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Sherdog, vandals etc.

Hi Cass. https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Magnus_Dominus, Magnus Dominus, who is clearly Lordpermaximum, has started their fight against Sherdog again, and I have had enough of it. Please open an SPI. There is a much more important thing to state, however. In the RFC that Lordpermaximum started and was banned during, Magnus Dominus voted. So the manipulation of the process was far greater than we realised. The whole thing should be torn up and started again. We need to get this user banned and start a new RSN case to put a stop to it. I haven't the energy. It's getting me down. I have tried very hard to improve the MMA articles on Wikipedia but these trolls have got me down. It's annoying me and making me irritable. As a consequence, I am having an extended break. Please keep an eye on the place for me.NEDOCHAN (talk) 15:13, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Magnus Dominus (talk) 20:49, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

ANI Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#ANI_against_Magnus_Dominus Kent Bargo (talk) 23:06, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Counter vandalism academy

Actually, I want the status of reviewer and autoreviewer, but it is difficult to find new themes to create articles. Almost everything I think, already exists on enwiki. On the other hand, I signed up for a rollback. Will the academy help me gain trust to be a rollback? I am already on ptwiki. But I want emigrate to enwiki. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 22:16, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

A.WagnerC Good day and thank you for the message above. First of all, please note that each Wikipedia sister pages (different languages) operates independently from each other and thus they have different policies and guidelines that includes counter vandalism work for such I could not help you on your rollback right application. The main reason participant enroll in CUVA is to learn counter vandalism related work and not to gain user right as any editor can be a vandalism fighter without rollback right.

There are still hundred of thousands articles need to be created in en Wikipedia, you can check and join Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, Wikipedia:Requested articles and Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English (or translated pt articles and into en).

You are welcome to participate in CUVA if you are interested in counter vandalism in en and there is also a WP:NPPS program if you wish to to join where you can apply for a new page reviewer right after completion. Just note, NPPS program is a lot harder than that of CUVA's but it is a comprehensive program. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 09:45, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

I Want to participate in Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy. Are you avaliable as tutor? My zone is BRT, but I have the night free. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 17:13, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

A.WagnerC Yes I have slots for trainees for CUVA and NPPS and if you want me to be your trainer, then let me know or if you want other trainers, pls see here at CUVA. As for time zone, it does not matter as I would check/edit Wikipedia almost everyday. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk)

CUVA Done. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 14:04, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

A.WagnerC I have reverted your edit above as it is for the trainer to add. I have set up the program for you. Welcome to CVUA. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 22:42, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Oh... Sorry. And Thank you. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 23:29, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Anti-Vandal

Hello. I would like to be trained to be an Anti Vandal. Kind regards J.Turner99 (talk) 18:05, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

J.Turner99 Good day. Thank you for interested in joining CUVA. To participate in CVUA program, the editor needs to have at least a total of 200 main space edits and at the present you have only 158 main space edit - see here. CUVA motto is maturity, civility and responsibility and seeing your talk page communication with admins here-1 and you lack of understanding of IRS sourcing and WP:BLP requirements - here-2, I would not think that you are ready to be part of CUVA program even you have reached more 200 main space edits for I find you not only have limited of understand about Wikipedia basic guidelines, threaten to report editor to SPI for no good reason and subsequent not understanding the comment/advice from admin are particularly concerning. Everybody makes mistakes or might not know certain Wikipedia guidelines, However, being disruptive and taking the edit as AFG is two different things just as sourced content (IRS -independent, relabel source) doesnt mean inclusion let alone the source was from subject twitter page. We, the vandal fighters, face many editors who would not only challenge our revets/warning messages, but would troll, name calling, add disgusting content, threaten physical harm and legal actions on our talk page, for such being mature and having a cool head is particular important which you have not demonstrate that at present time. To learn about Wikipedia guidelines for new editor is a long up hill struggle and at times it seems like a Herculian task as there are so many guidelines; however, with time spending reading the guidelines and ask for advice in a polite and civil manner, and editors would learn the basic guidance in time. I do suggest you to participate WP:TWA to gain some understanding of basic Wikipedia guidelines and do learn to listen to advice, and having more edits first before part take counter vandalism work. Last note: If you have an issue on content dispute, bring the discussion to the article talk page and discuss in a civil manner and not threaten to report the editor SPI just because the editor reverted your edit. Let me know if anything else I could help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 06:09, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Cassiopeia Hello. Thank you for the message. I am disappointed in yet another editior who assumes bad faith. The Sockpuppet report had evidence, and was not make because I disagree that someone reverted my edit. I apprciate your message and I understand. Thank you. J.Turner99 (talk) 09:33, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

