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December 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- December 2019—Issue 009
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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News at a Glance |
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Editor Spotlight: Plantdrew |
We're joined this month by long-time editor Plantdrew, who's currently engaged in streamlining the taxonomic structure of Wikipedia articles via the automated taxobox system. How did you become a Wikipedian? What are your particular interests (besides the obvious of "plants")?
What projects are keeping you busy around the 'pedia at present?
What's your favorite plant?
What's your background like? How did you come to have a special interest in biology?
What's something that would surprised TOL editors about your life off-wiki?
Anything else you'd like us to know?
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December DYKs |
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Your comment on Mitch Ames talk page
[edit]- @JarrahTree:. I don't know this member (I dropped by to add a thanks), but I think you might want to consider striking these comments as they seem to fairly blatantly fall foul of WP:CIVIL. Best, Darren-M talk 11:25, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #397
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- Events
- New: you can Wikidata-related events in the calendar of Wikimedia Space
- Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, 18:00 (UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble, France, January 16th
- Tool of the week
- Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: copyright status as a creator, serving temperature, egg incubation period, member of military unit
- External identifiers: ZX81 Collection publisher ID, ZX81 Collection ID, DAF ID, Computer Emuzone game ID, console music history ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, deviantArt person ID, EEPS ID, garaph.info game ID, garaph.info group ID, IDFA film ID, Lithuanian Football Encyclopedia player ID, Microworld ID, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Movie Walker person ID, Natural Product Atlas ID, NES Cart Database ID, NIPS Proceedings author ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, Nonfiction ID, portable music history ID, Prague territorial district ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PS photographer ID, ScreenScraper company ID, ScreenScraper game ID, ScreenScraper platform ID, SPIE profile ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, VBProfiles person ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, DES ID, Bob ID, Australian National Maritime Museum object ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, The Good Old Days ID, RationalWiki ID, SSNE person ID, AdoroCinema film ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: literary form, HASC, Stairway To Hell ID, number of reviews or ratings, armament used, equipment used
- External identifiers: bauhaus.community, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, OpenBibArt ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, Saregama artist ID, openSUSE package, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Orthodox Wiki ID, Wien Geschichte Wiki ID, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, BookBrainz work ID, NMVW id, David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base ID, FandangoNow ID, CPCWiki ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, Punjabipedia ID, Open Churches ID, Apple IIGS France ID
- Query examples:
- Horses sorted by age of death (source)
- Affiliates of the USA organization Peace Action (source)
- 100 random paintings related to Haarlem (source)
- Timeline of adaptations of Little Women and actresses who played Jo's character (source)
- Indian people whose work is entering public domain in 2020 (source)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia meetups in April 2020
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A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia meetups in April 2020 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 03:43, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
Oops
[edit]Oops, sorry, clobbered that user with a warning after you'd already posted a welcome/warning message. Misread the date and thought it must be a serial offender. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:28, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: December 2019
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Problem with user Bluesatellite
[edit]Hi there, i wonder if you could help me out with a editing problem on the wikipedia article Proclamation of Indonesian Independence. The person Bluesatellite is rewriting the article again and again and is erasing sources which does not match the vison of the Indonesian government in which it is told that the world accepted Indonesian independence in 1945. All the sources tell 1949, but Bluesatellite is erasing all these sources with from the Indonesian government or Indonesian articles. I used Newspapers and UN sources to provide sources which support a neutral vision, but everytime it's erased. Could you be of some help?
