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Hi, could you please tell me what sources are required here? Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership Erinstewart-REEEP (talk) 14:41, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

All of the unsourced statements. See WP:V. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

ok, i added sources to everything . As disclosed, I am the Communications Manager. The links added were all to external websites to confirm the information Erinstewart-REEEP (talk) 15:45, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Could you please check it and see if it is ok for you to remove the tag? Erinstewart-REEEP (talk) 15:47, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

There are still large parts - whole paragraphs, and more - without citations. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:37, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Please look at it again - there is not a single paragraph without a citation. i found lots of content to back up all the statements - please point out exactly what you mean and i will fix it or delete the sentence if it cannot be verified. Erinstewart-REEEP (talk) 08:53, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

One section remains largely uncited. I have tagged it separately. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:04, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Dear Andy, Thank you so much, I am trying my best to neutralise the site and cite everything. I am being bullied by another Wikipedia Editor, 'theroadislong' who is insulting and demeaning me and blocking all my suggested edits to the page. Could you please help? Or prevent him from answering my requests and have someone more neutral themselves? Erinstewart-REEEP (talk) 11:41, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

You should raise the matter at WP:ANI; with diffs. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:00, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the information! Erinstewart-REEEP (talk) 12:11, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Another Wikidata question

Hi Andy, hope you don't mind me using you as my go-to Wikidata guru! Next on my list is Tring Cutting, which doesn't have a Wikidata item. I intend to cover three listed bridges which cross it in the article on the cutting but they all have their own individual items. What's the best way to connect the dots? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:10, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

You're always welcome here! Make items about the bridges and use crosses (P177) to say that they cross (the item about) the cutting. Link the latter item to your article.

Make a redirect here for each bridge, to your new article, and match those redirects to the respective Wikidata items.

LMK if/ when you need help. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:37, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

That seems like an elegant solution. Thanks Andy! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:40, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

In fact, there is an item for each bridge already, as they're listed:

• British Rail Midland Region London Rugby Line Bridge Number 113 (Q26346613)
• British Rail Midland Region London Rugby Line Bridge Number 114 (Parkhill Bridge) (Q26623136)
• British Rail Midland Region London Rugby Line Bridge Number 115 (Folly Bridge) (Q26346608)

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:46, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I'd seen, thanks. Does every listed building have an item? It's quite handy that a lot of the legwork has already been done. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:58, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Pretty much, thanks to Magnus. (I'm not sure how quickly new listings get added.) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:20, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

All done, I think. It wouldn't let me connect the redirects to the Wikidata items but the article is at Tring Cutting and connected to d:Q124823585. Let me know what you think. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:04, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Nice work. I've linked redirects. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:21, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Please take care with you edits

[1] Thank you Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:04, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Apologies, though it seems to be a software issue; I got no edit conflict warning and I've just had the same thing happen to me [2]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:49, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Oofff yep I see a few different people complaining about it. I apologize for implying that you had not taken care with your edit, clearly a software issue. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:54, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly Summary #620

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-18.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 20 March 2024 17:37 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Zafer Adminship granted, welcome Zafer!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PagesBot - Task: Adds no. of pages statements based on page(s) on items of type: scholarly article. Then adds a reference with based on heuristic equal to inferred from page(s).
    • Wicci'o'Bot - Task: Import identifiers of new properties created for TheTVDB (Q15616250), nientepopcorn (Q123434360) (and more properties I plan to request to be added shortly) inherent in the film and TV industry, using IMDb ID (P345) as source.
  • Closed request for comments: Duplicate Refs, Data Model and UI - (RfC closed 15 March 2024 18:57 UTC). The Community showed support for the proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references. A Phabricator ticket has been opened: T360224

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 19, 2024: Please join us on March 19 for a community discussion about how GLAM professionals can incorporate Wikidata/linked data into their work week. Bring your success stories about institutional buy-in and how you’ve communicated the value of linked data to managers and colleagues. We hope to share some strategies that you can take back and use in your own workplace. This will be a followup of sorts to our call last May, and you can review some of what we talked about then, plus slides from our survey here: Notes from May 30, 2023 Meeting on Advocacy for Wikidata & Linked Data in Libraries.Agenda
  • Wiki Workshop 2024 - Announcing a new track and a Call for Proposals - Submit your contributions by April 29, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
  • WikiCon Aotearoa - Auckland 2024 - The New Zealand WikiCon has a couple of events introducing and workshopping Wikidata:
    • Saturday 23 March 2024, 11:15 NZT - Intro to Wikidata / 13:00 NZT - Beginner's OpenRefine Workshop
    • Sunday 24 March 2024, 11:00 NZT - Presentation: Breathing life into the Women's Archive through Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Making the Colombian public domain visible in Wikidata results from WM Colombia are now published.
  • Papers
    • Connecting Local Archive Data to Wikidata: Focusing on the Archives of National Debt Redemption Movement. By Yun, J., & Oh, S.G. Documents the findings of connecting Wikidata with the Korean NDRM.
    • Narrating Queer History with Wikidata, Queer Data Days 2024 (UCL Department of Information Studies), Presentation by John Samuel.
  • Videos
    • WikiClub 3L (French) - learn how to create a Wikidata file and an Infobox with Simon Villeneuve.
    • Making Colombian public domain data visible on Wikidata (Spanish) - Presents the methodology and findings of analysis of data in the public domain of part of the collections of the National Library of Colombia. Part of the Conector.red project)
    • Wikidata Lab: Dear Diary (Portugese) - Aims to share resources and capabilities for integration of Wikidata with other free knowledge projects, in particular the Querido Diário project, from Open Knowledge Brasil. Hosted by Porto, É. & Giulio Carvalho, G.
  • Notebooks
    • The media directory a Wikidata-driven media directory by country