J.Turner99 You might had evidence of other edits made by the editor, but what I mentioned about was based on the hist diff above here again you made, that the editor reverted your edit and stating secondary source needed which you threating to report the editor to SPI. Next time, do discuss the matter in article talk page and it usually get resolve quickly. The SPI you report has been closed and comment of the closing admin "Do not file bad faith reports like this. Closing with no action" - see here. Take good care Turner and stay safe and remember Wikipedia is a place to collaborate with other editors and communication is the key for we are all here to contribute Wikipedia project. Cassiopeia^(talk) 09:59, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

The closing admin later said "Maybe calling your report "bad faith" wasn't the right choice of words" on their talk page. I appricate the advice, thank you. J.Turner99 (talk) 10:36, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

J.Turner99 I just saw and other comments in the message thread. Admins and experienced editors would always gladly to help if editor need help and ask and communicate politely. Take you time to learn about Wikipedia guidelines and see how things work here as Wikipedia will always be here. I hope where you stay presently is relative safe due to Covid situation and take good care of yourslef. If you have any questions or need any help, do pop back here. Best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 11:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

New Fighters

This is the list of the new fighters who will become eligible at tomorrow's event.

• https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Karol_Rosa Karol Rosa
• https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Jerome_Rivera Jerome Rivera

All the best wishes and safe being HeinzMaster (talk) 23:41, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

HeinzMaster  Done. Thank you for your contribution. Cassiopeia^(talk) 00:50, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [1]

Changes later this week

• You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

• When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [3][4]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [5]
• Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [6]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #454

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

• Events
  • Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay)
  • Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Add to calendar). You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.[7]
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49, February 14
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook, February 14
  • Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata
  • Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group - (YouTube)
  • Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
  • Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January
  • New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published. In addition, you will find here the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
  • Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder, your feedback is welcome
  • Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page.
  • New updates to Mix'n'match:
    • Import/update function for Mix’n’match catalogs (manual) (source)
    • Refreshed the Mix’n’match dataset for potential new human Wikidata items (source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of vaccinations, Commons media contributed by
    • External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Erudit article ID, Holocaust.cz person ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, SISSCO ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Patrinum ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, BVFE author ID, Family Video Game Database ID, LexML Brazil ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Debian Package Tracker ID, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IPHAE ID, FLOSS policy URL, Digest, subsidy, fingerprint
    • External identifiers: TlF Artist ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, GTDB taxon, Joods Monument ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID, AllMusic IDs, Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID, Astro Awani topic ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Can I use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
  • Query examples:
    • directors of episodes of The Mentalist (source)
    • Articles from The Wētā entomology journal (Source)
    • Town halls of the municipalities that surround Nantes (Source)
    • Caves containing prehistoric art (Source)
    • Endemic birds in a place located in France (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Brazilian Laws

• Development
  • Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
  • Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
  • Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
  • Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
  • Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
  • Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
  • Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:43, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Congolese mixed martial artists

A tag has been placed on Category:Congolese mixed martial artists 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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:47, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Mixed martial arts in the Congo

A tag has been placed on Category:Mixed martial arts in the Congo 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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:48, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Would you be willing to train me in New Page Patrolling?

I had New Page Patrol permission in December for one month, and an additional one month extension was granted a few days ago. Would you be willing to train me in NPP procedures? If so, how does that happen?PopePompus (talk) 23:23, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

PopePompus Good day and thank you for interested in NPPS. NPPS is a comprehensive program and it covers many topics related to patrolling/reviewing new pages. I has a total of 10 assignment and one final exam. Participants are given some reading material/links on each assignment and after answering the questions on the assignment, trainer will review and comment on their work. Please note there are a lot of reading material but there is no time limit on when you should complete the assignment as each participant work on the assignment as own pace. At any point of the assignment, participant is welcome to ask question or seek assistance from the trainer. Most participants take a few months to complete the program. If you still interested after reading the above, then let me know and I will set up the program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 09:07, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I would indeed like to go through NPPS. Please let me know how to proceed.PopePompus (talk) 04:17, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

PopePompus Good day. I have set up the program for you. Welcome to NPPS. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 01:29, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

I have completed assignment 1, but I don't know how you prefer to be contacted when an assignment is done.PopePompus (talk) 00:53, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

PopePompus good day. All questions/discussion/communication of the assignment/program, pls contact me on the program page at the bottom of the assignment communication section. If you have any questions or need any assistance besides anything from the program, then write to me on my talk page. Thank you. Cassiopeia^(talk) 01:08, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Sherdog

