, 2 & 3 (YouTube)
    • Wikidata Tutorial (in German): create a user account on Wikidata, add an institution's website to Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata edit map by Denny puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • January 1st as date
  • Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing, time in the pouch, semantic gender
    • External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Artland fair ID, Artland gallery ID, Douban book series ID, Douban book works ID, Les Archives du spectacle organization ID, Urban Electric Transit city ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, Ezeri.lv lake ID, Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Bugs! music video ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, New York Flora Atlas ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: HSK ID, sports in region, Computational complexity, YouTube video
    • External identifiers: Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2, podchaser episode ID, IFPI UPC/EAN, Weltfussball-Spiel-ID, GoodGame.ru ID, USgamer ID, Riot Pixels game ID, HaBima Archive play id, HaBima Archive person id, NLI topic id, 100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id, Old-Games.RU ID, iXBT Games ID, Students of Turin University ID, Tagoo video game ID, AusGamers ID, GameGuru ID, LMHL author ID, VGTimes ID, ULI id, GameMAG ID, SBN new authority IDs, Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, Gesher Theater Archive person id, Gesher Theater Archive play id, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID, A9VG game ID, Qichaha firm ID, Chinese School Identifier, GoHa.ru ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, CiteSeerX ID of a person, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2
  • Deleted properties:
    • "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
    • "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
    • "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
    • "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
  • Query examples:
    • Events by number of video games announced (source)
    • Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef (source)
    • Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times they are used (source)
    • Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages (source)
    • Team and positions played by National Women's Football League players (source)
    • Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges) (source)
    • Location of statues of women in Italy (source)
    • Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages (source)
    • Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR (source)
    • Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types (source)
    • Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Archaeology

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
  • Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:26, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06

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

• English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
• Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [1]

Problems

• A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue I, January 2022 Headlines Belgium report: Belgium report Brazil report: A portable museum experience to digitize and share collections online Colombia report: Let's celebrate the Public domain day with Wikisource Estonia report: Mobile Photo Studio + New Cooperations Finland report: Photowalks in Helsinki, autumn 2021 France report: Training course for Musée de l'armée staff members; Journée Wikimédia Culture et numérique 2022; Wikiway Indonesia report: GLAM Indonesia wrap-up; Public Domain Day 2022 in Indonesia; #1Lib1Ref Italy report: Collaborations and new projects in January Romania report: About #1lib1ref activities in Romania (and Moldova) Serbia report: Successful end of the Old and even more successful beginning of the New year Spain report: BiBat Museum and libraries Sweden report: Uploads of photographs taken by Swedish missionaries in China; Sörmlands museum's first contributions UK report: Khalili Collections and British Library USA report: Report from DPLA AvoinGLAM report: Hello, world! Content Partnerships Hub report: Results and summaries; Helping with getting Pattypan back on track; Working with partners to make content available Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: February 22: Meetup about SDC support in OpenRefine WMF GLAM report: Wikimedia campaigns for librarians and museum workers; Community Wishlist Survey; and Wikimedia query services Calendar: February'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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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2022)

Hello, Jakesyl. The article for improvement of the week is: Cult of personality Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Joseph Lelyveld • Social equality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #507

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 2
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
  • New request for comments: Population data model

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata February 17, 5:00 PM
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube, Facebook, February 19 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
  • Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration
    • Wikidata in Stardog
    • Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers, coordinates & address
    • PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
    • OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - YouTube
    • Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
    • Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022
  • Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Wikidata ESR is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
    • External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
    • External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID
  • Query examples:
    • Tram bridges in France
    • Polish Righteous Among the Nations
    • Launch date, logo of social media services (source)
    • Oscar winners from 1929 (source)
    • Images of biologists by height (source)
    • Biggest coins outside the U.S. (source)

• Development
  • Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
  • Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:41, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07

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

• Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [3]

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Rollout of the new audio and video player

Please help translate to other languages.

Hello,

Over the next months we will gradually change the audio and video player of Wikis from Kultura to Video.js and with that, the old player won’t be accessible anymore. The new player has been active as a beta feature since May 2017.

The new player has many advantages, including better design, consistent look with the rest of our interface, better compatibility with browsers, ability to work on mobile which means our multimedia will be properly accessible on iPhone, better accessibility and many more.

The old player has been unmaintained for eight years now and is home-brewn (unlike the new player which is a widely used open source project) and uses deprecated and abandoned frameworks such as jQuery UI. Removing the old player’s code also improves performance of the Wikis for anyone visiting any page (by significantly reducing complexity of the dependency graph of our ResourceLoader modules. See this blog post.). The old player has many open bugs that we will be able to close as resolved after this migration.