Many greetings
--BabiBandung (talk) 13:49, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #398
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- Events
- Registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana (May 9-11) opened
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: getting started in Wikidata, labels, and aliases, 14 January. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Report of Wiki Techstorm 2019 by Jsamwrites
- Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata by Ian Watt
- Overview of Wikidata gadgets and user scripts - slides from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Meetings
- Wikipedia Rolls Out Our Research on Providing Semantic Information for Mathematical Formulae - this feature uses Wikidata
- 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.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can test a new feature highlighting mismatched references
- The next Weekly Summary (January 20) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: exonerated of, Commons category for ship name, heading, filename in archive
- External identifiers: Russian PFL player ID, J-GLOBAL ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, Époques ID, openSUSE package, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, DLE RAE ID, NTIS accession number, PubAg ID, Games Database developer ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Beta Masaheft ID, ordered by, university of the third age, period of lactation, position, grape variety, merged into, distribution map of taxon
- External identifiers: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa - stacja ID, Livelib.ru person ID, ScummVM wiki ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Arcade PCB database game ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, eu-football team ID, Museen in OÖ ID, Voetbal International player ID, Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID, C64.COM ID, Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID, FlashScore.com team ID, Soccerdonna team ID, c64games.de ID, Museums in Austria Code, Canmore thesaurus ID, The Cutting Room Floor ID, NPDRIM record ID, EFIS person ID, coinop.org game ID, EFIS film ID, EFIS filmmaker ID, EFIS film festival ID, WeChangEd ID, marterl.at ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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.
- 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!
Thanks for your message, and hope all is well with you and yours
[edit]Hi @JarrahTree: and thank you for your message. Yep, I am alive/well/comprehending and so on. I am quite aware that my edits reflect a rather idiosyncratic take on... pretty much everything. As for my additions of ISBNs to the Peter Corris, I partially agree that it was "unsightly and unhelpful". Maybe we should have created articles for those books? Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 12:24, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Re: there indeed is a story
[edit]Oh yes, there really is! If I were ever in that area again I'd love to go there ... if only to harass the guy who owns it about weather records, lol ... Graham87 14:17, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
Lead sentences
[edit]FYI, most decent articles tend to start with something like (for example) "...is an Australian politician. He was a [party] member of the [parliament] from [year] to [year], representing [seat]. It might be worth mentioning more often for federal MPs, for example, "...representing the New South Wales seat of [seat name], but for state MPs its a given as long as someone thinks to mention the parliament in the lead section. The Drover's Wife (talk) 02:26, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
We don't gossip, we network. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:15, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #399
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- Events
- Past: Wikidata OpenRefine Workshop in Prague (Q1085)
- Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team
- Tool of the week
- The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.
- 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!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: National September 11 Memorial ID, BeWeb person ID, BeWeb entity ID, BeWeb family ID, Apple IIGS France ID, bauhaus.community ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Decine21 person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Games Database publisher ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 (foundation), kino-teatr.ru person ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Macintosh Garden game ID, Macintosh Repository ID, Open Churches ID, OpenBibArt ID, textove.com artist ID, textove.com song ID, Electronic library Ukrainica ID, article in French Vikidia, OrthodoxWiki ID (English), Punjabipedia ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, article in Italian Vikidia, BookBrainz work ID, CPCWiki ID, UCUM code, VGMPF ID, article in Spanish Vikidia, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, article in English Vikidia, LiverTox ID, NMVW id, article in Basque Vikidia, Authenticus ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Livelib.ru person ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum photographer ID, Polish Nationwide Railway Database - station ID, Saregama artist ID, ScummVM wiki ID, article in Armenian Vikidia, Vienna History Wiki ID, article in German Vikidia, Joconde object type ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, Beta maṣāḥǝft ID, DigitaltMuseum ID, Frick Art Reference Library artist file ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, Joconde location ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: local to a language context, category for files created with program, Used with verb, Commons postcards category, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, IP address or range, Commons map category V2, necessary property for class, 8-bits ID
- External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, The Cover Project game ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Eurogamer ID, VR GameCritic ID, GameStar ID, Media Art Database ID, IGCD game ID, GameTDB game ID, identifier HAL for article, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, VGMRips composer ID, Historical Marker Database ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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.
- 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!
