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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

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Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

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Editing closed case pages

Hello. I noticed that you edited your preliminary statement on a closed case. I have reverted you for two reasons. The closed case pages should not be edited by anyone except clerks and arbitrators, and secondly because the preliminary statements on the case page are verbatim copies which are considered an archive of the case request statements. This means that, as mentioned on the page, "they should never be changed". Please refrain from in future editing closed case pages and if you need to make the edit ask on the talk page or ask a clerk about the edit before making it. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 22:45, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

@Dreamy Jazz: I fixed a typo; please see WP:IAR and WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY. And WP:OWN. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:15, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Pigsonthewing, nope. IAR doesn't apply to modifying discussions closed nearly 8 years ago. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 13:11, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

[ you don't need to ping me on my own talk page]. I've read WP:IAR several times, and can't find that clause anywhere in it. Perhaps you could point it out to me? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:18, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Archives are archives for a reason. They exist to store what was said, and once they are closed they shouldn't be edited unless the change is really needed. This is similar to saying, I made a typo in a closed RfC from nearly 8 years ago, so I'm just going to go and edit it. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 13:20, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

And the reason that I don't think IAR applies is how is modifying archived closed discussions to fix a minor typo from 8 years ago "improving or maintaining Wikipedia"? Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 13:26, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

[ec] So the clause is not in WP:IAR. Please cease trying to invent rules. Your analogy is fundamentally flawed: simple typos such as this should equally be corrected in RfCs. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:28, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Well, we will have to agree to disagree with editing archives. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 13:38, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello from the birds! --AnneJerry (talk) 11:21, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for the session. --Arans9 (talk) 11:23, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Not good link text?! How dare you!

Haha, well spotted here! I don't know what the h*ll I thought I was doing there – probably trying to do what you actually did do to fix it. But thanks very much for sorting out my error. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 18:24, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #458

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

• Events
  • Past: SORSE - Wikidata as a research tool for data modelling and integration in the humanities (replay on YouTube)
  • Past: Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 2021-03-06 , Taipei (Q1867), Taichung (Q245023), Tainan (Q140631) and online stream (FB and Youtube)
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-03-08 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[1]
  • Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #53, March 14

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • "Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
  • Papers
    • Open Natural Products Research: Curation and Dissemination of Biological Occurrences of Chemical Structures through Wikidata
    • A paper describing COVIWD: COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard
  • Videos
    • Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
    • Working hour on items of bibliographic interest in Wikidata (in Italian) -YouTube
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 -Youtube Live
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • Panoviewer.js inserts an iframe from the Panoviewer tool to photosphere image (P4640) statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata has now items about nine million people: 99,991,000,000 to do (project chat)
  • A new browser for Wikidata is available: the SLING knowledge base browser by User:Mringgaard. It is lightning fast and entirely based on modern Web components.
  • Help choose focus languages for improvements to the lexicographic extension of Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia. Nominations should be submitted by April 7, and the decision will be made by April 14 by the teams taking your comments into account.
  • Help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting ends before Monday March 15th 23:59 UTC.
  • PetScan can now generate KML map overlay data. E.g. University towns in Germany. (Map view)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: supplement to, seismic classification, reissue of, staking percentage, affiliated worker organisation, demographics of topic, assessment outcome, notation writer
    • External identifiers: Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Obituaries Australia ID, XXXBios female performer ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, Whiskybase distillery ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, Women Australia ID, Labour Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Pontifical University of Salamanca ID, EEVA author ID, Nauvoo Community Project ID, Cyprus Library ID, Cyprus University of Technology ID, Amathus ID, European University Cyprus ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, Resident Advisor club ID, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, CPC-PR ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Oklahoma's NRHP ID, ChemRxiv ID, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Inventory ID, FFF player ID (new scheme), Physics Magazine author ID, Ligue 1 player ID, ANPI person numeric ID, Science Magazine author ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: verbal ability, 易玩應用程序標識符, earned run average, named place on map, inhabitants of topic, consequence of text, writing style, applicant, co-applicant, Cantonese romanisation, repairability
    • External identifiers: MeSH qualifier ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava person ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe, Museum of the jewish people ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona author ID, Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, PorcelanaBrasil ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, JaneladaHistoria ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, Inforegister ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, AWB lemma ID, MWB lemma ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID
  • Query examples:
    • Deceased people with verified Twitter accounts (source)
    • members of Ludlamshöhle, a society in Vienna (1819-1826) (source)
    • Things discovered or invented by women (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales (WD:WP EMEW)
  • Newest database reports:
    • Gadget usage statistics - Includes gadgets enabled in preferences or common.js

