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Wikidata weekly summary #368

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

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.

WP:INFOCOL - minimum number of transclusions

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WP:INFOCOL does not mention a minimum number of transclusions. Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes/Geography_and_place#Place has 3 wrappers with 1-49 transclusions and 3 wrappers with 50-99 transclusions. Do you know of any regulation related to the minimum quantity of transclusions for an IB? 77.13.149.196 (talk) 01:45, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

No; it's a matter to be decided on a case-by-case basis, using common [sic] sense. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:18, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
Thank you. Now "2 wrappers with 1-49 transclusions" (CA, FR [nominated for replacement]) and "3 wrappers with 50-99 transclusions (JP [nominated for replacement], RU, US)". 77.11.73.22 (talk) 17:07, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
Update: "1 wrapper with 1-49 transclusions" (CA), "3 wrappers with 50-99 transclusions (JP [nominated for replacement], RU, US)", "10 wrappers with 100-499 transclusions (CV, DE, FI [in Deletion review], FR [2x], IL, IN, NZ, PS [nominated for replacement, last Arab country], PT)". 77.13.239.116 (talk) 11:52, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVIII, June 2019

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Wikidata weekly summary #369

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

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: 2019-25

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

  • You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [1]

Changes later this week

  • MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [2]
  • A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [3]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [4]

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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

DRV

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2019 June 9#Template:Infobox Finnish municipality 78.55.42.78 (talk) 19:18, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Now this template will live on. 89.14.159.64 (talk) 11:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

TfD - admins not closing a vote 3-1-1 for deletion

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TfD - admins not closing a vote 3-1-1 for deletion - Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 June 6#Template:Infobox Palestine municipality 89.14.159.64 (talk) 11:05, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Could you do a non-admin-closure? Tomorrow it will have seven days overtime. 77.11.65.37 (talk) 17:11, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
I'm too closely involved. Also, please get an account. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:30, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Moseley Park

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On 17 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Moseley Park, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that you need a key to get into Moseley Park? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Moseley Park. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Moseley Park), 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

@Amakuru: Thank you. I wonder why I wasn't notified when the nomination was first made? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:39, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
You should have been pinged when the DYK nomination was created as you were named as a participant in improving the article. Curious. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:24, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
June
 
cornflowers
... with thanks from QAI
Thank you for article improvements in June! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:19, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14

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Newsletter • June 2019

Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.

There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:

  • A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
  • We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!

Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:

  • Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
  • WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata infoboxes

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Thanks for your work in article creation. I've had William Balfour Ker and Mary Ellen Sigsbee on the back burner for a while. One request I have is to please consider not using the {{infobox person/Wikidata}}, : it's unsightly (all those gaudy pencil icons!), and largely un-amenable to customization. In my opinion more refined templates such as {{Infobox artist}} allow for higher quality display of the same information. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 21:19, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

@Animalparty: If you have suggestions for improving {{Infobox person/Wikidata}}, please raise them at Template talk:Infobox person/Wikidata, where you will find the regular contributors to that template, not least User:RexxS and User:Mike Peel, most amenable; not to say willing to explain to you just how customisable the template is. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:01, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
@Animalparty: Of course, I'm always happy to try to improve the template. It may be worth noting that {{infobox person/Wikidata}} behaves exactly like {{infobox person}} if you don't enable fetching information from Wikidata by adding the parameter |fetchwikidata=ALL in the article. Even with fetching Wikidata enabled, any field value can be overriden by simply supplying a local parameter and value for that field. And if you add |noicon=true, then all those little pencil icons disappear to be replaced by a discrete [edit on Wikidata] at the bottom of the box. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 22:26, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
P.S. You know that {{Infobox artist}} actually uses {{Infobox person}} for its higher quality display anyway? --RexxS (talk) 22:32, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #370

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
    • Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
    • Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
    • Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
    • Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
    • Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
    • Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
    • Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
    • Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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: 2019-26

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

  • The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [5]
  • Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [6]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Notice

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  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Edit warring and lack of consensus-seeking at Wikipedia:Office actions. Anne drew (talk) 22:13, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

July events from Women in Red!

