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William Joseph Williams (singer)

Hi, this article has been hijacked, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japansonglove for the long history of article hijacking. The new accounts should be reported to the above sock puppet report.

I'm not sure what the original page was? Disambiguation page. Hope this helps. Knitsey (talk) 13:23, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

No, it hasn't. It is a fork from the (or one of the) hijacked article (William Joseph Williams), in order to provide a home for the material added by the hijacker. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:35, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Oph, how is that done? Knitsey (talk) 13:38, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

See WP:HISTSPLIT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:31, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #650

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #649

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Addshore (RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2024 18:03 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • CarbonBot - (1) Add default mul labels to given and family names when the item has an existing default label with a mul language (2) Remove duplicated aliases matching the items mul label, when the item has a native label in with a mul language. As mul has not been fully adopted, a limited of aliases would be modified each day to ensure existing workflows are not disrupted. It is expected that these tasks will apply to roughly 800,000 given and family names.
  • So9qBot 10 - Add first line (P1922) with the first line of the paper to all scientific papers which has a full text link or where the abstract is available.

Events

• Upcoming: We are getting ready for Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday on the 29th October. We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to (1) create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc. (2) add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule
• Past:
  • Wikidata + Wikibase office hour log (16 October 2024)
  • Scholia hackathon (18-20 October) exploring technical options for handling the Wikidata graph split

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Why and How I developed Wikidata Multilinguality Calculator - mlscores? - a Wikidata multilingual calculator to facilitate data queries in multiple languages, enhancing accessibility and usability for non-English speakers.
• Papers
  • Catalogação em dados conectados abertos: uma experiência de biblioteca universitária com a Wikidata
  • Disjointness Violations in Wikidata
  • A large collection of bioinformatics question-query pairs over federated knowledge graphs: methodology and applications
• Notebooks: Who are the most frequent guests of the show Real Time with Bill Maher?
• Videos
  • Wikidata Lexicographical Data | Lucas Werkmeister - Introduction to Wikidata Lexicographical Data to Dagbani Wikimedians]
  • Why is Wikidata important for Wikipedia in Spanish (in Spanish) - "In this workshop we will learn about the value that Wikidata can bring us when working on eswiki articles. We will learn how knowledge is shared between platforms, and how it can save a lot of work for both the Spanish Wikipedia community and other people working on an article on another Wikipedia."
  • Empowering Lexicographical Data Contributions on Wikidata with Lexica - "In this session, participants will explore the fascinating world of lexicographical data on Wikidata and learn how to contribute meaningfully using Lexica, a tool designed for easy micro-edits to Lexemes from mobile devices. We will start with a brief introduction to lexicographical data and importance of linking Lexemes to Items. Next, we’ll dive into Lexica, showcasing its key features and providing a step-by-step guide on linking Lexemes to Items on Wikidata. This hands-on workshop is open to both experienced contributors and newcomers, empowering everyone with the knowledge and skills to make impactful contributions to Wikidata’s lexicographical data. By the end of the session, participants will be ready to use Lexica to enrich language data on Wikidata."
  • Wikidata ontology, controlled vocabularies and Wikidata Graph Builder - This video talks about the Wikidata ontology, how to connect controlled vocabularies to Wikidata, and how to use the Wikidata Graph Builder
  • How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions... - WMCEEM 2024 Istanbul - How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions: Case Study for museums in Türkiye and person data
  • Hidden Histories: Illuminating LGBTQ+ archives at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada using Wikidata - "The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives has been strategically working to increase the discoverability, visibility, and access to collections related to marginalized communities in Southern Nevada. In the first stage of this grant-funded Wiki project, over 60 archival collections and 80 oral histories, including related people, businesses, and events associated with the Las Vegas LGBTQ+ community, have been contributed to Wikidata. In this presentation, the author continues this work by introducing UNLV's Special Collections Wiki project, "LGBTQ Hidden Histories." The presentation will discuss ongoing efforts to create, expand, and enrich linked data about the Nevada LGBTQ+ community, address challenges faced during entity extraction using archival materials, and conclude with a linked data visualization exercise using Wikiframe-VG (Wikiframe Visual Graph)."
  • Africa Wiki Women Wikidata Birthday First Session
  • Africa Wiki Women Wikidata session on creating SPARQL Queries