• Development
  • Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
  • Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
  • Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
  • Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items

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: 2021-10

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

• Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
• Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [2]
• When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [3]

Problems

• Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
• The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [5]

Future changes

• There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
• Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [6][7]
• New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue II, February 2021 Headlines Albania report: Recruiting two PMs; Budget Report 2020; Wikipedia 20th Bday Australia report: Who do we think we are? Brazil report: New GLAM tutorials in Portuguese Estonia report: WikiMuseum Finland report: Focus on learning Indonesia report: PD Day 2021 in Indonesia, #1lib1ref, Wikisource workshop Netherlands report: Historical Maps; Share your Data on colonial heritage; Knowledge platform for heritage institutions Serbia report: Amazing results of the January #1Lib1Ref campaign Sweden report: Medieval ballads; Project HBTQI Switzerland report: 50 Years Women's Suffrage in Switzerland & More UK report: Khalili Collections USA report: Black History Month and Smithsonian anniversary WMF GLAM report: Project Grants, Analytics for GLAMs, and Shared Citations Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #459

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Minorax (RfP scheduled to end after 19 March 2021 11:23 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, from March 15th to April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • March 15: Kickstart and open discussion about lexicographical data
    • March 16: SPARQL queries about Lexemes (in French) with Vigneron
    • March 17: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
    • March 20: Live editing on Lexemes with Ainali and Abbe98
    • March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #54, March 21
  • Upcoming: Wikidata - The Linked Open Data Platform Everyone Can Contribute To (Public talk) - Registration link

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Internet Archive Scholar is launched - Wikidata is thanked in the acknowledgements
    • 10 basic but essential SPARQL queries for lexicographical data on Wikidata
    • Using Wikidata to model Aberdeen’s Industrial Heritage
    • Carnegie Hall experienced a veritable rock explosion during its 1971-72 season, with 70 rock concerts between September 1971 and June 1972
    • Writing your own data to Wikidata using spreadsheets: Part 1
  • Videos
    • OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taiwan Meetup Record - Odysee
    • RDF data model of Wikidata - YouTube
    • OpenRefine​ / SPARQL editing session with Saint-Raymond Museum in Toulouse. By VIGNERON - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook
    • An initial look at the TopicTagger tool for Wikidata - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeToggleSections.js script allows to expand/collapse the sections on lexeme pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
  • DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
  • The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
  • Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: assessment outcome, music transcriber, subsidy, inverse agonist of, gender equality index, transitivity, script style
    • External identifiers: Oklahoma's NRHP ID, ChemRxiv ID, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Inventory ID, FFF player ID (new scheme), Physics Magazine author ID, Ligue 1 player ID, ANPI person numeric ID, Science Magazine author ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, ANSI/NISO standard ID, Kickstarter username, DeCS ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava History person ID, LFChistory.net player ID, Pandektis ID, Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Catalogue of the Capitular Library of Verona author ID, AaRC film ID, GB1900 ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, EncyclopediaPR ID, Filmitalia person ID, TikTok music ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Astro Awani topic ID, TapTap application ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, svoyak.info player ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Max Movie person ID, EudraCT trial ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, operator licence number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cantonese romanisation, repairability, Gedong Kirtya classification, Valence, has graphical element, Antarctic Specially Protected Area ID, CBO Occupation Code (en) / Classificação Brasileira de Ocupações (CBO) (pt), Reason for unknown/no value, generalization of/generalized by, acronym, Sales of arms and military services, formé en même temps que, Suggested fields
    • External identifiers: AWB lemma ID, MWB lemma ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID, SVKKL authority ID, Demozoo Group ID, GameSpot developer ID, Washington Place Names ID, PatER ID, Latin Place Names ID, Enslaved ID, Ávvir topic ID, Salaborsa building ID, storiaememoriadibologna ID, UniversalMusic France artist ID, Oxford African American Studies Center ID, La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID, MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú researcher ID, Fortalezas.org ID, Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID, France24 topic ID, CNA topic ID, Portrait Archive ID, athletics.lv athlete id, temples.ru ID
  • Query examples:
    • Latin American women who are activists and were born between 1900-1999 (ordered by the number of articles written on Wikipedia) (Source)
    • Transportation routes in Zurich named after women (Source)
    • Location of buildings designed by Zaha Hadid (Source)
    • Proportion of Basque men / women in Donostialdea region (Source)
    • Count of the industry companies on Wikidata belong to (Source)
    • Danish verbs-derived-from-non-verbs (Source)
    • Mountains of the Basque Country (Source)