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A tag has been placed on Category:Subdistricts of Yogyakarta (special region) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:36, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
AfD
[edit]Eh, it's pretty easy for these kinds of articles to stick around for ages: random foreigners will see the "college" and assume notability even with a crap article and probably wouldn't come across something linked from an industrial estate suburb article anyway. (It's interesting Wikipedians' preconceptions about this stuff - the last time we had one of these private providers with no sources nominated for deletion we had to have a real argument to get it deleted (because people think "ooh, college"), but we have to fight to keep Merivale (company) despite the fact it's a billion-dollar business that became notable a good thirty years before I was born). The Drover's Wife (talk) 12:22, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:W.A. Sporting Car Club
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A tag has been placed on Category:W.A. Sporting Car Club requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:12, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
Back
[edit]Just archived my talk page including your message. Back virus free (as far as I can tell) although the surgical mask was very popular at Singapore Airport. Will be attempting to help knock off the last of the biota list in the next few week. Trust all is well. Hughesdarren (talk) 09:01, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #400
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- Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
- Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
- The page ID 400 is Ludwig van Beethoven; the Wikidata page version ID 400 was a version of printer.
- The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
- Wikimedia Commons has 627 images taken with the Canon PowerShot A400 - you can see one on baritone saxophone.
- Map of things at an altitude of 400 m.
- Map of places with a population of 400 ± 5 (yellow) graduating to 400 ± 0 (red).
- From this query, Wikidata knows of 21 theatres, 15 cinemas, 11 sports venues, 11 event venues, and 9 ships having a maximum capacity of 400.
- Image grid of taxa with a highest observed lifespan of at least 400 years.
- Image grid of items with a mass of 400 kilograms and image grid of items with a mass of 400 grams.
- List of 400m distance sports events.
- 400 Ducrosa is a main-belt asteroid named after J. Ducros.
- List of items with an external ID equal to 400.
- Last but not least, 400 dahlias for Léa, Lydia and the other contributors to this list!
- Events
- Past: Wikidata office hour on Telegram, January 22nd. Notes of the meeting
- Upcoming: WikiTuesday / Wikidata Talks Meetup in Istambul, Turkey, January 28th
- Upcoming: online meeting dedicated to organizers of Wikidata's 8th birthday, January 29th
- Tool of the week
- Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: attested as, category for files created with program, period of lactation, aperture
- External identifiers: C64.COM ID, c64games.de ID, eu-football.info team ID, museum in Salzburg (AT) ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, Upper Austria Museum ID, WorldCat Identities ID, word in DEJ of RAE ID, HAL article ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: LiverTox Likelihood Score, dean, stated age in source, US Bureau of Prisons Register Number, located in the constituency, motherboard, WMF short URL, Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, supported metadata, expansion, historic first, number of pins, number of pin positions, catalogue raisonné, Dose, value group number, external georeferencer URL, axis, Voting system, image revision-id, region within image, georeferencing data, based on tabular data, Number of active electronic terminals, associated with, translated title, position in sequence, Attribution text, food energy, madhhab, Maximum number of playable characters, Main deity, electron configuration, capital social, gained territory from, key col of, religion or world view, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, menu items, food composition, IP address or range, featured in, lighting, general law, territorial entity ranking context, references, mentions named entity, hardiness
- External identifiers: NASA active astronaut ID, VGMRips company ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, Roglo person ID, VGMRips system ID, Museu de Memes ID, Nobel API ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Canmore object-type ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, GameRevolution game ID, TrueAchievements game ID, PARADISEC Catalog, ELAR ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Whaling History ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Ciência ID, 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Ident.Nr., GoodRx, part number, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, MIC, UEFA referee ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, TrueAchievements series ID, Bollywood Hungama ID 2, Gamekult game ID
- Query examples:
- The results of the Australian Triple J Hottest 100, 2019 music voting poll were published on 25 January 2019. See the results with associated music videos to watch.
- Map of destinations from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
- 50 philosophers for which DBpedia and Wikidata state different date of birth (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on wb_terms migration
- Units support for quantity datatype (phab:T239474)
- Fix the link to rawgraphs.io from WDQS (phab:T222257)
- More work on showing messages related to permissions on the Wikidata Bridge
- Tainted references: fix minor alignment issues (phab:T243269, phab:T242212)
- Add a "remove warning" button to confirm a correct reference (phab:T234789)
- Preparing the ground for a unified component library for the Wikidata UI
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!