• Tool of the week
  • ORCID Scraper - helps users get DOIs from orcid.org for a specific author and curate them using Scholia. It gives users an overview of which DOIs are missing and helps them easily import missing articles one by one.
• Newest properties and property proposals to review
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • form decomposition (decomposition of a word)
    • External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, DLE entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, ‎Oyez Project ID, ‎Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • document keywords (Keywords associated with the text found in <code><meta name="keywords"></code> of an HTML document.)
      • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
      • Media modality (Lists which media modalities are present, particularly in multimodal creative works such as electronic literature.)
      • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
    • External identifiers: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, Doom Wiki ID, Instagram account numeric ID, ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, Traineras rower ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Peertube Channel Address
  • Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

• Did you know?
  • Query examples:
    • exploratory query to find new items for the WikiProject: Polish Socialist Party
    • SPARQL query examples for the Nobel Prize
    • Exploring Wikidata Items for people born in the Basque country
    • Birthplace of Colombians in the Public Domain
    • Relationship between Institutions, Works and Persons in the Colombian Public Domain
  • Newest WikiProjects: Polish Socialist Party - aims to document and enrich data and items (Leadership, sports clubs, commemorated buildings, art, publications etc.) that are connected with the Polish Socialist party.
  • WikiProject Highlights:
    • RfC: Slowking4 (2) - Comments are required on actions against the named editor.
  • Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items - Number of labels, descriptions and aliases for items per language (2024-03-18).
  • Showcase Items: Mahatma Gandhi - The "Great Soul", lawyer, political ethicist and leader of the non-violent resistance to end Imperial British occupation of India.
  • Showcase Lexemes: Jak - (Polish) The noble Bos mutus or Yak.

• Development
  • 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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:53, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-12

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

• The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [3]
• IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [4]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [5][6][7]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [8]

Problems

• RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [10][11]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [12][13]

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This Month in Education: February 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • February 2024

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In This Issue

• 2 new courses in Students Write Wikipedia Starting this February
• More two wiki-education partnerships
• Open Education Week 2024 in Mexico
• Reading Wikipedia in Bolivia, the community grows
• Wiki Education Philippines promotes OERs utilization
• Wiki Loves Librarians, Kaduna
• Wiki Workshop 2024 CfP – Call for Papers Research track

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 18:37, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Steve Harley

On 20 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Steve Harley, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 17:22, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in March! - I uploaded Madeira vacation pics (from back home, at least the first day) and remember Aribert Reimann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly Summary #621

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-25.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!

• Events
  • 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
  • Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
  • Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
    • Program - the live portions of the event take place across the weekends 5-7 and 12-14 April
    • YouTube Video Playlist

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Are our Wikibase QueryServices about to mess up two millennia of historical dates? by Olaf Simons. This article discusses the intricacies and drawbacks of historical dates stored in Wikidata under different Calendars (e.g. Julian and Gregorian).
    • At least a make shift solution: The “Julian calendar stabiliser” by Olaf Simons. An update to the above article, including input from community members.
  • Papers
    • Contributor or Commodity? Inequities of Labor and Representation in Wikidata - this paper by m:User:MatthewVetter explores gender diversity, representation and decision-makers of Ontology discussions impacting Queer and Gender diversity.
  • Videos
    • Co to są Wikidane - wprowadzenie dla początkujących [What is Wikidata? An Introduction for Beginners] (Polish) - recording of a webinar held by Wikimedia Polska, with Jarosław Błaszczak and Jolanta Drzewakowska.
    • Leveraging Quantitative Bibliometrics in Assyriology - Exploring Distant Reading, Computational Linguistics, and the FactGrid Cuneiform Wikibase Project, presented by Adam Anderson.
    • Wikibase Training workshop for Librarians at College of Science Library, KNUST organized by KNUST Wiki Club in collaboration with Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
    • Wikipediapodden episode 254 (Swedish) - Wikipedia Weekly Network recording, hosted by Jan Ainali and guest, Magnus.
    • How does a high school student promote the Taiwanese Wikimedia movement? (Chinese) - a podcast feat. Wang Wenyue of the Wikidata Taiwan community.
  • Notebooks
    • Cycling stage race explorer, an Observable notebook
    • Ontology Explorer, also an Observable notebook, explore the subclasses in front or behind a Wikidata Item.

