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Wikidata weekly summary #412

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.
  • Development
    • Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
      • try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
      • allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
      • investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
      • com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
      • identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
      • create design system components to continue improving consistency

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.

Tech News: 2020-17

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

Tech News

  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

  • Advanced item The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [1]
  • Advanced item Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [2]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [3]
  • The font in the diffs will change. [4]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Hall of Fame CfDs

Hi Andy, Montanabw suggested I ask your opinion on some CfDs. I think they should be kept, but perhaps there are some guidelines I am not familiar with? The editor is back after a hiatus, and she has started creating CfDs to delete HoF categories again. The one I am actively involved in now is Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 15#Category:Inter Dominion Hall of Fame but there are others. Just looking for advice, not advocacy. Thanks for listening. dawnleelynn(talk) 17:27, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

@Dawnleelynn: In such cases, it's often better to make a decision at a policy level, rather than on a piecemeal basis; for that you need an RfC: see WP:RfC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:32, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Andy, I'll take a look. dawnleelynn(talk) 17:44, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
I was reading about this article yesterday and today. Then I noticed a little while ago that under WP:RFCNOT it says CfDs. So, that's not going to work. But I'll just go on with this one as it is. I still appreciate the thought. I also asked Ser Amantio di Nicolao for advice per Montanabw, and he says he thinks I have a better handle on the guidelines than he does, so I must be doing the best that can be done with this one. Thanks a bunch! dawnleelynn(talk) 19:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
@Dawnleelynn: I think you'll end up by having to establish what exceptions to WP:OCAWARD could and should exist. That is an editing guideline, and stating that generally "recipients of an award should be grouped in a list rather than a category" is going to sink your arguments to keep the categories for award recipients. If you have to rely on the "defining characteristic" exception, you'll probably lose the debate in most of the cases at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 15#Category:Inter Dominion Hall of Fame, because it's difficult to convince others that receiving the award defined a particular successful horse, rather than their career, for example.
I suggest that you'd have more luck in attempting to clarify the part of the guidance that states "(though there are a few exceptions to this),[clarification needed]", and an RfC is the correct vehicle for clarifying an editing guideline.
You would have to present an argument that there is a distinct, definable set of articles whose subjects have received an award, where a category containing them would confer benefits beyond a simple list article that contains the same. I imagine you might be able to argue that having categories is the usual means on Wikipedia of providing easy navigation to related articles. You ought to establish that the set of articles would be a well-defined, coherent, exhaustive group that would very likely be of sufficient interest to readers that they would wish to read many of them. That fits the fundamental purpose of categorisation, rather than a stand-alone list (which is principally not a navigation aid, but an encyclopedic enumeration of potential articles on a particular topic). Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 19:57, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
@RexxS: Long time no see! Thanks very much for your thoughtful and detailed message. I'll digest this for a bit first and it should be very helpful I think. I'll let you know. This would be my first time doing something like this but I'm willing.dawnleelynn(talk) 20:05, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Category:Nurses from London

This is a subcategory of Category:English nurses. The rule is we put them in the lowest category. It doesnt imply anything about nationality, and the article says nothing about nationality. Its about location. Rathfelder (talk) 13:59, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Well, it should not be, because not all nurses from London are English. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:03, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited NHS Charities Together, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Charity (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

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A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
For your work on List of deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019. Bearian (talk) 22:05, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Tom Moore (fundraiser)

Hello! Your submission of Tom Moore (fundraiser) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 16:51, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #413

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.
  • Development
    • More work on error screens for the Bridge
    • Use updated data for the Bridge (phab:T240223)
    • Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (phab:T246606)
    • Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (phab:T249004)
    • Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (phab:T248997)
    • Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (phab:T249613)
    • Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (phab:T241978)
    • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

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DYK for Tom Moore (fundraiser)

On 30 April 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tom Moore (fundraiser), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Colonel Tom Moore, who turns 100 today, has raised more than £31 million for NHS Charities Together by walking laps of his garden? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tom Moore (fundraiser). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Tom Moore (fundraiser)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

removed Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

readded Callanecc

Oversight changes

readded HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

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Wikidata weekly summary #414

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday May 5 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Tool of the week
    • ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
    • 33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
    • Outdated copy of wb_terms has been dropped on April 29th
  • Development
    • Add monolingual language codes rm-rumgr, rm-surmiran, rm-sursilv, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter (phab:T222426)
    • More work on the test system for federated properties
    • More work on displaying statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
    • Bridge: more work on generic error screens (phab:T241126)
    • Bridge: warn the user that they are about to edit anonymously (phab:T246676)
    • Work on a Wikidata distributed game for automated finding of references
    • Automated finding references: build a scraper, simple value matching, item analyzer
    • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
    • Add more properties to the PageImages list (phab:T249811)
    • Use strict types everywhere in Wikibase (phab:T251382)

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Tech News: 2020-19

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

Problems

  • Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [5]
  • Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [6]

Changes later this week

  • You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [7]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2020

This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 4 • April 2020

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In This Issue

"Www2006" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Www2006. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 6#Www2006 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesomeHwyh 16:36, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Www2007. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 6#Www2007 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesomeHwyh 16:36, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect WWW2007. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 6#WWW2007 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesomeHwyh 16:37, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect WWW2006. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 6#WWW2006 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesomeHwyh 16:37, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #415

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding wikidata=* tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
    • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
      • Part 1 - Meet the Archive: YouTube
      • Part 2 - The IA & Wikimedia: YouTube
    • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Part 1 - Wikidata - current state: YouTube
      • Part 2 - Wikibase & Lexemes: YouTube
      • Part 3 - Shape Expressions & Schemas: YouTube
    • How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
    • Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
    • Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names
  • Tool of the week
    • WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities
  • Development
    • Display statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
    • Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (phab:T252024)
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
    • Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (phab:T249598)
    • Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (phab:T247459)
    • Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (phab:T247196)
    • More work on automated references

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

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