Re: hahaha
[edit]Yeah ... and there's the small matter of the "Mc" in his surname ... and what comes up when you Google ""Neil McNeil" ballarat, like this. Graham87 03:03, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 37
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 37, November – December 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:10, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
you are wa. you are wikipedian. you fix and review! or me get big bat.
also, you could fix the State Library of Western Australia being part of DCA, which no longer exits. thanks mark, your so smart!
Wikidata weekly summary #401
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mike Peel
- Events
- Past: Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
- Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei
- Press, articles, blog posts
- A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham
- Tool of the week
- VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
- 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
- Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
- Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
- OpenRefine 3.3 was released
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
- External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
- External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
- Work on adding a button to hide the notification (phab:T234789)
- Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (phab:T234790)
- More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
- More work on wb_terms migration
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!
January 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- January 2020—Issue 010
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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The vital articles project on English Wikipedia began in 2004 when an editor transferred a list from Meta-Wiki: List of articles every Wikipedia should have. The first incarnation of the list became what is now level 3. As of 2019, there are 5 levels of vital articles:
Each level is inclusive of all previous levels, meaning that the 1,000 Level 3 articles include those listed on Levels 2 and 1. Below is an overview of the distribution of vital articles, and the quality of the articles. While the ultimate goal of the vital articles project is to have Featured-class articles, I also considered Good Articles to be "complete" for the purposes of this list. Animals (1,148 designated out of projected 2,400)
Plants, fungi, and other organisms (510 designated out of projected 1,200)
Many articles have yet to be designated for Tree of Life taxonomic groups, with 1,942 outstanding articles to be added. Anyone can add vital articles to the list! Restructuring may be necessary, as the only viruses included as of yet are under the category "Health". The majority of vital articles needing improvement are level 5, but here are some outstanding articles from the other levels:
· Abiogenesis
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Wikidata weekly summary #402
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc
- Events
- Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
- Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
- WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
- Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
- Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.
- Tool of the week
- Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
- Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
- "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
- Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
- Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
- There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
- Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
- External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID
- Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
- Query examples:
- Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
- Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
- Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
- List of this year’s Academy Awards winners
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
- Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
- Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
- Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (phab:T231731)
- Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
- Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
- Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (phab:T243158)
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!
This Month in GLAM: January 2020
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Toodyay
[edit]Have I missed something? It's the only article on my watchlist with that issue so I edited it accordingly. Nonetheless - being in Category:National Trust of Western Australia suggest that the Trust owns or operates the building (which was why I actually checked out the page, because I hadn't thought Toodyay Court House was a NTWA museum) - that it is there because it is classified is absolutely not obvious. It really needs a Category:Places classified by the National Trust of Western Australia or equivalent wording if the intention is to form a category of classified places (which is a good idea). The Drover's Wife (talk) 23:31, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
- As I said on the talk page, I'm now completely lost at where you're coming from. The Drover's Wife (talk) 23:46, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
- Still baffled? All of that sounds good to me so I'm not sure where the aggro comes from. The Drover's Wife (talk) 01:12, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Request for help
[edit]Hello JarrahTree and thanks for the welcome. I have a question. What happens if another user edits my correction and reverts back to an incorrect and ungrammatical sentence in an article? This has happened with my edit to an article an the Sandy Hook shootings. is there a guideline? I don't want to get into a ding-dong with this other user! Thanks! Bigmund (talk) 08:25, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Thank you
[edit]Hi JarrahTree and thanks for your warm welcome. Apologies in advance if this isn't the correct way to reply to a talk on Wikipedia. Cheers
Idealight20 (talk) 04:52, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
Wawalag
[edit]Thanks for the explanation - I can understand the frustration - on any AfD it's annoying to see users who know nothing about particular issues come in and give their "opinion" which results from doing a Google search and nothing more (and it falling entirely on users who want to keep articles to do all the hard work of showing why things should be kept and not getting listened to). For my sins I didn't do a Wikipedia search on the term and should have done so. Given the limited information on the Wawalag page and the much more appropriate place on the Yunggor page, I'll strike my !vote and change to a merge or redirect (whatever is more appropriate). Agree that there should not be a separate page at this point. Bookscale (talk) 10:55, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
do it
[edit]"do it..." — Yes, because all of my other edits in areas where others are more knowledgeable, and/or in categorisation, have been accepted without any problems! </sarcasm> Mitch Ames (talk) 11:29, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:National Trust of Australia (WA)
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A tag has been placed on Category:National Trust of Australia (WA) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:43, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
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Hello JarrahTree,
- Source Guide Discussion
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
- Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
- Discussions and Resources
- There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
- A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
- A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
- A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.
