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Wikidata weekly summary #522

- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. should have a wiki commons link to since they both refer to .
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
- Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
- Past
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
- Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
- Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
- Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
- Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
- Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
- Report
- User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
- Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
- Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
- Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
- External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID
- Query examples:
- Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
- Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
- Map of tram depots in France
- Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
- List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
- French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
- French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
- Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
- Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data:
- We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
- We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
- REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
- We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
- We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
- Lexicographical data:
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!
This Month in Education: June 2022
This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 6 • June 2022
- Black Lunch Table: Black History Month with Igbo Wikimedians User Group
- Bolivian Teachers Welcomed Wikipedia in their Classroom
- Educational program & Wikivoyage in Ukrainian University
- The Great Learning and Connection: Experience from AFLIA
- New Mexico Students Join Wikimedia Movement Through WikiForHumanRights Campaign
- The school wiki-project run by a 15 year old student came to an end
- The students of Kadir Has University, Istanbul contribute Wikimedia projects in "Civic Responsibility Project" course
- Wiki Trip with Vasil Kamami Wikiclub to Berat, the town of one thousand windows
- Wikiclubs in Albania
- Wikidata in the classroom FGGC Bwari Experience
- Wikipedia and Secondary Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand
- А large-scale online course for teaching beginners to work in Wikipedia has been developed in Russia
Tech News: 2022-27
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_hrefwill be removed frommw.configand be replaced with the variableprpSourceIndexPage.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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user_global_editcountis a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)
- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
This Month in GLAM: June 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #528

- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
- 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
- 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day
- Past:
- Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
- Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
- Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
- Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
- Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
- Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Papers
- Videos
- Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
- Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
- User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
- Q113000000 was created.
- Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
- Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: opus number
- External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
- External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Data Quality Days!
- Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
- Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
- Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
- Lexicographical data:
- Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
- Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
- Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
- REST API:
- Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
- Started work on the API route for removing a statement from an Item
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
- Update the description of the "of" property in your language.
- 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!
Tech News: 2022-28
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 Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more.
It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. - The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)


