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Wikidata weekly summary #565

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

Events
- Upcoming:
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
  - WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
  - Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
  - Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
  - Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
  - Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
  - How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
- Notebooks
  - Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.

Tool of the week
- Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes:
    - ISCED Attainment (ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label.)
    - first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
  - External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID
- Query examples:
  - Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit (source)
  - Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji

Development
- EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
- Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
- Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)

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!

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Tech News: 2023-13

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

The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [1]
Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [2]
Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [3]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [4]
The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [5]

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Wikidata weekly summary #566

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

Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
  - IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  - Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
  - MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))

Events
- Past
  - Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
  - WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
  - Ongoing
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, Bones)
- Upcoming
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
  - Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base
- Papers
  - In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
  - Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
  - A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
  - Can you trust Wikidata?
- Videos
  - Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
  - Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
  - Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
  - Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
  - WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
  - A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
  - Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
  - Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
  - Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
- Notebooks
  - Statistics on Wikidata property scopes

Tool of the week
- User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland job openings

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes:
    - student retention rate (Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year)
  - External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs
- Query examples:
  - Authors from Latin America born today (source)
  - Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain (source)

Development
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
- Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
- REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)

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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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions

News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI

In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news

Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing

Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid

Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT

From the archives: April Fools' through the ages

Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic

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Tech News: 2023-14

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

The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [6][7][8][9][10]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [11]
The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [12]
Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [13]
You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [14][15][16]

Future changes

The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

Ferret

Guideline and policy news

A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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The Signpost: 3 April 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic

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Tech News: 2023-15

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

In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [17]
You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [18]

Problems

There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [19]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [20][21]

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Wikidata weekly summary #567

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

Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
  - BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  - RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)

Events
- Upcoming
  - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
  - Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started.
- Ongoing
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
  - Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century
- Videos
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
  - Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube
  - SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube
  - Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube
  - [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Notebooks
  - Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata

Tool of the week
- Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project.
- Wikimedia Deutschland job openings

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes:
    - information sign (property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board)
    - location URL match pattern (regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against)
  - External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes:
    - orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form)
    - part of other combined lexeme (qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme)
  - External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
  - WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).

Development
- EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T332139)
- Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (phab:T328148)
- REST API:
  - We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (phab:T323813)
  - The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

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Your feedback is requested at Talk:Ke Huy Quan on a "All RFCs" request for comment, and at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard on a "Wikipedia policies and guidelines" request for comment, and at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard on a "Maths, science, and technology" request for comment, and at Talk:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (film) on a "Wikipedia style and naming" request for comment, and at Talk:Hurricane Nicole (2022) on a "Maths, science, and technology" request for comment. Thank you for helping out!
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Wikidata weekly summary #568

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

Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)

Events
- Upcoming
  - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
- Ongoing
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
- Papers
  - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; English-language edition, Édition en langue française
  - Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
- Videos
  - Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube
  - "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube
  - IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
  - Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  - Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
  - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Notebook
  - Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
- Twitter thread
  - How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there

Tool of the week
- Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon is out (announcement and details)
- Christos started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID, Team Fortress Wiki ID, Federiciana ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Aisberg author ID, OPENBS author ID, Bicocca Open Archive author ID, IRInSubria author ID, cybersport.ru player ID, Boomplay album ID, IRIS HUNIMED author ID, IRIS UNISR author ID, PubliCatt author ID, FantLab dictor ID, Portráidí ID, Kulturenvanteri.com ID, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID, Musée Fabre ID, Musées Grand Est ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Shipbucket drawing ID
- Query examples:
  - ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)
  - Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward
- Newest database reports:
  - Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.

Development
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139)
- QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (phab:T328764)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (phab:T323813)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-16

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

You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [22][23]
The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [24]

Problems

At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [25][26]
For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [27]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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Wikidata weekly summary #569

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

Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  - Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)
- New request for comments:
  - Creating properties which link to an archived website

Events
- Upcoming
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
- Ongoing
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
- Past
  - Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-04-19

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - How to put an end to best book lists once and for all
- Papers
  - Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata (Documenting Queer History on Wikidata - French), John Samuel, Panel: Queer Data : les plateformes numériques d'archives, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris, 23 April 2023
  - Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
- Videos
  - Using PetScan and Wikidata Terminator, Mooré Wikimedia Community (in Mooré)
  - Wikidata Atlas: Putting Wikidata on the Map
- Notebooks
  - Probability of having notable parents by occupation and gender
  - Living with Machines: Toponym recognition and resolution — input and output exploration
- Twitter thread
  - Average number of words in Wall Street Journal articles by author gender

Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikibase newbie docs are here (to help to onboard new Wikibase users easier).

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes:
    - handled, mitigated, or managed by (approach or method that can be used to address an issue or problem)
    - holds diplomatic passport of (country of the diplomatic passport held by the person)
  - External identifiers: Dailymotion video ID, Databáze sérií ID, Universo del corpo ID, Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, AML ID, AniList character ID, Amarkosh ID, Moly.hu author ID, Podcast Index ID, SINTA affiliation ID, Hall of Light developer ID, Hall of Light publisher ID, Hall of Light artist ID, Kinoglaz person ID, Michaelis ID, Kino1TV ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: KPU Plant Database ID, SoccerPunter team ID, HAL non-registered author ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Dizionario dei prodotti DOP e IGP ID
- Query examples:

Development
- REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)
- EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (phab:T332139)
- Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.

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: 2023-17

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 date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [28]

Problems

Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [29]
For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [30][31][32]

Changes later this week

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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