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July 2019, Volume 5, Issue 7, Numbers 107, 108, 126, 127, 128


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WP:CEN is now open!

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To all interested parties: Now that it has a proper shortcut, the current events noticeboard has now officially opened for discussion!

WP:CEN came about as an idea I explored through a request for comment that closed last March. Recent research has re-opened the debate on Wikipedia's role in a changing faster-paced internet. Questions of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:Recentism are still floating around. That being said, there are still plenty of articles to write and hopefully this noticeboard can positively contribute to that critical process.

Thank you for your participation in the RFC, and I hope to see you at WP:CEN soon! –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 19:10, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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Hello Pigsonthewing,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

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2019-07 Milan

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Greetings

Hello Andy! --Roberto.Piersanti (talk) 09:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello, could you buy me a beer?--Jan Kondas (talk) 09:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy.

Hello! --Ncorna (talk) 09:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Namaste!--Hvardhana3 (talk) 09:46, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Andy!

Hello again. FGiunt (talk) 09:47, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello again.--Fede Bandi 91 (talk) 09:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

hello Andy

Ciao Andy. --DamarZ14 (talk) 09:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello again. Thank you for your advise! --RitaL91 (talk) 09:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello, there, Andy!

How would you like your beer, Andy?. --Kairin (talk) 09:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello again. --MattiLoganR (talk) 09:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Ciao Andy. --Jamesfratta (talk) 09:50, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Thank you for your lecture. --Gfabio87 (talk) 09:50, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Namastem!!

Hello Andy

Can I buy you a beer?--Michela Massi (talk) 09:52, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Namastemm!!!

Hello Andy

Hello again. How are you? --Marcozambianco (talk) 09:53, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi professor

Hi, I'm a new student. TKS --Ilabanca (talk) 09:53, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Ciaooo--Fede Bandi 91 (talk) 09:54, 1 July 2019 (UTC)Fede Bandi 91

Hello andy

Hello andy. Can I buy you a beer.--Smlhd1993 (talk) 09:54, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

You can buy me a beer

Hi, Andy, good lecture today, and I'll be happy if you buy me a beer, I'll do the same for you--Polymerix (talk) 10:01, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Michael (polymerix) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Polymerix (talk • contribs) 09:56, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy!

Hello again. --Matteosalvador (talk) 10:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Andy

Hello there. --Clconci (talk) 10:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello again.--Giodol12 (talk) 10:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello again. --Prospector2 (talk) 10:07, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Thanks for teaching us! --Tirittiti (talk) 10:09, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Andy!

Hi Andy! --Azzalini Fabio (talk) 10:09, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Dear Andy

Dear Andy,my PC does not want to connect to internet at all. I'll try to borrow a PC for this afternoon. Best, Alebotte --Alebotte (talk) 10:10, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy!

Hello again.--GabrieleBer (talk) 10:11, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hi Andy, I would gladly buy you a beer! --Emanuele Oddo (talk) 10:11, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Great course!

--Mattambo (talk) 10:14, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hi Andy! Do you like IPAs? --4dimensionalUSB (talk) 10:15, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy!

Hello there!--Egibe (talk) 10:16, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, Mr. Andy Mabbett --Lingiorgia (talk) 10:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello again!

--NoMore201 (talk) 10:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Andy

Nice to meet you --Mengting.sonia (talk) 10:18, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi there! Barzandr (talk) 10:32, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello, thanks for the lesson Enricotalamas (talk) 10:32, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello how are you?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JetsaF (talk • contribs) 10:46, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello andy

Hello Andy.--Sara Eh91 (talk) 12:07, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello Andy. --Hsadeh (talk) 12:59, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

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