- Refresher
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
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Category:Kwinana, Western Australia has been nominated for discussion
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Category:Kwinana, Western Australia, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Calistemon (talk) 07:35, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Category:Kwinana, Western Australia
[edit]Hi JarrahTree, I have nominated the Category:Kwinana, Western Australia for deletion, which you created. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 17 for the rationale but, basically, Category:City of Kwinana has superseded it. If you can see any other uses for it feel free to fill the category again. Regards, Calistemon (talk) 07:39, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #403
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- Discussions
- Versionize property definitions ?
- Closed request for comments: Non-free content
- Events
- Past: Warsaw, 13-14 February: Workshop to develop the data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
- Upcoming: March 12, Amsterdam: Datasprint Amsterdam Time Machine/Golden Agents with the ECARTICO and ONSTAGE datasets, involving Wikidata.
- Upcoming: FindingGLAMs Wikidata editing challenge, improve data about cultural heritage institutions, from February 17th to 23rd
- Tool of the week
- Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
- Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
- Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: gained territory from, gave up territory to
- External identifiers: MOCAGH ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, AnimalBase ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, Canmore object-type ID, Clavis Clavium ID, CYRI ID, DANFS ship ID, Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, Gamekult game ID, Gamekult platform ID, GBAtemp game ID, Mendeley publication ID, Museums in Austria Code, Médias 19 ID, SerialStation game ID, TheTVDB person ID, TrueAchievements series ID, Canmore monument-type ID, Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Jurisdiction List number, Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: energy consumption per transaction, yearly energy consumption, church patron saint, national identification number, Democracy Index, business model, intended subject, examination jury, depicted format, DoME artist ID, historic county, код персоны на elibrary.ru, applies if regular expression matches
- External identifiers: Patamu Certificate ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Annuaire des Maîtres d'art, Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ID, GameReactor game ID, Fandango performer ID, Cell Ontology ID, ColecoVision.dk ID, BioLexSOE ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Colecovision Zone ID, Catalogue of Life ID, GreatSchools ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Mirabile author ID, Mirabile saint ID, Kanopy ID, Czech War Graves Register
- Query examples:
- Place names of Bergamo: map with pronunciation audio files (source)
- Number words whose number of letters equals their value: with Lexemes (source), with labels (source)
- Graph of the extended Kardashian clan (source)
- Scottish monuments with a commons sitelink, but no image (source)
- Number of films with LGBT representation per country (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
- Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
- Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
- Style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
- Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
- Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (phab:T244722)
- Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
- Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration
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!
Nuisance
[edit]Not the only one, Quindanning, Western Australia appears to be in two different regions as well. Calistemon (talk) 11:45, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
- A pale shadow against your 230,000! Calistemon (talk) 12:01, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
- I quote:
- Quindanning (Boddington) is located in the Peel region
- Crossman (Boddington) is located in the Peel region
- I can see that Crossman could cause some confusion as it is right on the border of the shire but Quindanning is not. Calistemon (talk) 12:22, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
- I quote:
ssage I received... ==
Hi, may I know what do you mean? You mean I should delete all his articles? Or you want me to withdraw my PROD request? I am a bit confused. I am in no way targeting that user and i was just looking at articles using the "random" function. Could you please reply on my talk page? Thanks:) WikiAviator (talk) 07:17, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice. It isn't about the quality of the article, but mean its notability not verifiable, therefore i am deleting it. A superb article with a not so notable subject is still ought to be axed.WikiAviator (talk) 07:29, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for creating the article. Some pointers: when you create a citation refname, it should have a semantic value (see Template:Refname rules) so that editors who edit in wikicode (i.e. Source screen) can more easily find them; the templates in the editing toolbar create and add standardized citations:
- Click "Cite" on the editing toolbar and the "Templates" window appears
- Click "Templates" and the selections for cite web, cite news, cite book, cite journal appear
- Choose one of the templates
- Click [Show/hide extra fields] to open all the parameters available
- Enter details about the source in the corresponding parameters
- Click [Preview] to review the citation
- Click [Insert] and the {{cite}} template is automatically added to the article.