• Development
  • Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
  • Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
  • Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
  • Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)

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: 2021-11

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

• Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
• Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [8]

Problems

• Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [9][10]
• You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
• You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [11]

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23:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 42

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021

• New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
• 1Lib1Ref
• Library Card

Read the full newsletter

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXIX, March 2021

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on female computers, Nick-D on the Israeli Defence Forces

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
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Tech News: 2021-12

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 Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
• The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Discussion tools" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [12]

Future changes

• Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [13][14]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [15]

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16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #460

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Signed Statements (T138708)

• Events
  • Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
    • March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
    • March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
    • March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
    • March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
    • March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
  • Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021 (Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
  • Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[16]
  • Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #55, March 28

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study (Using Wikidata to study whether prayers have an effect)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Taiwan @ g0v tw hackath43n - Youtube
    • Live editing lexemes YouTube, Facebook
    • Live editing lexemes (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Wikidata international women's rights day SPARQL queries (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata by Peteforsyth - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Sparql_rc is a recent changes feed that only shows you changes in an area of Wikidata you care about. It now also supports Lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Portuguese nouns
    • masculine
    • feminine
  • erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
  • ~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: pHash checksum, Jyutping transliteration, Yale romanization, Cantonese Pinyin, Cantonese Transliteration Scheme transliteration, Gedong Kirtya Classification, has graphical element
    • External identifiers: TaDiRAH ID, AWB lemma ID, Latin Place Names ID, Enslaved person ID, MyMusic artist ID, Ávvir topic ID, Dark Horse creator ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Inforegister ID, SVKKL authority ID, BiographySampo person ID, PatER ID, Cartigli di Bologna ID, Universal Music France artist ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Washington Place Names ID, Storiaememoriadibologna ID, Oxford African American Studies Center ID, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Archives West finding aid ID, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID, Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID, NFL.com ID (new scheme), Bavarian Monument Map object ID (architectural monument), MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID, MeSH qualifier ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (ground monument), temples.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: zugeschrieben, IMDb rating, death rate, trade union membership rate, identifier shared with lexeme, introduced on, instances are former instances of, presentation template, voted on by, has supplier, キロ程
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:16, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

April editathons from Women in Red

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Nomination of American Association of Nutritional Consultants for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article American Association of Nutritional Consultants is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Association of Nutritional Consultants until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

— BarrelProof (talk) 00:26, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Review of REASON AS THE WORLD MASTERPIECE

Hello Comrade I am kindly requesting for your expertise review the recently submitted REASON AS THE WORLD MASTERPIECE. Thank you very much in advance.Ibitukirire (talk) 12:10, 24 March 2021 (UTC) Thank very much Andy for your selfless edits. God bless you abundantly. Ibitukirire (talk) 07:25, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you ...

... for improving articles in March! On Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:14, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Today: Bach's cantata composed for today, - perhaps listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:55, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello a

Hi Andy, today is a nice day, isn't it? --BhusalAyush (talk) 15:42, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello b

Hi Andy, Nice Day. Great Training Session. --EmaPG (talk) 15:43, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

hello c

Hello Andy. --Twishapambhar (talk) 15:48, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

hello d

Hi Andy, thankyou for the workshop. --Twishapambhar (talk) 15:49, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

hello e

Hi Andy, Thankyou for helping out. --Twishapambhar (talk) 15:51, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello f

Hi Andy, have a great day. --Lyrasx (talk) 11:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello g

Hi Andy, what a lovely day it is. --The wandering elephant (talk) 11:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello h

Hi Andy, how are you? --Ashpanda (talk) 11:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)