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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-24

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Tutankhamun's trumpets are a pair of trumpets found in the burial chamber of the Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The trumpets, one of sterling silver and one of bronze or copper, are considered to be the oldest operational trumpets in the world, and the only known surviving examples from ancient Egypt.

The trumpets were found in 1922 by Howard Carter during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb. The bronze trumpet was discovered in the tomb's antechamber in a large chest containing various military objects and walking sticks. The silver trumpet was subsequently found in the burial chamber. Both are finely engraved, with decorative images of the gods Ra-Horakhty, Ptah and Amun. The silver trumpet's bell is engraved with a whorl of sepals and calices representing a lotus flower, and the praenomen and nomen of the king. The bronze trumpet may in fact be made of copper; the metal has not yet been analysed. Similar looking trumpets feature in Egyptian wall-paintings that are usually, though not always, associated with military scenes.

Silent for over 3,000 years, the trumpets were sounded before a live audience of an estimated 150 million listeners through an international BBC broadcast aired on 16 April 1939. The trumpets were played by a bandsman, James Tappern of Prince Albert's Own 11th Royal Hussars regiment. The recording was recently featured, and can be heard on the BBC Radio 4 program Ghost Music. Rex Keating, who presented the 1939 broadcast, later claimed that during a rehearsal, the silver trumpet shattered, and Alfred Lucas, a member of Carter's team who had restored the finds, was so distressed he needed to go to hospital. Due to their fragility, it is unlikely the trumpets will be played again in any official musical reconstructions.

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Wikidata weekly summary #473

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. phab:T275958
    • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
    • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
    • Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).

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Tech News: 2021-25

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This Month in Education: June 2021

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This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 6 • June 2021

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-26

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The Sumidouro State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual do Sumidouro) is a state park in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The remains of the first human inhabitants of Brazil were found in the park area in the early 19th century, along with bones of now-extinct megafauna. The main attraction is the Gruta da Lapinha, a large limestone cave.

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Wikidata weekly summary #474

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
    • Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
    • Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
    • Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
    • Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
    • Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
    • Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
    • Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
    • Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
    • Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
    • Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
    • The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
    • Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
    • It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
    • Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
    • A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
    • "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
    • There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)

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Tech News: 2021-26

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  • A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [8][9]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-27

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Justus I was a 2nd-century Jewish Christian leader, third bishop of Jerusalem, supposedly tied to the family of Jesus.

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A page seems related to historical anthems of Vietnam

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I discovered a page seems contains information related to historical anthems of Vietnam, can you help to look at it?

-- Great Brightstar (talk) 10:15, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

@Great Brightstar:, sure, I'll take a look at it, TTXVA has a lot of useful information. Unfortunately the only person that was actively importing from there was Musée Annam and their socks, so a lot of uploads and additions based on this website were deleted for "sockpuppetry" rather than factual incorrectness. By the way, thank you for all your work with improving flags and coats of arms, I often see your name in file upload histories of files and you often improve them.
Oddly enough, I didn't get a notification about your message. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:33, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
@Great Brightstar:, I could actually open the link on my Microsoft Lumia 950 (which is fortunate because. The Wayback mAchine didn't work at all on my old Microsoft Lumia 950 phablet), all these anthems are already on Wikipedia except for Việt Nam minh châu trời Đông --Donald Trung (talk) 08:48, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm not really experienced with writing articles about national anthems so you can write that article if you wish, once it is launched I can try to expand it using additional sources. Anyhow, a much more interesting link (FOR ME, AT LEAST) I found was this:

Unfortunately no captures of it seem to be live, which is a shame as it could have given us more information about the historical coats of arms and emblems of Vietnam. Note that the website isn't universally correct, it just manages to host a lot of useful information with some information that requires more research, it is also the website that spread the "flags of Vietnamese dynasties" bullshit. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:57, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Attempting to find archives from this website makes me realise how much of a shame it is that so much of it has disappeared without any archives. --Donald Trung (talk) 09:06, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #475

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship:
  • Events
    • Past:
      • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
    • Upcoming:
      • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Tool of the week
    • User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
    • Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
    • Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
    • Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
    • A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
    • A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)

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