The new player will solve a lot of old and outstanding issues but also it will have its own bugs. All important ones have been fixed but there will be some small ones to tackle in the future and after the rollout.

What we are asking now is to turn on the beta feature for the new player and let us know about any issues.

You can track the work in T100106

Thank you, Amir 17:59, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2022)

Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello Hello, Jakesyl. The article for improvement of the week is: Isabella I of Castile Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cult of personality • Joseph Lelyveld Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #508

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ChineseWikiClubBot, 1
    • Auto Prod Bot

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th February 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Huda Khan and Astrid Usong on their Linked Data for Production 3 (LD4P3) grant work to use Wikidata in knowledge panels in Cornell’s library catalog Agenda - 2022-02-22 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
    • Hands-on introduction to Wikidata with The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library's Edit-a-Thon! Theme: Boston public art and artists. February 23, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern time
    • OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup - Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your timezone).
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 22 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #30, Trains
  • Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #71 #MelFest - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Plans Become Projects
  • Papers: "COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System" using Wikidata
  • Videos: Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata:Tools/asseeibot - is a tool made by User:So9q to improve the scientific articles in Wikidata. Source code on GitHub under GPLv3+
  • Coinherbarium.com - coins depicting plants; powered by Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of lanes, computational complexity
    • External identifiers: UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID, Gardens Navigator ID, Tagoo video game ID, Lingua Libre ID, Labyrinth database ID, A9VG game ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, RCN, CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date, quality has state, beforehand-afterward owned by, Number of units, created during, award recipient, medical indication
    • External identifiers: KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, YouTube Topic channel ID, YouTube Official Artist Channel ID, GoFood restaurant ID, traveloka restaurant ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, HiSCoD, Databazeknih.cz Book ID, Databazeknih.cz Author ID, Renacyt ID, CBDB.cz Book ID, CBDB.cz Author ID, Gab ID, Drammen byleksikon ID, NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, MakeMyTrip Hotel ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID
  • Query examples:
    • Frequency of letters in five-letter words in Wikidata lexeme forms (source)
    • Visualization of the Prime/Ulam Spiral using natural numbers and primes stored in Wikidata (source)
    • Monuments that are named after somebody without being connected to them by any other property (source)
    • Places named after Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine) (source)
    • Gold medal winners in the Olympic Games by age (source)
    • Top 20 languages in number of lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of lexemes with at least one external id (source)
    • Count of PropertyLabels for lakes in the UK (source)
    • Moons of solar system planets and what they are names for (source)
    • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID (source)

• Development
  • We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
  • We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08

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

• Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [4]
• At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [5]
• You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [6]
• There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

• The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [7][8]
• Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [9]
• Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief

• News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Opinion: Why student editors are good for Wikipedia

• Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia

• In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons

• Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)

• Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results

• WikiProject report: 10 years of tea

• Featured content: Featured Content returns

• Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February

• Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks

• Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate

• By the numbers: Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?

• Gallery: The vintage exhibit

• Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix

• News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team

• Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles

• Humour: Notability of mailboxes

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 20:22, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2022)

Google's corporate headquarters is named Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company, Alphabet Inc. Hello, Jakesyl. The article for improvement of the week is: Google Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Isabella I of Castile • Cult of personality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #509

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ikkingjinnammebetinke (RfP scheduled to end after 7 March 2022 13:33 UTC)
  • New request for comments: Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items
  • Other: Qualifiers for given names and surnames

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - YouTube, Facebook, March 5th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, War
  • Past:
    • Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study
  • Videos
    • Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
    • Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried
    • Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data
    • Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example
    • Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example
    • Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
  • February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
  • Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. Apply here!
  • Job opening: Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: computational complexity
    • External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
    • External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of edits by user on French lexemes (source)
    • Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO (source)
    • Successful coups and attempts in Africa (source)
    • New York Times journalists that are alive (source)
    • Ukrainian coins and banknotes (source)
    • Types of quartz (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
  • Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
  • REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
  • Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
  • Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2022

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This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 2 • February 2022

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In This Issue

• Open Foundation West Africa Expands Open Movement With UHAS
• Celebrating the 18th anniversary of Ukrainian Wikipedia
• Integrating Wikipedia in the academic curriculum in a university in Mexico
• Results of "Reading Wikipedia" workshop in the summer school of Plan Ceibal in Uruguay
• WikiFundi, offline editing plateform : last release notes and how-tos
• Writing Wikipedia as an academic assignment in STEM fields
• The Learning and Connection – 1Lib1Ref with African Librarians

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Tech News: 2022-09

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

• When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [10]
• Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [11][12]
• The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

• The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

• Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
• If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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