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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
    • Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata
    • How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
    • Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
    • Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items
    • The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
    • Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins
    • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections
  • 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
    • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

• 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:
    • Superheroes with a degree in the humanities (source)
    • Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) (source)
    • People with far apart reported death dates (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles (source)
  • 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!

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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!

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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. [1][2]
• 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. [3]

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. [4][5]
• For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [6]

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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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:
    • Administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
    • Rivers in France over 50 km long (source)
    • List of mental disorders (source)
    • Paintings once owned by Red Flag Names (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 16, 2023) (source)
    • Place of birth of humans with Github username (source)

• 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. [7]

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. [8]
• 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. [9][10][11]

Changes later this week

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [12]
• 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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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two

• Humour: The law of hats

• Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

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

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two

• Humour: The law of hats

• Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

• News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU

• In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics

• Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

• Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion

• News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU

• In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics

• Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

• Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists;
  My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion

• News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #571

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
  • Papers
    • Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
    • The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
  • Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • character in this lexeme (character(s) this lexeme consists of)
    • External identifiers: none
  • Query examples:
    • Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line (source)
    • Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title (source)
    • Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle (source)

• Development
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
  • Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
  • Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (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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Tech News: 2023-19

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

• Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
• When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [13]
• The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [14]
• Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [15]

Problems

• Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [16]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
• Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [17]

Future changes

• During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [18]
• There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [19][20]
• jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [21]

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Wikidata weekly summary #572

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
    • TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
    • Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
    • Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube
    • ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube
    • Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch
  • Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School?

• Tool of the week
  • tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
  • re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme)
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID
  • Query examples:
    • Name of languages ​​containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
    • Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
    • Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
    • Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
  • mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

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Tech News: 2023-20

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

Problems

• Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [23]

Future changes

• There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
• Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [24]

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Wikidata weekly summary #573

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

• Discussions
  • CEUR-WS (Task: CEUR-WS Semantification bot to be used on publishing Workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org)
  • AcmiBot (Task: Sync links with ACMI API)

• Events
  • Past: The Wikimedia Hackathon took place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. Several Wikidata-related projects were presented during the showcase (notes, replay). You can also find more documentation on this page.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Melanie Conroy, Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata; Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2023May 11, 2023.
  • Videos
    • Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project, Presentation by Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
    • Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata, Presentation by John Samuel on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
    • Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project, Presentation by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023
  • “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata, Discussion by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)

• Tool of the week
  • CreateNewEntity.js got improved to support up to 11 languages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is launching a laptop donation program to support Wikidata contributors with limited access to technology. If you've been actively contributing to Wikidata for at least a year, you can request a free laptop to support your work. WMDE Hardware Donation Program#Applying
  • Wikibase.Cloud data modeling research has been published. It shows user flows and pain points in the Data Modelling experience of Wikibase Cloud users in Q1/2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID, ‎Xbox Games Store ID (Xbox 360), Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Global Smash Roster fighter ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Qualigeo ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • population by ethnic group (Part of a larger population isolated for statistical analysis)
      • points of bonus (point of bonus in a tournament, given according some conditions (such as minimum number of goals...))
    • External identifiers: Israel Composers' League composer ID, Stage 32 profile ID, kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, Radiomuseum.org company ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry
  • Query example: Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked (source)

• Development
  • We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (phab:T332739)
  • We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
  • We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
  • We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (phab:T337081)
  • We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.

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Tech News: 2023-21

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 "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [25]

Changes later this week

• An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [26]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #578

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

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Mike Peel shares his experience mentoring Wikimedia projects through FOSS outreach programs

• Tool of the week
  • TalkPageHeader.js shows the talk page header for languages other than English.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
  • The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • time of periapsis (the time at which the orbit of an object in space, typically a planet or a satellite, goes through its periapsis)
      • matched by identifier from (this external ID was added because the following link was presented in both the external database and the Wikidata item)
    • External identifiers: Diritto on line ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED Attainment (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
      • ISCED category orientation (International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program)
      • Learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
    • External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, BFM.ru persons ID, Open Yearbook org id
  • Query examples:
    • Count comparison of England, Scotland and Wales items claiming to be a human settlement as well as a parish (source)
    • Twins at Eurovision (source)

• Development
  • Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
  • Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon.

