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Wikidata weekly summary #513

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
    • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.
  • Development
    • [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
    • Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
    • Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
    • Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
    • REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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Tech News: 2022-13

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

  • There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [1][2]

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022

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Wikidata weekly summary #514

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.
  • Tool of the week
    • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
    • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
    • REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
    • Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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Tech News: 2022-14

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

  • For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [3]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
  • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Andriy Khlyvnyuk

As I was attempting to move the article about Andriy Khlyvnyuk, my keyboard stopped working after I accidentally changed it to Andriy K. Is there anything you can do to move it to his actual name? Zvig47 (talk) 20:42, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

@Zvig47: Andriy Khlyvnyuk already exists, so sadly no. Please ask on WP:AN.

Pink Floyd reuniting

As multiple reliable sources such as this one have just announced Pink Floyd reforming, you might want to keep an eye on the core articles. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 17:01, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Also, if you've got a mo, I don't suppose you'd be able to address the two [better source needed] tags in Pink Floyd discography? I've tried to do a search but everywhere I look seems to have copied Wikipedia in the first place. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:08, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

"Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" Credits do not need to be sourced per the logic of MOS:ALBUM

Hi. Per what MOS:ALBUM says—which certainly would apply to songs as well if we don't have to do it for albums—credits do not need to be sourced. The album itself is considered the source (i.e. the liner notes). In this case, the single also has digital liner notes, and it's not considered appropriate to link to Spotify, Apple Music and other webstores selling products per WP:AFFILIATE, so I didn't. I don't see how simple details about the song are contentious—you made previous reference to Spotify in edit summaries on this article, and I said I took the writers and producers from Spotify as well. Also, if this is even a concern, why did you only remove Andriy Khlyvnyuk but not Gilmour or Stephan Charnetskii? They're not sourced or mentioned in the prose as writers either. I suppose if you don't accept even this, a citation using Template:Cite AV media notes could be added. Ss112 21:57, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Gilmour and Charnetskii are both cited to the Guardian piece, among others. There is no free pass for uncited material in MOS:ALBUM. In viewing the Spotify web page I see no writer credits, let alone one for Khlyvnyuk. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:16, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
To add to what Andy said, a while back the studio information on the Obscured by Clouds infobox got changed to something factually incorrect by a series of Chinese whispers; with proper sourcing, this is less likely to happen. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Pigsonthewing, you cannot view credits on Spotify by simply going to the web browser version of Spotify. It's a Spotify app feature. On the app, click on the three dots to the right of the song. Select "show credits". There it has David Gilmour, Andriy Khlyvnyuk and Stepan Charnetskii listed as writers. I didn't just invent this—I told you how to access the source and even cited the liner notes as a compromise. MOS:ALBUM states: "Track listings can be sourced to liner notes (WP:PRIMARY) as a definitive WP:VERIFIABLE source without the usual WP:SECONDARY sourcing requirements of most Wikipedia content. This is generally assumed and does not need explicit citation in most cases." (WP:TRACKLIST). Then, the section WP:PERSONNEL: "it is generally assumed that a personnel section is sourced from the liner notes". @Ritchie333: I also don't know this is now a "traditional" credit considering that's not what Spotify states. I don't see how the Obscured by Clouds example is relevant. This is not "Chinese whispers", it's from a source, which I then even cited on the article. I never disputed that in cases where there is contention, it's good to cite a source, which is what I did here. Ss112 13:25, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #515

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
    • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
    • REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

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Tech News: 2022-15

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

  • There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
  • On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [5][6]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

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Miocene

What's with the edits to Miocene? I honestly came here expecting to find a vandalism-only username, but you seem to be a legitimate contributing editor -- except for those edits. Is it possible someone has hacked your username? --Kent G. Budge (talk) 14:05, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

If my edits are - in your view - so bad, how come you are unable to say what you believe to be wrong with them? See also Wikipedia:DNRNE. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:25, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
I see what you were doing now, and it's fine. Apologies for misreading -- I thought you had replaced specific age ranges with a generic "millions of years", which looked very much like vandalism. I see now that the age ranges are intact; you've merely removed the repeated "Ma" and added an explanation to the table header, which is fine. Apologies again. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 14:52, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
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