Hi Cass. I think now might be the time to conduct a proper, calm and considered RfC on Sherdog's reliability. The last one was totally butchered by the vandal and the vandal used their own sockpuppets to vote in it. I think we should start another but...I don't know how. NEDOCHAN (talk) 16:11, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

NEDOCHAN, Good day. Go to WP:RSN and read the yellow and blue highlighted boxes a few times to familiar yourself of the info and instructions. Please also read the links provided in the boxes and make sure you understand them first before writing the RSN. State your case, be brief, clear but provide evident/do research of your case/source and lastly take you time to write the RSN. When it is done you can post the discussion link at MMA project page talk pages but without any act of canvasing. Let me know if anything else I could help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 08:54, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

I haven't the time nor the inclination. Just thought it'd be a good idea.NEDOCHAN (talk) 18:31, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

New Fighters

Just one fighter this week

• https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Julian_Marquez Julian Marquez

 Done. Thank you.

Was also wondering who closes the discussion on https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(sports)#New_notability_criteria_for_MMA_fighters. All the best and safe wishesHeinzMaster (talk) 19:57, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

It would take a little longer for notability change as it is a strict guidelines and it needs to close by an uninvolved editors. So we will wait. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 04:42, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #455

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

• Discussions
  • Other: Tool ideas/ImproveWikidata

• Events
  • Past: Linked Open Storytelling - Winter School 2021 - Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen (in German) (reply on YouTube)
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 16 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook, February 20
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #50, February 21

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog post: The promise of Wikidata: How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source, by Monika Sengul-Jones
  • Blog post: Data donation to Wikidata, part 2: country/subject dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archives (by Joachim Neubert, ZBW Labs)
  • Blog post: Bibliography and Citations of Hausa Folklore by Anasskoko
  • Video: Querying Linked (Wiki)data with SPARQL ✨ (presentation by Lucas Werkmeister at rC3, 90 minutes)
  • Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abstract Wikipedia presents prototypes of two tools that could help people to visualize, exemplify, and better guide our understanding of the coverage of lexicographic data in Wikidata.
  • Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
  • Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
  • Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
  • Guidelines and compensation for UX research lead by Wikimedia Germany (announcement)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: service status information URL, first family name in Portuguese name, time played, coordinates of depicted place
    • External identifiers: CompositionToday composers showcase ID, Royal Museums Greenwich artwork ID, Saint Louis Art Museum artwork ID, AZLyrics.com song ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, WreckSite ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Doktori.hu ID, Portal da Literatura ID, IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, letterer, set during recurring event, number of references, sensors, Applying institution
    • External identifiers: Lexikon Literatur in Tirol, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, Baidu Baike ID (2), Kickstarter username, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, Curling.fi player ID, RILM ID, Swiss vote ID, svoyak.info player ID, Germanistenverzeichnis, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, CinemaRx title ID, Sinemalar title ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Armenian Book ID, identifiant inventaire Occitanie, AaRC title ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, BFS ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID
  • Query examples:
    • Spanish Wikipedia articles about women astronauts (Source)
    • Websites related to works in the Women's & Gender History DH list (Source)
    • List of states with more than one official language (Source)
    • Location of the organizations in the Name Assigning Authority Number (NAAN) registry (Source)
    • List of locations named after the planned language Esperanto or its founder, L. L. Zamenhof
    • Use the MediaWiki API to get the content of a Wikipedia category into a query
    • Number of scholarly articles sharing their datasets (Source)
    • Most specific taxon that includes two given species (Source)

• Development
  • Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
  • Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
  • Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
  • Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
  • Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
  • Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
  • Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
  • Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
  • Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07

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

Problems

• There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [8][9]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Wildcat banking

Your reverts are much too quick to review what you are changing, which is probably why you ended up removing a source and citations to it that I recently added. As for the sentence I added to the lead in the last edit, it's borne out by the sourced material below according to WP:LEADCITE. 73.71.251.64 (talk) 02:37, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

73.71.251.64 Good day. You have certain section has no source - see here. Kindly add them. Thank you. Cassiopeia^(talk) 02:41, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

What you linked is not a section. 73.71.251.64 (talk) 02:46, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

73.71.251.64 It is a hist diff and the section (bottom) " In 1863, with southern states absent from Congress,...... bringing the wildcat phenomenon to an end." needs citation. Thank you. Cassiopeia^(talk) 02:51, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi, I'm new to wikipedia. I need help on editing the Baverianvine article? Can you assist? Ads.bve (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