• Tool of the week
  • Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland published a Call for Software Contributions! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
  • Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
  • In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

• Newest properties and property proposals to review
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • form decomposition (decomposition of a word)
      • Nanopublication identifier (Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history.)
      • media modality (lists which media modalities are present, particularly in digital, multimodal creative works such as electronic literature)
      • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
    • External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, ‎Oyez Project ID, ‎Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, hyatt Hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • document keywords (Keywords associated with the text found in <code><meta name="keywords"></code> of an HTML document.)
      • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
      • Imagehash difference hash (Imagehash difference hash is hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical.)
      • Image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
      • RTE substation ID (Identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
      • Caste (Property to indicate the caste affiliation of individuals in India.)
    • External identifiers: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, CalPhotos taxon ID, Traineras rower ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Peertube Channel Address, TMDB TV IDs, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, AllSkaters persons ID, Triton Poker player ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, Mammal Diversity Database ID (MMD ID), BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID
  • Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

• Did you know?
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews and institutions holding their oral history
    • QLever: Find items with no 'en' Label but are linked to other Wikimedia Projects
  • Newest WikiProjects: The Women's Library LSE Suffrage Interviews Project - this project aims to populate and enrich items connected with participants of The Suffragette Interviews.
  • Newest database reports: Most sitelinked items - explore this DB report if you're curious to see what is connected most frequently to Wikidata Items.
  • Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 - in A Major, Op. 92, by Ludwig von Beethoven.
  • Showcase Lexemes: अग्नि -the Sanskrit word for 'fire' and also the Hindu God of fire 'Agni'

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
  • EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
  • Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.

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.

• Weekly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 13:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly Summary #621

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-25.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!

• Events
  • 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
  • Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
  • Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
    • Program - the live portions of the event take place across the weekends 5-7 and 12-14 April
    • YouTube Video Playlist

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Are our Wikibase QueryServices about to mess up two millennia of historical dates? by Olaf Simons. This article discusses the intricacies and drawbacks of historical dates stored in Wikidata under different Calendars (e.g. Julian and Gregorian).
    • At least a make shift solution: The “Julian calendar stabiliser” by Olaf Simons. An update to the above article, including input from community members.
  • Papers
    • Contributor or Commodity? Inequities of Labor and Representation in Wikidata - this paper by m:User:MatthewVetter explores gender diversity, representation and decision-makers of Ontology discussions impacting Queer and Gender diversity.
  • Videos
    • Co to są Wikidane - wprowadzenie dla początkujących [What is Wikidata? An Introduction for Beginners] (Polish) - recording of a webinar held by Wikimedia Polska, with Jarosław Błaszczak and Jolanta Drzewakowska.
    • Leveraging Quantitative Bibliometrics in Assyriology - Exploring Distant Reading, Computational Linguistics, and the FactGrid Cuneiform Wikibase Project, presented by Adam Anderson.
    • Wikibase Training workshop for Librarians at College of Science Library, KNUST organized by KNUST Wiki Club in collaboration with Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
    • Wikipediapodden episode 254 (Swedish) - Wikipedia Weekly Network recording, hosted by Jan Ainali and guest, Magnus.
    • How does a high school student promote the Taiwanese Wikimedia movement? (Chinese) - a podcast feat. Wang Wenyue of the Wikidata Taiwan community.
  • Notebooks
    • Cycling stage race explorer, an Observable notebook
    • Ontology Explorer, also an Observable notebook, explore the subclasses in front or behind a Wikidata Item.

• Tool of the week
  • Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland published a Call for Software Contributions! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
  • Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
  • In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

• Newest properties and property proposals to review
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • form decomposition (decomposition of a word)
      • Nanopublication identifier (Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history.)
      • media modality (lists which media modalities are present, particularly in digital, multimodal creative works such as electronic literature)
      • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
    • External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, ‎Oyez Project ID, ‎Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, hyatt Hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • document keywords (Keywords associated with the text found in <code><meta name="keywords"></code> of an HTML document.)
      • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
      • Imagehash difference hash (Imagehash difference hash is hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical.)
      • Image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
      • RTE substation ID (Identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
      • Caste (Property to indicate the caste affiliation of individuals in India.)
    • External identifiers: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, CalPhotos taxon ID, Traineras rower ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Peertube Channel Address, TMDB TV IDs, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, AllSkaters persons ID, Triton Poker player ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, Mammal Diversity Database ID (MMD ID), BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID
  • Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

• Did you know?
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews and institutions holding their oral history
    • QLever: Find items with no 'en' Label but are linked to other Wikimedia Projects
  • Newest WikiProjects: The Women's Library LSE Suffrage Interviews Project - this project aims to populate and enrich items connected with participants of The Suffragette Interviews.
  • Newest database reports: Most sitelinked items - explore this DB report if you're curious to see what is connected most frequently to Wikidata Items.
  • Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 - in A Major, Op. 92, by Ludwig von Beethoven.
  • Showcase Lexemes: अग्नि -the Sanskrit word for 'fire' and also the Hindu God of fire 'Agni'

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
  • EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
  • Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.

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.

• Weekly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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: 2024-13

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

• An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [14][15]

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

• Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

• Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

• Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

• Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

• News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

• In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled

• Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

• Humour: Letters from the editors

• Comix: Layout issue

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
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• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Tech News: 2024-14

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

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [16]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [17][18]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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