Tool of the week

• User:Ainali/PreViewStats.js - is a Userscript that gives a quick glance at the pageviews in the header (and links to the full views). If you install it on your global.js on meta, it works on all projects).
• Wikidata:ProVe - (Automated PROvenance VErification of Knowledge Graphs against Textual Sources) - is a tool for helping editors improve the references of Wikidata Items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Deepesha Burse joins WMDE as Developer Advocate for Wikibase Suite
• Wikibase Suite: Patch releases as the first round of patch releases for all Wikibase Suite products, including all WBS Images as well as WBS Deploy
• The CampaignEvents extension is now live on Wikidata! This means that if you are an event organizer, you can use several new tools to help manage your events more easily. By getting the Event Organizer right, you can:
  • Use simple on-wiki registration for your events.
  • Integrate Outreach Dashboard with your event registration page. (see demo)
  • Communicate more easily with your registered participants. (see demo)
  • Make your events more visible to other editors through the Special:AllEvents page.
  • Find potential participants for your next events. (see demo), and much more!
  • With this extension, you can also see all global events (past, present, and future) on the Special:AllEvents page, but only events using the event registration feature will appear there. If you are an organizer and want to use these new tools, follow the instructions on the Wikidata:Event_Organizers page to request the Event Organizer right.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
  • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • publication type of scholarly work (type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.))
  • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
• Newest External identifiers: pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID, BAHRA ID, ‎AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • FAO fungal entity ID (identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy)
  • bais (Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.)
  • TDK lexeme ID (Dictionary created by the [[Q1569712|Turkish Language Association]])
  • Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID (Online Turkish encyclopedia created by [[Q6062914]] and [[Q19610584]])
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • Stated in unreliable source (used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made)
  • Google Plus code (Identifier for a location as seen on Google Maps)
  • reversal of (reversal of, inversion of)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, dtf.ru person ID, Identifiant Libération d’un sujet, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, obastan.com dictionary IDs, Israel Railways Corporation Ltd station number, Identifiant Actu.fr d’un sujet, Identifiant TF1 info d’un sujet, Identifiant RTL d’un sujet, Identifiant France Info d’un sujet, graphclasses.org ID, identifiant L’Équipe d'une équipe de basketball, identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur, eHLFL ID, Journalistikon.de-ID, NRW-Archivportal-ID, Taiwan Railways station number, DVIDS unit ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Work of Art, DDB institution ID, Steam tag ID, SWERIK Party ID, Songkick area ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, KISTI institute ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, AELC author ID, Spirit of Metal IDs, Yandex Maps place ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, VK track ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Digital LIMC ID, Health Facility Registry ID, GamersGlobal genre

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Copyright duration by Country (source)
  • The Mississippi River and its tributaries (source)
  • List of countries sorted by life expectancy
• Newest WikiProjects: Dominio Público en América Latina - The Public Domain in Latin America Wikiproject aims to improve the data available in Wikidata on authors and works of authorship in Latin America, with emphasis on copyright status to identify whether or not authors and their works are in the public domain.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • India/Reservoirs
  • Every politician/Egypt
• Newest database reports: Most used properties
• Showcase Items: Moana (Q18647981): 2016 American computer animated film (2024-10-21)
• Showcase Lexemes: rehbraun (L863492): German adjective, means "light brown with a slight reddish tinge"

Development

• Vector 2020: We’re working on improving Wikibase’s dark mode support somewhat (phab:T369385)
• We polished the automatic undo/redo messages to make them more useful (phab:T194402)
• Design system: We’re close to finishing migrating Special:NewLexeme to the Codex design system
• EntitySchemas: We’re working on searching EntitySchema values by label and alias (phab:T375641)

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.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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: 2024-43

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

Weekly highlight

• The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

• Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
• Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [1][2][3][4][5]
• It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "19 December 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [6][7]
• Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [8]
• The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [9]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
• The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

• 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
• 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Request for Review: Wikipedia Draft of Muhammad Ali Swati

I’ve created a draft for Muhammad Ali Swati on Wikipedia: Draft:Muhammad Ali Swati. Could you please review it to check if it adheres to Wikipedia’s policies and standards? I would appreciate any suggestions or changes you might recommend. Imhussainkhan (talk) 10:58, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in a research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:27, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #551

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #650

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Addshore (successful) - Welcome back, Adam!
• New request for comments: Discussion about remove notability for ceb-Wiki