I hope you find this information helpful. Pyxis Solitary (yak). L not Q. 10:49, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #404
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
- Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)
- Events
- Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
- Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
- Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
- When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
- Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
- “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
- Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul
- Tool of the week
- Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
- soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
- Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
- External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
- External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID
- Query examples:
- Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
- SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
- countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
- places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
- Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397)
- Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
- making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
- research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
- showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433)
- More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
- Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
- Fixing various issues causing errors in production
- Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (phab:T196165)
- Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (phab:T242769)
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!
Locations
[edit]I wonder if it was feasible to have the region boundaries added to File:Western Australia Local Government Areas.svg, or a map of each region with the shires in it. In a similar way, each of the cities, towns and shires could do with a map of its suburbs. I'm no good at creating such maps, unfortunately. It would be a worthwhile effort for an editor skilled in maps. Currently I rely on my UBD street directory, my Hema WA 4WD atlas and google maps. Calistemon (talk) 08:47, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
Mandurah
[edit]I had a productive morning getting images for all the State registered places in Mandurah, except Allandale Homestead, which was to far south for today. I even got close to Cooper's Mill, on Cooleenup Island, getting to just the other side of it on one of the branches of the Murray. I was told the gate to the last bit of the road, Tonkin Drive, is usually closed, but was open today. Sadly, further progressing towards Pinjarra was abruptly stopped when I picked up a tek screw in my front tire and had to limp back to Mandurah. Still, I'm happy, all but one of List of State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Mandurah now have an image. Calistemon (talk) 10:35, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
List of Shipwrecks
[edit]Good day mate . Could you please inform user John Beta to stop erasing the clipper Redemptora from list of WA shipwrecks? It seems biased to say the least and excessive to call my contributions "vandalism" just to justify his own defective knowledge on the subject. Just one example: He intends to "define" what a shipwreck is or even correct the data for its sinking even against all evidence ( that has been corrected by what he calls "barelink"). I have added further sources to prove this is an important shipwreck of which little was known before the "barelink" (i.e. A master thesis form UWA) appeared. Thanks for all help . Cite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).
data corrected
[edit]Hi Jarrah corrected the date of Redemptora sinking/abandonment. It seems one or two ships are mentioned data of construction as data of sinking, hence the correction. Have added more sources to the "barelink".
Wikidata weekly summary #405
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Kostas20142
- Events
- March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
- July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
- Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
- Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
- About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
- OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
- External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
- External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID
- Query examples:
- Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
- British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
- Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
- People with profiles on the Washington Post website
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
- Bridge: more style adjustments
- Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
- Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)
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!
February 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- February 2020—Issue 011
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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With the outbreak of a novel coronavirus dominating news coverage, Wikipedia content related to the virus has seen much higher interest. Tree of Life content of particular interest to readers has included viruses, bats, pangolins, and masked palm civets. Viruses saw the most dramatic growth in readership: Coronavirus, which was the 105th most popular virus article in December 2019 with about 400 views per day, averaged over a quarter million views each day of January 2020. Total monthly viewership of the top-10 virus articles ballooned from about 1.5 million to nearly 20 million.