New Fighters

Hey Hey, new fighters this week and it's a big batch

• https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Chris_DaukausChris Daukaus
• https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Darrick_Minner Darrick Minner
• https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Jamall_Emmers Jamall Emmers
• https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Tom_Aspinall Tom Aspinall
• https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Nate_Landwehr Nate Landwehr

In regards to the names, I got the full names off the USADA website https://www.usada.org/news/athlete-test-history/ but don't know how to cite that? All the best HeinzMaster (talk) 16:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Likewise, I saw the stuff you put on the page about Ottman Azaitar. The controveries are about Omar and Abu, Ottman is the only brother to not be involved in criminal stuff.HeinzMaster (talk) 02:15, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

HeinzMaster Ok. I thought there are only two Azaitars, instead there are 3 brothers in the family. Thank you for letting me know and removed the content. Appreciate it. Cassiopeia^(talk) 02:24, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

HeinzMaster  Done review and as you know Emmers was out of the fight tonight due to medical issues. Thanks again for your contribution. Stay sfe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 03:45, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

HeinzMaster Citing - May I know how do your cite your source normally? (There are a few ways to do that). Cassiopeia^(talk) 06:28, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

CASSIOPEIA Do I just link the site or do I need to include a screenshot. Since the search engine is in site, I can't put an archive link since it just shows the empty webpage. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20210208124818/https://www.usada.org/news/athlete-test-history/

HeinzMaster I was expecting you to tell me how you normally cite the source :) ..... Well, in Wikipedia, you can cite the source (1) Manually or (2) using Wikipedia:VisualEditor (VE). To cite the see [source manually from internet site - use horizontal format of Template:Cite web. If you use Visual Editor then you need to enable it first. Once it is enable, click "Cite" on the manu on top of the page and all you need to do is to paste the URL into the field and the rest of the fields will automatically fill for you. However, sometimes the author info might not be captured by VE. Besides citing sources from the web, you can also cite sources from other media such as book, journal and etc. If VE could not capture the info from the URL, then you have the option to manfully key in the info in VE. The above example you provided is not a good page to cite and there is not specific info for the content need to be verified in Wikipedia and not for a search cite to be included in the page. Example here using VE - Islam Makhachev from USADA page. I hope I have answered your question, if not let me know. Btw, I have changed my user name from all caps to sentence case last year. Cassiopeia^(talk) 06:59, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

CassiopeiaWhoops sorry I misunderstood and OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH for showing me about the VE autocitation. I have been doing all the citations manually all this time. This will save so much time. And point taken about the page not being good for citation. HeinzMaster (talk) 07:26, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

References

HeinzMaster No worries. I have mentioned to you before that I will provide all the basic mma info to your some months ago, but I saw you have picked up a lot of the guidelines and so I thought you know most of the basic info needed. Yes VE is very helpful, it was not very stable some years ago, and for the last few years, I have no problem using them. You have been very helpful and provide a lot of good edits and created many pages and I thank you. Let me know if anything else I could help. Cassiopeia^(talk) 07:33, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #456

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber - RfP scheduled to end after 24 February 2021 14:19 (UTC)
  • New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes. Notes available here
  • Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[11]
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #51, February 28

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogpost: Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2020 edition
  • Video: Basic tutorial on how to annotate an article with Wikidata tags for the ANN project - YouTube
  • Video: The Wikidata community: tools to communicate, ask for help, exchange ideas and opinions (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: REfB (Reference Bot): Adding new references to WikiData statements by Houcemeddine Turki - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Video: Knowledge graphs lecture - RDF, Wikidata, SHACL, ShEx (in Russian) - YouTube
  • Podcast: Adam Shorland talks about Wikidata and Wikibase on Between The Brackets Mediawiki podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • LexemeForms-SearchPage adds links on the search results page for creating new lexemes using the Lexeme Forms tool based on the languages in your Babel box.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Vglist is a video game library tracking web app that is mostly based on Wikidata.
  • WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats: Meetings with the Wikidata community on Feb 24 and Mar 3.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: coordinates of depicted place, thesis committee member, number of at bats
    • External identifiers: IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, VAi building ID, Heritage Information System ID in the database of cultural heritage in Austria, Joods Monument ID, Lumni person ID, Open Tree of Life ID, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, People Australia ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands ID, EMS ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, Lexikon Literatur in Tirol ID, Curling.fi player ID, De Lakenhal artwork ID, Hauts-de-France Inventory identifier, Tree of Life contributor ID, Taiwan River Code, RILM ID, playDB artist ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, Centre-Val de Loire Inventory identifier, Occitanie Inventory identifier, playDB play ID, Biblioteca Franco Serantini ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: sensors, Applying institution, FAQ url, digital distribution platform, Bandcamp Tag, Anzahl der Staffeln, PDDikti ID, template applies category, workers represented by, alt text, demographics of topic
    • External identifiers: AaRC title ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, TaDiRAH ID (2), Oklahoma's NRHP ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, Discogs genre ID, Sauvons nos tombes person ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, CPC-PR ID, Obituaries Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Women Australia ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmitalia film ID, Filmitalia person ID, Resident Advisor Venue ID, GB1900 ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, Mixcloud ID, Labour Australia ID, Mexicana Repositorio, Science Magazine author ID, Everipedia ID, ARAE ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of vegan restaurants
    • List of food that are iconic to particular countries (Source)
    • Map of monuments in Lower Saxony, Germany (Source)
    • Map of former plantations in Surinam (Source)
    • Map of Wats in Thailand - (Source)
    • Localities in Mexico and contain 𝐒𝐚n in their name (Source)
    • Female mycologists born pre-1900, sorted by number of sitelinks (Source)
    • Women scientists who were born between the year 1500 and 1900 (Source)