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Tech News: 2023-22

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

• Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [27]
• The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [28]

Problems

• For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [29]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [30]

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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

Administrator changes

Ingenuity

• Ddstretch
• Prodego
• Resolute

CheckUser changes

Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

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• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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Tech News: 2023-23

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 RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
• Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [31]
• Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [32]

Problems

• For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [33]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [34]

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Wikidata weekly summary #579

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

• Events
  • Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
  • Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.

• Tool of the week
  • IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject)
      • visited by (organisms attracted by this plant taxon and reported to visit it)
      • Mastodon instance URL (the mastodon instance of/about the subject)
      • beforehand owned by (person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
      • afterward owned by (person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
      • solubility product constant (equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution)
      • funded by grant (title or name of the grant funding this item)
    • External identifiers: stats.fm artist ID, Zeno.org ID, World Arachnid Catalog ID, Springs and Fountains of Andalucía ID, TMDb collection ID, TMDB company ID, WGA work ID, Peacock ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
    • External identifiers: Identifiant "Politique pappers", Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID, Holarse, wiki.ubuntuusers.de article ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Kialo ID, PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), PesticideInfo chemical ID, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage ID, Image Duplicator ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Musées Occitanie ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
  • Newest database reports:
    • External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (phab:T337720)
  • Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (phab:334682)
  • Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (phab:T335857)
  • EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.

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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue V, May 2023 Headlines From the team: E-mail account issue Albania report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Shëngjin, Albania, 2023 Australia report: Improving Wikipedia pages about Australian women filmmakers at ACMI Brazil report: First GLAM-Wiki partnership from Pará Finland report: Adding authority control templates with Pywikibot India report: Digitization of Behar Herald starts in Patna Indonesia report: Wikisource Workshop in Madura; Outreach to Bandung; Indonesian Wikisource Competition Italy report: Open access from North to South Kosovo report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon 2023 New Zealand report: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon and Auckland suburb updates Philippines report: Wikisource promotion at UNC Museum Sweden report: Air travel and city streets Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme Uganda report: These last few months in Uganda UK report: Promoting cultural diversity on Wikipedia USA report: A Spotlight on Black Women Birders; DC Nobel Solution Sessions; Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery; Anthropology and Community Connections; SAGE edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; Into the Wikiverse: AANHPIs in Science Fiction and Pop Culture; Queering Wikipedia 2023 Special story: Help Wikimedia Map Your Efforts to Improve Copyright! GLAM Wiki conference report: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023: Announcing the venue & scholarship application process open Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Photo contests WMF GLAM report: WILMA, DPLA + SDAW, and BHL whitepaper updates Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #580

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

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
  • Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata
  • Creating Bengali Freebase Using Wikidata
  • Probability of having notable parents by country of citizenship

• Tool of the week
  • narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • quality is the result of process (quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces)
    • External identifiers: theCrag ID, ‎SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED field (mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education)
      • Romanian river code (River codes from ApeleRomâne)
    • External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID
  • Query examples:
    • Terminus stations of the Transilien railroad network (source)
    • List of children of Johann Sebastian Bach (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished work on accessing data for Properties (phab:T337720)
    • We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (phab:T338138)
  • You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (phab:T171140)
  • Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (phab:T335754)
  • EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.

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.

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  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
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Tech News: 2023-24

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 content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [35]
• The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [36]
• The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [37]
• The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [38]

Problems

• For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [39]
• Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [40]
• Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [41]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [42]

Future changes

• From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:48, 12 June 2023 (UTC)