![]() From October 2019 – December 2019, the top ten most popular bat articles fluctuated among 16 different articles, with the December viewership of those 10 articles at 209,280. For January 2020, three articles broke into the top-10 that were not among the 16 articles of the prior three months: Bat as food, Horseshoe bat, and Bat-borne virus. Viewership of the top-10 bat articles spiked nearly 300% to 617,067 in January. While bats have been implicated as a possible natural reservoir of SARS-CoV-2, an intermediate host may be the bridge between bats and humans. Pangolins have been hypothesized as the intermediate host for the virus, causing a large spike in typical page views of 2-3k each day up to more than 60k in a day. Masked palm civets, the intermediate host of SARS, saw a modest yet noticeable spike in page views as well, from 100 to 300 views per day to as many as 5k views per day. With an increase in viewers came an increase in editors. In an interview, longtime virus editor Awkwafaba identified the influx of editors as the biggest challenge in editing content related to the coronavirus. They noted that these newcomers include "novices who make honest mistakes and get tossed about a bit in the mad activity" as well as "experienced editors who know nothing about viruses and are good researchers, yet aren't familiar with the policies of WP:ToL or WP:Viruses." Disruption also increased, with extended confirmed protection (also known as the 30/500 rule, which prevents editors with fewer than 30 days tenure and 500 edits from making edits and is typically used on a very small subset of Wikipedia articles) temporarily applied to Coronavirus and still active on Template:2019–20 coronavirus outbreak data. New editors apparently seeking to correct misinformation continuously edited the article Bat as food to remove content related to China: Videos of Chinese people eating bat soup were misrepresented to be current or filmed in China, when at least one such video was several years old and filmed in Palau. However, reliable sources confirm that bats are eaten in China, especially Southern China, so these well-meaning edits were mostly removed. Another level of complexity was added by the fluctuating terminology of the virus. Over a dozen moves and merges were requested within WikiProject Viruses. To give you an idea of the musical chairs happening with article titles, here are the move histories of two articles: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Awkwafaba noted that "the main authorities, WHO and ICTV, don't really have a process for speedily naming a virus or disease." Additionally, they have different criteria for naming. They said, "I remember in a move discussion from the article then called Wuhan coronavirus that a virus name cannot have a geographical location in it, but this is a WHO disease naming guideline, and not an ICTV virus naming rule. ICTV may have renamed Four Corners virus to Sin Nombre orthohantavirus but there are still plenty of official virus species names that don't abide by WHO guidelines." |
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- Fixing various production errors
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This Month in GLAM: February 2020
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I'm looking in to it, mate
[edit]The whole Wazdanny slew of articles. --Shirt58 (talk) 10:09, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
VIP - email tells all - cheers... JarrahTree 10:16, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
Admin noticeboard discussion
[edit]There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Admin trouble between Shirt58 and Gnangarra regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Fram (talk) 15:15, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Lawyers from Hobart
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A tag has been placed on Category:Lawyers from Hobart requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Wikidata weekly summary #407
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- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject
- Events
- Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
- Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
- Postponed:
- Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
- WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
- Cancelled:
- Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
- Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
- Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
- Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
- Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts
- Tool of the week
- TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New help page: Suggesters and selectors
- All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
- Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
- QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
- News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint
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- External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2
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- Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (phab:T165648)
- Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (phab:T247478)
- Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (phab:T245865)
- Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (phab:T243779)
- Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (phab:T246873)
- Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (phab:T246349)
- showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (phab:T235208)
- research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
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Why did you list her as "living=no", twice, in the project banners? She appears to be alive. If you know she is not, then please update her article. Thanks. PamD 19:39, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Please see Draft:Sunny Hindustani
[edit]Sir, Requested please review the page this is Currently Submitted. you see the draft articles and in my talk page add tag Done or
Not done.(thanks for taking) 3:50 pm, 18 March2020 (UTC).Vivek ji123 (talk)
David Beal
[edit]Thank you JarrahTree for your encouragement on the photographer bios I have been writing! Always good to know someone out there is keeping a critical (as in helpful) eye on things. David Beal was certainly important - lots of pics on Trove, SLNSW, but bio details are very impossible to track down...he's still alive, somewhere. I'm interested in that cracker shot of the running emus on your page - do tell me more!
But you have to be there, be alert, and have a camera! Jamesmcardle(talk) 21:44, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
Fremantle Fortress
[edit]Thank you for the source provided, it was invaluable for the Fremantle Fortress article. Just one question, drawing on your local knowledge. The only one of the batteries I could not pin point the location for is Swanbourne Battery (See table). I presume it was near where Campbell Barracks (Western Australia) are now but haven't been able to find anything definitive. Have you got any knowledge on the exact location? Calistemon (talk) 06:01, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
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