• Development
  • Fixed wrongly encoded HTML in some messages in the Wikidata Bridge (phab:T272350)
  • Working on showing all languages in the language suggester for monolingual text Properties (phab:T124758)
  • Fixed an issue with spaces in external identifier URLs being replaced by "+" (phab:T271126)
  • Added a rate limit for creating Item IDs, which should help with decreasing the number of skipped Q-IDs (phab:T272032)
  • Fixed an issue where whitespace was stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
  • Fixing the case where you cannot easily edit negative quantities after saving (phab:T274129)
  • Working on making it possible to query for quantity values in the Query Builder (phab:T268942)

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

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

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Tech News: 2021-08

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

Recent changes

• The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [12]
• The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [13]

Problems

• Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Cris Cyborg

Hi, I would like to ask for help in an issue I have with this article. In the main body section, it is stated that Cyborg is "widely regarded as the greatest female MMA fighter of all time". I consider this statement to be outdated and its sources insufficient for reasons I stated here, and I think unless better sources are provided it should be removed. However, my edits kept getting undid by another user without any explanation as to why, so to avoid an edit war I thought it would be better to ask someone unbiased for an opinion. I would really appreciate if you could look at it, if you find the time. Thanks in advance. 2A02:AB04:2F43:5000:CA3D:DCFF:FE71:E371 (talk) 22:53, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

You're.... Odd.

How are you going to run to someone else, claiming I haven't responded to you, or given you reasons as to why I placed my edit in the page? When I literally responded to you, and gave you reasons I placed my edits in the page?

It's... amazing you work here.

Next time look. It's a lot easier, than coming up with...... random things that aren't true.

Have a good day.

136.49.166.71 (talk) 23:15, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello, you responded to me on your own talk page, which I had no way of noticing without you notifying me about it, which you didn't do. I decided to ask someone unbiased for an opinion as it was clear both of us were getting carried away with the editing and neither of us wanted to compromise. I responded on the Talk:Cris Cyborg just now and we can discuss the issue there. Take care. 2A02:AB04:2F43:5000:CA3D:DCFF:FE71:E371 (talk) 09:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

@2A02:AB04:2F43:5000:CA3D:DCFF:FE71:E371 and 136.49.166.71: Good day. First of all thank you for sending me the message regarding the above issues. I will help and address the issues on the article talk page - here - Talk:Cris Cyborg. Secondly and most importantly, both of you have engaging in WP:Edit Warring where by both of you disagreed with the content claimed and you both have revert more than 3 times within 24 hours in the same article for such both of you have violated Wikipedia WP:3RR guidelines. Both of you need to "STOP" reverting and editing anything on the article "IMMEDIATE" and discuss the issue on the article talk page. I have place a 3RR warning on your page but I would not report you as I believe both of you do not know/familiar with 3RR guiltiness in Wikipedia since both of you are new editors. However, If you continues editing after receiving the 3RR warning message then you are subject to be reported and blocked from editing in Wikipedia. Pls check my message on your talk page and Talk:Cris Cyborg. When discuss the content dispute, pls be WP:CIVIL and comment on the content and not the editor. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 01:41, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your response, I appreciate it. I was indeed not familiar with the guidelines, I'll try not repeat that in future. 2A02:AB04:2F43:5000:CA3D:DCFF:FE71:E371 (talk) 09:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)