Events

• Wikidata's 12th Birthday is almost here! Let’s celebrate together and make it unforgettable! 🎂 Join in for events happening across the globe in October & November -- there's something for everyone! Here’s how you can be part of the fun.
  • Find a local event and connect with fellow Wikidata enthusiasts!
  • Give a birthday gift to the community -- whether it's a cool new tool or something fun!
  • Join our big online celebration on October 29th -- don’t miss out! Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday
  • Join the special Wikidata Query-party tomorrow and win some branded Wikidata socks! 🎉
• The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is taking a break from our new project series format this coming Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter) to celebrate Hallowe'en! We'll be celebrating Spooky Season with a WitchyData Working Hour! Following on Christa Strickler's recent project series, we will continue building proficiency with the Mix'n'match tool, but with a ghoulish twist. Join the fall fun by updating your Zoom background or even coming in costume. BYOC (bring your own candy). Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/2024-October-29 Wikidata Working Hour

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata celebrates 12. Birthday – These are the coolest queries from 112 million entries (in German) - "Wikidata, the world's largest free knowledge base, celebrates the 12th of October. Birthday. The open data graph for structured knowledge collects facts about numerous terms (items). Meanwhile, Wikidata includes an impressive 112 million items – and many more facts! On the occasion of Wikidata's birthday, we put the collected knowledge to the test and present the most exciting 12 queries that were created from it."
• Videos
  • 2024 Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2024 (in Chinese)
  • Wikidata Day NYC 2024 @ Pratt
  • Mapping the Accused Witches of Scotland in place and time
  • What is Wikibase and what is it used for? (in Spanish)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - Wikidata Days 2024 (First day) (in Spanish)
  • Is there a system to capture data in Wikidata automatically? (in Spanish)

Tool of the week

• Lexica – A mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels. This tool is developed by the WMDE Wikidata Software Collaboration team in Indonesia. Try Lexica through this link: https://lexica-tool.toolforge.org/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Global Open Initiative Foundation is building an open-source web app for Supreme Court cases in Ghana. We are looking for volunteers in the following roles: Frontend Developers, Backend Developers, Wikidata/SPARQL Experts, UI/UX Designers, Quality Assurance (QA) Testers, and Legal Professionals. Join us by sendind your resume and a brief description of your expertise to globalopeninitiativegmail.com

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
  • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • publication type of scholarly work (type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.))
  • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
• Newest External identifiers: GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person (GND) ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID, BAHRA ID, ‎AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, dtf.ru person ID, Identifiant Libération d’un sujet, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, obastan.com dictionary IDs, graphclasses.org ID, identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur, Journalistikon.de-ID, NRW-Archivportal-ID, Taiwan Railways station number, Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, Spirit of Metal IDs, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, VK track ID, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Health Facility Registry ID, GamersGlobal genre, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, PublicationsList author ID, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Archivportal-D-ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, FID performing arts agent GND ID, Бессмертный полк ID, ITV News topic ID, FightTime fighters ID, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Languages with more than one writing system
  • Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata
• Newest WikiProjects: Psychology - This project aims to improve items related to psychology (Q9418).
• Showcase Items: Loomio (Q15975673): decision-making software to assist groups with collaborative decision-making processes
• Showcase Lexemes: کھاوَݨ / ਖਾਵਣ (L680110) mean to "eat" in in Urdu

Development

• Vector 2022: We are continuing to make Wikidata Items pages work in dark-mode (phab:T369385)
• EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We discussed what will constitute breaking changes for the API (phab:T357775)
  • We are working on the endpoint for creating Properties (phab:T342992)

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.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
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• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Tech News: 2024-44

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

Updates for editors

• Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [10]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [11]
• Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [12]

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Women in Red November 2024

Women in Red | November 2024, Vol 10, Issue 11, Nos 293, 294, 321, 322, 323 Online events: New: Asian women | Geofocus: Islands Q-Z | Women in engineering Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Annual Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) is an online campaign designed to boost Asian content on Wikipedia each November. Unreferenced articles backlog drive. These Wikiproject clean-up lists offer a start to November's backlog drive, e.g. Women's History and Women writers Tip of the month: Looking for an image? Sometimes you can find openly licensed images at search.creativecommons.org/ Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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The Bugle: Issue 222, October 2024

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 US Army divisions in the Pacific War, Nick-D on the First Indochina War

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:02, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Twenty-one years

Happy First Edit Day!

story · music · places

Congratulations! 2003!! - I made Leif Segerstam my big story today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:31, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for improving articles on October! - My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:15, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 01:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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