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Wikidata weekly summary #550

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • REST API:
    • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
    • Query Service:
      • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
      • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
      • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
      • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
    • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

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: 2022-50

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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

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
  •   The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [3]

Events

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Question

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POTW - would you be so kind as to ask RexxS to email me using the mail feature on my UTP? It will be greatly appreciated and I will owe you one. Atsme 💬 📧 15:25, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you - he asked me to say "Hi!" to all the Wikifolks! He's doing well, and staying quite busy! Atsme 💬 📧 12:11, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Congratulations

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Congratulations on reaching 250,000 edits - you beat me to it by 9 hours 46 minutes. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:19, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

+1 Amazing!!! Atsme 💬 📧 12:09, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, both, and congratulations to you too, Redrose64. I managed it on my Birthday! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:33, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: End of the 2022

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This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 10 • October–November 2022

In This Issue

Wikidata weekly summary #551

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
      • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
      • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
    • Ongoing:
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
    • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas
  • Development
    • REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
    • Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
    • Query Service:
      • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
      • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
      • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
      • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
    • mul language code:
      • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
      • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
    • Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
    • Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (phab:T272132)

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: 2022-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

  • On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [4]
  •   A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [5]
  •   One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [6]

Problems

  • Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [7]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
  • The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [8] [9]

Future changes

  • Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [10]
  • The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
  • Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

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Always precious

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Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:42, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Draft article: Publications Distribution Cooperative

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Hi Andy. I hope I'm doing this right - it's the first time I've ever left a message for another editor. Back in May 2021 year you taught me and a few others from the Coventry Society the rudiments of being a Wikipedia author and I wrote an article that you thought met the pubishing requirements: Coventry Labourers' and Artizans' Co-operative. Sure enough, it's stayed up there. Recently I've helped a colleague write another article, on Publications Distribution Co-operative. However, after publication it was demoted to draft status. We've done considerable further work on it and it now sits as a draft - Draft:Publications Distribution Cooperative. I wonder if you would be kind enough to review this improved version and authorise its publication. Apologies for any incorrect use of terminology or lack of required information. Warwickshire Warrener (talk) 23:16, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

@Warwickshire Warrener and Mornington Glory: Yes, I remember. That's a very well-written article on a clearly notable subject, and I'd be happy to publish it once a couple of issues are addressed. These relate to referencing - there are entre paragraphs and sections (for example, second paragraph of "History"; entre "Stricture", "Finance" and especially "Legacy" sections) with no citations. Please can you add them? The message you left here was correctly formatted, BTW, but I've made the draft-article name a link, as you can see above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:03, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi Andy. We've added a number of references in the sections that were lacking them. Hopefully it's ready for publishing - what do you reckon? John Warwickshire Warrener (talk) 16:51, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
@Warwickshire Warrener and Mornington Glory: That's much better, thank you, but not quite there yet. For example, statements like "The presence of PDC as a national distributor encouraged the development and growth of new publications as well as supporting the new shops"; "...PDC was set up in autumn 1976 by an initial group of five people supported by representatives from radical publications and booksellers"; "The original London-based PDC divided into two groups..." & the entite "Publications distributed by PDC and S&N" section all lack citations. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:19, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi Andy. We've done more work on ths and are pretty confident it's ready. Happy to delete anything you reckon isn't up to standard on citations. Happy New Year! John (Warwickshire Warrener) Warwickshire Warrener (talk) 21:28, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

December greetings

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December songs
 
happy new year

Latest pics, with an opera discovery and some snow. Today my talk has a DYK that was planned for 22 November, among the recent deaths the author of Duck, Death and the Tulip, and now a choir pic of "our" concert last Sunday, likely to become next year's lead image. Enjoy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:04, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or, in case of interest. - Enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #552

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Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Ongoing
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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.

Women in Red January 2023

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Happy New Year from Women in Red | January 2023, Volume 9, Issue 1, Nos 250, 251, 252, 253, 254


Online events:

See also:

Tip of the month:

  • De-orphan and incorporate an article into Wikipedia using the Find Link tool

Other ways to participate:

  Facebook |   Instagram |   Pinterest |   Twitter

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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #553

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #74, Urology
  • Tool of the week
    • OWL Map - a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.
  • Development
    • The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a result, no development occurred.

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.

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

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

  Administrator changes

 
  Stephen
 

  Interface administrator changes

  Nihiltres

  Guideline and policy news

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous

  • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
  • Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
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